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How will the sexbot landscape look in situations when it is the human who is consenting, or not, to a sexual invitation or advance by the robot? The sexbot will have responsibilities towards its human partner, and there will be moral and legal consequences if it fails to deliver on those responsibilities. An unresolved ethical argument employed by many of those who deplore the coming advent of sex robots is that robots are unable to proffer a meaningful indication of sexual consent, and therefore a human deciding to have sex with a robot is committing rape of the robot. A parallel question, as yet to be addressed, is under what circumstances should a robot be considered to be acting in a sexually inappropriate or illegal manner towards a human? And this question embraces some others, including: \u201cHow can a robot determine, with any degree of certainty, whether or not a proximate human wants or at least consents to sex?\u201d; \u201cWhat behaviours by a robot are permissible within the #MeToo context when the robot is exploring a proximate human\u2019s current level of sexual interest in the robot?\u201d; and \u201cIf a robot oversteps the accepted bounds of sexual behaviour with a human, who is responsible and what should be the legal consequences?\u201d We discuss these issues and speculate on how the sex robots of the future will be able to conform to the ethics of consent.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1515\/pjbr-2020-0037","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,2]],"date-time":"2020-06-02T09:03:17Z","timestamp":1591088597000},"page":"191-198","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Some aspects of human consent to sex with robots"],"prefix":"10.1515","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"David","family":"Levy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Kami Computing, Herzilya, Israel"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"374","reference":[{"key":"ref91","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"pp. 904","DOI":"10.1080\/00224499.2013.792326","article-title":"\u201cGender differences in heterosexual college students\u2019 conceptualizations and indicators of sexual consent: implications for contemporary sexual assault prevention education,\u201d","volume":"vol. 51","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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