THE USE OF FEMALE GENDER FOR PROFITEERING ADVENTURE: ISSUES FOR ISLAMIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHT CONCERNS ON SEX ROBOT

Abstract

Technology has facilitated the realisation of the prediction of human-like sex with machines. This development has redefined sex, expanding its definition beyond the traditional understanding of carnal knowledge between a man and a woman to a more sophisticated understanding of intercourse between a human and a machine. The technologically engineered robot designed to provide human-like sex has created a sex market where sexual services are traded for money making adventure. This development is central to the commodification of female gender of the human race. Recently, the robot industry had transcended the manufacturing of robot to provide solely sex to creating robots that will additionally undertake some other domestic chores more effectively than a natural human. The development of the robot technology accompanied with the consequent invention of sex market where the female gender is commodified and exploited for profit, undoubtedly have negative implications on the cherished natural human rights of the female folks. Sex with a robot falls outside the permissible means of sexual satisfaction in Islamic Law, therefore it is considered unlawful. The question of interest however is, why is the concentration on the female gender and not the male gender? This centralised attention is not unconnected to the awkward modern view of the female gender as a mere sex and house-chore commodity. This research employed the doctrinal methodology to interrogate and reflect on the implications of the Sex Robot on the female gender from the Islamic law and human right perspectives. The study concluded that the presence of sex robots has significant adverse effects on social, psychological, and medical well-being, particularly impacting females. Additionally, it suggests that this phenomenon contravenes human rights principles and regulations. Consequently, such negative repercussions provide a rationale for its condemnation under Islamic Law.

Keywords: Sex Robot, Sexual-Gratification, Commodification, Islamic Law, Human Rights