You are makeshift. - Isaac Asimov

Giskard does not resent any action of a human being. It is simply that 'boy' is not a customary term of address for robots on Aurora and it would be inadvisable to create friction with the Aurorans by unintentionally stressing your place of origin through habits of speech that are nonessential." "How do I address it, then?" "As you address me, by the use of his accepted identifying name. That is, after all, merely a sound indicating the particular person you are addressing — and why should one sound be preferable to another? It is merely a matter of convention. And it is also the custom on Aurora to refer to a robot as 'he' — or sometimes 'she' — rather than as 'it.

Capek lamó a estos seres humanos artificiales robots, que era una palabra checa para «trabajadores forzados» o «esclavos». De hecho, las siglas del título de la obra proceden de «Robots Universales de Rossum», el nombre de la compañía del héroe.

You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.