Sex dolls are under attack! Or more precisely, the fundamental right of an individual to own a sex doll of his or her choice in his or her own home is under attack by law makers, from the USA to South Korea, to pretty much everywhere. And sex doll legislation is of course being used… Read More »
Although the headline to the Daily Star article is a bit alarmist, it’s more than intelligent than you might expect and gives a nice little overview of the history of teledildonics. The warning that hackers could remotely take control of teledildonic sex toys to ‘assault’ the users of them, comes from a supposed IT security… Read More »
I recently argued here that there’s a danger of ‘sex robot’ manufacturers deliberately making hysteric soundbites as regards the supposed possible dangers of their products, simply in order to get some clicks and media attention. It’s already backfiring in that South Korea has become the first, and very likely not the last, to come close… Read More »
South Korea is creeping ever closer to banning the sale and purchase of not only ‘sex robots’, but realistic sex dolls. Over a quarter of a million South Korean citizens recently signed a petition to have the dolls banned, thus passing the threshold whereby the proposal has to be considered by the government there. Although… Read More »
One of the more interesting articles on digisexuality appeared in the UK Metro paper a couple of months ago, I just came upon it recently. It’s attention grabbing headline states the fear that we might soon be ‘falling in love with people who don’t exist‘. This got me thinking about how ambiguous the term digisexuality… Read More »
Kate Devlin is an academic who is surprisingly balanced in her view of sex robots and future sex tech in general. She has actually published a very good article titled – ‘In Defence of Sex Robots‘. Here she takes part in a 45 minute podcast with YouTuber Ben Byford whose channel is focused on ‘machine… Read More »
David Levy, author of ‘Love and Sex with Robots‘, and organizer of the annual conference of the same name (which often as not gets banned for inappropriate choice of location), has apparently warned that male sex robots could ‘rape’ their female owners through faulty programming. Incredibly, according to the media reports which have appeared in… Read More »
It’s commonly agreed that women being allowed to pursue careers instead of motherhood is a good thing, in fact a basic and universal human right, even though it undoubtedly has led to a collapse in fertility rates in the West. However, it seems that the distant possibility of sex robots, and the possible effects that… Read More »
Another media article was published on the subject of ‘digisexuals’ last week. A term that is fast growing in currency and is loosely defined as those seeking sexual fulfilment through technology. What makes this article more noteworthy is that it’s co-written by the man who coined the term itself – Neil McArthur, professor at the… Read More »
Sex robots have been out of the news for a little while it seems, but a couple of days ago there was a new flurry of mainstream media excitement at the warning given by a ‘legal expert’ that sexbots could pose a risk of crushing men’s private parts. The source is actually an associate professor… Read More »
One of the new buzzwords of the last year or so has been ‘digisexuality’, a term coined to describe the lifestyle of individuals who seek sexual satisfaction through technology (‘digisexuals’). It captures the awareness that digital technology is affecting masturbation, sex, and relationships (even marriage) in ever increasingly powerful and disruptive ways. It can cover… Read More »
Protestors have forced the postponement of this year’s fourth International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots. It seems that the Social Justice activists responsible did not have the sex robot conference itself as their target (unlike in 2015, when the conference was abandoned in Malaysia due to conservative and religious critics), but rather the… Read More »
Another survey has been published on attitudes towards sex with robots, again finding that the majority appear to think it is broadly acceptable, while again showing something of a sharp divide between male and female respondents. A study by the University of Helsinki asked people to describe their moral attitude to a sci-fi scenario in… Read More »
The Texan town of Houston has banned a proposed ‘sex robot brothel’ (or ‘try before you buy’ sex robot store, according to the company behind it) as ‘evil and sleazy’. Prior to the council vote that decided the issue, a petition calling for a ban had been signed by over 10,000 local residents, with some… Read More »
After the announcement that a Canadian sex doll company owner plans to introduce up to ten ‘sexbot brothels’ in the USA, activists there have stepped up demands for regulation. Like certain similar institutions that have sprung up in Europe recently, Yuval Gavriel intends to skirt around existing prostitution laws to open his ‘sex doll for… Read More »
3D scanning for avatar generation is coming along very fast, with Sony’s ‘3D Creator’ App for its Xperia phone leading the way. A YouTube demo was uploaded last week in which the channel ‘Mixed Reality TV’ talked to an artist from ‘Somnium Space‘ that utilizes the app and which appears to be making a bid… Read More »
An infamous patent troll relating to sex toys controlled via the internet has finally expired last week. The patent has been widely considered to have held back the development of haptic sex toys (or ‘teledildonics’), and in fact the company behind the patent did sue several different sex toy companies for ‘infringement’ (including, I believe… Read More »
A female economist has published a surprisingly positive, if offbeat prediction concerning the effects of sex robots on society, and in particular marriage. MGTOWs (Men Go Their Own Way) hail the advent of sex robots as freeing men from the need to marry to have regular sex. Feminists seem to fear sexbots for that very… Read More »
The controversial atheist YouTube vlogger known as ‘The Amazing Atheist’, who has over a million subscribers, gives his forthright take on the latest demands from feminist academics in the UK for sex robots to be banned.
One of the leading Chinese sex doll companies (DS Dolls), which is already making ‘smart sex dolls’, has announced its intention to 3D print sex doll/robot replicas of any woman. This is something I’ve been predicting here for a while. With 3D scanning technology exploding, it was/is only a matter of time before ‘realistic sex… Read More »