Come 2025, Women Will Prefer Sex With Robots Over Men

From the article: Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson says women will ditch men for robots to satisfy their sexual needs in 10 years time and predicted that forms of robot sex will spring up in rich households by 2025, according to a report by British daily The Sun.

He said that women could even start falling in love with robots. While many would dismiss his ideas, the rise of the use and social acceptance of sex toys, sex dolls and the growing sexual needs industry, with artificial intelligence (AI) and robots in the mix, indicates that his predictions could well turn out to be right.

Pearson says that humans are not ‘that far away from this vision at the moment’ and citing examples of sex toys and vibrators entering mainstream conversations he suggested that it won’t be long before robot sex is more popular with women compared to watching pornography.

He also predicted that robot sex will be more common than normal sex by 2050, eclipsing human love-making all together.

“A lot of people will still have reservations about sex with robots at first but gradually as they get used to them, as the AI (artificial intelligence) and mechanical behaviour and their feel improves, and they start to become friends with strong emotional bonds, that squeamishness will gradually evaporate,” Pearson wrote in his report, commissioned by Bondara, an internet sex shop.

Is it just the standard PR approach in robotics and AI to go out making controversial statements to get attention to either bolster your career prospects by getting your name out there, or to raise capital for a startup?