Doctors are questioning claims that a rise in the use of "sexbots" could have medical benefits such as treating impotence, reducing the spread of disease, or preventing violent sexual behavior. Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Monday, professor of women's health at King's College London and Chantal Cox-George from NHS Foundation Trust, analyzed the health implications of the $30 billion industry. But a new study says that while citing a lack of empirical evidence, said it had found little to suggest that robots will help reduce inappropriate and violent sexual behavior.
It concluded that the use of sex robots could actually desensitize some people to a recognition of sexual exploitation of real humans. The paper said companies who, currently sell adult sexbots priced between $5,000 and $15,000. They are, so far, only aimed at the male market but the first one designed for…
