Sex robots

make me feel very uneasy, but there has been widespread speculation that they might reduce sexual crimes, by providing an outlet for people’s proclivities. A report in the BMJ this week dismisses such claims. I would go further and say the increasing availability of ‘sexbots’ will raise the risk of sex crimes, by allowing individuals to act out perverted fantasies. We’ve seen this with online pornography, with extreme sex acts becoming more mainstream. My fear is that sexbots risk normalising deviant behaviour, which will then spill out into the real world.