Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Although sex toys representing human body parts are widely accepted and normalized, human-like full-body sex dolls and sex robots have elicited highly controversial debates.
This systematic scoping review of the academic literature on sex dolls and sex robots, the first of its kind, aimed to examine the extent and type of existing academic knowledge and to identify research gaps against this backdrop. A comprehensive multidisciplinary, multidatabase search strategy was used. A total of 29 17 peer reviewed and 98 publications 32 peer reviewed for sex dolls and sex robots, respectively, from to were included.
According to the topics and methodologies, the sex doll and sex robot publications were divided into 5 and 6 groups, respectively. The majority of publications were theoretical papers. Thus far, no observational or experimental research exists that uses actual sex dolls or sex robots as stimulus material.
There is a need to improve the theoretical elaboration and the scope and depth of empirical research examining the sexual uses of human-like full-body material artifacts, particularly concerning not only risks but also opportunities for sexual and social well-being. Keywords: sex toys; sexual objectification; anthropomorphization; embodied sexual fantasies; parasocial interactions and relationships, mobile phone.
In , it will be perfectly normal for women and men to experience love and sex with robots. This bold prediction from roboticist David Levy [ 1 ] started a debate, now more than a decade after, on the ethics, design, use, and effects of human-like, anatomically correct sex robots and of sex dolls, their noninteractive, immobile precursors.
