September 12, 2016 | Sex Life

Beware! Sex with robots can be addictive

We had to chuckle at a recent article in the London tabloid, The Star, entitled "Brit will become hooked on sex robots, warns expert."

The expert in question is Joel Snell, a "research fellow" from Kirkwood College, a two-year community college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Technology has come a long way since the inflatable sex doll; now there are somewhat lifelike sex dolls with skin that looks and feels like skin, but even these don't move independently, let alone hold a conversation.

While sex robots don't actually exist yet, that doesn't stop speculation about the societial ills that may befall us when they are one day unleashed.

According to Snell, “Sexbots would always be available and could never say no, so addictions would be easy to feed. People may become obsessed by their ever faithful, ever pleasing sex robot lovers."

And the sex could be better than with a human:

“Because they would be programmable, sexbots would meet each individual user’s needs,” says Snell.

Another plus of robot sex: no STDs -- and no fear of STDs.

Since men like variety, robot bordellos are sure to pop up. And in the sharing economy you could even bot-swap. Surely there will be an app for that.

Anything pleasurable can be addictive. We somehow doubt if robot sex addiction will ever surpass good, old-fashioned human-on-human sex addiction.