{"id":15924,"date":"2015-08-05T06:46:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/a-psychologist-thinks-itll-be-normal-to-have-sex-with-robots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:45","slug":"a-psychologist-thinks-itll-be-normal-to-have-sex-with-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/a-psychologist-thinks-itll-be-normal-to-have-sex-with-robots","title":{"rendered":"A psychologist thinks it\u2019ll be normal to have sex with robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-psychologist-thinks-itll-be-normal-to-have-sex-with-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the next half of this century, humans will be regularly engaging in sexual activity with robots, and maybe even falling in love with them, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunderland.ac.uk\/faculties\/apsc\/ourstaff\/psychologystafflist\/helendriscoll\/\">Helen Driscoll<\/a>, a psychologist who specialises in sex and mate choices at the University of Sunderland in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Her comments came while discussing the technological advances that are making sex dolls more interactive than ever before, and they present a future eerily similar to that of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Her_(film)\">Joaquin Phoenix film <em>Her<\/em><\/a>, where the main character falls in love with an operating system on his computer (voiced by Scarlett Johansson no less, who could blame him?) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs virtual reality becomes more realistic and immersive and is able to mimic and even improve on the experience of sex with a human partner; it is conceivable that some will choose this in preference to sex with a less than perfect human being,\u201d Driscoll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/sex-robots-the-norm-50-6190575\">told David Watkinson from the <em>Daily Mirror<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-psychologist-thinks-it-ll-be-normal-to-have-sex-with-robots-by-2070\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next half of this century, humans will be regularly engaging in sexual activity with robots, and maybe even falling in love with them, according to Helen Driscoll, a psychologist who specialises in sex and mate choices at the University of Sunderland in the UK. Her comments came while discussing the technological advances that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6,1901,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai","category-sex","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69761,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/revisions\/69761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}