{"id":27071,"date":"2016-06-21T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/you-may-soon-be-dating-a-sex-doll"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:13:17","slug":"you-may-soon-be-dating-a-sex-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/you-may-soon-be-dating-a-sex-doll","title":{"rendered":"You may soon be dating a sex doll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-may-soon-be-dating-a-sex-doll.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your next sex-buddy may be made of silicone, designed to your specifications and willing to put up with even your most outrageous quirks \u2013 much to Noel Sharkey\u2019s chagrin. The emeritus professor of robotics at Sheffield University in the UK is blowing up over the proliferation of realistic sex dolls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3634399\/How-robots-soon-teens-virginity.html\">According to the Daily Mail<\/a>, Sharkey and other academics are voicing concern about the dolls and a new generation of sex-bots that may one day have full-blown speech recognition.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, the profs warn, fabricated mates may become as prevalent as Internet porn and wreak havoc with our love lives. \u201cWhat if it\u2019s your first time? Your first relationship?\u201d Sharkey asks. \u201cWhat [will] you think a man or woman is? It will get in the way of real life, stopping people from forming relationships with normal people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/06\/10\/you-may-soon-be-dating-a-sex-doll\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/06\/10\/you-may-soon-be-dating-a-sex-doll\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your next sex-buddy may be made of silicone, designed to your specifications and willing to put up with even your most outrageous quirks \u2013 much to Noel Sharkey\u2019s chagrin. The emeritus professor of robotics at Sheffield University in the UK is blowing up over the proliferation of realistic sex dolls. According to the Daily Mail, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61442,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions\/61442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}