Sex robots might be fun, but are they healthy? Interesting you should ask — a pair of doctors, having pondered the question, don’t seem to think so.Citing a rise in inquiries to doctors about the health benefits of robotic sex companions, a pair of doctors — Chantal Cox-George and Susan Bewley — set out to find an answer to the age-old (well, at least a few years old) question: What, if any, are the medical benefits to having sex with robots? In a paper published Monday, titled “I, Sex Robot: the health implications of the sex robot industry,” the researchers ultimately concluded that there's just not a lot of information currently available relating to the effects of having sex with a robot.But from what they could find, there's absolutely no evidence that sex robots are beneficial to their users’ health.“We advise that sexbots shouldn’t be used in medical practice,” Cox-George, a doctor at St. George’s University Hospitals in Britain, told the Washington Post.There were four categories of potential sex robot benefits that the researchers looked into:
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- Safer sex
Therapeutic potential
Potential to treat paedophiles and sex offenders
Changing societal norms.