To think AI sex dolls should be illegal

[Shangle]

Just read this harrowing article. I think these dolls should be illegal.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/30/sex-doll-market-booming-ai-vaginas-customisable-personalities-fake-bruises

Come back Mary Whitehouse all is forgiven.

That is a level headed response. I agree it’s hard to get past the initial disgust. I think they’re revolting myself. It’s a bit too close to necrophilia or a date rape victim for my comfort.

But it does enter a very grey area when we start trying to control what sex aides people can use in the privacy of their own homes. A dildo is a penis replica after all. Would it be weirder attached to a male doll, in my opinion yes, but the counter argument would be taking a specific part of the anatomy and creating a sex toy from this is further objectification.

I have to check my own sexism and bias towards this topic. I wouldn’t judge a woman using a vibrator in the same way I would a man using a flesh light.

Overall, there needs to be more research into the impact of sex dolls negative or otherwise before we scrap them altogether.

I don't think so. I was ok with the idea until I got to the bit about bruises and real women's faces. That's just sick.

There is currently no evidence on this. Some would argue it prevents them from acting out on real women as they have an outlet. Unfortunately, there just hasn’t been enough research into this topic.

Given this seems to be a whole industry there must be a great many of these dolls. The article cites a single case of a doll that seems to have been painted (or printed?) bruises. Then one in Korea where the owner seems to have stabbed one. Presumably these are out of thousands that exist.

So those who do have a fetish for these things don’t automatically have a desire to stab women and children (apparently they don’t make children dols either).

The complaints here are projecting danger on no evidence, even the academics are not citing evidence just assuming that there must be a link from them to violence. As others have pointed out, there would be a more logical link form violent video games to actual violence but the link doesn’t exist. So this is taking a disgust response and then justifying it with a claim to harm. No one needs to justify a disgust response, but people also shouldn’t claim evidence of something that isn’t there.

I saw a documentary years ago on the child sex dolls, the faces were awful, made to look sad, scared and crying with watery eyes. I’m under no illusion about the types of men who use these, sex is only part of it, it’s subjecting someone to a miserable time. No doubt they would escalate.

Or how about neither?

Jesus, why does the bar have to be so low.

Honestly, it just is

There have been sex offenders since the dawn of time. If this helps keep them away from our girls then i'm all for it

That article was a disturbing read. Previously, I'd just thought sex dolls were for saddo blokes who were too smelly, ugly or disgusting to get inside a real woman's pants, but... bruised faces? Realistic, pulsating vaginas, and custom faces to resemble real people? That's all way beyond weird. There needs to be some kind of register for these people, and they need to be monitored. I'd happily sign that petition.

I been watching some of the discord around the new Grand Theft Auto game, featuring a woman character and the subsequent sexapades surrounding that (also strip club content) and my mind immediately thought of Mumsnet.

Whether it's dolls , AI or pixels , some men will continue to use visual material, like it or not and we can no longer use the exploitation of 'real woman' argument anymore - at least that's what they will tell us.

I completely disagree with your argument.

Sex offenders should be treated as such and charged as sex offenders, not allowed to fuck a sex doll to fill their pedophile needs and walk the streets. Like I said set the bar higher!

I agree sex offenders should be locked up. However, if someone hasn’t acted out their urges on real women it doesn’t make them a sex offender. Undoubtedly a weirdo, but not a criminal.

I suspect in some dim and distant future people’s (men’s) sexual interactions with sex dolls will be automatically registered if potentially damaging to a human partner. Potential partners would be able to request red flagged data. I’m assuming that most women (me included) would run a mile from Mr stabs his sex doll in the vagina with a screwdriver so would be effectively limiting him away from human partners.