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Lucy Devine
Almost 10 years ago, scientists made a very NSFW prediction for 2025. And considering we're only hours away from 2025, the prediction has been unearthed once again.
Back in 2016, futurologist Dr Ian Pearson claimed that by the year 2025, people will be having sex with robots.
In fact, it was even claimed that women would be having more intimate relations with robots than men.
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"Vibrators have been around for over a century," Dr Pearson said in a 2016 report.
"But now the vibrant sex toy industry doesn't just make standalone devices, but teledildonic devices that bring all the fun and functionality of computing and networks to sex too.
"While some people will enthusiastically embrace relationship-free robot sex as soon as they can afford one, as early as 2025, it won't have much chance of overtaking sex with humans overall until 2050.
"Some might only use straightforward VR without the sex toys as part of that.
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"By 2035 toys will be better developed and most people will be well used to VR sex by then, so will have acquired a collection of sex toys that interwork with VR."
While Dr Pearson claimed that people would probably still have reservations about having sex with a robot, he predicted that people would feel more comfortable about it in time, and particularly by the year 2050.
"A lot of people will still have reservations about sex with robots at first but gradually as they get used to them, as the AI (artificial intelligence) and mechanical behaviour and their feel improves, and they start to become friends with strong emotional bonds, that squeamishness will gradually evaporate," he said.
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With the new year upon us, people were quick to point out that 2025 is just around the corner and sex with robots still isn't a thing.
"It would be impossible to have more women having sex with robots in 2025 because they say more women would be having sex with robots and now not even half of the population is having sex with robots," one person wrote on X.
And another said: "There's no sex with robots in 2025."
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While a third added: "It’s 2025 where’s the sex with robots?"
And a fourth wrote: "2025 is the year when you’re supposed to be able to have sex with robots."
Some are still hopeful however, with another writing: "Who else [is] excited 4 sex with robots 2025?"