ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2020
Design, Use, and Effects of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots: Scoping Review.
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- The role of metaverse on sexual health of people with disabilities: narrative review.International journal of impotence research · 2024Review
- Child-like sex dolls: legal, empirical, and ethical perspectives.International journal of impotence research · 2024Review
- Sex Doll Specifications versus Human Body Characteristics.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Nosology of behavioral addictions: Intersections with philosophy of psychiatry •.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- The time is ripe for robopsychology.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Flirting With or Through Media: How the Communication Partners' Ontological Class and Sexual Priming Affect Heterosexual Males' Interest in Flirtatious Messages and Their Perception of the Source.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A Thing like a Human? A Mixed-Methods Study on Sex Doll Usage.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2022Article
- Clinical use and implications of sexual devices and sexually explicit media.Nature reviews. Urology · 2021Review
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- Sexual Interaction in Digital Contexts and Its Implications for Sexual Health: A Conceptual Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Foundations of Erobotics.International journal of social robotics · 2021Article
- How Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Affecting Our Sexualities? An Overview of the Current Media Narratives and Research Hypotheses.Archives of sexual behavior · 2020Article
- Examining the reliability and sources of validity evidence of the sexual cognitions checklist.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough sex toys representing human body parts are widely accepted and normalized, human-like full-body sex dolls and sex robots have elicited highly controversial debates.
objectiveThis systematic scoping review of the academic literature on sex dolls and sex robots, the first of its kind, aimed to examine the extent and type of existing academic knowledge and to identify research gaps against this backdrop.
methodsA comprehensive multidisciplinary, multidatabase search strategy was used. All steps of literature search and selection, data charting, and synthesis followed the leading methodological guideline, the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist. A total of 29 (17 peer reviewed) and 98 publications (32 peer reviewed) for sex dolls and sex robots, respectively, from 1993 to 2019 were included.
resultsAccording to the topics and methodologies, the sex doll and sex robot publications were divided into 5 and 6 groups, respectively. The majority of publications were theoretical papers. Thus far, no observational or experimental research exists that uses actual sex dolls or sex robots as stimulus material.
conclusionsThere is a need to improve the theoretical elaboration and the scope and depth of empirical research examining the sexual uses of human-like full-body material artifacts, particularly concerning not only risks but also opportunities for sexual and social well-being.
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