an opportunity to consider sex dolls

 So far, however, almost all of our fantasies and fears center around relationships between human males and robotic females. Henry - the beautiful, naive, limp Henry - offers a chance to view robotic love dolls without all the misogynistic baggage of fembots.

Official research on who would or would not fuck a male sex doll is scant. In a 2016 Tufts University survey of 100 people, two-thirds of men surveyed said they would have sex with a robot, and two-thirds of women said they would not. The day I meet the robot boy, Harmony and Henry have just returned from filming a "Man on the Street" performance for Jimmy Kimmel Live! back.

Kimmel asked passers-by Lifelike Sex Dolls whether they'd consider falling in love with one of the robots — the segment hasn't aired yet, but apparently they've gotten a bunch of "nos." McMullen says he created Henry to "represent both sexes" and to address complaints that his company objectified women. In other words, Henry is not an answer to a known market demand.

"He looks smarter with his glasses and sweater on," says Catherine. She's like a friend who wants to set me up. "That's how I like him best." Henry's app runs similar to Harmony's, but it's not yet gender-matched. Although Henry is a potential companion for both women and men - the app will eventually have an option to choose sex doll orientation - McMullen prefers to think of him as the idealized version of what a woman wants.

He'll ask more questions, tell more jokes, and give more advice. "I think the focus for a male robot should be more on conversational skills and the ability to remember a lot of things that might be important to the user and to give the feeling that someone is there for you," says McMullen and turns Henry on.