Male Sex Tech Under Attack from Feminists
Sex tech is growing at an almost exponential rate. Just like everything else, sex is becoming digitalized and is now connected to the laws that seemingly govern the ever increasing rates of computing power, such as the famous Moore’s Law. We’ve come a long way from the days when all a man had to enhance his masturbatory experience was a top-shelf magazine, or maybe an imported VHS tape. Now we have 4K porn at the click of a mouse, as well as an ever growing library of virtual reality porn and even some rudimentary AR porn. But the real porn revolution has only just begun with AI. Giving us not only the power to become our own porn directors rather than consumers, but a near infinity of flawless AI girlfriends to choose from, who before a decade is past, will become embodied in the form of humanoid robots that we can have physical sex with us.
Understandably, or at least unsurprisingly, this potential sexual heaven for men is increasingly being seen as a potential sexual hell for women. The negative articles over the dangers of AI girlfriends, AI porn, and sex robots, are now appearing so often that even I am finding it hard to even read them all. But most concerning of all in the recent flurry is that a professional British feminist (Laura Bates) has not only become involved, but she’s targeting (male) sex tech in general – and has a new book out that is devoted to it.
Sex tech enthusiasts are a pretty progressive lot. Indeed, the leaders of the industry, and those who write and blog about it, are never short of extolling their left-wing, feminist, and LGBTQ+ credentials. One example of this is the Cybrothel in Berlin, set up by Philipp Fussenegger and two others who all proclaim themselves as both ‘sex positive’ and feminist. However, the elephant in the room is that most of this future sex tech appeals to men, above all VR porn and sex dolls, which the Cybrothel combines into one experience. Sex tech writers may claim that this is because it is designed to appeal to men, but the truth is probably that men are far more inclined to bang a sex doll, given that they tend to be more aroused by visual stimuli than women (as well as the obvious fact that men can fuck sex dolls, but sex dolls cannot (yet) fuck women). In any case, no matter how feminist and sex positive the sex tech community likes to think of itself as, an industry and technology that is giving men new and excitingly realistic sexual opportunities with each passing day is going to find it in the crosshairs of feminists and women’s rights campaigners, as the owners of the Cybrothel recently discovered, having become the first targets of Laura Bates.
Ostensibly, you could argue it’s an admirable aim: to provide people with a safe space where they can freely explore their sexual selves without judgement. But there is plenty about the way Cybrothel operates that undermines this. The first is the dolls themselves. With giant breasts, minuscule waists, and poreless, childlike skin, almost all of them subscribe to a specific homogenised aesthetic tailored to a highly pornified male gaze. Fussenegger sources them from China and puts the limitations down to what’s available from an industry “controlled by straight white men”. “The way the dolls look is the same as in video games and adverts,” he says. “I’m working hard to find shapes and forms that don’t play into this but we’re a little company and it’s not so easy.” Fussenegger has used the dolls himself and tells me he knows the product “very well”.
Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/ai-sexism-violence-against-women-technology-new-era
Notice how Fussenegger still pleads for feminist sympathy. He simply can’t change an industry “controlled by straight white men”. It’s not going to cut it with feminists like Laura Bates. She knows the ‘problem’ is not that the sex tech industry is artificially catering to “straight white men”, but that this is the market that is providing the bulk of the demand for this kind of sex tech – and it’s a threat to women. Chiefly that is, straight white women like Laura Bates. Laura’s undercover ‘expose’ of the Cybrothel was part of a promotional tour for her new book devoted to the subject of male sex tech. Whilst leading figures in the AI industry vainly warn the public that there is a 20% to 100% risk of AI killing us all in the next 10 years, a book like this will likely gain at least as much media attention and public sympathy. In any case, I would recommend any male sex tech fans to purchase the book on Amazon, if only so that you can then write a scathing review as a verified purchaser.