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New Poll Finds 1 in 10 Americans Would Sleep With Robots

By Damon Brown
April 16, 2013
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Robot infidelity is a thornier question

A new HuffPo/YouGov poll finds about one in ten Americans would be up for sex with a robot. The poll asked 1,000 adults in February.

Nine percent of Americans said yes to “Would you have sex with a robot?”, 81 percent said no, and 11 percent weren’t sure. Males said yes significantly more than females, 14 percent to four percent. Younger adults were higher, too, with 14 percent of 18 – 29 year olds and 13 percent of 30 – 44 year olds being up for human/robot intimacy versus only six percent of 45 – 64 year olds and two percent of Americans 65 and older.

Less than half of Americans believe having sex with a robot is cheating, with only 42 percent saying yes, 31 percent saying no, and 26 percent unsure. Slightly more females than males said yes, 46 percent compared to 38 percent, and more than half of Americans over 65 believe it is cheating, relative to about a third of American adults under 65.

Human to Robot

The data here is rich for a couple reasons. First, it is impressive that a poll of this type could be done with any statistical significance. For us, it is hard to imagine even posing the question to the average American in an earlier era like, say, the 1940s or even the 1980s. Pop culture has shown our interest in sexualizing robots, going back to the curvy robot in the landmark 1927 film Metropolis, but it seemed to be locked away in the realm of fetish and fantasy, not an actual possibility as it is today.

Second, it pushed the tech cheating question from the virtual front to the physical front. Most conversation about human/tech intimacy have been about virtual sex, avatars, and similar concepts. The poll questions have the underlying assumption that robots are equal to humans – they aren’t asking if we would have virtual sex or computer sex with a robot, just if we would have sex with a robot. As robotics becomes more lifelike, these questions will become a bigger part of public conversation.

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Damon Brown

Damon Brown is a distinguished best-selling author, public speaker, and coach to nontraditional entrepreneurs.

He co-founded the #1 Apple app Cuddlr, a social-meeting application where strangers living within walking distance could meet for casual, platonic cuddling. In 2015 he sold Cuddlr, just a year after its launch, jump-starting the platonic connection industry. The app had 200,000 users and was featured on both the covers of The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and the New York Times.

Damon is the author of 19 books including Our Virtual Shadow: Why We Are Obsessed with Documenting Our Lives Online (2013), Bring Your Worth: Level Up Your Creative Power, Value & Services to the World (2019), The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur (2016), The Ultimate Bite-Size Entrepreneur (2017), The Productive Bite-Sized Entrepreneur (2016), The Balanced Bite-Sized Entrepreneur (2017), and The Passive Writer: 5 Steps to Earning Money in Your Sleep (2018).

He holds a master's degree in Magazine Publishing from Northwestern University and sits on the board of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. His media clients include Blizzard Activision, Western Digital, TEDx, Al Jazeera America, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and GWC. He has been featured in several newspapers, magazines, and online publications including Playboy Magazine, New York Post, AARP Magazine, and CNN.

Damon is also the founder and developer of So Quotable (SoQuo) that aims to capture quotes in real life. SoQuo has been featured in the TED Book "Our Virtual Shadow" and its quotes shared by TED, Al Jazeera America, and other media organizations.

Damon is a notable TED Talk Speaker delivering presentations like "The Positive Power of Observation" in 2014 at Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, and "Why You Should Strive for Good Enough" in 2018 for TEDxToledo.

His passion to help side hustlers, solopreneurs, and other non-traditional entrepreneurs led him to start his column "Sane Success" in the leading American business magazine, Inc. As a columnist on Inc. Magazine, Damon explores how ambitious entrepreneurs can thrive without destroying their personal relationships or sacrificing their health.
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  1. MIA 20 May, 2013 at 00:01 Log in to Reply

    Sure but is robot sex considered cheating?

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