Design, Use, and Effects of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although 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.

Objective

This 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.

Methods

A 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

SUBMITTER: Doring N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7426804 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature