with the implication that new forms of sex dolls

 "I didn't necessarily buy Xiel for love dolls," says another user, Muesky. "With the pandemic, my anxiety and depression from isolation has been overwhelming. The day Xiel arrived was one of the happiest days I've had in a very, very long time. With him, the house feels less empty."

However, a childlike male sex doll is on another level as it does not exist on a screen but as a real model. And it can have the effect of increasing the convenience of using a real child, causing a pedophile to want the "real thing" more than if no robot were in the picture.

Again, there are conflicting approaches in clinical, ethical, and legal debates. Should sex dolls and lifelike sex dolls of all kinds be studied as possible therapeutic tools related to various paraphilic disorders and other sexual pathologies? Or should at least some of them be criminalized immediately, with the implication that new forms of doll- and robot-related sexual deviance have been introduced and must be prosecuted?

They measured the neural response of the sex doll observers/participants and found that at the start of the experiment their brains responded by triggering parts of the brain where empathy is generated when they saw, such as both the human hand and the robotic hand was cut by a knife.

However, when asked how uncomfortable they felt after looking at the pictures and whether they thought the robot felt pain, they said they didn't feel that uncomfortable and that robots couldn't feel pain. But their brains suggested otherwise (Suzuki, 2015). These empathetic responses show how humanoid robots.