• Rooty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Terrible article, the author stokes a completely basesless moral panic.

    Porn has been the go-to scapegoat for every societal ill since time immemorial, and this is just the latest iteration of the constant fretting about it.

    And the article he quotes is even more ridiculous. Now fantasy girlfriends are an existential threat to women? If a man wrote about how he has to compete with romance novels and sex toys he would be derided as a fragile loser.

    I am bored with this type of discourse.

    • robo@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Now fantasy girlfriends are an existential threat to women?

      They are suggesting the opposite, that women are using this technology more than men. Like the title says: the majority of actual users of these sexbots seem to be female