"Sex Robots": Why buy one?

In his monthly column, Brian Gray from Glasgow-based consultancy Lascivious Marketing offers his thoughts on all things marketing…and perhaps one or two other things. This month he plays Devil's Advocate to the sex robot detractors. Oscar Wilde famously opined that he could resist everything but temptation. Opinion pieces with questionable arguments have the same effect on me. The British newspaper The Guardian published an article on Monday 25th September written by "robotics expert" Jenny Kleeman, titled "Should we ban sex robots while we have the chance?" The sub-heading posits: "AI sex dolls are on their way, with potentially sinister social consequences.