It's often seen as a taboo subject, but one scientist is finally lifting the lid on our sex lives - and what 2025 has in store for them. Dr Olivia Lee, the Relationship Scholar in Residence at Doll Authority, has revealed the seven sex trends set to encapsulate the year ahead. Speaking to MailOnline, she said: 'From fashion to travel, many of us are eagerly anticipating the trends that may – whether we realise it or not – influence our choices throughout the year. 'However, it doesn't end there; several exciting and unexpected sex trends are also on the horizon, and it looks like 2025 is going to be very kinky.' Several of Dr Lee's predictions are based on the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) - including AI sexting, and AI-enhanced sex dolls.

During an address Thursday, President Joe Biden claimed he taught "political theory" at the University of Pennsylvania. An Altoona, Pennsylvania man has been arrested after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl he met on the popular dating app, Tinder, according to reports. An NBC station out of Johnstown-Altoona, Pennsylvania reported that state police spoke with the 14-year-old girl on Sept. 19. During the conversation, the girl reportedly told police she met Steven Ellis, 32, on Tinder after creating a profile that made her appear older. In court documents, police said they learned the teenager and Ellis sent each other explicit messages and photos.

Google will ban'sugar daddy' apps from its Google Play app store from September 1 this year, the firm has quietly revealed in an update. Sugar daddy, or'compensated sexual relationship' apps, allow older users to pay younger users in return for sexual intimacy. Users are mostly older males, known as'sugar daddies', and younger females ('sugar babies'), although there are'sugar mummies' too. Examples of sugar dating apps include My Sugar Daddy, Spoil, SDM, Elite Millionaire Singles and Seeking Arrangement. According to one young user, sugar daddy apps have earnt them a whopping £18,000 a month – enough to pay for their university degree.

A man enjoying a relationship with his sex doll girlfriend as well as his wife of 36 years has confessed he wouldn't know what to do if he had to choose between them. James, 58, from Atlanta, Georgia, bought 5ft blonde robot April - who he now has sex with four times a week - for £2,000 when his wife Tine began caring for her sick mother. He explains in an upcoming Channel 4 documentary, The Sex Robots are Coming, how he shares a bed with April and takes her out on dinner dates, and claims people often don't even notice she isn't a living, breathing woman. And the engineer's sexual relationship with the doll has his wife's blessing, according to the Daily Star. James enjoys a sexual relationship with his robot girlfriend April - and his wife of 36 year Tine is fine with it.

She was totally skeptical of the idea that humans would fall in love with robots. She's still fairly skeptical, but she's beginning to appreciate something like this will happen. What happens if 50 years from now your predictions have not proved true, and humans and robots don't marry? I know some people think the idea is totally outlandish. But I am totally convinced it's inevitable. I would be absolutely astounded if I'm proven wrong--not if I'm a few years off, but if I'm proven completely wrong.

Could we fall in love with robots? Movies have been suggesting the possibility for some time, from a man falling in love with his computer operating system in the 2013 film Her, to robot lover Gigolo Joe offering his services to women in 2001's A.I. We are on the cusp of creating loveable robots. Leaps in artificial intelligence are making conversations with automatons less stilted, for example. One Silicon Valley company, Eternime, plans to let people create avatars of themselves that learn their speech patterns and life stories, then converse with loved ones after death. And robots themselves are becoming increasingly lifelike.