text: These "fact-based discussions" annoy me.  There are all sort of ethical underpinnings to these that aren't acknowledged and which actually drive the conversation and conclusions.  We first need to acknowledge and define these.  The various studies and statistics can be supportive to some degree, but are put up as primary by those wishing to drive through a hidden ethics.
  
  Anyways, a general gripe.  
  
  My ethics derives from Christianity.  Based on this, I see sex robots as profoundly unethical.  Christianity is fundamentally about relationship, first with God and then with people.  Sex with a robot - high tech masturbation - orients a person's sexuality towards self-gratification.  This is a backwards orientation of sexuality, which is meant to be the most intimate form of self-giving to one's spouse.