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masturbation already is higher than human sex and plenty of human sex is intentionaly non procreative. Robot sex would mostly pull from the masterbation pool. It will be the sex people do returning alone from the bars.
Also people are glossing over the capability for it to improve sexual drive.
The "my wife read a slightly spicy book today and now she wants to get it on" trope is well known on social media, AI's ability to just generate whatever you want likely will boost that.
However, at this time AI is unable to really handle pacing well.
It's pretty well known that most attempts with current uncensored LLMs tends to produce saucy encounters are... poorly paced.
Good spicy novels have a lot of build up and slow pace, which requires remembering facts from many chapters ago.
Even the top end of massive LLMs lack the memory capacity to last more than a handful of pages before they completely lose the thread.
But hopefully this gets remedied eventually.
It seems to me that one could make the same argument for oral contraception. I didn't go ram the data through statistics software, but I have eyeballed the TFR history of some countries, and you can see a correlation between legal oral contraception being associated with a falloff in fertility (side note, though -- the same couldn't be said of abortion, or at least I couldn't see it).
There was a talk I remember a while back from Eric Kaufmann, a Canadian professor of politics. Kaufman's particular talk was focusing less on the overall impact on countries of low fertility and more on the internal political changes -- in the presence of oral contraception, the religious tend to have a substantially higher number of kids than do the irreligious, which has very real political impacts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEyv5a_3LM
So, I'm more interested in the impact of reduced fertility on a country overall than Kaufmann, who is interested in the effects on its internal political makeup, but I think that he's got a real point that there are some very considerable long-range effects of breaking the link between sex and procreation. I'd expect various forms of simulated or robotic sex to tend to travel further down the path that oral contraception did, create additional downwards pressure on TFR.
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I actually don't see oral contraception as equivalent. That is about not wanting to breed whereas robot sex is just about getting off. so manual masterbations next level is toys and robots would be the next level still. That being said Im fine with anything keeping people from having kids they don't truly want.