Evas Doll’s voice-controlled sex doll legs are a step, not a stride, toward walking sex robots
The upgrade spares owners from hauling heavy doll limbs into position by hand. Cut the power, though, and the legs go completely limp.
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Miss AI competition becomes AI Woman of the Year… then gets ditched
The Miss AI beauty pageant caused outrage in 2024 when over 2,000 AI-generated models competed for the title. Organizers announced it would…
Pornhub, Chaturbate and OnlyFans on Italy’s new porn age verification list
Italy has become the latest country to toughen porn access laws, publishing a list of 45 sites that must introduce robust age…
‘We measure arousal’: AI vibrator learns your body in real-time, adapts using haptics and soundwaves
A UK company is developing what it calls the world's first personalized smart vibrator that learns from your body's arousal signals. The…
Autoblow launches ‘AI girlfriends’ that can control its toys, plus VacuGlide 2
Autoblow has introduced AI companion characters that control its blow job machine's movements during erotic conversations, with founder Brian Sloan reporting that…
Pornhub says UK traffic dropped 77% after age verification laws as users flock to non-compliant sites
Pornhub has seen its UK traffic plummet by 77 percent since age verification requirements took effect in July 2025 under the Online…
London Tech Abuse Conference 2026 to cover deepfakes, cyberstalking and online dating
University College London will bring together researchers, frontline workers and people with lived experience of technology-facilitated abuse at a three-day conference in…
We-Vibe Chorus Pro couples vibrator brings remote control haptic feedback
The $229 Chorus Pro builds on the original with a squeezable remote that now vibrates in sync with the main device, offering…
Inevitable? Discord data breach exposes 70,000 government IDs through age verification hack
Discord says 70,000 government IDs may have been exposed after hackers breached Zendesk, a third-party vendor used for age verification appeals.
Realdoll moving to China, slashing prices, and launching $40/month AI subscription
The legendary American sex robot brand is undergoing a major transformation: outsourcing body production to Chinese manufacturers to slash prices by thousands,…
Stories we're tracking
Long-running editorial threads we keep updating as new evidence lands.
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Coverage thread Payment Processors vs Adult Games
What started in 2021 as isolated confusion over Steam's adult content rules, with studios like Holodexxx and Super Seducer 3 forced onto…
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Coverage thread Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
Eight years of coverage tracking image-based sexual abuse from the DeepNude app's brief viral moment through the nudify industry's current expansion, mapping…
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked age verification as a live policy battleground since 2016, from the UK's Digital Economy Act delays and eventual collapse…
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