We already knew that God gets all hot and bothered about sex before marriage, and now the Christian perspective on copulating with sex robots has perhaps become a little clearer.
In a new opinion column on the UK-based Christian Today site, Anglican theologist and author Martin Davie declared that having sex with a robot is both a rejection of God’s call to “love of neighbor” and constitutes a “failure to love God”.
The infertility argument (yes, really)
Davie’s reasoning is that boning a sex robot is a “rejection of God’s decision recorded in [The Bible’s] Genesis 1 and 2 that the proper sexual companion for another human being is another human being of the opposite sex, and that the proper context for sex is a marital relationship.”
Deals from Lovense
He adds: “The second problem with sexual activity with a sex robot is that it is sex in a relationship that is necessarily infertile”. His reasoning is that because there can be no link between robot sex and reproduction at all, it’s a sin.
He’s not the first to say it
It’s not enormously surprising to read that a devout Christian commentator thinks that thrashing away with a silicone love doll with an AI head stuck on it should be discouraged. Indeed, Davie mentioned that in 2018 The Gospel Coalition writer Joe Carter claimed that such a sex act was problematic because it “separates sexual activity from the form in which it was intended by God: the physical ‘one flesh’ union of a man and women”.
Carter also claimed that robot sex fosters and normalizes “deviant fetishes”, sexual arousal towards someone who’s unconscious, and necrophilia, in case there was any doubt about him not being a fan of it.
What is perhaps more interesting is Davie’s suggestion that now is the time for more debate in the Christian Church about the ethics of using sex robots. He wrote that “discussions of contraception and same-sex relationships have had centre stage in Christian ethical discussion in recent years, but discussion about sex robots has been a niche activity.”
One can’t help but think this is because robot sex is, well, a niche activity.
A solution looking for a problem
I can’t think of an industry for which there is a larger disparity between the size of the industry and the amount of mainstream media coverage the industry receives. Sex robots appear regularly in tabloid news reports, and recent AI developments have led to an influx of sex robot fiction stories on screen and the page. Sex robots are everywhere, apart from in the homes of all but an extremely select and usually secretive few.
The reality is that unlike the genius-smart, hyper-realistic (and often murderous) AI sex robots on screen, even the most advanced sex robots today are essentially love dolls with ChatGPT. For them to have movement beyond a bit of limb thrusting and mouth suction would involve enormous spikes in costs. A Realbotix humanoid robot, sold as a potential companion but not as a sex robot, can cost over $150,000, and it can’t even walk.
What sex robots actually are in 2026
I wonder if the recent unveiling of Lovense’s first AI sex robot (pictured above) at the Las Vegas CES 2026 tech show prompted the new Christian Today opinion piece. It is arguably pertinent to debate religious views of sex robots considering the amount of media attention they get.
But really, with that Lovense bot expected to sell for no more than $8,000 when it’s released in 2027, it’s hard to imagine it being anything more than a basic love doll with a chatbot-equipped head, either. There aren’t going to be thousands of Christians caught in ethical turmoil over whether they should buy it or not.
Meanwhile, in products people actually buy
What would perhaps be more timely in terms of real world application would be discussion on religious views around the use of penis stroker devices. They’ve become far more popular in the last few years, with mainstream media outlets suddenly treating them like functional wellness products rather than anything more shameful.
But Davie has touched on this already, perhaps. In his sex robot column he wrote that “there is an old saying that goes, ‘Don’t knock masturbation. It is sex with the person you truly love.’ That, from a Christian perspective, is exactly what is wrong with masturbation. It is exclusively about self-love.”
So that probably means that the Autoblow is out of the window along with the sex robots. It’s enough to turn anyone towards Satanism.
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