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A number of powerful men have been accused of sexual harassment at the rate of every 20 hours since Harvey Weinstein scandal broke on October 5, 2017. This has led to a lot of men just retreating from dating altogether. The next logical step there is going to be the rise of the sex robot. The first stage will just be having someone/thing to have sex with that looks exactly as you want them to and you don’t have to deal with anything else. This will easily lead to emotional connection and the anthropomorphising of the robots to the point where a large number of men are just going to give up on relationships with human females.