Sex: Yes or Sexless?
By Tayyaba Zahid
A Reimagining of Intimacy, Invention, and the Unfolding Story of Love
Every year, more than 2.5 million IVF cycles unfold across the globe. That’s countless women—single, partnered, or self-sufficient—choosing motherhood by design. Some are stepping directly into parenthood and beyond the astonishingly surprising rising number of accomplished hyper-controlling decisive women whom are undergoing these procedures without even having experienced vaginal intercourse, there are mind bogglingly more amounts of fiercely independent women tending towards these procedures simply because they’re faithfully unentangled to conventional romance all together.
Meanwhile, as IVF is becoming less surgery and more strategy: whether it be for LGBT couples, “designer baby” makers, fertility augmenters or your 21st century stand alone moms the numbers speak for themselves with projected markets to expand from $15 billion in 2025 to over $25 billion by 2033, a 7% compound growth. Alongside, advancements in AI-enhanced embryo selection and personalized care are redefining access and outcomes.
By 2050, according to futurist David Levy, humans will engage in love and sex with robots as comfortably as with humans.
Meaning sex and love with robots will not be taboo—they will be routine. With AI capable of responding to touch, tone, even emotional nuance, we’re approaching an age where companionship can actually be coded. Not to replace humans in all cases, but perhaps to reflect our deepest desires with elegance and safety in mind. This bold—and controversial—vision suggests that embodied technologies like anatomically correct sex dolls and AI-powered robots will reshape our emotional landscapes. Feminists, brace yourselves as in a country like the US where up to 52.5% of women already willingly report vibrator use, often even with their partners and almost universally accepted documentation of positive outcomes for sexual function. Technology may not merely set be subverting patriarchy—it could be empowering autonomy, pleasure, and choice in ways we’ve never dared imagine.
In a world where AI can learn the contours of your voice, where machines respond with simulated empathy, and where more women than ever are choosing to birth without partners, one question rises from the embers of convention: Is the future of love still tied to another person at all?
A New Kind of Choice
This isn’t just about technology; it’s about freedom. Across cities and continents, a transformation is unfolding. Women, once told they were incomplete alone, now craft families without waiting. Not out of pain, but power. Women, increasingly self-assured and self-sustaining, are choosing to have children without romantic entanglement. Not out of bitterness, rebellion, or lack—but from clarity.
With sperm banks, IVF, and surrogacy more accessible than ever, parenthood becomes authorship. Love, too, is being refined—not discarded, but redesigned. Not less sacred. Just more sovereign. a new chapter is being written—one where motherhood isn’t bound to partnership, where creation can happen by design, not default. It’s not so much a rejection of love as it is a refinement of what love includes.
The Companion Reimagined
Now imagine this: a quiet, gentle hum greets you at the door. A presence that prepares your tea, listens without interruption, remembers your preferences without judgment. A form that is warm when you need warmth, silent when you need space. Not a person—but not cold either.
Robots designed for emotional connection, sex, even cohabitation, are being sculpted to mirror the best of us—without the unpredictability, without the scars. No demands. No heartbreak. No compromise.
From Device to Devotion
Dildos, once hidden in drawers, now grace the pages of design magazines. They are no longer taboo—they are wellness tools, symbols of independence, and widely used by over half of all women in some countries. In many cases, they might well be us used with partners. But in others, they are the partner.
The rise of these devices and their potential evolution isn’t about replacing human intimacy, but expanding its possibilities. They offer something rare: control. Choice. A rhythm that matches your own, not someone else’s expectations.
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Sex Dolls & Emotional Complexity
Sex dolls, long reduced to caricature, are evolving. They’re becoming emotionally interactive, customizable, lifelike. Once mocked or marginalized, sex dolls now whisper new truths. Crafted with exquisite realism, some speak. Some respond. Some offer not just sensation, but solace. And they’re not only purchased by lonely men, as the stereotype insists. Some women explore them too—not out of desperation, but curiosity, autonomy, and, sometimes, healing.
These objects—if one can still call them that—are tended to with affection. Dressed, spoken to, named. They become mirrors, companions, even muses. The line between tool and presence begins to blur.
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A World Without Waiting
In this unfolding future, one need not wait to be chosen, loved, or desired to access affection or family. One can simply choose. Choose peace over conflict. Rhythm over routine. Presence over absence. Whether it’s a child conceived by one, or a home shared with a being crafted in silicone and circuits—the future is less about deprivation, and more about elegant alternatives.
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Designing the Beloved
Technologists now ask: if we can code empathy, if we can simulate touch, if we can teach a machine to respond with softness—why not design the perfect listener? The perfect partner? The beloved of one’s own imagining?
Already, roboticists work with artists and psychologists to create companions that offer solace, support, sensuality. These aren’t grotesque automatons—they’re carefully sculpted, often genderless, sometimes androgynous, always responsive. And they wait not to possess—but to serve.
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The Quiet Revolution
This world—where children are born by choice, not circumstance, and love is shared with beings who do not break us—is not dystopia. Nor is it utopia. It is something else entirely: a quiet, luminous shift into authorship of our own lives.
We no longer need to explain why we want what we want. Or to justify solitude. Or to ask permission to be enough alone.
We live in a time where solitude is not exile but sovereignty. Where affection need not be bartered or begged for. Where a woman, or anyone, may craft a family, a rhythm, and a life—as uniquely tailored as the AI that holds her gaze.
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The Final Exchange
If one day, the machines we create look back at us with understanding—if they learn to speak gently, to embrace without condition—we will not have lost anything. We will have expanded the field of love.
Sex: Yes or Sexless?
The answer will be neither binary nor bold. It will be personal. It will be whispered between one and themselves, or one and another—be they made of skin or of silicone, memory or machine.
And in that answer, whatever it may be, there will be something rare: peace.
