Dr Ian Pearson’s claims haven’t exactly aged wellDr Ian Pearson made some pretty audacious claims about what this year would have in store for us almost ten years ago, suggesting women would be swapping blokes for robots in the bedroom.
According to him, females would be getting frisky with machines rather than men by 2025.
So a lot of ladies were left disappointed when the clock struck midnight and an army of sex robots still hadn’t materialised to kick off the New Year with a bang.
As I’m sure you have seen online, Dr Pearson’s wacky prediction has been a big talking point in the run up to 31 December.
Social media sleuths dug up an article where he first shared the bold theory back in 2016 and it quickly became a bit of a viral joke.
X users were even going as far as to wish each other a ‘happy sex with robots year’ rather than the traditional greeting, so Dr Pearson’s claims had a lot to live up to.
So, what did he reckon was in store for our sex lives in 2025?
Dr Ian Pearson predicted we would be having sex with robots by 2025 (Getty Stock Image)
Nine years ago, he said in a report: “Vibrators have been around for over a century.
“But now the vibrant sex toy industry doesn’t just make standalone devices, but teledildonic devices that bring all the fun and functionality of computing and networks to sex too.
“While some people will enthusiastically embrace relationship-free robot sex as soon as they can afford one, as early as 2025, it won’t have much chance of overtaking sex with humans overall until 2050.
“Some might only use straightforward VR without the sex toys as part of that.
“By 2035 toys will be better developed and most people will be well used to VR sex by then, so will have acquired a collection of sex toys that interwork with VR.”
Dr Pearson did admit that he thought people would ‘still have reservations’ about getting down and dirty with a robot, but reckoned that we would ‘gradually as they get used to them’.
According to the futurologist, we’d warm up to mechanical lovers as the technology and artificial intelligence used in them ‘improved’.
“They start to become friends with strong emotional bonds, that squeamishness will gradually evaporate,” he added.
Although he predicted that sex with robots would become more common than human intercourse by 2050, Dr Pearson said that this didn’t mean traditional lovemaking would go extinct.
Using quite an interesting analogy to bolster his argument, he said: “Drinking tea doesn’t mean you won’t want coffee sometimes.”
The futurologist claimed women would be having more intercourse with mechanicals rather than men (Getty Stock Image)
Dr Pearson believed people would adjust to robot sex just as society did with vibrators, as sex toys are no longer considered to be a taboo subject.
The data whizz has been a full-time futurologist for more than 25 years, which involves tracking and predicting developments across technology, business, society, politics and the environment.
But he really bet on the wrong horse with his sex with robots by 2025 theory, as news flash – people still aren’t fornicating with androids.
Blokes might be breathing a sigh of relief, but a host of social media users seemed (sarcastically) disappointed by the fact that Dr Pearson’s prediction hasn’t come true.
One said: “It’s 2025, where’s the sex with robots?”
Another laughed: “Well, this didn’t age well did it.”
Ahead of the New Year countdown, someone else added: “A few more hours remaining AND I STILL DON’T SEE WHERE THE ROBOTS AT.”
Dr Pearson did admit things hadn’t ‘progressed as fast as he thought’ back in 2020, so he might have missed the mark by a few years.
“AI was developing very quickly at the start of the century, so we had predictions that by 2015 we’d have conscious machines that were smarter than people,” he told CNN.
“There was a big recession and that held things back a bit. I would estimate AI has probably progressed about 35 or 40% slower than we expected it to.”
I guess we better give it until 2050 and see if anything happens, eh?
After that, she set herself the challenge of going on a date at least once a week after being single for three years, though she found it a bit difficult as she’d already been catfished a few times.
In an appearance on Love Don’t Judge, Annie said she was unbothered about the negative reactions but thought there was an unfair double standard between the way men and women who had lots of sex were viewed.
“I’m Annie, people judge me because I slept with 300 people last year but I don’t care,” she said in a segment on the show.
“I’ve had very mixed reactions to my sleeping with 300 people in a year.
“Some people have been super supportive, like ‘go girl, you do you, slay’.
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“And then I’ve had the majority of people judging me, saying that I’m riddled with STIs. That I’m not safe and that I’m disgusting.”
Despite this she said she wouldn’t ‘let the judgement I get online bother me that much’ and took aim at a ‘stigma with women being sexual’ which she thought she’d encountered.
She said: “There’s definitely a stigma with women being sexual as opposed to men.
“I think people accept men as being sexual beings, whereas women are seen as non-sexual beings, which is incorrect.”
Later on in the segment, she was chatting to a friend when she delved deeper into this topic and the abuse she’d received online for it.
She said: “What’s the difference between a man sleeping with five people in a day and a woman sleeping with five people in a day?
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“I don’t understand why when a man does it, they celebrate it and call him a legend, but when a woman does it we’re called names and ridiculed. It’s just not fair.”
Describing herself as ‘Australia’s most sexually active woman’, Annie said she was earning around $250,000 a month from adult content.
As for why she was still single and trying to go on more dates, she said she went on six in a row that were ‘all immediate nos for me’ which led to her taking a break.
She said: “I have only just started dating again but the reason I’m single is, it’s find to hard a guy who ticks all my boxes.
“Which is honestly crazy because the boxes are very basic.”
However, a potential partner would also have to agree to do videos with her.
Various sex experts have shared their honest opinion on how long sexual intercourse should last for the average couple.
Thanks to the ever-present nature of the pornographic industry, many of us have skewed views on sexual relationships and how long they should last.
We’re all aware of someone who will brag about being able to last ‘all night’ in the bedroom, which leaves anyone who is unable or not wanting the same in their sex lives feeling self-conscious.
Thankfully sexual health and intimacy experts are now pushing back against this narrative, with the average length of physical intercourse vastly different to what is depicted in explicit content.
Expectations around sex has left many feeling self conscious (Getty Stock Image)
Appearing on a recent episode of Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast were psychiatrist Dr Alok Kanojia, sexual health expert Dr Rena Malik, and adult film director Erika Lust – and their comments on how long sex should last may surprise you.
“If you look at the average [length] of sexual intercourse, it’s three to seven minutes,” Dr Kanojia explained, before going on the add that 50 percent of women he’d spoken to don’t want sex for ‘more than 15 minutes’.
Dr Kanojia then went on to highlight the discrepancy between this figure and how some pornographic films can last up to three times as long.
“I see a lot of body dysmorphia,” he continued. “It’s like getting to that level in both men and women unrealistic expectations about body unrealistic expectations about performance that creates shame.”
“There’s just a lot of bad information out there,” the psychiatrist added.
Dr Malik went on to add that length of time needed to climax also differs, with the average man needing five to six minutes before ejaculation while a woman may take as long as 14 minutes.
The trio were involved in a discussion on the adult industry for Steven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO (YouTube/Diary of a CEO)
The figures presented by the experts are in line with popular thought as well, with a recent study suggesting that men and women had different views on how long sex should last.
Meanwhile, one adult performer even revealed her ideal time for intercourse would be around ’10 to 15 minutes’, while another added that anything longer was simply ‘boring’.
It turns out that people are just as concerned about the ‘how often’ as well as the ‘how long’ when it comes to physical intimacy.
Biomedical student and content creator Kellie recently argued the average couple engages in intercourse is more like once a week instead of the widely believed three times a week.
A couple of paranormal investigators who hunt ghosts said that they were recently creeped out after a sprit asked for a ‘totally inappropriate’ sex act.
38-year-old ghost hunter Lee Steer met paranormal investigator Sarah Carter, 32, last year at an event hosted by Lee and his now ex-wife.
After Lee’s divorce he got together with Sarah, who had been a fan of his paranormal content on social media since 2020, and together they run the Haunted Objects Museum in Rotherham.
They started dating earlier this year and launched the ‘Ghosts Of Britain’ TikTok account where they explore haunted locales in an attempt to track down errant spirits.
However, the couple say that while exploring Wath Town Hall in Rotherham back in August one ghost got particularly inappropriate towards Sarah, perhaps demonstrating that manners weren’t always better back in the olden days.
Lee, who said he’d ‘dedicated my entire life to going out there and looking for the afterlife’, said that he heard a ghost making crude remarks towards his girlfriend when they tried to track the spirit down.
Ghost hunters Sarah and Lee go into haunted houses looking for spirits, but one of them was very inappropriate to Sarah (PA Real Life)
He said: “When we went to a haunted town hall, we heard that the person who died there was not very nice to women, and spirits can be quite crude.
“Our recording picked up a voice saying, ‘Suck my dot dot dot’ – you know. We could all hear it, a creepy deep voice – it was totally inappropriate.”
Sarah gave more details about what this inappropriate ghost apparently did, describing the whole interaction as ‘weird’.
“Lee had forewarned me that entities can be aggressive towards women – I was just asking him normal questions when it happened,” she explained.
“He said a lot of seedy things, and I felt really uncomfortable.
“We’ve got this camera with sensors, and it picked up that there was a figure there, bending down and miming sexual actions toward me.”
Together they run a museum of haunted objects, and Lee reckons that paranormal activity has increased because of all the spooky stuff they’ve put together (PA Real Life)
The couple say that in their haunted museum objects go flying mysteriously and the CCTV cameras move by themselves, with Lee getting new cameras just to watch the old ones moving.
Sarah said one of the first things she witnessed at Lee’s place was a microwave meal flipping over when there was ‘no one else around’.
She said: “There’s a very dark, horrible energy, and things have started happening all over the house.
“One evening, the door was locked and it sounded like someone was trying to open it, but no one was outside.
“It was terrifying. Things like this still make me jump, but Lee is more inquisitive and wants to investigate it.”
The couple reckons that all the haunted stuff they’ve bought might have something to do with it, with Lee saying that since they acquired the conjuring lamp of Aleister Crowley the paranormal activity has definitely increased.
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Sex expert shares ‘optimal amount of times to have sex’ per week and it might not be what you think
Apparently everyone thinks it’s ‘three times a week’, but it’s not
A sex expert has busted some myths about the no-pants dance which you might have been thinking about.
It turns out that people think about sex quite a lot, and especially worry about whether they’re doing it right or not compared to everyone else.
Sex is a topic upon which the human race can be both simultaneously tight-lipped and talkative.
You probably wouldn’t just start asking people you come across in everyday life how much sex they’re having each week, but there’s plenty of experts who know a thing or two about a thing or two who’ll happily speak about it.
People would rather have a sex life than be sexless. Well, most people would. (Getty Stock Photo)
One of those is Dr Karen Gurney, clinical psychologist and sex expert, who appeared on the Diary of a CEO podcast to share some of the wisdom she’d learned in over 20 years of helping couples tackle the problems getting in the way of glorious bonking.
They say that comparison is the thief of joy and Dr Gurney wanted to target ‘one of the big myths’ people have about a joyous sex life, and that’s frequency.
She explained that ‘everyone says three times a week’ but denounced that as an ‘urban myth’, saying that people who weren’t banging with such regularity might be feeling like they weren’t getting it on enough.
However, for those relationships where you don’t rock each other’s world three times a week on a consistent basis then fear not, because you aren’t doing it wrong.
Dr Gurney explained: “It’s actually drastically different than that, the average times people in the UK and it’s replicated around the world.
How many times should you be going at it per week? (Getty Stock Images)
“What’s fascinating is we’re using frequency as a yardstick of a good sex life. There’s no correlation between the frequency of sex and sexual satisfaction.
“You could be having sex once a year that completely blows your socks off, makes you feel alive, makes you feel super connected, that’s really exploratory where you lose yourself in it.
“That is better than having sex once a day where you’re not enjoying it, your mind’s not in it, it’s not pleasurable, you’re feeling disconnected. You’re feeling awkward.”
The doc explained that the average British couple was doing the horizontal bop about three times a month, but digging into the data showed that you got that figure because Brits were bonking on a wide range of frequencies.
There were relationships that hadn’t had sex in months ‘and were quite happy with that’ as well as ‘plenty of people having sex more’.
Clinical psychologist and sex expert Dr Karen Gurney. (Diary of a CEO)
She noted that the truth about how often people were having sex was quite different to people’s perceptions and expectations.
Dr Gurney noted that pretty much everyone wanted to be having ‘more sex, better sex’ than their current status.
One of the main things she identified as making sex worse in relationships was pressure to perform or to meet some kind of expectation.
“Pressure is a total passion killer,” she said, and that the foundation of the problem was not being able to talk about pressures around sex.
Basically, communication is always going to be important in your sex life and you shouldn’t go around worrying that you’re not living up to a sort of standard
