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Sorry, I'm not following. What's the common thread here?

Replacing partners with technology.

This is just demonizing/policing men’s sexuality, which is increasingly viewed as morally heinous.

This isn't new. It goes back thousands of years.

No need to go that far.

/r/myboyfriendisai

An item you can buy and own, without a subscription fee and teams of people working every day to try and get you spending more time+money on it? I don't know these are similar.

That said I suppose some number of people are self-hosting these AI chatbots/onlyfans type things.

> and teams of people working every day to try and get you spending more time+money on it

Time in certain movies and tv shows is spent normalising female sex toys, for the same reason.