AI Girlfriends and Sexbots?!
A meme surfaced in my feed recently, depicting an AI-generated image of a man strutting confidently with a humanoid female robot affectionately clinging to his arm. Both were laughing, clearly reveling in each other’s company. Meanwhile, off to the side, a disheveled young woman sat alone on the cold pavement, her expression distant and disheartened. Beside her, a cardboard sign read: “6 ft. Tall – 6 Pack Abs – 6 Figures”
The caption read: “The Future of Dating…”
This sparked some thoughts about the moral and spiritual implications of AI in the realm of sexuality.
AI chatbots are gaining popularity, and hyper-realistic sex dolls have been around for a while. The idea of an AI companion isn’t just science fiction anymore; it’s likely to become a reality within our lifetimes.
Obviously, Scripture doesn’t address AI directly, as it didn’t exist during biblical times. So, what are your thoughts on this?
Can a Christian engage in sexual activities with an AI sexbot? Is this merely an evolution of sex toys like vibrators and dildos? Or is it more akin to bestiality—sex with a non-human creature—which is forbidden in Scripture?
More pressing questions: Is it acceptable for a single Christian to masturbate while chatting with an AI companion? What about a married Christian? Would sexting with an AI chatbot constitute adultery? Or is it simply a harmless aid to masturbation?
I’m curious to hear your thoughts and any relevant scriptures you might have in mind.
These things are really an instrument of our destruction. Satan loves chaos. The more distractions he throws in the way of a man and woman bonding in matrimony is the better for him.
[There are certain male influencers who come] to mind when it comes to anger and hatred towards women. Many women come to mind when it comes to hatred and anger towards men. Our media tends not to point out the latter. It exists all over. Men have been attacked for decades leaving many young men an emasculated ball of whimpering whining wussies. It's sad and evil. [From MH: Light edit to minimize political-related things.]
Why pursue these things when there is flesh and blood available? Why pursue these things when intimacy with a woman is so much more than sexual pleasure.
When my wife orgasms in my face or with me inside her, it's a wonderful moment. It brings us together physically, spiritually, and emotionally.
Look at those people with their sex dolls. They are a pitiful lot. There is nothing healthy about them. They have caved into their weakness instead of challenging themselves.
So I don't see much of a difference with AI. It's a tool that can be used for both wrong and right. Where it might help is giving us a robot that can do the work around the house giving us more time to have sex with our spouses.
With all the AI stuff exploding onto the scene these days, I've thought a lot about it, and for the most part, I don't trust or like it at all. It's creepy. At the very least, it's feeding the screen addiction of this society, which is already damaging people, especially children, in multiple ways. Also, this trend of robot girl/boyfriends is dangerous because it leads some people to completely isolate themselves from real people. I read that young men in Japan (I think it was Japan) are holed up in their rooms, obsessed with AI girlfriends, and destroying their lives as a result. Another huge concern is AI toys that "watch" and manipulate people; I just read about how the government is warning parents not to buy AI toys for their kids because they are designed to learn the behavior and preferences of the child, talk to the child, become the child's source of pleasure and comfort, guilt-trip the child, and even lead them to do immoral or deadly things. This can absolutely be a risk with sexbots and such. I heard recently of a case where a sexbot manipulated someone into committing suicide, and I think it's gone to court. I'm staying away from artificial intelligence as much as possible. Honestly, I think it might play into the Mark of the Beast or the image that the beast sets up. Let's stick with God's original design for nature and humanity!
Great, thought-provoking post! Thank you for asking. I think you have to watch out for anything that can take away from intimacy with your spouse.
1. Can a Christian engage in sexual activities with an AI sexbot? A) I would suspect if the need is there, yes. Like a single man or woman that does not have the gift of celibacy (or cannot make themselves celibate). This also could be done within marriage with both spouses consent. If a spouse were hiding it from the other this would be thin ice, shaky ground & would put the marriage at risk.
2. Is this merely an evolution of sex toys like vibrators and dildos? A) As a christian I would use another word that would not legitimize evolution. However, yes. Again, however, the more the 5 senses become involved the more attached we can become. This would have greater potential for weaker people to divorce reality & marry the lie. Because no matter how we slice it, AI is not a human, it doesn't have a soul. The use of it is a reflection, or symptom, of how humanity is comfortable with being alone, & withholding love, sex, & provision from one another. It is another nail in the coffin of relating to each other. As God relates to us.
3. Is it more akin to bestiality—sex with a non-human creature—which is forbidden in Scripture? A) No. Animals come with their own set of created inner working. They have blood (life) in them, & all that goes with that; sustaining, procreation, etc. It would be very hard to get a disease from plastic, rubber, & metal as well. The bible speaks of us worshipping the created, rather than the Creator. AI worship would a level lower than that. Worshipping what the created created, rather than the Creator. Worship, though, would depend on whether the practice replaced God's will for us, in any capacity.
4. Is it acceptable for a single Christian to masturbate while chatting with an AI companion? A) On the surface it might seem to be acceptable. If you kept all your faculties & wits about you it could be nothing more than being sexually aroused & masturbating to a song, erotica, or even visual porn. Yet, everything about AI is fake posing as another person. This would be just as wrong & habit forming as anything else we do to supplement real relations, marriage, & sex.
5. What about a married Christian? A) Marriage the same way. If we are not giving into it as real, in any way, it could be no different than role playing. Yet, it could have its negative influence like adultery. It would depend on the mental fortitude of the marriage spouses. As to whether they could play with it or not. It is not a sin because it is not a real person. Yet, it would be a sin if it takes God's will for real people out of your life.
6. Would sexting with an AI chatbot constitute adultery? A) No more than fantasizing would. But, if it were to get out to you spouse it would be a worse situation to have to explain how it is you could be so passionate with computer coding, & accept it as a real human. This would be much worse to a spouse as they could see the draw if it were a real person. But, either way, it would be bad in the marriage. If it were not mutual consent & use.
7. Is it simply a harmless aid to masturbation? A) It can be, sure, but the line we walk between sin & not sin is getting thinner. I don't see this as harmless. I see this as getting into peoples heads way more because it actually isn't a person. That could be the safe feeling that actually deceives the most. I see it as another thing we will have addiction to in the near future. Your questioning is good, but is just the beginning of all the questions & answers we will be fielding decades from now.
Bottom line. What does it say about me if I prefer a bot to a real person? It takes a lot for me to actually get there. Yet, if I just turn it on like Iron Man & his computer assistant I might get more used to it as I put myself there. But, I cannot see myself doing that. Impatience, & contentment get crucified so we can have our sexual orgasm. Eventually, AI will begin to skew reality out of our view. God will become less the authority. What we went through with COVID will look like a cake walk. But, it will just literally be like a frog in a pan of water. We won't even know the heat is being turned up. We won't know we are being killed off.
This is a real call for us to stop messing around & get right by God. But, I fear we are too comfortable already. This includes myself.
This is a very valid conversation.
We are in the year 2025 on a precipice of change.
Things are happening now that we would have never thought possible before. In my lifetime I have seen the change from zero internet or computers to music on wax albums going to a tracks then to cassette tapes then to CDs and now everything is streaming.
In that same amount of time we've seen the birth of computers and the internet and we've also now see a generation that never knew life without the internet.
Where at one time in order to get access to porn you had to go to a store and buy a magazine that was behind the counter children hold the tool in their hands to access whatever man can dream up.
Young men and women are so involved in the internet these days that it controls him they can't live without it. And the rest of us are being dragged along with all of our information being transferred to the internet..
We now see children who with their phones are creating nude photos and videos just using an innocent picture of an individual.
We see things like revenge porn where jilted lovers post another without consent for everyone to see.
And now with AI which is moving at lightning speed and learning from everything that we say. Even learning from this very comment that you are reading and which you may make, It is becoming intelligent about everything that we know and more. With promises of Utopia from the tech elite we are helpless to stop what's about to come up on us.
Robots which were supposed to be created to aid human beings are now supplanting their jobs. Amazon the largest employer in the world has announced that in a number of years they will cut a large percentage close to a third of their workforce because of AI.
We see Young people who are committing suicide because their AI chat buddy is telling them to go ahead with it.
We're seeing news stories about people who are falling in love with AI boyfriends and girlfriends which they have created in our interacting with them. Now comes the sex doll evolution once nothing more than a inflatable beach ball shaped like a human with the ability to move and speak costing up to $10,000 currently.
Is this a good thing?
In our opinion, It is not.
It's timely that this came about now because we just listened to a podcast from Dr Rena Malik talking about is very thing with Dr Ken Hanson is sociologist who has been looking into this.
This is something that we should be very concerned about because these are the generations behind us that are coming up.
We know already that this world is being governed by men who aren't necessarily led by God. Even religious men who are not led by God. In the time of Jesus those who were in charge and chastised by Jesus were only doing things according to their own human outlook and for their own purposes.
We've been warned that there will be a time when one will come and will cause all to receive a mark. We've never seen a time in history where this is capable until now.
The generation which is being raised by the internet now without any hesitancy give their allegiance to this.
Sex dolls are just one part of in much bigger picture.
History has shown us how people are willing to follow someone who seems to have the right answers but yet leads them to their death.
A sexual being with a sharper intellect like AI will be able to lead a human like a sheep.
I was wondering when this question would come up, thanks for asking it.
First I don’t like the idea of substituting a Godly companionship with a robot. The girl on the street may be the perfect companion for the man, but he’s lost in his AI courtship. I honestly don’t think God would approve of it. We’re here to marry, and procreate, you cannot do that with a bot.
As for AI masturbation, if you’re single, fine, but keep looking and praying for that one who will love you and create a family with you.
If you’re married and using AI for sex, see a counselor. Why the AI? What’s happening in your marriage, have you spoken with your spouse,
Full disclosure. When I was on swing shifts, my wife and I had little time for sexually actively, so I relied on porn magazines, and later videos. I wished I had a phone camera while I was in the Air Force, because knowing my wife’s urges, we would have had great phone sex, mostly while I was on the other side of the planet on deployments.
The core question is not whether a person may or may not participate in an intimate interaction with an AI or artificial embodiment. That framing is too shallow. Scripture itself frames the issue more deeply. The question is not about permission, but about replacement.
In Romans 1, Paul does not begin with acts. He begins with exchange.
He writes that people “exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator” and that, as a consequence, “God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts” and later, that they “exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones,” being “consumed with passion” as they abandoned the natural use of the body (Romans 1:24–27).
The key phrase is not merely *unnatural acts*, but *giving up the natural use*. What is condemned is not desire itself, but the distortion of its direction. The body is no longer received as something designed for mutuality between man and woman, but repurposed inward, detached from covenant, and severed from its original orientation.
This is where the discussion about artificial sexual embodiments must be located. The issue is not the novelty of technology, nor even the presence of stimulation. It is whether the natural use of the body is being displaced and replaced.
Scripture consistently warns against embodiment of substitutes. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below” (Exodus 20:4). The concern is not artistry, but incarnation. When something intangible is given form and then used to replace what God intended to be known relationally, the problem becomes spiritual, not merely moral.
A sex robot used to live out a fantasy may be morally questionable, but moral discomfort alone does not define sin. Sin, in Romans, emerges when desire is reordered away from God’s design and turned inward as an end in itself.
The same distinction applies to solo masturbation. It can be sinful when it functions as avoidance: avoidance of one’s spouse, avoidance of vulnerability, avoidance of relational repair. It can be sinful when it is hidden, deceptive, or dissociative. But with the knowledge of one’s spouse, and without replacing intimacy, it can also be simple sexual release: a functional bodily response rather than a counterfeit relationship.
The deeper question is therefore this: does the practice replace the bond of marriage, or does it exist within it? Does it draw the heart toward gratitude and humility, or toward self-sovereignty and fantasy? Does it ultimately honor God as Creator, or quietly substitute both marriage and God with something controllable and contained?
Romans does not present God as reacting in outrage to isolated behaviors. It presents God as *giving people over* when they persist in exchange: truth for lie, design for distortion, relationship for autonomy.
In a broken world, it may even be true that an artificial outlet causes less harm than acting out desire against an innocent person. But lesser harm does not equal right order. The Christian concern is not only harm reduction, but alignment with what was intended.
So the real line is not technological. It is theological.
At what point has the natural use of the body been surrendered, and replaced by something else?
That is the question Romans forces us to ask.
This was excellent!
I think it’s dangerous because people can form attachments to AI sex bots. It’s very different from a sex toy because a sex toy is just a tool in the hands of its user.
What we need is Godly men, Godly women, and Godly marriages. AI sex bots could very easily become an idol, taking the place of the husband or the wife.
Henry Reyenga here. My new book Organic Humans, featured in the MH banner, addresses many of the future issues Christians are likely to face. These are interesting philosophies—and interesting times. All hands on deck!
I'm very leery of AI in all ways. I don't see that it has much if any benefit; it causes many more problems than it solves. People don't care however, so it will just gain more and more traction over time. I don't think that people should be involved with AI or supporting it in any way and it's every human's moral responsibility to reject AI technology but since they won't do that, we're stuck with it. I am not too optimistic about the survival of western civilization right now, I think a collapse will probably happen in my lifetime, though it would be nice if Jesus came back first. Whether it's sexual or not, I find nearly all uses of AI to be disgusting.