I think the issue is when it's a bot or doll emulating a full human and hitting the uncanny valley. Plenty of toys out there for men and women nobody has an is

I think the issue is when it's a bot or doll emulating a full human and hitting the uncanny valley. Plenty of toys out there for men and women nobody has an issue with outside of some(not all), strongly religious people. If there was more of market for male dolls I could definitely some elements of the "manosphere" decrying it as an attempt to denigrate and replace men. The UK already had an incident with mentally ill guy wanting to kill the queen. Partially because he felt an AI "girlfriend" encouraged him to do so. https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/10/06/man-encouraged-by-an-ai-chatbot-to-assassinate-queen-elizabeth-ii-receives-9-year-prison-s https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/10/06/man-encouraged-by-a... So it isn't that impossible to believe some user somewhere , divorced from reality , will do something bad to a real person that they might not have done had they not tried it with these dolls/bots. I don't think they should be banned(although ones emulating children probably should be), but it's worth debating it.