Word’s first AI sex toy has roots in practices of the earliest humans: ‘This is not your normal masturbation’

[A] man from Madrid who is trying out a male sex toy for the first time. He took the latest advancement in sexual satisfaction out for a drive: an artificial intelligence-equipped masturbator.

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Even before the inventions of PVC, lubricant and other substances that today give shape to sex toys, humans were already obsessed with using nature for our own pleasure. The first archaic sex toys — besides naturally occurring holes in objects like trees — were dildos made of stone, wood and leather. In the Upper Paleolithic archeological site of Hohle Fels in Germany, researchers found a stone that had been carved and polished into a phallic form, considered the oldest sex toy ever found.

“It is the exploration of increasing pleasure,” says Vanessa Rodríguez, vice-president of the Galician Society of Sexology and professor at Barcelona’s Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She also believes that the sex toy represents an important link between human evolution and technology: “The history of humanity is the history of the evolution of technology. Therefore, technological development at the service of sexuality is inherent to evolutionary logic.”

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For men, the use of toys is still a big taboo, culturally associated with vice.

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