TABLE 6.
Sexual interactions WITH digital technologies: subtypes.
| Subtype | Activity | Consent | Commerce | Example studies |
| (1) Sexual interaction with media personas in traditional digital pornography | Digital technologies are used to enable sexual interaction between a person and media personas represented in text-, audio-, image- or video-based 2-dimensional pornographic content. | + | – | Ashton et al. (2019) Baudinette (2017) Döring (2021) Floegel (2020) Glascock and LaRose (1993) Gorissen (2020) Hester et al. (2015) Saunders (2019) Vaillancourt-Morel et al. (2017) Vučurović (2016) Zhang (2016) |
| – | – | Eggestein and Knapp (2014) Harris (2019) Henshaw et al. (2017) Kikerpill (2020) McLelland (2010) Xu and Yang (2013) | ||
| + | + | See section “Producing Digital Media Content during Face-to-Face Sexual Interactions” | ||
| – | + | See section “Producing Digital Media Content during Face-to-Face Sexual Interactions” | ||
| (2) Sexual interaction with media personas in virtual reality pornography | Digital technologies are used to enable sexual interaction between a person and media personas represented in virtual reality pornography. | + | – | Dekker et al. (2021) Elsey et al. (2019) Simon and Greitemeyer (2019) |
| – | – | / | ||
| + | + | / | ||
| – | + | / | ||
| (3) Sexual interaction with software sexbots | Digital technologies are used to enable sexual interaction between a person and software sexbots. | + | – | Banks and van Ouytsel (2020) Liu (2021) |
| – | – | Laorden et al. (2015) Curry and Rieser (2018) | ||
| + | + | / | ||
| – | + | / | ||
| (4) Sexual interaction with hardware sex robots | Digital technologies are used to enable sexual interaction between a person and a physical AI-enabled sex robot. | + | – | Appel et al. (2019) Döring et al. (2020) González-González et al. (2020) Jecker (2021) Nordmo et al. (2020) Oleksy and Wnuk (2021) Szczuka and Krämer (2017a) Szczuka and Krämer (2017b) |
| – | – | Brown and Shelling (2019) Danaher (2017) Frank and Nyholm (2017) Maras and Shapiro (2017) Richardson (2016) Zara et al. (2021) | ||
| + | + | Yeoman and Mars (2012) | ||
| – | + | Richardson (2016) |
Consent: “ + ” – consensual sexual interactions, “–“ – non-consensual sexual interactions. Commerce: “ + ” – commercial sexual interactions, “–“ – non-commercial sexual interactions.