>Kate Parker, who runs a charity which teaches school pupils about consent, warned the "uniquely sinister" technology normalised sexual assault.
>Robotics company True Companion sells a $9,995 (£7,408) sex doll with programmable personalities including "Frigid Farrah".
>The American manufacturer has advertised the character as "reserved and shy" and told customers "if touched in a private area, more than likely she will not be too appreciative of your advance".
>The company said the "Roxxxy Gold" robot offered men the chance to "realise their most private sexual dreams", a promise some critics saw as "encouraging rapists to find a supposedly safe outlet" for their crimes.
>But Ms Parker, founder of the Schools Consent Project, a British charity which sends lawyers into classrooms to speak to pupils about sexual offences, said: "In simulating resistance, [the robot] enables users to simulate rape."
>She added: "The robots normalise sexual violence
>"They service and provide a distraction for criminal impulses that should probably be subject to psychiatric intervention."
>A report by the Foundation for Responsible Robotics this year year found "major disagreement" among academics, the public, and the sex industry about the ethics of such technology.
>Ms Parker said the technology promoted "criminal sexual behaviour" and "should be outlawed accordingly".
>"Rape is not an act of sexual passion. It is a violent crime," wrote Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, in July. "We should no more be encouraging rapists to find a supposedly safe outlet for it than we should facilitate murderers by giving them realistic, blood-spurting dummies to stab."