By Milly Vincent For Mailonline
Published: 18:46 GMT, 21 February 2019 | Updated: 18:47 GMT, 21 February 2019
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Feminist groups in Sweden have called for a ban on 'dangerous' sex robots because they encourage men to treat women's bodies as objects and could lead to violence against real women and girls.
Sweden's Women's Lobby, the National Organisation for Women's Shelters and Young Women's Shelters have made a joint appeal in Swedish Newspaper Expressen, for the robots to be banned as they 'dehumanise' women.
The groups believe that the increasingly lifelike dolls and robots are posing a threat to the safety of women as they are not programmed with the ability to say 'no' to men's demands.
Nanotechnology engineer holds the head of Samantha, a sex doll packed with artificial intelligence providing her the capability to respond to different scenarios and verbal stimulus
A spokesman for the groups said: 'Why are men willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a robot that obeys their smallest command?'