A large majority of current research about sex toys and robot ownership addresses or at least attempts to discuss the ethics of owning and participating in robotics and sex doll. For instance, scholars from sociology, bioethics and robotics as well as law have each raised the fact that mini sex doll and robots promote gender-based objectification of women, and increase traditional notions of beauty and notions of beauty, with the final result being the loss of relationship and intimacy in sexual relationships . In the extreme, this group of research indicates that cheap sex doll and robot ownership is a factor in encouraging sexual physical violence and sexual abuse of children and child sexual abuse, which in a lot of the work is incorrectly identified as the pedophilia . Although many of these assertions seem plausible on their face, their empirical foundations are subject to debate.

   New theoretical models for objectification propose that this method is based on the perception of an entity as a way to achieve a goal, which means that one of the main characteristics of objectification is its instrumentality. When defining the essence of objectification Orehek and Weaverling assert the existence of nothing intrinsically wrong with objectification (as as a psychological process) that is intrinsically moral or morally wrong.

   In actuality, objectification might be a natural mental process since "to suggest that people should not be objectified is to say that they should not be evaluated". In this context the degree to which objectification can be influenced on another factor(s) that affects it, for instance the values that underlie the person who labels an object or the consequences for the behavior of the cognitions or actions.

   This is, if the objectification (specifically of dolls in the present situation, or of women generally due to the possession of a doll) does not cause any behavioral changes (e.g. the increase in the likelihood of sexual assault) and no the ownership of a anime sex doll nor its subsequent objectification are considered morally impure.