Aaron Johnson

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Aaron Johnson is an emerging researcher whose work sits at the provocative intersection of human sexuality, social psychology, and robotics technology. His scholarship focuses primarily on human-robot interaction in erotic contexts, exploring how people perceive, respond to, and form attitudes toward sex robots and related erotic technologies — a field sometimes called "erobotics." Johnson's most cited contributions include pioneering empirical investigations into the stigma surrounding sex toys and sex robots, demonstrating that social perception plays a significant role in how individuals engage with erotic technology. His 2022 paper on personality and sex robots revealed that attitudes toward robotic sexual partners are driven more by sexual disposition than by general orientations toward technology, offering important nuance to the field. Perhaps most strikingly, his research on sexual arousal and robots provided the first empirical evidence that heightened arousal increases willingness to engage sexually with robotic agents — a finding with broad implications for both robotics design and sexual health. With multiple papers accumulating citations rapidly since 2022, Johnson is establishing himself as a foundational voice in the psychology of human-robot sexual relationships, a field poised to grow significantly as these technologies become more prevalent.