Funding for this research was provided by:
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Article History
Received: 11 February 2025
Revised: 10 June 2025
Accepted: 12 June 2025
First Online: 18 September 2025
Declarations
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: N.D. is one of the Guest Editors of the Archives of Sexual Behavior special section on “Artificial Intelligence and Sexuality”. T.D.L. and D.J.M. declare no competing interests.
: The study received ethical approval from the Ethical Committee of Technische Universität Ilmenau.
: This study did not involve human participants, only Reddit posts. To protect the privacy of Redditors, we do not disclose Reddit usernames or include verbatim quotes from Reddit posts. Details about our user-centered ethical approach are provided in the Research Ethics section.