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Gen Z Is Debating Whether AI Counts Toward Your Body Count. So, Does It?

Some think sexting a chatbot should count toward their sexual history, while others believe AI intimacy could qualify as cheating.

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There’s a new question making the rounds in Gen Z dating, and it’s a strange one. If you sexted a chatbot, does it go on the body count list?

AI companion platform Joi AI surveyed 1,500 Gen Z adults and found that 26% said they’d already had a romantic or sexual conversation with AI. Men were slightly ahead of women, 28% to 25%, and the number climbed to 31% among men ages 25 to 29. 

All this is happening while Gen Z is having less sex with other people. A separate survey from the Kinsey Institute, Playboy and Julie found that 29% of young adults hadn’t had a sexual partner in the previous three months, and 19% had never had one at all.

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