Would you consider your partner a cheat if they had sex with a robot?

Picture the scene. You return home early from a hard day at the office. You park the car and walk through the door looking forward to spending some quality time with your significant other. You creep through the door and get an eyeful of something which stalks your most jealous nightmares; your partner locked in a steamy clinch with a complete stranger.

“God no!” You cry. “How could you do this to me you treacherous toad!” Your partner dimly looks up from their passionate embrace and snaps, “Relax honey. I’m not having sex with a real person it’s just a robot.”

“Phew! That’s a relief,” you sigh. And then leave the room to open a bottle of wine and put some romantic tunes on while your partner finishes getting frisky with the hardware.

Admittedly, it’s an unlikely scenario, but according to experts, it’s one which is to become extremely common in the near future as sex robots become the next must-have gadget.

Here’s the thing. Would sex with a robot be considered cheating or would we just dismiss it as nothing to get hot under the collar about?

According to a survey in the UK, 40 percent of Britons wouldn’t regard sex with a robot as cheating.

Apparently, one in three Brits would entertain a little bump and grind with a robot. And nearly half of those surveyed believe we’ll be having relationships with robots instead of humans by 2050. Meanwhile, only 30 percent of those asked admitted they would be ‘horrified’ if one of their buddies decided to get intimate with a robot.

The survey comes just after a Barcelona firm that manufactures sex dolls announced its intentions to open a sex doll brothel in the UK.

Sex specialist Trudy Barber told the Daily Mail, “It comes as no great surprise that sex brothels are developing. It is an easy way of monetizing sex without major overhead costs, and changes the role of the pimp or brothel madam to more of a sex entertainment technologist.”

According to experts, Sexbots will take a place of pride in wealthy households as soon as 2025. And they predict that at some point in the future, more and more of us will be making love to a soulless machine. Beep! Beep!