{"id":47373,"date":"2026-09-01T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47373"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:38:17","slug":"these-masturbation-consultants-were-hired-to-pleasure-themselves-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47373","title":{"rendered":"These \u2018Masturbation Consultants\u2019 Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/these-masturbation-consultants-were-hired-to-pleasure-themselves-using-ai\/?utm_mailing=wir_nl_6685_daily_081526_5f0k1piiu4&amp;cndid=20773990\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Culture_AIMasturbationConsultants_v1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:226px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong \u201cwellness\u201d study. The company claims the practice could help \u201csolve male loneliness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/these-masturbation-consultants-were-hired-to-pleasure-themselves-using-ai\/\">These \u2018Masturbation Consultants\u2019 Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[91,866,137],"class_list":["post-47373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-ai","tag-masturbation","tag-sex","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47376,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47373\/revisions\/47376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}