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Sounds like a pretty big cope. Sex isn't about cumming. It's about emotional connection with another human being. Being unable to get fulfillment of this basic human need is sad and lonely. This is why fleshlights have a stigma that beating your bishop the old fashioned way doesn't - every healthy teenaged boy spanks it on the reg. But actually purchasing a device speaks to a level of hopelessness at obtaining actual sex that is sad, which implies a failure to be attractive, which is itself unattractive.
Do you feel the same way about vibrators?
No, because women can get their sexual needs more or less without trouble. A male sex robot owned by a woman would make me feel the same way though, similar to the man's-arm-shaped pillows. It is sad, because they can't get a their emotional needs for intimacy fulfilled and are resorting to hollow physical proxies
I am asking specifically about vibrators vs penis sleeves. Are you saying the latter is and should be more shameful than the other?
No
Me and my partner are asexual and prefer to fulfil our needs by ourselves + with devices, does that make our wonderful and loving relationship sad and lonely?
No. But you are an extreme minority, and your existence won't change overall cultural views of sex robots.