MEN who use sex dolls could transform into psychopaths like cannibal necrophile Jeffrey Dahmer, experts claim.

After his arrest in 1991, Dahmer confessed to using a mannequin dummy for sex before he became a blood-thirsty serial killer who murdered 17 of his lovers.

7 Jeffrey Dahmer used a mannequin dummy for sex before he became a serial killer obsessed with having complete control over his love 'objects' Credit: Getty - Contributor

The Sun Online has spoken with Professor Kathleen Richardson, an expert in Ethics and Culture of Robots, about Dahmer’s use of sex dolls and his obsession with having complete power over his sexual partners.

After stealing the mannequin dummy from a store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dahmer progressed onto living partners who he met in gay bath houses.

But after becoming frustrated by his lovers moving during sex, he began drugging them and raping their unconscious bodies.

In 1987, Dahmer embarked on a killing spree which included having sex with dead bodies and also attempting to create “zombie sex slaves” by drilling holes in the heads of his unconscious victims.

7 Experts believe that using sex dolls could be linked to psychopathy Credit: Getty - Contributor

7 A crime scene investigator removes a blood-stained mattress from Dahmer's Milwaukee home where he slayed most of his victims Credit: Milwaukee PD

Professor Richardson, of De Montfort University in Leicester, believes there is a link between Dahmer’s use of sex dolls and his killing spree.

Asked whether using sex dolls could attract psychopaths and potentially turn people into sociopathic killers like Dahmer, Richardson said: “I would absolutely agree with that.

“You cannot learn empathy from a doll. It’s not as person. It’s not alive and the only thing going on is what’s inside you.”

She added: “There is evidence to show that men who use human prostitutes lack empathy and how would you develop empathy if you’re with a doll.

“Empathy is about thinking and feeling about what someone else is experiencing – and if you’re having a sex with a doll you don’t have to think and feel what it’s experiencing.”

Dahmer even admitted that he viewed his lovers as “objects".

7 Infamous killer Dahmer stole a mannequin dummy from a store and used it as a sex doll before moving onto human partners Credit: Getty - Contributor

7 The killer, pictured in 1991 following his arrest, admitted he viewed sexual partners as 'objects' Credit: AFP

He said: “I trained myself to view people as objects of pleasure instead of people", according to Dahmer biographer Brian Masters.

Russian sexologist Lev Shcheglov agrees that using sex dolls will result in “psychopathic disorders".

He told Sputnik: "Sex with a robot is just a fake imitation. And it can lead to psychopathic disorders and isolation.”

He added that the non-human interaction fails to bring the “emotions that shape and bring sense to our life".

Dahmer actually claimed his first victim when he was a teenager – killing hitchhiker Steven Hicks when he was drunk in 1978.

7 Professor Richardson believes that men cannot learn empathy from sex dolls and agrees that psychopaths would be attracted to love robots Credit: Getty - Contributor

7 Inside Dahmer's apartment where he slaughtered his lovers and performed sex acts on their bodies Credit: Milwaukee PD

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But he waited nine years to kill again after using a mannequin love partner while staying in his grandmother’s house.

The mass murderer, who was beaten to death in prison in 1994, killed nearly all his victims in his apartment in Milwaukee from 1987 to 1991.

He dissolved their bodies in acid and even kept severed heads and bones in his filthy blood-splattered fridge freezer.

After one of his potential victims escaped, police raided the human slaughter house in 1991.

During his trial the following year, prosecution witness Dr Frederick Fosdal, who interviewed Dahmer over 17 hours, detailed his attempts at homemade lobotomies on his still-living victims using a power drill.

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Dr Fosdal said the murderer had grown tired of sex with dead bodies and instead wanted a live “partner” who he would have complete power over, according to court reports.

On the subject of having “power” over sex partners, Professor Richardson said: “I recently spoke to a journalist who visited a doll brothel in Germany and had sex with one of the dolls.

“He described the initial experience as ‘weird’ but added that there was one moment where he felt very powerful and he said he got this sense that ‘I felt totally in control.’

“So I think sex doll users are getting a sense of power and that could progress into power over real sexual partners.”

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