Will sex workers be replaced by robots? A Precis: A short summary of a longer article examining the possibility of sex workers being replaced by robots. Contrary to the work of others, I suggest that sex work might be resilient to the phenomenon of technological unemployment.

Agreed, I think it will have to do with relational aggression and 'john's' drives for dominance, than arousal. For the same reason, I suspect rapes will still happen, and that without neural engineering, people will make post-scarcity difficult for one another even when their subsistence needs are met.

Men seeking the services of TG prostitutes are sometimes very scary. Many of them have issues about their own sexuality which can make some men seek transsexuals to use and then violently punish. It's their way of dealing with their own self-hatred for their sexual feelings. These men can be extremely dangerous. -TS roadmap

Though, I can also forsee a post-scarcity market place evolving. There may be externalising deviants in a post-scarcity world, but also internalising deviants:

One of the motivations for a couple of young women I know is a twisted form of validation and acceptance. They find the attention of clients validates their sense of themselves as women. They confuse a business transaction for an emotional relationship. Being an object of desire makes them feel wanted or makes them feel female, even if just for a little while.

I could have cherrypicked evidence from a females perspective but I don't think that's as legitimate a mentalisation as for MTF transexuals, since I'm biologically male.