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Create a sex robot that behaves like a human female. Problem solved.
In all seriousness though, it seems like by the time sex robots that look and act sufficiently human arrive on the scene, we'll already necessarily be well within the time frame of emergence of strong artificial intelligence and most of your points would become moot. It seems to me that there's only a short window of time between "sex robots that some men, but not most, would find appealing" and "the (sex?) robots have taken over."
I've heard some people worry that even sufficiently good vibrators and fleshlights will reduce the amount of actual sex people have. Making a robot that a normal person can fall in love with might be AGI-complete (although some people do get attached to robot pets or form imaginary relationships with anime characters or 'waifu') but even a robot which isn't as good as a human still decreases the need for human company.
Also, is the creation of sex robots a matter of AI, or of creating realistic synthetic skin? If its the latter, and AGI turns out to be really hard, then sex robots could easly come a long time before the singularity.
I believe the accepted plural of "waifu" is "waifus".
That depends on whether you interpret "sex robot" as a companion or as a fucktoy.
Indeed, and this is one of the times when we need to define exactly what we are talking about.