Robot Prostitutes Are in Our Future
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Generally when I imagine uses for robots, it’s in ways that would make my life easier. Like say robot maids, or robots that go to the DMV for you because sometimes you think you might murder someone there. I never really imagined robot prostitutes, because I (knock on wood) don’t need one.
In a recent New Zealand research paper called Robot, Men, and Sex Tourism, a group of sex-interested researchers imagine a world where sex tourism is dominated by robots, thus eliminating sexually transmitted diseases, sex slavery, and under-aged prostitution. In their paper, Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars created an Amsterdam club called Yub-Yum (they may be geniuses, but nightclub namers they are NOT), where robot prostitutes to fulfill every desire and fetish are available for patrons, or as the researchers call them, “sexual gods and goddesses of different ethnicities, body shapes, ages, languages and sexual features.” Sounds pretty appealing, eh?
But don’t worry, this idea isn’t just a sexy whimsical dream, there are practicalities to deal with as well:
Yub-yum would be staffed by androids and licensed by the council meaning it could be regulated and used to market the city as a sex tourism destination.
“Amsterdam’s tourist industry is built on an image of sex and drugs. The council was worried that if the red light district were to close, it would have a detrimental effect on the city’s brand and tourism industry.”
While I hope that people will continue to use OBC as their first stop for finding booty, the idea of a clean, safe, friendly, and economically sound brothel is one that appeals to everyone!
April 24, 2012 @ 6:47 am
hey larry it will be okay. lesbianism is what it is– yeah it drives up the price of a good woman and fat girls demand respect and no sex until the third date, but fuck it. you can either roll with it or become a republican and vote to get all women out of public sector jobs and make them economically dependent on men so marriage and family can be the focus of civic life the way it was in the 50s.
but the robot prostitutes, not gonna happen. the white feminist middle class matriarchy that controls the agenda in western demomcracies wont allow a challenge to their monopoly on legal sex.
April 22, 2012 @ 5:39 pm
This may be the way things could go in the future.Women turning lesbian,now men don’t have any other choice.That’s why men turn to buying sex,women are just to demanding and high minded.Looking for a way out of responsibility.Hold your own.!!
April 20, 2012 @ 1:02 am
Those are very not-bad reasons to implement robot prostitutes. Though, I think it eventually be counterproductive. In the beginning, everything will be ok, because it is the new fashion. And then, there will be hundreds of robots providing this. And finally, I think this will make the human prostitution more rare and wanted. The rest would be history. I don’t know, it is hard to predict human behavior with respect to technology.