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Sex robots the future of sex tourism: Academics
Edmonton Sun ^
| 4/19/12
| QMI Agency
Posted on 04/19/2012 2:43:32 PM PDT by Nachum
Sex workers in Amsterdam will have a hard time finding work if two New Zealand academics' vision of the future comes true.
"In 2050, Amsterdam's red light district will all be about android prostitutes who are clean of sexual transmitted infections, not smuggled in from Eastern Europe and forced into slavery, the city council will have direct control over android sex workers controlling prices, hours of operations and sexual services," write futurologist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars.
The duo's paper, Robots, Men And Sex Tourism, published in the journal Futures, centres on an imaginary future sex club in Amsterdam called Yub-Yum.
It posits that sex tourists will dish out big cash for all-inclusive robot sex romps.
This will be a big win for Amsterdam, they say, as the city will keep drawing huge swaths of randy tourists willing to empty their pockets, but avoid all the downsides, like drugs, violence and underage exploitation.
The sex-bots will even be made from bacteria resistant fibre, the Victoria University of Wellington academics predict.
(Excerpt) Read more at edmontonsun.com ...
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KEYWORDS: future; robots; sex; tourism
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To: Nachum
Japan has had sex dolls for years. Now they have become...Ahhh...Functional...and some models are animated. Japanese males are really weird. they have beautiful women everywhere and yet prefer the plastic fantastic.
To: Joe 6-pack
Dang, shades of A Boy and His Dog.
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posted on
04/19/2012 6:06:05 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Nachum
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posted on
04/19/2012 6:11:10 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Nachum
Cherry 2000 I'm pretty sure Westworld featured this theme too, years before Cherry 2000.
Actually, the sex-robot thing goes way, way back, as far as Metropolis. Even further in books.
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posted on
04/19/2012 6:12:08 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Nachum
Before discussing the issue, everyone should see
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. (No spoilers: just see it. Well, see
Ghost in the Shell first, since the sequel ends up having spoilers for the first, better movie. But for this thread the sequel is the relevant one.)
As you might guess, the subtitle is deliberately ironic.
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posted on
04/19/2012 8:42:11 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Teflonic
Would it still lead to people basing their lives around a biological function (gays, sex addicts, adulterers, etc) or would it just be an advanced form of masturbation?
I'd say latter; most people would think of them as equivalent of a glorified vibrator. Remember that unless it's equipped with a human-level AI (which would open an entirely another can of worms), it's not good for pillow talk or psychological support after a rough day at work.
Very few people base their lives around a biological function even today and many of those understand that they have a problem. Alcoholism, sex addiction, chronic cheating... It'd just be another new vice.
Also note that without human-level AI these things won't make appreciable impact on higher-class prostitution where the working girl is expected to be sharp, charming, suave, know etiquette to accompany their client on a formal function, etc. It would have a significant impact on low-level market of streetwalkers and lot lizards.
Would it become popular for wives to buy their husbands a sex robot for their anniversary? Or vice-versa?
Probably not. Think about what your wife would think of you giving her an expensive vibrator as a gift...
Would they advance the societal slide into degeneration or serve as a stopgap making sex just like a pill to take allowing society to move away from its sexual obsessions?
It probably would have very little effect on societal degeneration; just an elaboration on something that humanity has practiced since dawn of time (ie. masturbation).
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04/20/2012 2:58:16 AM PDT
by
MirrorField
(Just an opinion from atheist, minarchist and small-l libertarian.)
To: Nachum
Amsterdam, Baby!
To: Bender2; Jeff Chandler; Lazamataz
We need an expert opinion.Don't forget, FR has an expert from the "other side" as well... /g
To: raybbr
Remember “Mr. Universe” the hacker/media/blogger guy they got info from?
Capt. Reynolds used his equipment to broadcast the “Miranda” info at the end.
The assassin had already killed Mr. U when they got back, but his sexbot talked to Mal.
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posted on
04/20/2012 10:19:56 AM PDT
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MikeSteelBe
(Austrian Hitler was, as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
To: Nachum
I see a whole new generation of Luddites organizing as we read...
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04/20/2012 12:16:26 PM PDT
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Publius6961
("It's easy to make promises you can't keep" - B.H.Obama Feb 23, 2012)
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