Could Robot Prostitutes Be the Future?
- Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:00pm by
Mytheos Holt
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Feminists often complain about women being objectified, but what happens if objects are actually constructed to look – and act – like women? According to some New Zealand researchers studying the sex industry, and how it may evolve in the coming years, that may be precisely what’s on the horizon. Fox News sums up the study, which predicts that the sex industry might move full tilt into offering up robot prostitutes:
Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars of the Victoria Management School in Wellington, New Zealand, wrote about an imaginary brothel in Amsterdam’s red-light district called Yub-Yum.
The research paper titled Robots, Men And Sex Tourism describes the brothel as being “modern and gleaming with about 100 scantily clad blondes and brunettes parading around in exotic G-strings and lingerie,” io9 reported.[...]
They said clients would pay $9,500 for an “all-inclusive service,“ featuring lap dances and intercourse from ”a range of sexual gods and goddesses of different ethnicity, body shapes, ages, languages and sexual features.[...]
They also predicted robot prostitution would put a stop to human trafficking associated with the sex industry.
In effect, the paper predicts that RealDolls will be made sentient. Depending on your point of view, this is either deeply disturbing or a welcome potential escape from the exploitation involved in the sex industry. Unfeeling robots are far preferable to living, breathing, easily hurt people, but on the other hand, wouldn‘t this simply reinforce the culture of consequenceless sex that’s been built up in America?
And let’s not even get into what certain Secret Service Agents might think…
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Comments (116)
billrow
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:20pmIf Obama had a sex robot it would look just like Obama.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:27pmIt would look like Ru Paul!
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:28pmIt has the same warranty as the Chevy Volt.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:31pmIf i had a sex robot it would look like Bar Rafaeli
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:50pmHmm….I have noticed lately, that my toaster is very attractive……
Report Post »POdVet
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:04am@CrackerOne At least Ru Paul is more lady like than MEchelle!
Report Post »Jaxco
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:49amThen you could tell him to go BLEEEEEEEEP himself.
Report Post »db321
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:26amVideo please!
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:10amDoes it come with a robot Pimp ? And if Obama had a robot Pimp for a son , would it look like Erkel ?
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 7:06amIf B O had a son, he would, look like Erkel! hehe!
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:58pmYes PLEASE make me something that runs on some form of electricity with moving parts that could possibly short circuit or break that i can put my p*c*er in. :0
Report Post »rlimike
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:19pmNo it would look like the rev. wright.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 4:23pmCan she talk like Michelle?
Report Post »moron1
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:09pmAdd to Obama’s unemployment excuse list. Bush, hurricaines, tsunamis, earthquakes, ATMs and now…. robot hos!
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:14pmWell, it looks like the sex trade will have to unionize.
Report Post »Finally, a union YOU can screw.
Blazeanswerman
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:51pmI‘m sure he’ll find a way to get some of dat guvment money (Obama money) to welfare roboho‘s just trying to make a livin’.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:08pmThink they’ll come with a mute button?
Report Post »Blazeanswerman
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:54pmToo funny. Or how about shutting them off for a week out of each month. When they start complaining you just reach over for hug and shut’em down for a week, then turn them back on to hear… “Hi, honey. Can I make you a sandwich?
Report Post »the_united_states_of_britain
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:07pmRusty.
Report Post »Rashomon
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 8:40amBenders got a *****
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:05pmComforting how so much of modern tech. (home video, the Internet) is driven by sex. Can we start small? Can I get a robot to work in my garden?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:04pmWasn’t that part of the movie “Blade Runner”? Or is this a new Senate Bill from Harry Reid?
Report Post »Vic Tory
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:04amWestworld too
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:57pmI’m sure that there will be a market for robot prostitutes. Let the free market decide.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 6:51amI hear the Secret Service just preordered 100 of them.
Report Post »Honest_E
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:39amROFL @ Gonzo!
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:53pmHow “exotic” can a G-string be ?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:53pmI love you long time…with Energizer battery,,,,
Report Post »Really…make one like my wife. Make her where she b ithches at me so i dont get homesick…
Karama
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:41pmThe culmination of robotic research to come up with this……. This has to be the lamest waste of research money ever. Robotics could be used for so much better things like surgery, aiding the blind, helping the invalid, but no this is what they decided to do with it. This kind of thing makes me think humanity should be wiped from the face of the planet, it seems we deserve it.
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:13amCalm down,robots are already used for precision surgery and manufacturing, no need for genocide.
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 5:21amDon‘t forget things that go ’boom’ and tear stuff up to be rebuilt — Not REAL sure why ‘troops’ are even needed anymore – after all – the ‘biggest’ complaint‘ has been that the ’enemy‘ didn’t “fight fair” — since recorded history…
Report Post »LostInTheSpin
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 5:59amMaybe you can be the next Fuhrer in chief, since you know what’s best for the future of robotkind.
Report Post »Thatsenough
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:43pmAnytime we start abusing things that look human, it generalizes to real people. And I recently saved an article that stated robots esp female robots could be vectors of infection if not routinely sterilized. So there are still risks. Serial killer often start out torturing and killing small animals. I can see people practicing and eventually, when the thrill is gone, move on to real people.
Report Post »If we start using robots for prostitution, we deserve to be wiped out.
MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 6:19pmThatsenough
Report Post »Good points and what about the perv’s that will request children robots.
PATRIOT802
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:34pmWow, Cherri 2000 a reality…………………..Sick Puppies, lol
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:28pmTrolls on the Blaze celebrate! You‘re days in mom’s basement will now be less lonely.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:11pmYeah, but it appears even the “rental” price is prohibitive. So it appears not much will change with this technological sexual advance. Those very trolls will not have enough money for even a fake woman. It’s back to watching other people have sex. Insult to injury: Now the robots are gettin’ busy and the trolls can still only watch.
Report Post »Blazeanswerman
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:58pmYep I’m a troll. With my mothers love and support, I earned an education and made enough money to buy her a new home closer to me and my family. You are so right about us.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 11:12am@BLAZEANSWERS
Congrats!!!
Most trolls don‘t make it out of Mom’s basement with their blow-up dolls. You sir, are a prime example of what hard work can do for a man, even if you are a troll.
Live the dream my friend!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:26pmI want mine to look like Jennifer Grey from dirty dancing , and be programmed to go into the school-girl hick-ups whith a nice smack on the right place…if you don’t know what the school-girl hick-ups are just ask God to put you in them while you are in private…Warning…They can get a little wild
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:09pmNobody puts baby in a corner… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0lOwj88TrQ …I am Aaron man , and the real Penny looked like Jennifer Grey last time I seen her…as I travel time for the future of mankind , nobody wants him…despised and rejected among men , it pleases the Lord to bruise him
Report Post »reconmarine
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:23pmI’m guessing the Secret Service would have preferred that. Pull the battery pack…end of scandal.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:39pmStepford wives.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:22pmPerfect… Robot Prostitutes. Robot Soldiers, Robotic Space Explorers… all to make people Safe under Big Brother. Then, once the System is working Perfectly… why do you need People?
Report Post »Banter
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:49pmAgree, just ask Skynet!
Report Post »VoteRightDammit
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:20pmOf COURSE!
You never saw the Woody Allen movie featuring ……. yep! an ORGASMATRON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NEWS FLASH: The DOE just announced a $4 Billion ‘loan guarantee, funded out of the taxpayers ‘stimulus’ slush fund, to perfect an ‘orgasmatron’. The device is projected to cost only $750,000 each, but will be further supported by federal rebates so that inner city, disadvantaged single mothers can obtain one for only $200. Of course, the electricity to power the device will also be covered by federal rebate.
Report Post »suz
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:18pmnot my style to comment on a story like this, but…it does seem to be a sanitary remedy. i mean, if you made a stainless steel robot you could stick the whole thing in the dishwasher.
apologies.
Report Post »Belchfire V-8
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:13pmCylons?
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:17pmSo do leftist think about anything besides sexual gratification?
Isn’t such pervision one of the things on the communist list of things to accomplish to destroy American that they published in 1963 or something like that?
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:16pmThere are just as many “salt of the earth” republicans that think about sexual gratification as there are liberals that do.
Report Post »4BlueStars
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:35amFembots Baby, Yeah!
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:13pmI say make it a government project. In that way we can rest assured that it would NEVER become a reality, my proof… the Feds confiscated the Mustang Ranch Brothel outside Reno, NV a few years back and it went broke and they were selling whiskey and real women, go figure.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:12pmYou mean, no more complaints about how her head hurts? Awesummmm!
The flip side of this, you don’t want a serious malfunction and things go awry….
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:34pmYep, hackers will find a way, to install the Bobbitt virus.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:10pmRobot hookers. And when they go ballistic, call in the Bladerunners.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:09pmSo, instead of STDs, be afraid of getting a computer virus or worm?
What happens if they are programmed with “Malicious Logic”?
So do you get your money back if they run out of battery power in the middle, or do they come with an extension cord?
So, do you put your johnson in the “Floppy Drive”.
How much RAM would they come with and will they be sexy enough to make your Drive Hard?
If you get one pregnant, could you be sued for Copyright infringement, or making illegal copies?
Thats all folks, remember, West World did not end well.
Report Post »rightwinger76
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:09pmSecret Service could be the test subjects for these things. What a sick species we are.
Report Post »2small2succeed
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:07pmDomo arigato…..(LOL) Styx- ‘the time has come at last….to blow away the past’…..so everyone can see (lol) her true identity…..she‘s ’Thrill-Joy….Thrill-Joy….Thrill-Joy’. Fun parody on this one, now common on get real, can you negotiate with a cyborg/robot or if you don’t pay are you eliminated! Wonder how many Thrill-Joy customers can be serviced before Thrill-Joy needs servicing?
Report Post »Thank you….thank you….thank you (end of song).
Workforit
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:04pmHey, look at the bright side… You won’t have to buy one of those a house!
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:55pmGreat, now we have robots to do the work Americans won’t do…
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