Would you pay to have sex
with a robot prostitute?
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The story:
Ian Yeoman, futurist with an interest in
tourism and Michelle Mars, sexologist at an University in New Zealand think
someone will. Both wrote a paper entitled "Robots, Men and Sex
Tourism".
The sex industry's problems, such as human
trafficking, human degradation and the spread of sexually transmitted
infections may be overcome by the technology with Robotic prostitutes.
Yeoman and Mars imagine what the red-light
district will look like in the year 2050:
“Yub-Yum is Amsterdam's top sex club for
business travelers where the entry costs are $10,000 for an all-inclusive
service. The Yub-Yum is a unique bordello licensed by the city council and the
special feature is that staff is not human but replaced by androids. Due to the
increase of human trafficking in the sex industry and the incurable STI's such
as HIV, the city had to find a solution. Amsterdam's tourist industry is built
on an image of sex and drugs. The red light district considered as Amsterdam’s
icon cannot be closed without detrimental affecting the tourism industry.
The Yub-Yum offers a range of sexual gods
and goddesses of different ethnicities, body shapes, ages, languages and sexual
features. In 2049, the club has won numerous technology and innovation awards
including the prestigious ISO iRobotSEX award. The most popular robot is blonde
Russian called Irina, who is popular with Middle Eastern businessmen. The
services of Yub-Yum guarantee an exciting and thrilling experience because all
the robots are programmed to over perform services.
Between two consumers, the android is
flushed for human fluids and the robot’s composition of bacteria resistant
fiber does not allow Sexual Transmitted Disease's transfer to the next
consumer. The impact of Yub-Yum
club has transformed the sex industry into a healthier sector without human
trafficking problems. Maybe some human sex workers will resist and be opposed
to this project to save their business as they cannot compete on price and
quality. With the technologic sex industry, clients do not feel guilt because
they actually have not had sex with a real person and therefore do not have to
lie to their partner.
With the emergence of Internet pornography
and online escort service, it is obvious the Digital Age has revolutionized the
sex industry. In addition sexual taboos are changing and maybe sex robots may
be the solution of sex tourism’s problems.”
The
bloggers’ opinion:
Whether we like it or not,
sex has been traded since forever. Prostitution is one of the oldest jobs of the
World and unfortunately became part of Tourism. Some countries fight it (for instance in Thailand), while others
try to regulate the business by legalizing or at least allowing prostitution in
designated city areas, known as red light districts (such as Amsterdam,
Netherland).
New technologies are making
progress in all kind of sectors and Sex is also being "enhanced" by IT. Those
types of robots prostitutes, even if not really realistic yet, will be helpful
to avoid human trafficking and to reduce the spread of diseases. However,
trading sex is easy money for the prostitute as well as the one “trading” the
prostitute. That is why we doubt that those robots prostitutes will one day
completely replace the real human prostitute. This kind of “advance technology”
might also help foster the destination’s image: it might create a curiosity
interest around the Red Light District and its new inhabitants.
Let’s see in 30
years how Sex Tourism will evolve …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MeQcI77dTQ
By Laurene Deneve & Nina Phanatzis, on April 28th,
2012.
Keywords: sex tourism,
androids, prostitution, technology, robots, diseases, human trafficking
Nic
Halverson (Aprl 2012): Robot
Prostitutes, the Future of Sex Tourism. Retrieved from http://news.discovery.com/tech/robot-prostitutes-120423.html
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