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Houston Officials Temporarily Halt Company's Plans to Open a "Robot Brothel"

posted by takyon on Monday October 01 2018, @06:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-fake-vag-for-the-incel-lad dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

Country's first 'robot sex brothel' set to open in Texas prompts backlash: report

The first so-called 'robot sex brothel' in the U.S. slated to open in the Houston area this month has prompted a massive backlash from residents and activists who say it will ruin the neighborhood. The company opened its first location last year near Toronto, where $60 buys a half-hour alone with a robot sex doll, according to the Washington Examiner. The dolls start at $2,500 to buy.

Update: Houston officials halt plans to open first US 'robot brothel'

Houston city officials have ordered at least a temporary halt to a Canadian company's plan to open a so-called "robot brothel" in the city. The Houston Chronicle reported that building inspectors ordered the halt after determining that the company, Kinky S Dolls, lacked the permits required for demolition and construction at a former 2,500 sq ft hair salon in the Galleria area of the city.

takyon: Change.org petition aiming to "Keep Robot Brothels Out of Houston".

Also at ABC7.

See also: 'Robot sex brothel' slated to open is not wanted, Houston's mayor says

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday October 02 2018, @12:53AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday October 02 2018, @12:53AM (#742573) Journal

    This group made the petition:

    https://www.elijahrising.org [elijahrising.org]

    In 2013 Elijah Rising negotiated the closure of a brothel (Angela’s Day Spa) and converted it into its headquarters. In 2014 Elijah Rising launched the Museum of Modern-Day Slavery. Now the same building that used to be a brothel houses one of the nation’s few museums dedicated to exposing the brutal realities of sex trafficking and exploitation. The museum allows the public to explore what it looks like inside a brothel, and it displays a collection of artifacts and information from the fieldwork conducted by Elijah Rising staff and volunteers.

    Elijah Rising also leads volunteers on Interventions in Houston and the surrounding areas multiple times a month. Through outreach into the brothels, sexually oriented businesses, and streets we provide women with resources to leave the sex industry.

    As Elijah Rising’s mission expanded a new facet was added with the purchase of Kendleton Farms: a residential program dedicated to the restoration of survivors of sex trafficking. Kendleton Farms is a faith-based program that provides housing, trauma-informed counseling, and a caring community of support for survivors of sex trafficking.

    Here's the broader Campaign Against Sex Robots [campaignagainstsexrobots.org] (archive [archive.fo] because they are JavaScript-ridden):

    The Campaign Against Sex Robots is a group of activists, writers and academics developing new, and sorely needed feminist and abolitionist perspectives of robots and AI.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @03:32AM (#742627)

    Yeah, that's the kind of thing that launches me on long-winded rants about capitalism. Their surface motivation to oppose sex robots makes as much sense as gateway drug theory, or perhaps more specifically, as much sense as people who oppose cannabis legalization on the basis of ill-defined fears (FUD) that aren't supported by the data. However, I have learned again and again that many humans are liars and that capitalism rewards sociopaths and other manipulative liars.

    There is more going on beneath the surface, and I don't think puritan sexual mores can entirely explain it.