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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
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday October 02 2018, @01:50AM (1 child)
Very nicely put. Much of what you mentioned about the unsavory ties between the third wave and the idea of body as capital is why I don't call myself a third-waver. Not sure WHAT the right label is, maybe neo-Second Wave, maybe "Fourth Wave," who knows, but it's nice to know I'm not alone in seeing how bankrupt and, ultimately, self-destructuve much of the Third Wave has become even if it didn't start that way.
Your last paragraph is another interesting one too, and one I'd been telling men for years now: the patriarchy harms men too, and most of the time, it forces them to mutilate *themselves," both figuratively and literally. Sounds weird coming from a gay woman, but circumcision of male infants horrifies me almost as much as FGM and I view it as a form of indirect sexual abuse. Men will stop harming women when they stop harming themselves, and men harm themselves and one another largely for reasons of capital and resource access, when you get right down to it...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:39PM
Is mostly kids keeping face with their parents.
Neither of mine were apparently that religious but they did it because their family considered it important and they'd been fed the line that it improved penis health.
Fast forward to today: I've seen how little critical thinking they use, even their 'liberal' ideals were usually put into place by someone more free thinking than them, and now they're just conformist tools of the oligarchy, unwilling to do anything other than bitch when their guy isn't in charge and ignore how bad their guy is the next time they get one of them elected.
Fucking bunch of amoral apologists on both sides of the fence, if you ask me.