Robot hookers —the future of sex tourism?

Are android prostitutes indeed the future of sex tourism? Two researchers at Victoria University in Australia think so.

 

"Robot sex is safer sex, free from the constraints, precautions and uncertainties of the real deal," wrote Victoria University management professor and futurist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars in their paper, Robots, Men And Sex Tourism, as quoted on Stuff.co.nz.

The researchers envisioned a scenario where android prostitutes are free of the risk of sexually transmitted diseases, Stuff.co.nz reported.

 

In their paper, published in the journal Futures, the researchers paint a scenario of a sex club in Amsterdam named Yub-Yum in the year 2050.

 

Sexual tourists could be expected to pay about 10,000 Euro (over P560,000 in today's money) for "all-inclusive service" from massages and lap dances to intercourse from scantily-clad sexbots.

 

The paper said Yub-yum would also provide a range "of sexual gods and goddesses of different ethnicities, body shapes, ages, languages and sexual features."

 

"Yub-yum would be staffed by androids and licensed by the council meaning it could be regulated and used to market the city as a sex tourism destination," Stuff.co.nz reported.

 

As for the androids themselves, they would be made of bacteria-resistant fiber and would be flushed for human fluids.

 

This would guarantee no sexually transmitted diseases are transferred between consumers.

 

But what could be the best advantage is that clients "could feel guilt free as they actually have not had sex with a real person and would not have to lie to their partner," Stuff.co.nz added. — TJD, GMA News