The Texan town of Houston has banned a proposed ‘sex robot brothel’ (or ‘try before you buy’ sex robot store, according to the company behind it) as ‘evil and sleazy’. Prior to the council vote that decided the issue, a petition calling for a ban had been signed by over 10,000 local residents, with some… Read more »
After the announcement that a Canadian sex doll company owner plans to introduce up to ten ‘sexbot brothels’ in the USA, activists there have stepped up demands for regulation. Like certain similar institutions that have sprung up in Europe recently, Yuval Gavriel intends to skirt around existing prostitution laws to open his ‘sex doll for… Read more »
3D scanning for avatar generation is coming along very fast, with Sony’s ‘3D Creator’ App for its Xperia phone leading the way. A YouTube demo was uploaded last week in which the channel ‘Mixed Reality TV’ talked to an artist from ‘Somnium Space‘ that utilizes the app and which appears to be making a bid… Read more »
An infamous patent troll relating to sex toys controlled via the internet has finally expired last week. The patent has been widely considered to have held back the development of haptic sex toys (or ‘teledildonics’), and in fact the company behind the patent did sue several different sex toy companies for ‘infringement’ (including, I believe… Read more »
A female economist has published a surprisingly positive, if offbeat prediction concerning the effects of sex robots on society, and in particular marriage. MGTOWs (Men Go Their Own Way) hail the advent of sex robots as freeing men from the need to marry to have regular sex. Feminists seem to fear sexbots for that very… Read more »
The controversial atheist YouTube vlogger known as ‘The Amazing Atheist’, who has over a million subscribers, gives his forthright take on the latest demands from feminist academics in the UK for sex robots to be banned.
One of the leading Chinese sex doll companies (DS Dolls), which is already making ‘smart sex dolls’, has announced its intention to 3D print sex doll/robot replicas of any woman. This is something I’ve been predicting here for a while. With 3D scanning technology exploding, it was/is only a matter of time before ‘realistic sex… Read more »
It’s now something of a truism, and one of the guiding philosophies of this site, that sex and porn play a leading role in driving technology forward. But do they also determine the path of legislation too? In an interesting article published this week, Darrell M. West – the author of ‘The Future of Work:… Read more »
Sex robot inventor Sergi Santos has reportedly equipped his sex robot Samantha with the ability to say no if she is disinterested or ‘disturbed’ by the sexual behaviour of her partner. Well, perhaps not quite say no, but rather switch off into ‘dummy mode’ whenever she detects aggressive behaviour on the part of her owner… Read more »
A British academic has called for deepfake porn to be criminalized. The British parliament is in the process of ‘closing a loophole’ which allowed upskirt photos to be legal. A so called ‘academic expert’ on the regulation of Internet porn has demanded that politicians seize the opportunity to ‘futureproof’ sex tech legislation by criminalizing the… Read more »
BadoinkVR, our pick as the number 1 VR porn site online, recently commissioned a study looking at brain activity of a headset wearer experiencing virtual reality porn, with the aim of establishing if there is any notable differences with the experience of watching ordinary 2D porn. Although the study was not large, it was probably… Read more »
Seems as though the information war against sex robots has begun in earnest. Two British doctors (why do the British so afraid of sexbots?) published a ‘study’ in an important medical journal, and which media headlines have claimed proves that sex robots are dangerous. However, the ‘study’ appears to be more their own ruminations and… Read more »
Ads for Female Sexual Wellness Products Allowed on New York Subway The New York subway has lifted a ban on sex toy ads they had previously blocked for ‘offensive sexual material’. The ban provoked outrage from women’s rights groups who claimed it was censorship and double standards in the light of viagra adverts being allowed… Read more »
“To give a man 5 sous because he is poor and has no bread is perfect, but to give him a blowjob because he has no girlfriend is too much of a good thing: you don’t have to do that.” ― Michel Houellebecq In the light of the awful act of terrorism by self-proclaimed ‘incel’… Read more »
As the ‘face swapping’ technology behind deepfakes continues to rapidly improve, it seems as though the media moral panic over the use of it in fake porn is being renewed. Two major media reports this week asked – ‘Are deepfakes the new revenge porn?’. Feminist minded culture magazine VOX published an interesting if very one-sided… Read more »
Earlier this month Donald Trump signed into law the controversial anti-sex trafficking law (FOSTA) that has already forced Craigslist to shut down its famous personals section for fear of not being able to meet the strict demands of the act. There are also fears that the entire adult industry could be affected, as it might… Read more »
Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian cultural critic who has been described as ‘the most dangerous philosopher in the West’. Last week he penned a lengthy op-ed for Russia Today asking – ‘Do sexbots have rights?’. His piece is in response to the recent and very controversial proposal of the European Union to grant robots ‘personhood… Read more »
Under pressure from governments and NGO pressure groups, YouTube is increasingly taking a firmer line on risque and politically incorrect content. A recent trend has been for channels forced off, demonitzed, or otherwise censored on YouTube to migrate to PornHub, the largest adult video sharing site online. And it appears that PornHub might be happy… Read more »
A Paris ‘games center’ which allowed customers to have sex with a selection of four different realistic Chinese sex dolls, has escaped closure after the Paris council ruled that it was not a brothel and that police had found it was breaking no law. Feminist and communist members of the council had wanted the center… Read more »
A number of sex doll ‘brothels’ have sprung up around Europe in the last year or two. Sometimes sex dolls are offered alongside human sex workers (and it has been claimed by one such institution that the sex dolls are more popular with the punters). Others are dedicated exclusively to sex dolls and, in some… Read more »
Controversial plans by the British government to force all adult sites to introduce age verification checks on UK visitors or face being blocked, have been put back until later in the year. The scheme was due to begin next month, but in the last few weeks it has become clear that nobody has any idea… Read more »
The UK seems to be leading the world in the desire to overregulate future sex tech. Now law makers there have smart sex toys in their sights. According to a member of parliament for the opposition Labour party, dildos can now be hacked and need to be regulated. Smart sex toys may be innovative –… Read more »
A major backlash against the AI generated celebrity fake porn termed ‘deepfakes’ is now well underway, with the major hub of the community on Reddit now banned, as well as all deepfake porn on Twitter. The argument against deepfake porn is mainly that it is non-consensual; ‘digital rape’ as some extreme feminists have termed it.… Read more »
Digital and AI advances in ‘immersive porn’ are potentially subject to the type of exponential growth made famous by Moore’s Law (which relates to computer processing speed and efficiency). Sex toys, dolls, robots, and even VR porn (because of the physical headsets) can only ever be partly so because of their reliance on large physical… Read more »
You may remember that Samantha the sex robot (and rival to Harmony of Realbotix) was allegedly molested and abused so much she needed repairs after being showcased at an Austrian tech show last year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/610ec648-b348-423a-bd3c-04dc701b2985 Given the inevitable opposition to sex robots that is already evident and will grow mainfold in the years ahead, I… Read more »