Robot prostitutes could become commonplace in the future.

In their paper “Robots, men and sex tourism,” published in the journal Futures, Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars of the Victoria Management School in Wellington, New Zealand, explore a science-fiction prospect of android prostitutes being legalized in Amsterdam by 2050, and how it would impact the economies of countries, as well as on global sex trafficking and the exploitation of sex workers.

The possible production and availability of such pleasure machines also poses the question of whether it could reduce the guilt involved in utilizing prostitution.

Skeptics remain wary of the notion, however, with some noting the robots would pose a threat to their human counterparts, while others question whether they would be in demand in the first place.

Previous research from the European Robotics Research Network has claimed that robot sex would become commonplace among people within five years.



By Gukby Sim

Intern Reporter
(simgukby@heraldcorp.com)