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Related: About this forum'Keep robot brothels out of Houston': sex doll company faces pushback
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Source: The Guardian
'Keep robot brothels out of Houston': sex doll company faces pushback
Kinky S Dolls, a Canadian firm, is targeting Houston as the first market in a planned US expansion
Tom Dart in Houston
Tue 2 Oct 2018 06.00 BST
Houstons perhaps lesser-known status as a sex trade hub was noted by Texass governor, Greg Abbott, in June when he lamented that the city had more brothels than Starbucks outlets. And this city has a lot of coffee shops.
But what Houston is apparently badly missing is a robot brothel, so called. Now a Canadian company is trying to fill that yawning gap.
Kinky S Dolls, a firm that bills itself as the first adult love dolls rent-before-you-buy service in North America, sells realistic-looking life-size dolls with basic artificial intelligence functions and also offers them for use by the half-hour or hour at a warehouse in Toronto.
Now the firm is targeting Houston as the first market in a planned US expansion, but is meeting resistance from a Christian anti-sex trafficking and anti-pornography group and the citys mayor.
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Kinky S Dolls, a Canadian firm, is targeting Houston as the first market in a planned US expansion
Tom Dart in Houston
Tue 2 Oct 2018 06.00 BST
Houstons perhaps lesser-known status as a sex trade hub was noted by Texass governor, Greg Abbott, in June when he lamented that the city had more brothels than Starbucks outlets. And this city has a lot of coffee shops.
But what Houston is apparently badly missing is a robot brothel, so called. Now a Canadian company is trying to fill that yawning gap.
Kinky S Dolls, a firm that bills itself as the first adult love dolls rent-before-you-buy service in North America, sells realistic-looking life-size dolls with basic artificial intelligence functions and also offers them for use by the half-hour or hour at a warehouse in Toronto.
Now the firm is targeting Houston as the first market in a planned US expansion, but is meeting resistance from a Christian anti-sex trafficking and anti-pornography group and the citys mayor.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/01/houston-robot-brothel-kinky-s-dolls-sex-trafficking
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Update from Reuters: Houston officials block brothel from featuring sex dolls
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'Keep robot brothels out of Houston': sex doll company faces pushback (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2018
OP
"That's right, y'all! When it comes to sex-trafficking, Houstonians are fixin' to keep it HUMAN!"
Aristus
Oct 2018
#1
"Rent before you buy"?!?!? RENT BEFORE YOU BUY?!?!?! Rent.....before you buy?!?!
NorCen_CT
Oct 2018
#2
Aristus
(69,306 posts)1. "That's right, y'all! When it comes to sex-trafficking, Houstonians are fixin' to keep it HUMAN!"

NorCen_CT
(176 posts)2. "Rent before you buy"?!?!? RENT BEFORE YOU BUY?!?!?! Rent.....before you buy?!?!
RENT!
BEFORE!
YOU!
BUY!
AHHHH
3catwoman3
(26,327 posts)3. Eewww. Eewww.
Eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
Soxfan58
(3,482 posts)4. Imagine
Being the poor schmuck who job it is to clean them.
Eugene
(63,581 posts)5. Houston officials block brothel from featuring sex dolls
Source: Reuters
ODDLY ENOUGH OCTOBER 3, 2018 / 2:31 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Houston officials block brothel from featuring sex dolls
(Reuters) - The Houston City Council on Wednesday prevented what was billed as the first brothel in the United States equipped with sex dolls from opening in the Texas city, altering a local ordinance to block the business and any others like it.
The Houston Chronicle reported that Toronto-based KinkySdollS had planned to open a Houston location, where customers could both buy adult love dolls and rent them for use in private rooms.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told reporters after the council meeting that the vote amounted to a modification of an existing city ordinance and was not targeted at any specific business.
You cannot engage in sexual activities with any inanimate objects at the business, Turner said in explaining the change.
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Houston officials block brothel from featuring sex dolls
(Reuters) - The Houston City Council on Wednesday prevented what was billed as the first brothel in the United States equipped with sex dolls from opening in the Texas city, altering a local ordinance to block the business and any others like it.
The Houston Chronicle reported that Toronto-based KinkySdollS had planned to open a Houston location, where customers could both buy adult love dolls and rent them for use in private rooms.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told reporters after the council meeting that the vote amounted to a modification of an existing city ordinance and was not targeted at any specific business.
You cannot engage in sexual activities with any inanimate objects at the business, Turner said in explaining the change.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-houston-dolls/houston-officials-nix-brothel-featuring-sex-dolls-idUSKCN1MD2GQ
FSogol
(47,227 posts)6. Is the "skin" on high tech sex dolls antimicrobial? I'm imagining all
the skin diseases and STDs that these will transmit.