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    Sunday, 2 December 2018

    Questions about consent loom after tech brothel auctions off robot’s virginity for $10K


    Sex robots are everywhere at the moment (not literally – you won’t find them marching down the street just yet), but figuratively, as a growing number of ‘robot brothels’ divide public opinion as they feel out the market in the US and Canada. But if a robot hasn’t ‘had sex’ yet, does that make it a virgin? A crowdfunding campaign to open the world’s first consent-focused sex brothel launched by Abyss Creations employee Unicole Unicron last month would argue that it does indeed. With a $155,000 funding target to be reached within the next nine days (it’s languishing at less than $3,000 currently, so it definitely hasn’t…

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