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Sex doll brothels.

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TheQueef · 18/01/2019 10:56

Did anyone watch Victoria Derbyshire today, the article about the boom in sex doll brothels?

Is it a viable replacement for women in the sex industry? Does it really make sex workers safer?

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MrsTerryPratcett · 18/01/2019 16:07

And you accuse me making stawmen statements?

Well, yes, because no one says latex should have human rights but there are child sex dolls. www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbsa-border-child-sex-dolls-1.4941213

goldengummybear · 18/01/2019 16:30

I think that the prevalence of extreme online porn has probably ruined sex for a lot of people. I think that there could be a rise in sexual crime and eventually we'll see cases where men will argue that they didn't know that (something unspeakably violent) would lead to someone's death/injury because they'd done it to a sex robot loads of times without any problems.

goldengummybear · 18/01/2019 16:33

I'd read on here about a teen boy being asked why they didn't stop having sex with a girl who was crying. He'd only seen sex in porn and thought that girls crying was part of sex and was gobsmacked that crying meant that she didn't want sex.
I think the brothels with create more sex problems in future when users realise that thinking about your partner is part of sex

TheMatriarch · 18/01/2019 16:58

Porn desensitises men to sexual violence.
What on Earth will physically acting out rape fantasies do?

Doobigetta · 18/01/2019 17:52

I remember several years ago reading the suggestion that maybe cartoon images of children, child sex dolls etc could be a good thing if they diverted the attention of paedophiles away from real children and satisfied their urges without anyone getting hurt. And I thought, well, it’s distasteful, but if it works, fair enough. But I’m pretty sure all the evidence has been that it has the opposite effect. The paedophilia isn’t sated, it escalates, and the men doing it lose interest and move on to real children to up the ante. So it isn’t harmless, at all- it’s a gateway drug.

TheQueef · 19/01/2019 11:30

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04t0h2b/stacey-dooley-investigates-young-sex-for-sale-in-japan
If anyone doubts how pernicious it is watch Stacey.
This I is available on iPlayer still.

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Lushlemming · 19/01/2019 12:52

FFS! Some people just love to find things offensive. IT'S A LUMP OF PLASTIC, just like the sex toys for women on sale in high street stores all over the country.

A plastic dick is fine, but a plastic lady garden is perverted! Hmm

And as for the whole "but it's a full size realistic replica of a woman, not just a fake vagina" well I can go on line right now and order an entire male torso, complete with dildo attachment (because one plastic cock just isn't enough).

What exactly should men do? Just sit in a corner all day until we give them permission to move? Speak only when spoken to? The double standards on here are actually embarrassing at times. And I don't even know where to start with the complete lack of knowledge about how the sex industry actually works.

Lets get something straight (and I'm speaking from personal, first hand experience) Most escorts, strip club workers and sex workers are not exploited Some are, most are not.

I worked in strip clubs, the only people being exploited were the men. I escorted for four years in my mid 20s. I worked out of my own flat, the punters had no idea that in the bedroom next door was a 6'7" 20 stone doorman who I paid £100 a day to provide security. I cleared £3500 p/w.

So lets just stop the nonsense that sex workers are exploited. Yes, most of my punters were probably your husbands, but that's life. One poor guy may as well have just his credit card, I fleeced him for thousands.

Exploited? Moi?

TheQueef · 19/01/2019 13:41

Did you see any of the Stacey Dooley Lush?
The way children are sexualized and exposed to the anime porn?

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TomPinch · 21/01/2019 01:09

I really can't get worked up about this.

Humping a woman-shaped piece of silicone is a little odd, but the reality is that all it will do is allow a limited number of men to act out a certain fetish. I believe that, unfortunately, men who want to attack women will do so regardless of whether humping a sex doll is a valid option for them.

Posts above draw a parallel with porn and say that because porn causes an increase in violence towards women, so would the use of sex dolls. In fact, the better evidence is that the prevalence of porn reduces sexual violence. It's legitimate to make the argument that these rather stereotypical-looking dolls objectify women, but the argument should be made in awareness that it's moral or ideologically-based with no basis in a proven harm. In fact, it's just a reprise of the argument that violent video games or films cause people to be violent and as far as I'm aware there is no proof of this either.

I would have thought that the act of watching porn and the act of humping a sex doll are rather different in kind anyway, so there is no real parallel, but society should not be in the business of banning activities unless they are proven harmful.

MrsTerryPratcett · 21/01/2019 01:36

society should not be in the business of banning activities unless they are proven harmful.

Oh don't worry. Even when things are shown to be harmful to women, they carry on. Strip clubs come to an area, sexual offending and rapes go up. And yet they still get licences. No one's going to ban sex dolls, even if they cause a massive increase in sexual offending.

Holbeck Leeds permitted prostitution zone, men asking for sex with children, abducting a teacher to rape? They've reviewed it, on it carries.

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