Sex doll brothel opening in Toronto

[Scout26]

Given 230RN's sheer, pure wide-ranging engineering and legal curiosity, I nominate him to go visit the Heart of Gold brothel in Toronto and report his findings to APS.

Don't read anything into this nomination, it's just for sheer, pure, wide-ranging engineering and legal curiosity.

 

[MechAg94]

Sheer wide-ranging pure legal curiosity demands that I ask:  Would videos of sex acts between a boy blow-up doll and a girl blow-up doll be deemed pornography?

Don't read anything else but sheer wide-ranging pure legal curiosity into this question.

Just make that your new signature.

[MillCreek]

They make midget sex dolls?

Somewhat on point, but I have read that some jurisdictions have prohibited sex dolls made to resemble children.  For some reason, some of the more sensationalistic British newspapers publish a lot of stories about sex dolls, and from that I have learned that China is the Silicon Valley, so to speak, of sex doll manufacture.  Some of the companies will allegedly make you a custom sex doll that conforms to whatever particular requirements you have.

[MechAg94]

Yep, there is a height requirement (for the dolls, not the customers). 

However, Lee said that the business is operating within the law. “The only law stating with anything to do with the dolls is that it has to meet a height requirement. It can’t resemble a child,” she said. “We made sure that all their dolls fit the criteria and don’t resemble children.”

[MechAg94]

That brought up an odd thought:  Since the doll is is not an actual person, would teenagers be allowed to use this service?  I am not sure if existing laws would prevent that.  I am probably wrong since we are moving toward new things being illegal by default.

[Fly320s]

That brought up an odd thought:  Since the doll is is not an actual person, would teenagers be allowed to use this service?  I am not sure if existing laws would prevent that.  I am probably wrong since we are moving toward new things being illegal by default.

Of course it would be illegal, but I don't know how the government will charge a sex doll with statutory rape.

[charby]

Bright side, some of you ugly mofos can get laid. Down side, gotta go to Canada.

[Perd Hapley]

That brought up an odd thought:  Since the doll is is not an actual person, would teenagers be allowed to use this service?  I am not sure if existing laws would prevent that.  I am probably wrong since we are moving toward new things being illegal by default.

I presume the same laws would apply as at a strip club, sex club, or any kind of pornographic theater (if those still exist).

[230RN]

Bright side, some of you ugly mofos can get laid. Down side, gotta go to Canada.

I decline the nomination to investigate personally for that reason.

Canada, Mexico, Maryland, New Jersey, Caifornia, Illinois are all among the many foreign countries in which I will never set foot.

Besides, as Chief Scientist and Principal Investigator, I only deal with budgets, concepts, task assignments, publication review, PR, and things like these.  I almost never do the actual dirty hands-on, nuts and bolts scientific research.

T

[CypherNinja]

Who cleans these things? If you leave it dirty do you get your deposit back?

I'm picturing a giant dishwasher in the back.

[just Warren]

Maybe a huge water tank where you drop them in along with like a 1000 denture cleaners.

[Scout26]

I'm picturing a giant dishwasher in the back.

More likely, Pedro out back with a garden hose and bucket of suds....

[Doggy Daddy]

More likely, Pedro out back with a garden hose and bucket of suds....

At least give him a bottle brush.

[just Warren]

Given the weird fetishes out there you might be able to find people who'll pay you to clean the dolls.

[lee n. field]

I'm picturing a giant dishwasher in the back.

A hose fitting in some discreet place.

[MillCreek]

A hose fitting in some discreet place.

Yes! A washout fitting as I have seen on some lawnmower decks!

[TechMan]

At least it is not puppy play....

[freakazoid]

There's this little gem at the very end.

In the same article, author Neil McArthur raised the question of the dolls’ appearance. “Will they be pornified fembots?” he said. “These exaggerated female creatures with huge breasts that look like this teenage male fantasy of what a woman should look like.”

He said researchers are looking at how to address gender issues that may arise from the appearance of sex robots.

 
What possible gender issues could they even be talking about? I guess they are worried that if someone asks for a female one that they'll bring out the one with a vagina, and vice versa. Did they even stop to ask the sex dolls how they felt their gender was?

[Perd Hapley]

There's this little gem at the very end.

In the same article, author Neil McArthur raised the question of the dolls’ appearance. “Will they be pornified fembots?” he said. “These exaggerated female creatures with huge breasts that look like this teenage male fantasy of what a woman should look like.”

He said researchers are looking at how to address gender issues that may arise from the appearance of sex robots.

 
What possible gender issues could they even be talking about? I guess they are worried that if someone asks for a female one that they'll bring out the one with a vagina, and vice versa. Did they even stop to ask the sex dolls how they felt their gender was?

I think they're worried that masturbating with sex dolls will give men an unrealistic view of what women are really like. For example if they look like Kim Kardashian (sp?), then men will start expecting all women to be enormously well-endowed. 

And besides that, the Kim Kardashian dolls will only get in bed with the black clientele.

[French G.]

I'm picturing a giant dishwasher in the back.

Okay, but what about the front hole?

[230RN]

Somewhat on point, but I have read that some jurisdictions have prohibited sex dolls made to resemble children.  For some reason, some of the more sensationalistic British newspapers publish a lot of stories about sex dolls, and from that I have learned that China is the Silicon Valley, so to speak, of sex doll manufacture.  Some of the companies will allegedly make you a custom sex doll that conforms to whatever particular requirements you have.

I'm not clear on some bit of logic here.  Wouldn't allowing child sex dolls let the pedophiles get their jollies that way instead of abusing real kids?

See disclaimers, 230RN op cit.

Terry

[HeroHog]

Think of it this way, a doll isn't as good as the real thing and may serve to simply increase their desire to attempt the real thing.

[230RN]

Think of it this way, a doll isn't as good as the real thing and may serve to simply increase their desire to attempt the real thing.

   Oh, I see.  Well, I can't testify to that, myself.  

However, the "may" part of your comment sounds like the clause that follows is merely speculative.

I could likewise speculate that a doll "may serve to simply" decrease "their desire to attempt the real thing."

In the meantime, leave the punishment for the actual act in the law for the discouragement of the actual act.

Terry, 230RN

[Perd Hapley]

Didn't SCOTUS rule in favor of cartoon child pron? The dolls would seem analogous.

[RoadKingLarry]

Didn't SCOTUS rule in favor of cartoon child pron? The dolls would seem analogous.

Being in Canada I don't think they give a rats ass about what the SCOTUS has ruled.