The UK to open its first sex doll brothel
Huh, this is the kind of silly moral outrage I&#x27;d expect from far right religious conservatives.<p>The arguments here that<p>&gt; While certain sex doll manufacturers have argued that their products might act as an outlet for customers&#x27; aggression or criminal predilections, sparing potential human victims, experts worry that those behaviors could easily bleed into real life.<p>remind me strongly of the old, tired lines about how violent video games are &quot;training our kids to be killers&quot;. And it sounds just as specious here.<p>&gt; For sex workers, 45% to 75% of whom experience violence during their careers, the possibility that their customers&#x27; conduct with dolls might be transferable is very real.<p>Okay, but a) does any data show that that <i>actually</i> happens, or is this just the pearl-clutching it sounds like, and b) do we ban activities because they might cause our attitudes to change in a negative way? If a study showed that, say, eating Doritos made one more likely to rob a bank, would we then start banning different brands of tortilla chips?<p>&gt; It&#x27;s also real for any woman whose partner might be sneaking off for sex with dolls, which raises yet another pertinent question: Who asked for this?<p>Lonely dudes, presumably?