In the wake of The Foundation for Responsible Robotics’ report, Our Sexual Future With Robots, the making of these machines – and exactly what they’re capable of – has come under the spotlight. And the findings are shocking.
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The Roxxxy TrueCompanion is one doll making headlines for one of its five ‘personality’ settings: Frigid Farrah. According to the website, Frigid Farrah is “reserved and shy” and won’t be “too appreciative if you touched her in a private area,” news.com.au reports.
In the words of the New York Times: “she’s yours to rape for just $US9995.”
Frigid Farrah isn’t alone. Another company is creating dolls which allow the user to “set the limits and she will let herself be taken along for the ride – she’s the perfect submissive partner,” according to the Times.
Meanwhile, a Canadian court is currently determining whether a man should be found guilty of possessing child pornography after he ordered a child sex doll online.
“We do need policymakers to look at it and the general public to decide what is accessible and permissible,” report co-author Professor Noel Sharkey has told the BBC. “We need to think as a society what we want to do about it.”
A word to the makers (and users) of these dolls: rape is an abhorrent form of sexual violence. Doll or not.
