Robot employed as sex club tout
Robots can get away with things that humans cannot. In the Minami area of Osaka, for example, a humanoid robot dressed in a “sailor suit” high school uniform now works the street as a tout for an adult information center that navigates potential customers to local sex clubs. Humans in Osaka are prohibited by law from engaging in such nefarious activity.
Since 2005, Osaka law has banned sex club touts from soliciting business on the street. The law also applies to the staff of adult information centers, which guide customers to local establishments such as love hotels, fashion-health massage parlors, cabaret clubs and image clubs. There are 175 of these adult information centers in Osaka prefecture — more than in any other prefecture in Japan.
But despite the law change, touts have remained on the streets, albeit with slight changes in behavior. Instead of relying on their voice to solicit customers, the touts began to work the streets in silence, using gestures and holding up bright yellow “Ask me!” (Ore ni kike!) signs. Some businesses also made “Ask me!” jackets for their staff. In this way, solicitors have been able to skirt the law by letting potential customers do the approaching.
However, at the end of last month, Osaka law enforcement ordered all sex industry touts to stop carrying signs.
The response this time? Hire a robot to carry the sign. At least, that’s what one adult information center has done. The human-sized robo-tout, who used to direct traffic around construction sites, underwent a 500,000 yen ($4,000) upgrade for its new job, which is to attract the attention of passersby by periodically raising and lowering a banner that reads “Ask me!”
The droid’s employer foresees no run-ins with the law. “It’s a robot, so no problem,” says a spokesperson for the information center.
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Earlier, I was complaining about robots who just sit around and play video games. I didn’t know when I was well off. Robots in……
This should banned …………& should take steps for futher strating.actually for the sake of childs……
Ban the robot to protect the children? Maybe…but what are your children doing in the seedy red light district in the first place?
Bans the robot sex for sake childs!!! Actually!!!
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You (americans I guess) are always so quick in calling for banning everything related to sex. Why for christs sake is it so bad for kids to learn about sex? It’s even not written in the bible that kids shouldn’t be exposed to sexual actions. Even if the robot shows them the way to a strip club, do you really think they would get in? Do you think they’t know what is a strip club and what is going on in there and why men like to go ther? That’s crazy. I agree that kids shouldn’t be exposed to abuse, exploitation and violence - so hard core pornography can be seen as exploitation of the sexuality and so it is correct to ban it for minors. By the way what do you think was going on in the good old times when the normal family lived all in one room. Don’t you think they knew what mom and dad are doing under the blanket?
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this shouldn’t be banned, it’s perfectly fine.
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Very interesting!
I go surfing for porn and I find this? Heck, while I’m here i’ll give my input >_
Man - what will they think of next! A robot. Maybe they should invent a robot that performs the act too! Least we wouldn’t have to worry about disease, just sterilize it and it’s ready for the next patron!
I’ve written a post maybe your readers would get a kick out of regarding prostitution:
http://lovejots.com/2007/12/05/prostitution-cum-play-with-my/
It’s not as it appears to be ;)
Thanks for a great read.
Debs
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