Tech brothel auctions off robot’s virginity for $10K

Sex robots are everywhere at the moment (not literally – you won’t find them marching down the street just yet), but figuratively, as a growing number of ‘robot brothels’ divide public opinion as they feel out the market in the US and Canada. But if a robot hasn’t ‘had sex’ yet, does that make it a virgin? A crowdfunding campaign to open the world’s first consent-focused sex brothel launched by Abyss Creations employee Unicole Unicron last month would argue that it does indeed. With a $155,000 funding target to be reached within the next nine days (it’s languishing at less than $3,000 currently, so it definitely hasn’t been a roaring success at this stage), backers can pledge $10,000 to be the first person to have sex with a robot at Eve’s Robot Dreams brothel in California. (Read more)