Legalise sex toys and pornography to cut rape, says Thai MP

About 30,000 rape cases are reported in Thailand every year, according to Pheu Thai Plus think tank’s secretary
Prison terms aren’t working, he says, but giving a release to sexual urges might. However, a women’s group has dismissed his call as ‘irrelevant’


A Thai MP has proposed legalising sex toys and pornography as a way to cut rape offenses and other sexual assaults.
Treerat Sirichantaropas, a spokesman for a committee tasked with combating rape, said in a
Facebook post on Monday he believed legalising pornography and sex toys would help to cut the number of
sexual assault cases reported in the country.


Treerat, who is also secretary of the Pheu Thai Plus think tank, said about 30,000 rape cases were reported every year, the majority of them filed by victims aged between 15 and 19 years.
Pornography and sex toys are taboo in Thailand’s conservative and hierarchical society, and dissemination of pornographic materials over the internet is a criminal offence punishable with jail terms of up to five years and fines up to 100,000 baht (US$3,300). Though some pornography filters through on the internet, the government does its best to block offending websites.

Treerat argued that legalising sex toys and pornography would “be one way to reduce rape” as it would give perpetrators a release for their sexual urges.

He said convicted rapists didn’t usually receive adequate jail sentences, meaning they were likely to repeat the crime once they were released from prison.

“We need to reconsider whether our criminal sentencing is harsh enough and can tackle the problem,” Treerat said. “A prison term does not reduce rape statistics.”
However, the Foundation for Women’s Programme Director Usa Lerdsrisuntad said Treerat’s proposal of legalising pornography was at best “irrelevant”.

“There is available pornography on the internet. There is also a private use of pornography among couples, for example. It cannot be said that legalising pornography or sex toys would increase or reduce rape cases.”

Usa said rape was not primarily about sexual urges but about power.

“Rape is the result of the power structure between the rapist and the raped,” said Usa. “Most rape cases occur among young people aged between 15 and 18 and most rapists think the crime is petty because it is committed against youths. This is why they tend to repeat it.”

Usa said she was concerned that legalising pornography and or sex toys would have a negative effect on juveniles and possibly even lead to a rise in rape cases as doing so would contribute to a “lack of awareness on gender equality”.

Thailand’s official statistics on rape can paint a confusing picture. Usa said that according to the Court of Justice, of the rape cases involving girls under 18 reported in 2015, more than 4,000 went to trial and of these more than 2,000 involved girls aged under 15. The Public Health Ministry in the same year reported almost 5,000 girls had been sexually harassed, while the figure provided by the Police Headquarters was only 2,800. Usa said many of the victims did not file a police report as their rapists were usually someone they knew, such as a neighbour or someone at school.

In 2013, a study by the United Nations of 10,000 men in six countries across the Asia-Pacific region found nearly one in four acknowledged raping a woman.

Last year, the Thai police confiscated hundred of sex toys from
roadside stalls along the tourist’s avenue of Sukhumvit in downtown Bangkok worth two million baht.

A new design touted by a certain sex doll company is expected to allow advanced robotic heads equipped with artificial intelligence to be fitted on older doll models.

It seems that the ever-expanding world of adult entertainment is about to receive new mechanical additions as a new range of highly sophisticated sex dolls with AI capabilities is expected to be presented at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo which is set to kick off on 22 January in Las Vegas, the Daily Star reports.

According to the media outlet, the new dolls will be unveiled by sex robot manufacturer RealDoll (also known as Abyss) which, despite apparently not attending the event for several years, now "promises to give attendees an insight into its world of silicone sex toys".
"There is a lot of robotic upgrades and products that Abyss will be rolling out in 2020", said sex doll collector and aficionado known as Brick Dollbanger.

The company is reportedly expected to showcase its flagship Harmony model whose AI allows it to maintain conversation with customers.

One RealDoll representative even claimed that the company has a design that allows robotic heads to attach to "any currently existing doll", thus potentially allowing to upgrade older models.

This reveal comes as RealDoll founder Matt McMullen speculated that the future where sex robots become nearly indistinguishable from humans may not be far off.
"The physical nature of the robots, in terms of engineering and the underlying structures and machinery that make it move and the skin technology and the appearance of it, that part of it to me seems more tangible than the control. I would say probably within five to 10 years the appearance of a robot is going to drastically improve", he said, noting that, at the same time, the smartest AI today "is probably about as bright as an earthworm". "AI may start to approach something in the mammal category but I don't see, necessarily, human-like intelligence and as such, I don't think we can even consider the idea of human-like self-awareness".

That said, he added that he believes “the engineering side and the artistic side will come a long way in the next 10 years".

SEXY WOMEN ARE BETTER THAN SEX DOLLS

The popularity of Sex Toys: Why and how

In recent years, robotics has been developing at an unprecedented pace. There are already robots-dogs and nurse-robots, jobs-vacuum cleaners and gardeners-robots on the market. But, perhaps, the most active robots are improving for sex – realistic sex dolls.

The American company from San Diego presented its latest models of “girls”. They can talk and even simulate an orgasm! The buyer chooses not only the appearance of his “e darling”, but also one of the 18 types of character. What do you prefer: a shy young lady, a silly blonde, a jealous spouse, a talkative neighbor, a melancholic maid, chooses according to your need?

With regard to external data, here you can choose one of 6 options physique, 16 persons and 5 skin colors. Of course, vary the color of the eyes, hair and breast shape. A doll can be made completely unique by asking to draw freckles or a vein pattern on it. In addition, the manufacturer offers 42 types of nipples of different colors and sizes and 14 variants of the labia. Both parts of the “body” are removable and can be washed in a dishwasher.

If you still doubt whether you need a sex doll, the manufacturer has provided additional features. The young lady-robot can memorize the musical preferences of her master, his favorite movies and dishes, remind about the birthdays of friends, and even funny to tell jokes, you must admit, few living women are capable of it.
Finally, it’s about the price. It is clear that such a wonderful result of the flight of fantasy creators of sex robots cannot be cheap. In general, at the current dollar exchange rate, a super-perfect e-woman will cost almost 900 thousand to a citizen who wishes her. Not counting the delivery from the US, of course.

In America, not everyone likes the growing popularity of sex dolls. And this is perhaps one of the few cases where feminists and supporters of, let’s say, traditional values are united against. The first believe that the use of such robots will lead to the fact that men will treat real women like sex dolls. In addition, psychologists do not exclude that because of the widespread use of sex robots, cases of violence against women will increase. Men prone to aggression can first try out their actions on dolls, and then move on to practice on living people.

They do not the nerve, do not change and are ready to fulfill every whim, even the most disgusting. And soon, learning how to keep up a conversation is not worse than a living person, and even to give birth to real children. A frightening future is on the threshold.

Recently, futurologist said that by 2050, the views of mankind about traditional sexual relationships will change irrevocably. Sex with robots will become more common than sex with people. Western businessmen have already smelled the smell of change. The largest producer of realistic sex dolls, the American company Real Doll this year announced a new technological breakthrough. Silicone bodies will now become as living: they will be filled with artificial intelligence. In the spring there was a presentation of the first models. So you can make an idea how popular are sex dolls.


Customization of Sex Doll

The toy can allegedly be customized to your taste. When buying a choice of 18 types of female figures are available. You can also change the color of the skin, eyes, hair, and nipples, the structure of the dolls and include 18 different moods.


Communication with Sex Doll


So far, the robots are ready to communicate only in English, but it is unlikely that they will face a language barrier in the near future. The fact is that realistic dolls have been successfully sold since the nineties. Rubber women were popular before that, especially among seafarers. Only in the US, thousands of men live for years with their silicone girlfriends: they are fed, dressed, cared for, and cleaned. By the way, this is not an easy task especially for lovers to mess with cosmetics. Silicone requires special care and careful selection of tools.

The novelty is designed to completely change the idea of such yet, fortunately, not too traditional relations. Before selling the seller must understand that his consumers are not perverted freaks, but rather unhappy people who have problems with socialization. Many of them admitted in an interview that they rarely use their dolls for the main purpose. As the businessman cynically notes, buyers endow their dolls with the features of a human person, as they need a partner in life.


Toys with artificial intelligence were rated one and a half times more expensive.

Meanwhile, the European rival decided to enter from a different angle. All the “girls” meet the standards of beauties of different races and types: they have names and fictional biographies. After each contact, the dolls are carefully cleaned and disinfected. Or, in any case, they promise to do it.

Basically, the “girls” take clients at home, but for a special fee, such a “beauty” can be called at home. It will cost from 240 dollars. The company is confident in the prospects of a new direction, and they have already managed to announce the opening of the first branch in another country – the UK.

In another company, Robotics came to the conclusion that the problems of the current artificial girlfriends are not in the absence of intelligence. They decided to more carefully debug the process of “love”. In particular, the manufacturer is working on a process to increase the realism of oral sex. Also, the developer promises to work on the smell and use only natural hair unless, of course, you manage to collect enough funds on one of the crowd-funding platforms.

The East is a delicate matter, and Asia has its own approach. While Chinese manufacturers are copying Real Doll and Lumedoll products, and selling five times cheaper, the Japanese are improving virtual reality technology. Tenga has launched an Illusion VR sex suit. Wearing a virtual reality helmet, the client walks along the beach and gets acquainted with the drawn friends. Special overalls send signals that mimic the touch of the female body.

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Calgarians can now rent a sex doll from the comfort of their home

CALGARY -- It’s popular in Asia and parts of Europe and now a rental company that delivers dolls to your door has opened up shop in Calgary.

Natrl Dolls is an adult-only business that launched in July 2019. It has a variety of female sex dolls, and one male, available for rent either hourly or overnight.

"We have everything from couples, to single men, people with physical disabilities," said the founder, who asked CTV News not to use his real name out of concern it will impact his job in the oil and gas industry.

"Our vision at Natrl is to normalize the fact that people have a "Natrl" desire, and a healthy sex drive is normal," the website states.

"The use of manufactured sexual objects is a way to exercise any kind of fantasies and desires, people may have in a controlled environment."

The dolls all come with bios and backstories. There’s Anastasia, the ski instructor, Lara, who recently retired from the military, and Cameron, who is the only man on the roster.

The anatomically correct companions, available for explicit encounters have movable joints, hair, eye lashes and weigh around 85 pounds.

There are a few other sex doll rental companies in Canada but the industry is relatively new.

"Right now our number one problem is exposure because people do have a certain taboo surrounding the industry," the found said.

"People spend some time with the dolls and realize it’s not just a sexual act, it’s also a bonding, a comfort situation."

Natural Dolls' clients range from single men to couples, to people with physical disabilities.

There have been a few attempts to open sex doll brothels in Canada, which have sparked debate surrounding the objectification of women.

"There's not a lot of understanding of how these objects are influencing our ability to have sex with other people, our beliefs about sex, our arousal templates," said psychologist Natalie Vandenberg, who believes more research on the subject is needed.

A study out of the United Kingdom of 83 sex doll owners — who are overwhelmingly heterosexual, middle-aged men — found people have them for reasons other than sex. Companionship, a hobby or art form, and mental health, were all cited.

Although 77 percent of respondents said relations were the primary purpose.

Sex Doll Buyer’s Guide 19-20

The owner of the Calgary company said the dolls have been rented for people looking to experiment, like one client who didn’t want his name used.

"It’s something to do, something to spice things up, it's an experience," he told CTV News.

Each doll is discreetly delivered, picked up and cleaned; a process that takes about an hour and a half.

"Our dolls are sanitized to an extreme extent, passing through four different cleaning processes, and audited various times, and checked over with a black light," the website states.

Alberta Health Services has not received any complaints about cleanliness.

"Given the relative infancy of this type of business, there are no requirements for AHS regulation of a business of this nature, either for approval to open or on a routine basis," an AHS statement said.

With files from Chad Tweten

2 oil and gas workers in Calgary open sex doll rental service

No, we’re not kidding.


A business offering a sex doll rental service has opened in Alberta, providing discreet companionship either by the hour or for the entire night.

Natrl Dolls launched in November 2019 to service the Calgary area, though co-owner Connor (who asked that we identify him only by his first name) stated that the business is actually headquartered outside the city.

“We reached out to the City of Calgary right before we launched and said ‘this is our business,’ and we were completely honest with them,” Connor said in a phone interview.

“We said it’s door to door, it’s hygienic, we’re not going to operate right within the city, we actually operate outside of the city, that’s where we have a warehouse where we clean [the dolls] and operate out of.”

He said that the city worker told him that he and his business partner, both oil and gas workers who still maintain their day jobs in the industry, were in the clear.

“I called the city and, after talking to them back and forth for a couple weeks on and off, they said ‘you don’t need a permit, there’s nothing for this, you guys aren’t operating within the city so you don’t need a business permit for that reason, so have at ‘er!'”

Still, Connor noted in the interview that he made sure to write down the relevant bylaw and name of the person he had been in contact with, just in case.

The two owners landed on the idea after noticing that the oil and gas industry, in Connor’s words, “isn’t exactly thriving.” He said that it took him a moment to get on-board after his business partner pitched the idea, but was eventually won over by the success that similar services have seen in Europe and Japan.

“I hummed and hawed over it, thought it was kind of funny, a little bit different, then we thought: ‘Well you know, it’s a new market, it’s developing in Canada and North America, so why don’t we start early and give it a shot?’ It’s not that expensive to get into we thought, so we went for it — and now we’re here.”

Instead of operating as a brick and mortar sex doll brothel like other Canadian businesses have recently found themselves in hot water for, Natrl Dolls provides a doll delivery service, allowing customers to rent the dolls for hours or nights at a time.


According to the company’s website, companionship with the dolls starts at $149 an hour, a $180 “special” for three hours, or $249 for the night.

Each reservation requires a $100 fully-refundable security deposit and, for an additional $25, you can “keep her panties sprayed with love juice.”

Connor said that they adjusted their prices shortly after launch and have seen steady business since November.

Paedo spared jail after cops find mutilated child sex doll in Peppa Pig onesie

Sick Paul Mason, 43, from Elswick, near Newcastle, had his house raided by cops after accidentally uploading child abuse images from his personal Facebook account

A vile paedo has been spared jail after cops found a mutilated toddler sex doll wearing a Peppa Pig onesie in his bed.

Twisted Paul Mason, 43, was hauled away in cuffs after officers found the sex toy near a pile of baby clothes and a hard drive stuffed with indecent images.

The bungling nonce's Elswick lair was raided by detectives after he accidentally shared a child abuse image on Facebook.

Newcastle Crown Court heard how one of his 75 sickening pictures even showed a child being raped.

But he was sentenced to just 20 weeks behind bars with the jail term suspended for eighteen months.

When confronted with the damning evidence, the perv told officers he had "got carried away" while downloading pictures.

He tried to play off the doll - which had a hole cut into the genital area - as for "daftness".

Prosecutor Barry Robson said: "A headless, toddler-sized doll was found in the defendant's bed.

"The doll was dressed in tights and a Peppa Pig baby grow. The doll had a cut in the genital area."

Judge Julie Clemitson told Mason: "There were a number of items recovered from your home which demonstrate an unhealthy interest in very young children."

"There was clothing suitable for babies, nappies, some of which had been stuffed in order to give them form and in the bed there was a headless child doll wearing children's clothing."

Admitting that Mason's doll fetish was technically "lawful', she added, "it certainly crossed into a sexual interest in children, hence the images."

Mason has been in no trouble since the offenses and claims to have a history of mental health problems as well as drug and alcohol misuse.

The court heard how he can be "trusted' to cooperate with authorities in the future".

He was told to abide by a sexual harm prevention order and forced to sign the sex offenders register for seven years.

Where Are They Now? Kamloops sex doll startup put on hold, moved to Alberta

House of Dolls opened in December 2018, renting out nights with anatomically correct, TPE silicone-based sex dolls.

Kristen Dickson, pictured in November 2018, with Chanel, one of her business's dolls, which can be rented for companionship. Dickson opened House of Dolls, a home-based business in Kamloops that rents out sex dolls. Michael Potestio photo/Kamloops This Week / PNG

KAMLOOPS ­­— Kamloops’ first sex doll rental business didn’t last long, having come and gone in just a few months, but it piqued the curiosity of a number of residents.

The home-based business House of Dolls opened in December 2018, renting out nights with anatomically correct, TPE silicone-based sex dolls.

A fervor, both positive and negative, followed, with business owner Kristen Dickson doing numerous media interviews following the launch of her business’s website, which crashed multiple times from an overload of traffic.

However, by March of 2019, House of Dolls was no longer operating in Kamloops as personal matters unrelated to the business led to Dickson moving to Calgary — taking the dolls with her — and putting her business on hold.

Catching up with Kamloops This Week in recent days, Dickson described her short time in business in Kamloops as “amazing.”

“I had quite a few customers and I had multiple repeat customers,” she said.

Dickson said she was making about 15 deliveries a month, describing her Kamloops clientele as 70 percent male and 30 percent couples.

She said a lot of people were simply curious about the experience, noting the dolls were always in good condition when she retrieved them in the mornings.


“People were very respectful,” she said, adding she was surprised at the amount of support she received for the endeavor when she first opened, as she anticipated more criticism.

“Many people said it was a brilliant idea, so I was pretty proud. I was expecting worse,” she said.

Dickson had considered franchising her business but abandoned those plans as there was more curiosity than commitment. At that point, she said, it was an overwhelming prospect.

“People were contacting me like crazy across the country. I even had people in the United States contact me to open up a business there, but it was too much, too quickly,” Dickson said, noting the media attention — which began with a Nov. 21, 2018, story in Kamloops This Week — was intense.

“My stepfather was in Ottawa and read an article about me and had no idea,” Dixon said with a laugh.

While Dickson’s business is currently on hiatus, she plans to re-open it at some point in her Alberta home.

Dickson’s business license from city hall in Kamloops was deemed an adult novelty item rental agency.

Dickson delivered the dolls to her customers rather than having them attend a storefront “brothel-type” business, which the City of Kamloops would consider a body rub parlor, a type of business prohibited in the Tournament Capital.

As a rental agency, as far as the city is concerned, what people do with the items in their own homes is their business.

City business license inspector David Jones told Kamloops This Week in November 2018 that, in the rental category, the House of Dolls business would be treated no differently than an entrepreneur setting up a company that rented out bouncy castles.

Dickson said she hopes someone else will follow her lead and open such business again in Kamloops.

“There have been a few that have tried the brothel-type idea, but they don’t seem to last,” she said.