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Could sex robots and virtual reality treat paedophilia?
New Scientist ^ | 2 August 2016 | Aviva Rutkin

Posted on 08/20/2016 4:08:22 PM PDT by Salman

... A Japanese company named Trottla already ships child-sized sex dolls globally. Earlier this year, a Canadian man went on trial after he was arrested in 2013 for ordering such a doll. Under Canadian law, they are considered child pornography and he could go to jail for seven years.

But what if dolls like these could help rather than hurt? Ron Arkin, a robotics engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology and one of the panelists, argued that people should not only legally be permitted to have such dolls, but perhaps some should be handed prescriptions for them. In his opinion, VR and sex robots might function as an outlet for people to express their urges, redirecting dark desires toward machines and away from real children. If it works, it could help past offenders reintegrate harmlessly into society as well as helping prevent those who have never offended from doing so.

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Some researchers are cautiously optimistic about the idea. “It is possible that virtual child pornography content or other simulations such as child sex dolls or robots might be a safer outlet for at least some individuals who are sexually attracted to children,” says Michael C. Seto, director of the Forensic Research Unit at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group in Canada.

But both he and Renaud pause at the notion of open access to child-sized sex robots – not when we don’t know what effect they might have on pedophiles. “I wouldn’t take any chance with that kind of use of robotics,” says Renaud. “Maybe some very intelligent and controlled individual could have such contact only with dolls, but for [others], I think that would only lead to the need to go further and to cross the line with real victims.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childporn; homosexualagenda; joebiden; paraphilia; pederasty; pedophilia; pureevil; sexrobots; sodomandgomorrah; wtmi
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To: Salman
NO!

My abuser was arrested decades later and was found to have a hidden camera in his bathroom, with a monitor in his closet along with one of those life sized toddler dolls (made for little girls to play with, not a sex toy). HE COMMITTED MULTIPLE COUNTS of child molestation and rape. Allowing them to simulate sex with children DOES NOT HELP.

61 posted on 08/20/2016 5:35:13 PM PDT by Yaelle (Sorry, Mr. Franklin. We've been extremely careless with our Republic.)
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To: Salman

A better idea is to shoot these sick SOB’s in the head with a cheap bullet and be done with it.
This is encouraging a sickness when it needs to be destroyed.


62 posted on 08/20/2016 5:37:48 PM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Salman
"Could sex robots and virtual reality treat paedophilia?..."

..... I think perhaps it should be noted that there is a definite difference between Treating a disorder versus Feeding a disorder.

63 posted on 08/20/2016 5:38:48 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: Salman

The research is overwhelming: access to “specialized” pornography increases the desire to engage in those activities. You can for some perversions generate other results with careful in-patient design and oversight, but that level of supervision would not be in place in the real world implementation of this proposal. I assume the increased desire to engage in the behavior would carry over to pedophile dolls. These are a terrible idea and in no way something for which prescriptions (and medicare) should be used.


64 posted on 08/20/2016 5:39:26 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Salman

I could support it..........IF...... the “treatment” included electroshock therapy for the participant for negative reinforcement.


65 posted on 08/20/2016 5:48:46 PM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Bobalu

You’re still talking about physical effects. They are still pedophiles because they still view children as objects for sexual gratification. Just because they don’t have an erection at the moment, and aren’t horny at the moment, doesn’t mean they aren’t pedophiles.

Pedophilia is not a birth defect, or an acquired physical disability. It is a choice. No one is physically predisposed to have sex with children.

Testosterone affects people physically. It doesn’t plant thoughts in people’s brains.


66 posted on 08/20/2016 5:53:33 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Salman
Now, as a teen with raging hormones, I wouldn't mind a doll. Now, would it help Paedophilia? Maybe, but more research would be needed..

I am not going to promote paedophilia, but why not seeif it would work...

67 posted on 08/20/2016 5:56:29 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The R Loose lips sink ships. In theELIGION of PEDOPHILIA...)
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To: Salman

No. Just...no.


68 posted on 08/20/2016 6:02:14 PM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: Teacher317
Methodone clinics are not popular with the public either, but I think they are helpful overall.

I think banks should have branches with less money, that are less secure and easily robbed in order to satisfy those that have a deep desire to rob a bank. It could prevent larger losses.

69 posted on 08/20/2016 6:10:53 PM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: BykrBayb
I thought he learned it from The Fonz.

Maybe it was and drawn Maggie and Jiggs cartoons?

70 posted on 08/20/2016 6:18:24 PM PDT by itsahoot (GOP says, Vote Trump. But if your principles won't let you, Hillary is OK.)
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To: Salman

The Japanese are on to something here. They’ll make a fortune selling those things in the Muslim world.


71 posted on 08/20/2016 6:24:01 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Salman

72 posted on 08/20/2016 6:34:48 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: proud American in Canada

Applied in .44 or .45, it’s pretty much foolproof.


73 posted on 08/20/2016 6:39:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Salman

I think such dolls should be powered by ungrounded AC current.


74 posted on 08/20/2016 7:33:32 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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Can it be used to treat homosexuality as well?


75 posted on 08/20/2016 7:40:14 PM PDT by TruthBeforeAll
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Applied in .44 or .45, it’s pretty much foolproof.

:)

I don't know much about guns, but I definitely support RKBA. And even people in prison hate pedos. ... the lowest scum ever.

When I was in law school, I did an internship at the D.A.'s office in Denver, on bond/bail hearings.

It was quite easy to convince the judge to not release these sick bas****s, that they were a danger to society. Some of the things those men did made me want to vomit. Even little girls, like two or three years old.

Most often, it was a man close to them, like their mother's boyfriend, or an uncle.

Sadly, they never had a father around to protect them.

76 posted on 08/20/2016 8:08:47 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: Salman
Cherry Hillary 2000 -- you're doing it wrong.
77 posted on 08/20/2016 8:58:52 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Salman

You know, the irony of a tech geek arguing the case for sex robots, is enough to sprain my eye sockets.


78 posted on 08/20/2016 9:00:31 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Teacher317
There's this little thing called "creeping normalization" aka the Overton Window.

The gay marriage stuff started with the Stonewall Riots of 1969.

79 posted on 08/20/2016 9:02:23 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Bobalu

You don’t follow the naughty teacher ping list very much, do you?


80 posted on 08/20/2016 9:04:01 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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