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Is visiting a robot brothel ok? Most people say yes, if you are single

By Chelsea Whyte

3 December 2018

A robot on a bed

Researchers asked people to judge the morality of visiting a robot brothel

Aleksandar Plavevski/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock

Are we ready for sex robot brothels? People tend to be OK with the idea of a single person paying for sex with a robot, but less so for those in committed relationships, according to new surveys.

Mika Koverola at the University of Helsinki in Finland ran two surveys of 172 and 260 people, who answered questions that measured their moral code, their sexual and emotional relationships, and their experience with science fiction as a proxy for their familiarity with the idea of sex robots. Then,…

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