AI vaginas, customisable personalities and fake bruises: the sex doll market is booming. Does it matter how the dolls are treated?
As the sex doll industry grows and AI changes the products available, what does it mean to engage in any kind of relationship with a woman-shaped thing? Two weeks ago, two distressed citizens stumbled across what they assumed was the mangled corpse of a woman, stuffed into a suitcase in a small town about three hours south of Sydney.
They called the local police, who in turn issued a statement that a body in a suitcase had been found.
The wider public waited sombrely for Australia’s tally of dead women to tick up by one.
But instead, a day later, after forensic analysis, it was determined that the woman in question wasn’t a woman at all.
The “body” was that of a sex doll, marked with fake bruises, left to rot on a lonely dirt road.
In Australia, as in the UK and some other European countries, it is not illegal to own a sex doll unless it resembles a child.
Given the doll’s seemingly mature presentation, police investigations were called off.
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