"The Canadian company wants to open a brothel with sex robots, which will be the first such establishment in the United States, but the Houston authorities somehow did not like this idea," says Emily Shudgerman, a journalist for The Daily Beast.
“KinkySdollS already has a location in Toronto where customers can rent and test sex dolls that look like real people - and come with 'vaginal / anal holes that feel like real ones' - before making a purchase decision. … But when in September the company announced plans to open its first American "Brothel with Adult Love Dolls" in Texas, it met with backlash from community organizations and questions about permits to engage in the activity. Now the City Council is trying to thwart this whole venture,”the article says.
The City of Houston Council website has proposed expanding the City's existing sex arcade regulation to include private establishments that contain "anthropomorphic devices and recreational items." "The amendment will allow the sale of such devices, but will prohibit customers from using them in the store," the newspaper writes, reporting that the City Council will consider the amendment on Wednesday.
In the meantime, the city administration carried out a "routine", according to a representative of the mayor's office, in the building where it was supposed to open a brothel, and found that earlier this site had been unauthorized demolition. For his part, the owner of the building began to assert that he had never entered into a lease with the brothel, and his lawyer - that the brothel "was described as an art gallery, misleading."
Elijah Rising, a local organization that fights the sex slave trade, said the sex robot brothel would stimulate demand for live prostitutes and garnered more than 12,000 votes against its opening. David Gamboa, the organization's communications manager, told the publication that she perceives a robotic brothel as a place where men are allowed to rehearse "deviant sexual behavior."
“But supporters say this business is completely legal and may even benefit local sex workers,” the newspaper writes.