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    Robot Prostitutes

    Sex work is an emotionally charged topic and the argument as to whether people have the right to “sell their body” has defenders on both sides. But in the future, we may not have to think about it because our prostitutes will be robots. Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars, two academics from New Zealand, authored a paper in April of 2012 that postulated that the future of sex tourism will be with humanoid robots designed to appeal to a wide variety of fetishes.