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Police Ponder Pimping Of Plastic Prostitutes?
SUWAN, South Korea -- Be thankful you're not in the law enforcement business, as they have to ponder some puzzling problems.
Take the police in Suwon, South Korea, for example. This week they were tossed a bit of a curve and are now pondering whether pimping plastic prostitutes -- inflatable sex dolls, that is -- is a violation of the country's stringent anti-prostitution law, which went into effect in 2004. Known as the Special Law On Prostitution, it prohibits the sale of human flesh for sexual gratification.
Interestingly, South Korea did not have a problem with inflatable sex dolls as sex workers, so to speak, until the anti-prostitution laws were passed.
According to South Korean news reports, however, an inflatable sex doll sex market has developed, with some South Korean men paying up to 25,000 won (US$26.15 at current exchange rates) an hour to use what are called "doll experience rooms". The price includes the use of a bed, computer and, of course, the inflatable sex doll.
Some motels are dedicated entirely to the doll experience rooms. The city of Suwon, in Gyeonggi Province, has at least four of these motels. Province police would like shut down these purveyors of plastic prostitution but are perplexed on whether plastic prostitutes, if you will, are prohibited by the law or not.
"We are currently looking into whether these businesses violate the law," pondered one provincial police officer, adding, "Since the sex acts are occurring with a doll and not a human being, it is unclear whether the Special Law on Prostitution applies."
SUWAN, South Korea -- Be thankful you're not in the law enforcement business, as they have to ponder some puzzling problems.
Take the police in Suwon, South Korea, for example. This week they were tossed a bit of a curve and are now pondering whether pimping plastic prostitutes -- inflatable sex dolls, that is -- is a violation of the country's stringent anti-prostitution law, which went into effect in 2004. Known as the Special Law On Prostitution, it prohibits the sale of human flesh for sexual gratification.
Interestingly, South Korea did not have a problem with inflatable sex dolls as sex workers, so to speak, until the anti-prostitution laws were passed.
According to South Korean news reports, however, an inflatable sex doll sex market has developed, with some South Korean men paying up to 25,000 won (US$26.15 at current exchange rates) an hour to use what are called "doll experience rooms". The price includes the use of a bed, computer and, of course, the inflatable sex doll.
Some motels are dedicated entirely to the doll experience rooms. The city of Suwon, in Gyeonggi Province, has at least four of these motels. Province police would like shut down these purveyors of plastic prostitution but are perplexed on whether plastic prostitutes, if you will, are prohibited by the law or not.
"We are currently looking into whether these businesses violate the law," pondered one provincial police officer, adding, "Since the sex acts are occurring with a doll and not a human being, it is unclear whether the Special Law on Prostitution applies."
