Is it possible to reduce STDs and sex trafficking and still make the world ickier? Perhaps. From the Edmonton Sun:

“Sex workers in Amsterdam will have a hard time finding work if two New Zealand academics’ vision of the future comes true.

‘In 2050, Amsterdam’s red light district will all be about android prostitutes who are clean of sexual transmitted infections, not smuggled in from Eastern Europe and forced into slavery, the city council will have direct control over android sex workers controlling prices, hours of operations and sexual services,’ write futurologist Ian Yeoman and sexologist Michelle Mars.

The duo’s paper, ‘Robots, Men And Sex Tourism,’ published in the journal Futures, centres on an imaginary future sex club in Amsterdam called Yub-Yum.

It posits that sex tourists will dish out big cash for all-inclusive robot sex romps.”