According to reports today, a sex doll called “Samantha” – on display at Linz’s Arts Electronica Festival – was so severely “molested” by a group of men, it was sent home in desperate need of repair and “badly soiled”. Despite the damage, the owner claimed the robot was designed to take a lot and would “pull through”.
The attack on Samantha is deeply disturbing. It’s a blatant example of the violence that can happen when we tell men they can do whatever they want to an object designed to resemble a woman’s body.
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