Although it is registered as a ‘games centre’, Parisian-based Xdolls is, what many have argued, essentially a brothel.

The problem is, of course, that owning or operating a brothel is illegal in France.

Now Paris councillors are set to decide the future of the business as “communist councillors and feminist groups have been calling for the closure,” reports BBC.

Nothing like a little evidence of decaying capitalism to rev up the Commies, hey?

Xdoll, owned by Joachim Lousquy [above], is located in an “anonymous-looking flat in the French capital and opened last month”. Clients are mostly men, who are charged €89 (R1320) to spend an hour with a silicon sex doll.

Why they are not charged €69 is beyond me:

Xdolls has three rooms, each containing a silicone sex doll measuring about 1,45 metres and worth several thousand euros.

Customers make their booking and payment online, and the exact address is kept secret. Not even the neighbours are aware of the nature of the business, Mr Lousquy says.

But Nicolas Bonnet Oulaldj, a communist councillor, wants the business shut down:

“Xdolls conveys a degrading image of the woman,” he is quoted as saying in Le Parisien.

And so does Lorraine Questiaux, lawyer and spokesperson for a Paris feminist association:

“In France, every year, there are 86,000 women raped”.

“Xdolls is not a sex shop. It’s a place that generates money and where you rape a woman,” Ms Questiaux, who also wants the centre closed, adds.

So the two are taking the matter to the Council of Paris – the deliberative body responsible for governing the city – and it will be up to them to decide the future of the sex doll brothel industry in France.

I think we’ll stick to getting our kicks from the experts in Bakoven, thank you very much.

What a time to be alive.

[source:bbc]