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There is a Zambian law seeking to punish users of sex toys, this is why

The Zambian Government has launched a crackdown on sales and use of sex toys in the country, based on a law which outlaws the sales of such. The law, which has been met with fierce criticism, is the government’s own way of waging a fierce war against what it described as “very unnatural” and ultimately against their religious beliefs.

Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs, Godfridah Sumaili, told AFP that, being a Christian nation, anchored on Christian principles and very moral and ethical, it was only right that they put the law in place to resist what he described as a threat to the continuation of the human race.

“The law actually forbids anybody to trade (in) and to use such objects — and so this is why we are saying for Zambians that this is a very unnatural thing.

“God created man and woman for sexual satisfaction — but for a man or woman to use a lifeless object is immoral.

“Let’s not import foreign beliefs and experiences. Let us just believe in what we are.”

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The state-owned Zambia Daily Mail reported Sumaili’s campaign under the headline “No toying with sex dolls”, and later ran a feature on how the policy was a constant talking point on public minibusses.

“I would order a sex doll without hesitation,” the newspaper quoted one unidentified male passenger as saying.

“I am assured of a disease-free relationship because a sex doll will not cheat on me. They are not materialistic and will forever remain faithful.

“Government is now violating our privacy as citizens,” he said.

Lusaka resident, Jane Kaluba, 25, told AFP that sex dolls were a test of how best to balance morality with individual rights.

“I don’t support the use of sex dolls but I still feel that one should be free to choose what one wants,” she said.

Against God’s Plan: Sex Toys May Lead to the End of Humanity

Demand for ultra-realistic sex robots built with artificial intelligence (AI) is soaring as technology becomes more advanced.

These eerily life-like erotic androids can talk, are programmed to have evolving personalities and can perform dozens of different sexual positions.

One sex robot named Samantha, who “likes to be touched” and has eight different modes, including “romantic” and “family mode”, is already on sale worldwide.

The sex “industry” is also changing rapidly with brothels beginning to offer permissive sex robots to customers instead of human prostitutes. Some ethicists even argue that sexbots will improve our lives by ending prostitution and sex trafficking, and by fulfilling human needs.

These statistics have also caused a lot of outrage amongst moral advocates and religious leaders.

Christopher Benek, an associate pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale who is working on a Ph.D. focusing on technology and theology, Craig Gross, founder of XXXChurch.com, a website that helps people with porn and sex addiction, and Shellie R. Warren, a blogger with XXXChurch.com all agreed that having sex with a robot is clearly outside God’s design for sex.

“Sex with a robot is far from the purpose/intent of God’s design for sex in the first place,” Gross said. While we live “in a world that seemingly overdoses on pleasure,” pleasure is a benefit, not the purpose of sex.

“Oneness is the purpose,” he continued. “Oneness with another human being. No, let me be even more specific than that: Oneness between a husband and wife (Genesis 2:24-25).”

Benek believes that sexbots will be used to fill emptiness in people’s lives. Similar to how today people idolize drugs or excessive eating to fill a void in their lives, sexbots will also be idolized.

Warren believes that sexbots may be able to provide some physical stimulation, but they will not be able to substitute for the human connection that can be provided by sex.

“To believe that it can, sadly, reduces us to being not much more than two animals in heat having sex on impulse rather than embracing sex as a form of sharing love and satisfying one another from a holistic place,” she said.

The Foundation for Responsible Robotics has argued in its report, ‘Our sexual future with robots’, that sex robot may lead to social isolation. They say that this social isolation could lead to low self-esteem and depression and could increase the rates of suicide in the world.

The paper cites research finding that two-thirds of males are in favour of using sex robots, compared to one-third of women, and states that male-dominated engineering industries are reflected in the majority of sex robots being “female”.

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