The mayor of Southfield said Thursday that he is adamantly opposed to any sex doll brothels opening for business in his city.

"This is never going to happen in Southfield," Mayor Ken Siver said in a phone interview. “We just don't want to be known as the location for sex doll brothels.”

Siver said Southfield officials were contacted last year by a Toronto man who inquired about opening such a business. The individual did not propose a site, he said.

Southfield zoning laws prohibit sex shops and adult bookstores, although there is no specific restriction against businesses renting or selling the use of sex dolls.

Brothels offering the use of lifelike dolls already exist in Japan and some European cities, but have yet to arrive in the U.S., according to news reports. The story was first reported by WWJ.

A Toronto business called Aura Dolls opened last year with advertised rates ranging from $90 for 30 minutes with one female doll to $480 for four hours. The brothel's website says its dolls, made of silicone, are thoroughly cleansed between uses, although condoms are still recommended.

Southfield City Council last year passed a 180-day moratorium to study the sex doll brothel question and voted in December to renew the moratorium for another 180 days, the mayor said.

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Siver said he anticipates that the council will draft an ordinance in coming months to outright ban sex doll brothels. Every resident who has contacted his office so far has expressed a negative opinion about them, he said.

“I haven’t had anybody call me and say ‘I hope the council votes for this,'" Siver said. "All the callers and emailers were appalled, and they don’t want the city to be associated with this."

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