Electric Dreams

In the future, we'll all be having sex with robots… won't we?

Roboticists say they're a distracting science fiction, yet endless books, films and articles are written on the subject. Campaigns are even mounted against them. So why are sex robots such a hot topic?

Electric Dreams picks apart the forces that posit sex robots as either the solution to our problems or a real threat to human safety, and looks at what's being pushed aside for us to obsess about something that will never happen.

Social Science Human Sexuality Prostitution & Sex Trade

86 afgedrukte pagina’s

Auteursrechteigenaar: Bookwire
Oorspronkelijke uitgave: 2024
Jaar van uitgave: 2024
Uitgeverij: 404 Ink

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does not require us to demonise male sexuality, which is stunted by patriarchy just as female desire is
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Capitalist patriarchy is hurting men, and when men are hurt, they are much, much more likely to hurt women.
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By letting these types of men—lost, sad, angry, desperate—fall prey to patriarchal forces that convince them they are better off alone, we are failing them, just as we are failing truly vulnerable men when we let them believe they are unlovable, undesirable;
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