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Six in a bed : the future of love - from sex dolls and avatars to polyamory
Voorst, Roanne van2024
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Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential quality of being human: without love, we don't learn and develop properly as children and we don't flourish as adults - in short, we're starved of what we need. But love is on the verge of monumental change. Sex robots are already on the market, polyamory is gaining ground, drugs are being developed that can make you fall in love, and AI and robotics are set to revolutionize how we relate to each other. Debates about whether more than two people should be able legally to get married are heating up; at the same time, an increasing number of people have decided to stay single and who go by the name of sologamists. The futures anthropologist Roanne van Voorst spent three years researching love's fluid landscape and immersing herself in today's latest trends to gain insight into the human of tomorrow. She cultivated a virtual friendship, hired a rentable friend and an erotic masseuse, shared a bed with sex dolls and flirted with artificial intelligence. She dated and danced in a virtual world, spoke to polyamorists, sologamists, sex workers, pansexuals, asexuals, heterosexuals, homosexuals, men, women, and people who don't accept the binary gender label. She wanted to know how changes to love are changing our species. This book is her brilliantly engaging answer.
Main title:
Six in a bed : the future of love - from sex dolls and avatars to polyamory / by Roanne van Voorst ; translated by Liz Waters.
Author:
Voorst, Roanne vanWaters, Liz, translator
Edition:
English edition.
Imprint:
Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Polity Press, [2024]
Collation:
xxviii, 237 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.Translated from Dutch.
Contents:
Preface1. Adventures with sex dolls2. Six in a bed3. From digital cupids to cheek cell samples in an envelope4. Quarrelling with your lover? Just take a relationship pill5. In love with an avatar6. On unhappy robots, programmers in attic rooms and artificial stupidity7. Rented friends, sologamists and co-living spaces8. The future of sex work: sex care, digitalization and inclusive pornography9. On sexless youngsters, elderly people in love and ethical pornography10. A gender revolution and the end of the heterosAfterword.
ISBN:
9781509558421 (hardback)
Dewey class:
306.7
Language:
EnglishDutch
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BRN:
461722
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Community language - Nonfiction | 306.7 SIX | Onloan - Due: 06 Nov 2024 |