The Future of Sex and Love: ‘Love’ in the time of robots
Watch the video The Future of Sex and Love: ‘Love’ in the time of robots The brilliant Nika Mahnič at 4GameChangers Event 2018, in Vienna, Austria
Campaign Against Sex Robots Reading Group – the myth of sexual liberation! – rescheduled to 10th April due to the Beast from the East
Topic: the myth of sexual liberation Reading: Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution by Sheila Jeffreys Time: 6-8pm Date: Tuesday April 10th 2018* Venue: Central London. *The original meeting was cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. We’ve all heard about the sexual […]
The end of dating: Tinder, porn & new forms of alienation, by Florence Gildea
While on holiday in beautiful surroundings, I noticed that one of the guys I was with was staring down at his phone rather than absorbing the scenery. ‘It can’t even be that interesting’, I thought, ‘since he’s swiping continuously’. I peered over to see that he was on Tinder, giving […]
– Robots sexuels : Pourquoi il faut s’inquiéter.
La capacité d’aimer le sexe en tant qu’expérience partagée, où les valeurs, les pensées, les sentiments, les désirs, les besoins et les espoirs d’une personne sont reconnus par un-e partenaire (sexuel), est une victoire historique pour les femmes. Cela n’a pas été la norme pendant la plus grande partie de […]
– Masculinité toxique : de la pornographie des poupées sexuelles.
Le silence des poupées sexuelles est considéré comme l’un de leurs principaux avantages par les propriétaires masculins. Les poupées sexuelles, contrairement aux partenaires humaines, ne peuvent pas répondre, critiquer ou mépriser. Par exemple, l’auteur Anthony Ferguson écrit qu’une poupée sexuelle « ne vous dira jamais de sortir les poubelles ni ne critiquera […]
“Man as an end in himself” – the Libertine, the culture of sadism, porn and sex robots – keynote lecture
This lecture was presented as a keynote lecture at the Third International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, London 19th December 2017. Since the time of slave-owning societies, a powerful misogynistic myth has led men to believe they originate and can exist outside of relations with woman. […]
Campaign Against Sex Robots Reading Group
The Campaign Against Sex Robots Reading Group The aim of this group is to develop new approaches to robots, AI and technology that are informed by abolitionist feminism, women’s liberation and human freedom. Over the next year we will use the reading group to develop this new narrative and to […]
Why We Must Ban Sex Robots – debate at Web Summit, 2017
As humanoid robots advance, one subset has aroused particular suspicion, and found its champions: those designed for sex. This debate examines whether sex robots should be left to the user to try or whether they go too far and should be stopped immediately.
Where next for porn and ‘sex’ technology? Web Summit 2017
Porn Debate at Web Summit with Kathleen Richardson at De Montfort University, Derek Mead at Vice Media and Denorah Hernandez at BaDoinkVR The answer – ABOLITION!
Homo digitalis, ARTE TV, France
ARTE TV Piece on Sex Robots with Kathleen Richardson Watch it HERE
