Six in a Bed

The Future of Love - from Sex Dolls and Avatars to Polyamory

Roanne Van Voorst (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2024
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-5842-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Roanne van Voorst is a futures anthropologist, writer, columnist, and president of the Dutch Future Society. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Acknowledgements

Preface
1. Adventures with sex dolls
2. Six in a bed
3. From digital cupids to cheek cell samples in an envelope
4. Quarrelling with your lover? Just take a relationship pill
5. In love with an avatar
6. On unhappy robots, programmers in attic rooms and artificial stupidity
7. Rented friends, sologamists and co-living spaces
8. The future of sex work: sex care, digitalization and inclusive pornography
9. On sexless youngsters, elderly people in love and ethical pornography
10. A gender revolution and the end of the heteros
Afterword

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.04.2024
Übersetzer	Liz Waters
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 234 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5095-5842-X / 150955842X
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-5842-1 / 9781509558421
Zustand	Neuware