🔵 Next week (8–13 September), Dr Curtis Runstedler AFHEA, our post doc at IRIS, will travel to Karachi, Pakistan, to give two invited lectures at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA).
🔵 For IRIS, his first lecture takes a critical posthuman feminist perspective on the commodification of sex robots and artificial intimacy in contemporary speculative fiction. He will discuss works such as Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein, Paolo Bacigalupi’s Mika Model, and Sierra Greer’s Annie Bot.
🔵 This lecture draws on a new journal article he co-authored with Dr. Sercan Hamza Bağlama (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi), which is currently under review.
🔵 We are excited to see Dr. Runstedler represent IRIS in Karachi and to contribute to international conversations on literature, technology, and ethics.

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On one end of the spectrum, we find individuals who identify as digisexuals and exclusively engage in sexual activities with digital entities, eliminating human contact.

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"Whether digisexuality is an identity that makes sense to you or not, sexual technology is relatively new and many who have self-identified have faced stigma by existing outside of normative sexuality" http://sextech.guide/zy7uoq

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"In this perspective, embodied technologies like sex dolls and sex robots shouldn't be disregarded, especially given that the sexual usage of human-like material artifacts has long since gained popularity."

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"When it comes to the digisexual arena, particularly the realm of sex robots, users may be able to develop their sexual knowledge and skills without the intense pressure of interpersonal closeness with another human with other needs." http://sextech.guide/zy7uoq

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Use of sex robots could lead to a spouse being sexually insecure, and digisexuality may bring up triggering feelings, negatively impacting the fabric of monogamous relationships.

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"Researchers predict that many people may eventually “come to use robots as their primary mode of sexual experience” because they are tailored to individuals' desires and “will do things that human partners cannot or will not do.”" http://sextech.guide/zy7uoq

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"Digisexuality reinforces unrealistic beauty standards through the flawless appearance of VR or AI pornstars and sexbots that are modeled off of mainstream pornography adhering to white Eurocentric beauty standards." http://sextech.guide/zy7uoq

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"On one end of the spectrum, we find individuals who identify as digisexuals and exclusively engage in sexual activities with digital entities, eliminating human contact..."

Digisexuality: The future of intimacy in a technological world ▸ http://sextech.guide/zy7uoq

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