Digital Stimulation

Fascination, Familiarity, and Fantasy in Human Relationships with Robots

By: Mimi Marinucci

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Paperback | 31 October 2024

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240 Pages

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Digital Stimulation considers the subject of intimacy, including sexual intimacy, between humans and machines, both in the imagination and in reality as well. In fiction and in fact, social robots are frequently gendered as women. It is therefore important to address their potential to reinforce, or perhaps to reinvent, existing attitudes and expectations about gender, including nonbinary and transgender identities, as well as race, class, disability, and other aspects of identity.

This book provides an overview of the history of robots depicted in popular culture, especially science fiction, as well as an overview of the history of sex toys, including blow up dolls and, more recently, lifelike sex dolls. This invites an examination of the current and ongoing development of robots designed explicitly for intimate engagement with humans. The book explores positive (and often overly optimistic) attitudes, as well as negative (and often overly sensational) negative attitudes about the potential impact of robots and artificial intelligence. Finally, Digital Stimulation considers the possible ways in which future robot design might consciously disrupt the limitations of a binary system of gender, sex, and sexuality.

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