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  • Upcoming event offering love and sex with robots in October 2023.

    ‘Making love to chatbots’: AI set for center stage at Love & Sex With Robots 2023

    Jamie F/
    August 8, 2023
  • Love & Sex with Robots 2024

    AI companions set to dominate discussion at Love & Sex With Robots 2024

    Jamie F/
    August 12, 2024
  • Dating app news updates for September 2025

    Dating appdates (Sep ‘25): Bumble’s AI matchmaker, Japan’s virtual girlfriends, and why psychopaths win at dating apps

    Jamie F/
    September 23, 2025
  • MEN DISGUST SEXTECH

    ‘Sexual double standard’: Men seen with more disgust than women when using sextech

    University of New Brunswick researchers have documented what many in the industry have long suspected: men face harsher social judgment than women for using the exact same sexual devices.
  • London Tech Abuse Conference 2026

    London Tech Abuse Conference 2026 to cover deepfakes, cyberstalking and online dating

    University College London will bring together researchers, frontline workers and people with lived experience of technology-facilitated abuse at a three-day conference in May 2026. The event will explore deepfakes, cyberstalking, online dating safety and tech-enabled coercive control, with keynote speeches from experts at Google, Cornell Tech and in digital rights journalism.
  • Dating app news updates for September 2025

    Dating appdates (Sep ‘25): Bumble’s AI matchmaker, Japan’s virtual girlfriends, and why psychopaths win at dating apps

    From Bumble’s upcoming AI-powered matchmaking app to Japan’s new virtual girlfriend service where AI characters can actually reject you, the dating app world is getting weird. Meanwhile in Australia, hundreds of thousands of scam accounts are getting the boot, and science confirms what we suspected: narcissists are crushing it on Tinder.
  • legal academic meta rape 2

    Legal scholars advocate criminalizing VR ‘rape’

    If you use a female-presenting avatar when entering a metaverse space, it’s usually not long before a penguin or elf or… whatever avatar begins groping, humping, or otherwise harassing your pixelated persona. Unwanted sexual behavior in metaverse spaces is a massive problem, but should behaviour like this be criminalized? And should we stop calling this […]
  • Dating app updates in April 2025

    Dating appdates (April ’25): Big verification push, massive data leak, apps ‘officially’ stressful, and more

    New research has found that using dating apps is a pleasurable, respectful, reliable experience that enriches people’s lives and connections. OK, we’re joking – new research has actually found that using dating apps causes big hormone issues linked to stress and addictive behaviour. Elsewhere this month, there’s been a massive personal data and photo leak […]

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    June 21, 2022
    • Jamie F

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    US researchers recommend prescription of vibrators for pelvic problems

    A US-based sexual health research team has recommended that vibrators are added to the arsenal of tools used to treat pelvic problems.
    June 20, 2022
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    Hybrid sexuality and tech conference to explore dating app ‘terror’ and assisted procreation

    The fourth of the sexuality and technologies conferences organized by sexual health charity Les 3 sex*, ST2022, will be take place on March 26 2022.
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    • Jamie F

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    Sex in space: Hygiene, harassment and why Canada could lead the way in outer space sexology

    Sex in space is an under-researched area that will have an impact on our ability to sustain life beyond Earth. We interviewed Simon Dube about Space Sexology.
    December 22, 2021
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    Adult cam sites provide ‘emotional support’, says research funded by cam site

    Porn camming sites, while known for sexual gratification, are serving a far wider purpose, according to new research published by Kinsey Institute.
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    Most sexting isn’t really about sex

    Psychologists from Texas Tech University have been researching the motivations behind sexting behaviours, and it turns out sex isn't the primary factor.
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    What’s the relationship between extended reality and sexual arousal? UK-based study aims to find out

    A UK-based independent artist and research group is putting on a live event focused on the relationship between extended reality technology and sexual arousal.
    September 18, 2019
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    Sex robot symposium exploring ‘erobotics’ planned for May

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    January 16, 2019
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    People are more accepting of paying for sex with robots than human sex workers

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