Recent Media on the Ethics of Sex Tech

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I've done some recent media on the topics of sex and technology. Unsurprisingly, most of it focuses on the book Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications but there is some other stuff in there too. You might be interested in listening, watching or reading:

• Episode 66: Robot Sex and AI Love - Future Fossils Podcast: This was an interview I did with Mike Garfield for his podcast. The interview was conducted around about the time the book came out back in October 2017. The recorded version was released in March 2018. This was one of my favourite interviews about the book. It covered a lot of ground that hasn't been covered in other interviews. You can subscribe to Mike's podcast here.

• Robot Sex, Virtual Futures Salon: This was a conversation I had with the inimitable Kate Devlin (one of the world's leading experts on sex tech). This was a fun conversation, with a good audience Q and A that includes a (very mild) 'confrontation' with members of the Campaign Against Sex Robots. Virtual Futures put on some excellent events and I recommend checking them out if you happen to be in London.

• Sex in the Digital Age: Are Consent Apps the Answer? - An interview with Joe Humphreys from the Irish Times about the value (or lack thereof) of consent apps in addressing problems with sexual assault and rape. This summarises some of the arguments from my paper 'Could there ever be an app for that?' 

Future of Sex have also recently done some good summaries of my work on virtual sexual assault and consent apps.

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