#251 Diana Fleischman: Sex Robots, Technology, And The Future Of Human Relationships
RECORDED ON AUGUST 29TH, 2019.
Dr. Diana Fleischman completed a PhD in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, US, under the supervision of David Buss. She is currently a senior lecturer of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, as well as a member of the Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology group there. Her research interests are hormonal influences on behavior, human sexuality, disgust and, recently, the interface of evolutionary psychology and behaviorism.
In this episode, we talk about the evolutionary psychology of sex robots, and how they might impact men and human society. We talk about why men will be the primary marketing targets, and the several different ways sex robots might have a positive impact in their lives. During the discussion, we also tackle arguments against sex robots, or arguments that suggest their impact might be net negative.
Time Links:
Evolutionary psychology, and sex robots as an emergent technology
Could there be sex robots for women?
Men tend to be systemizers
The current mating market
Men’s risky strategies
Synthetic girlfriends
Children and birth rates
Could we use sex robots to train men’s social skills?
The types of relationships that work for people
What about the sex robots themselves?
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Follow Dr. Fleischman’s work:
Faculty page: http://bit.ly/2LhbPzC
ResearchGate profile: http://bit.ly/2KDv8DS
Website: http://bit.ly/2Z4h2jb
Twitter handle: @sentientist
Relevant articles:
Uncanny Vulvas: http://bit.ly/2TuikCX
Will Sex Robots Bring About the End of Civilization? (Glenn Geher): http://bit.ly/2OTVBRO