Some people rely on AI romantic companions for emotional support or private sexual exploration. Some partners experience this as betrayal.
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Before the end of the year, dating app Bumble will be getting rid of the swipe and introducing an AI powered dating assistant.
While rationalizing deception is easy to do, developing the virtue of truthfulness is not.
The speed and structure of AI relationship advice often consolidates one narrative and trains us for unrealistic expectations, shaping how we interpret conflict and intimacy.
While the biblical figure of Samson is often characterized as driven by poor judgment, a Hebrew Bible scholar argues why he could instead be interpreted as a figure of emotional complexity.
As AI-powered chatbots become more popular, AI-human relationships are a new and growing phenomenon.
Alice Wong’s Disability Intimacy is anchored in authentic experiences of disabled people, rather than stereotypes.
Artificial intelligence technologies are changing how users experience intimate romantic and sexual connections. These technologies bring many positive benefits, but there is a dark side.
Relationship anarchists argue that we should relate to one another as equals and accept that intimacy can take many forms.
Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.
Haigh’s ghostly, dream-like setting offers a powerful remedy for an ageing generation of gay men coming to terms with the grief that pervaded their young lives.
Dealing with climate change requires us to address not just our carbon emissions but also the disconnection with ourselves and our planet which fuels ecological destruction.
Wanning Sun spent nearly a decade talking to migrant workers at the Apple factory in China’s Shenzhen about their intimate lives – and how their relationships are affected by inequality.
Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
Love and intimacy are valuable for wellbeing at every age. But for older people, especially those in aged care, intimacy can be complicated. Carol Lefevre explores, through real life and fiction.
Often described as a sign of progressivism and gender equality, they’re neither.
As space exploration takes off, it will become increasingly important to study and understand sex, intimacy, desire and pleasure off-Earth.
Lack of human touch can lead to greater stress, anxiety and loneliness – and that is what made the social distancing during the pandemic so hard for many.
Spurred by the impetus of the #MeToo movement, South Africa’s is the latest film and TV industry to introduce intimacy protocols to guide how intimate scenes are conceived and executed.
Public health measures have affected dating during the pandemic. This could be an opportunity for people to learn more about their intimate desires to develop deeper connections with others.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University
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Chercheur affilié à l'Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique (OBVIA), Université Laval
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PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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PhD Candidate, Psychology of Human Sexuality, Erotic Technology & Space Sexology, Concordia University
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Professor, Department of Sexology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Senior lecturer, Dept O & G, Monash University
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Adjunct Professor and Post Doctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences
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Senior Research Fellow, Division of Health Research and Social Work, Lancaster University; La Trobe University
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Emeritus Professor, Film and Media Studies in English, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center (UTHC), Tulane University; Institute for Humane Studies
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PhD Student in Human Development, Learning and Culture, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor in Film and Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University
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Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Graduate student, Clinical Psychology, Université de Montréal
