I haven’t been reading much, and this book took me forever. A brilliant compilation of research on attachment, technology, and sexology, I skipped through it and doubled back. I don’t know why. A few laborious passages on pets or prostitution left me cold, but in the end I think I got it. I certainly discussed it, teaching ‘teledildonics’ as the word of the day at my job. I was in between appalled, and YES! to his credit, David Levy spends considerable time exploring the ramifications of feminine sexuality and sexbots; the credits on sex tourism and gigolos were enlightening. More than anything, I was touched by the fact that emotional intelligence was so accessible to programmers, and such a high priority.
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