The Singularity Saints Podcast

018: Technology and Sexuality

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How will emerging technologies impact human sexuality? With VR, ectogenesis, and sex-bots becoming reality, what are we to do? Given the mature topic, listener discretion is advised.

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Topics:

  • Sexuality as a basic human drive and motivation
  • Are we in a sex recession?
    • https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/ by Kate Julian
  • Entertainment, social media, and human interaction
  • The emergence of sexbots
    • https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/calls-mount-for-regulation-of-sex-robots by Steven Nelson
  • The perceived pros and cons
  • Regulations, laws, and sexbots
  • CREEPER Act in the United States (H.R. 4655)
    • https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4655/summary
  • The Campaign Against Sex Robots and ethics professor Kathleen Richardson
  • Sexbots and simulated sexual deviancy
    • https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/31/child-sex-doll-imports-expose-previously-unknown-offenders
  • Possible AI consciousness and robotic romantic partners
  • Foundation for Responsible Robotics
    • https://responsiblerobotics.org/
  • Deep Fakes
  • Virtual Reality
  • New presentations of the self and virtual sexual experience
  • Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers
  • Ray Kurzweil on altered experiences in VR
  • Ectogenesis and the abortion debate
  • Artificial wombs
    • https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/04/artifical-womb-women-ectogenesis-baby-fertility by Helen Sedgwick
  • How ectogenesis may change, but not end the abortion debate
    • https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/06/our-outdated-debates
  • Jessica Keating, director of the Office of Human Dignity and Life Initiatives in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
  • Are Christians sex-obsessed
  • Christians and the sexual ethics of ancient Rome
  • Sexual Revolution and the religious response
  • Purity Culture and “sexual prosperity gospel”
  • Sex and biblical imagery
  • Jesus on lust and marriage
  • Legalistic excuses and the heart of the matter
  • Looking Ahead: Multi-legged pharmaceutical micro robots
    • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180926082724.htm

    Verses Referenced:

    • Matthew 5:28
  • Philippians 4:8

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