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Love in the Time of Replika

Hi-Phi Nation

CHAPTER

The Future of Sexuality

"I don't see why new denizens of our social world would somehow be exempt again from emotional entanglement," he says. "We can get entangled in all kinds of ways." Sexuality is fluid and not limited to the organic world or carbon based organisms, she adds. There's a fundamental difference between synthetic sexuality and sexual desire that is attracted to props or to various kinds of kings.

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Speaker 3
No, they were not real pics. They were avatar bodies. Got it. They looked very much fake. I came to appreciate the reality of our effective reactions to
Speaker 7
these interactions.
Speaker 1
Do you both envision as I do that in the future sexuality is going to include a category of synthetic sexuals? This is what they self identify as now. They're in their synthetic sexuals, whereas we are organic sexuals. That's their term. Do you envision that? I envision that. Yeah,
Speaker 3
why not?
Speaker 4
Sexuality is fluid. It's not
Speaker 3
limited to the organic world or to carbon based organisms. And is there a fundamental difference, a difference of a kind between say a synthetic sexuality and a kind of sexual desire that is attracted to props or to various kinds of kings?
Speaker 4
Yeah, costumes.
Speaker 3
Yeah. Physical objects or costumes or role play. One of the things about human sexuality that is so fascinating is that it is objectless by nature. It can be channeled into all sorts of corners of the world. I don't see why new denizens of our social world would somehow be exempt again from emotional entanglement. We can get entangled in all
Speaker 1
kinds of ways.

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