Roanne van Voorst, anthropologist, researcher, and author, discusses the future of love with topics like AI girlfriends, sex robots, modern sexuality, sex work trends, polyamory, virtual relationships, and redefining love in the digital age.

Roanne van Voorst, an anthropologist and assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, explores the chilling world of sex robots and AI relationships. She shares her experience visiting a sex robot brothel, revealing unsettling realities about emotional attachments to these machines. The conversation delves into the ethics of virtual companionship and its impact on real human connections. Roanne discusses how technology shapes romantic relationships and the implications of AI's growing role in intimacy, highlighting both desire and the dilemmas that arise from it.