Facial Features Indicate Sex Drive – the Return of Phrenology?

Phrenology is the ‘science’ of reading personality characteristics from the shape of the skull. It is now universally discredited and somewhat notorious as representing the peak of 19th century pseudoscience. However, it appears to be making something of a comeback if two …

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Anti-sexbot campaigner wants to ban a robot that doesn’t exist

A radical feminist campaigner in the UK demanded last week that a sexbot that supposedly has a pre-programmed personality named ‘Frigid Farrah’ be banned lest it encourage rape. The problem is that the sexbot in question likely doesn’t exist, as the following …

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Scientists to Mix DNA of Women and Foxes through CRISPR?

The above post from a Facebook transhumanist group is obviously intended to be funny (and it is!), but perhaps it raises some interesting points. For example, in the not too distant future, when gene editing for cosmetic and personal (and sexual) enhancement …

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David Levy shuts down ‘anti-sexbot’ campaigner Kathleen Richardson

At the start of this year, the third ‘International Conference on Future Robot Technologies‘ took place in London – also known as the sexbot conference. It had actually intended to be held in Malaysia a few months before, but was forcibly cancelled …

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