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Build For Tomorrow

The Case for Sex Robots

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7573 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Sex robots?! For decades, people have debated their dangers or called them ridiculous. But what if these bots can actually be a good thing? Here is the surprisingly human argument for a dystopian-sounding technology — and why it matters far beyond the bedroom. Get in touch! Newsletter: jasonfeifer.bulletin.com Website: jasonfeifer.com Instagram: @heyfeifer Twitter: @heyfeifer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

This is Build For Tomorrow, a podcast about the unexpected things that shape us and how we

0:34.8

can shape the future. I'm Jason Pfeiffer, and in each episode,

0:38.2

I take something that seems concerning or confusing today and figure out where it came from,

0:42.7

what important things we're missing, and how to be more optimistic about tomorrow.

0:47.7

Has this ever happened to you? I'm sure it has. Someone is telling you something, and then they

0:52.8

ask if you know what they're talking about, and you say, yeah, then they ask if you know what they're talking about

0:54.6

and you say, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what they're talking about. But you do not know what they're

0:59.8

talking about. You said yes, but you meant no. Why do we do this? Well, I am going to play for you a moment

1:06.2

in which I make that exact mistake. Here, I am interviewing a sex therapist named Gloria Brame.

1:13.6

And there's a whole long backstory to why I'm talking to Gloria, which I'll get to later.

1:16.9

But for now, just know that Gloria and I were talking about the very early days of the internet when she said,

1:22.7

I don't know where were you in the 90s, but in the 90s, there was, you know how we have like the robotic

1:29.0

sex panic going on? And there it is. There is the moment, the moment in which someone asks if I

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