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  • [Image Credit: AP Photo/Paul Sakuma]

    Dear first-generation sex robot ...

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    Christopher Trout
    Christopher Trout
    11.06.2015

    It appears we're on the brink of a robo-sexual revolution. Some have claimed that you'll be, like the selfie, a socially derided mainstay by 2025. Other, more conservative, estimates posit that having sex with you will be either commonplace or more popular than human-on-human sex by 2050. Whatever the case, you're coming -- or should I say arriving -- soon.

  • Let's talk about sex: This is Computer Love

    by 
    Christopher Trout
    Christopher Trout
    11.06.2015

    Computer Love is a semi-regular column exploring the weird world of human sexuality in the 21st century. That's me four months ago, emerging from the frozen tomb of a near decade-long relationship. OK, that's Brendan Fraser, but when I finally surfaced from the cold-comfort coffin of love lost, I was thrust into a strange new world, where courtship starts with a dick pic, dating is done by phone and text messages are the preferred mode of romantic communique.