Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: In the beginning … 1
4. 1. Meet the dollbots 6
5. 2. It’s not about the robot 27
6. 3. Groom your friends 50
7. 4. The intimacy algorithm 68
8. 5. How did sex become so complicated? 86
9. 6. When artificial intimacy goes bad 108
10. 7. Ploughs, pills and porn: How technology changes sex 132
11. 8. Tomorrow’s moral panic will be just like yesterday’s 152
12. 9. Make war not love 177
13. 10. A Fembot army to disarm the InCel insurrection 199
14. 11. There’s no such thing as free love 217
15. 12. A future in four fictions 233
16. Acknowledgments 252
17. References 256
18. Notes 269
19. Index 279