by David Levy
pornography
prostitution
romantic relationships
sex doll sales
vibrator sales
virtual reality, teledildonics, and
interracial marriages
intimate information exchange See also closeness; relationships
invisibility, Internet relationships and
Ishiguro, Hiroshi
Islam
isolation, romantic love and
Iverson, Adrienne
Japan
AIBO robotic dog in
artificial vaginas in
automata in
carer robots in
humanoid robot design in
mate selection traits in
NeCoRo robotic cat in
Repliee Q1 robot in
robotics research in (see also robotics)
Robovie robot in
sex dolls in
Tamagotchi virtual pet in
WABOT projects in
JAPE program
jealousy, robot
Jewish religion. See also religion
Johnson, Virginia
joking
Jong-Hwan, Kim
Judeo-Christian norms
See also religion; social norms
Juhasz, Anne
Kahn, Peter
Kanda, Takayuki
Kaplan, Helen
karakuri doll
Kasparov, Garry
Katcher, Aaron
Kernsmith, Roger
Kessler, Isabel
Kiesler, Sara
Kim, Jong-Hwan
Kimura, Hajime
Kinsey, Alfred
Kismet robot
Klaus robot
Kleist, Ellen
Knowles, Jon
Kokoschka, Oskar
Koller, Marvin
Korea. See South Korea
Kurzweil, Ray
Lace, Vanessa
lack of complication and constraint motivation, paying for sex and
lack of success motivation, paying for sex and
lack of success with humans, pet relationships and
Lamarr, Hedy
Lampert, David
Laner, Mary
Langer, Ellen
language communication
See also communication; speech
Lannon, Richard
Laslocky, Meghan
Laura virtual character
lawn-mower robots
laws
of robotics
against sexuality (see also social norms)
learning, robots and
lecturer robots
Leigh, Barbara
Lemish, Dafna
Lenz, Norbert
Levin, Hoag
Levine, Deb
Lewis, Thomas
lexical entrainment
Libin, Alexander and Elena
life. See aliveness, robot
Light, Paul
liking
attraction as
likable computers
romantic love and reciprocal
Listserv
love. See attachment; romantic love; sex
low self-esteem, romantic love and
lust, sex and
Lyman, Randy
McCarthy, Joe
McCarthy, John
McClelland, David
machine intelligence See also artificial intelligence (AI)
machines. See also computers;
electronic objects; objects; robots
prosthesis and
sex
McKeganey, Neil
McMullen, Matt
Maheu, Marlene
Mahler, Alma
Maines, Rachel
mainframe computers See also computers
malebots. See also sex robots
males. See men
Maney, Kevin
marriage
adultery
arranged
to pets
premarital sex
to robots
same-sex
sex robots and
sex tourism and
masochism
massage device
Masters, William
masturbation. See also sex
masturbation machine for women
material possession attachment See also objects
mate selection traits
meaning, romantic love and
media interest
medical diagnosis
Melson, Gail
men
acceptance of robots by
artificial vaginas and fornicatory dolls for
friendships of
gender of computers and robots and
paying women for sex
reasons for sex
seductive behaviors of
sex dolls for (see also sex dolls)
sex machines for (see also technologies, sex)
sex robots for(see also sex robots
sexual drives of, vs. women
women paying, for sex
metarelational communication
See also communication
Michalski, Peter
Michelle, Net
microprocessors
minors
Mitchell, Timothy
Moi, Harald
monogamy
Monto, Martin
Moon, Youngme
Moos, Hermine
morality. See religion; social norms
Moreland, Richard
Mori, Masahiro
Mormonism
Morris, Maxwe
mother-child relationship
motherese
Murray, Iain
music
mutuality. See myth of mutuality, paying for sex and
My Real Baby electronic doll
mystery, romantic love and
myth of mutuality, paying for sex and
Nass, Clifford
National Health and Social Life Survey
natural language. See also communication; speech
natural selection
NeCoRo robotic cat
needs, romantic love and filling
Nelson, Kristen
Nelson, Theodore
Neugebauer, Otto
neurochemicals, pets and
newsgroups
New York Museum of Sex
Nicoll, Henry
Noonan, Raymond
norms. See social norms
Nourbakhsh, Illah
novelty, attachment and
nurture, Tamagotchi
objects. See also electronic objects
attachment to
sex with (see technologies, sex)
obscenity cases
Odendaal, Johannes
Ogburn, William
online relationships See also Internet
oral sex. See also sex; social norms
orgasms. See also technologies, sex
Orthodox Jews. See also religion
Overall, Christine
PaPeRo robot
parasocial relationships
paroxysms. See also orgasms
particularity, attachment and
partner robots See also humanoid robots
Pate, Alan
patents, sex machine
paying for sex
future of
men paying women
moral justification for
paid sex surrogates as therapy
reasons men pay women
reasons women pay men
religious prostitution
with sex dolls
with sex robots
sexual availability and
women paying men
Peck, Dennis
Peckham, Ted
peeing dolls
penis ring See also technologies, sex pen pals
people. See humans
Peretti, Peter
personal computer (PC) See also computers
personalities
AIBO virtual dog
/>
attraction and
backing up robot
computers and
mate selection traits
robot
robot chromosomes and
romantic love and desirable characteristics
personalization, object
personal robots
person identification
pets
anthropomorphism of
author’s
benefits of owning
Pet Rocks
reasons humans love
relationships with
strength of human love for
as surrogate children
virtual (see virtual pets)
Phantom robot arm
physical appearance attraction and
design of robot
design of sex robot
Internet relationships and
paying for sex and
physical health, pet ownership and See also therapy
physical pleasure, sex and
physical support
physicians. See also therapy hysteria and
masturbation and
Picard, Rosalind
pilots, automatic
Pines, Ayala
Pines, Sharon
Pirsig, Robert
pleasure, sex and
Plumridge, Elizabeth
polygamy
Pomeroy, Wardell
pornography
Pratt, James
premarital sex
Prince, Zenitha
procreation, sex and See also replication, robot
projection See also anthropomorphism
prosthesis
prostitution. See paying for sex
Proudfoot, Judy
proximity, romantic love and
Pryor, Bill
psychic energy
psychology. See also therapy benefits of robots
computer psychotherapy
online relationships and
psychological support
robotic (robotherapy)
Psychology of Cyberspace Web site
puns
pygmalionism
race
marriage and
romantic love and
Raeder, Ernst
Rajecki, Donald
Rasmussen, Jeffrey
readiness for relationship, romantic love and
RealDoll sex dolls
reassurance
receptionist robot
reciprocity in pets
in robots
in Tamagotchis
myth of mutuality in paying for sex
romantic love and
recognition
emotion
face
speech
Reeves, Byron
relationships marriage (see marriage) with objects (see computers; electronic objects; objects; virtual pets) with pets; (see also pets) readiness for with robots (see also humanoid robots) romantic (see romantic love) sexual (see sex; sex robots) this book about
team religion
See also social norms
religious prostitution
Renée-Bloch, Linda
repeated exposure, romantic love and
replication, robot
Repliee robots
reproduction, sex and See also replication, robot
research. See robotics
Rheingold, Howard
risk, attachment and
Riskin, Jessica
Rity software robot
Roberts, Barbara
Robin, Michael
Robinson, Bruce
roboethics See also ethical issues, humanoid robots and
robopsychologists
RoboSapien humanoid robot
robotic psychology (robotherapy)
robotics See also robots; technologies
artificial intelligence and
artificial partner robot development
author’s book about
automata history and
Karel Čapek’s robot concept
carer robots
computer development and(see also computers)
desiging emotions (see emotions)
designing robot behaviors
(see also behavior) designing robot personalities
(see also personalities) designing robot physical appearances
(see also physical appearance)
erotic computation research
future of
humanoid robot development (see also humanoid robots)
Japanese (see also Japan)
laws of
robot chromosomes
robot development
(see also electronic objects; virtual pets)
sex technologies (see sex robots; technologies, sex) social norms and (see also social norms)
robotic virtual pets. See also virtual pets AIBO robotic dog
benefits of
development of
NeCoRo robotic cat
robots benefits of
brain scans by
development of (see robotics)
future of
origin of robot term
pets vs.
robotic virtual pets (see also virtual pets)
romantic love with (see humanoid robots) sex with (see sex robots) this book about
robot soccer
Robots Unlimited
Robovie robot
Rochberg-Halton, Eugene
rocks, pet
romance tourism
romantic love See also attraction
as attachment
Internet relationships and
measuring
proximity, repeated exposure and
reasons for
with robots (see humanoid robots) sex and (see also sex; sex robots)
ten causes of
this book about
Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.)
Ryan, Joel
Rynearson, Edward
sadness
sales assistant robot
same-sex marriage
See also homosexuality
Scheibe, Karl
Schreiber, Mark
Schwaeblé, René
Scott, John
screen-based virtual characters See also virtual pets
SDR humanoid robot
Second Self, The, v
security
attachment and
humanoid robots and
security objects
seductive behaviors
self-disclosure computers and
robots and
romantic love and
self-esteem computers and
paying for sex and
pets and
romantic love and
self-reproducing robots
senior citizens. See elderly people
sensors, tactile
separation distress
Serpell, James
service robots
sex
attachment and
computer programming as
cybersex era
fornication
homosexuality
male vs. female sex drives
masturbation
oral
paying for (see paying for sex)
reasons for enjoyment of
robot chromosomes and
with robots (see sex robots)
senses and
sexuality research
social norms and (see also social norms)
STDs
technologies (see technologies, sex) transference and
sexbots. See sex robots
sex dolls. See also sex robots fornicatory dolls
future of
haptic interface and
for hire
physical appearance of
RealDoll
sex education dolls
for twenty-first century
sex robots. See also sex; sex dolls benefits of
desirability of
ethical issues of
future of
for hire
humanoid (see also humanoid robots) male vs. female acceptance of
social norms and (see social norms) this book about
transition from haptic interface to
sex surrogates
sex toys. See technologies, sex sexual intercourse
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
Shaver, Philip
Shintoism See also religion
Siegel, Judith
similarity, romantic love and
Simón, Pedro
Sinulator
Sizemore, BeAnn
skepticism See also social norms
skin, artificial
smell technologies
Smith, John
Smith, Stephen
Snell, Joe
Sobel, Peter
Søby, Morten
soccer, robot
sociable robots See also humanoid robots
social norms See also religion cybersex era
on fornication
on homosexuality
on humanoid robots
on marriage
on masturbation
on oral sex
on paying for sex and
romantic love and
on sex robots
social relationships. See relationships
social support, pets and
sodomy See also homosexuality software, computer See also computers
Someya, Takao
South Korea
specific cues, romantic love and
speech. See also communication communication
recognition
synthesis
transmission technology
Sprecher, Susan
Sprenger, Emil
Sproull, Lee
Stallion sex machine
statues, sex with
Stean, Michael
Stekel, Wilhelm
Stengers, Jean
Stern, Howard
Stewart, Mary
Stribling, Alicia
submissive personalities
Sugden, John
suits, robotic
Suler, John
Sullivan, David
surprise
surrogates artificial devices as
pets as
sex
Tamagotchis as
Sybian sex machine
synthetic skin
tactile technologies
Tamagotchi virtual pet
Tannahill, Reay
taste technologies
Taylor, Gordon
Taylor, Jacqueline Sánchez
Taylor, Larry
tea-carrying doll
teacher robots
team relationships
technologies. See also robotics artificial-emotion
computer(see also computers) evolving
love of
sex (see technologies, sex)
technologies, sex
android love slaves
artifical vaginas and fornicatory dolls
erotic computation research
feel and touch
future of robots and(see also sex robots)
sex dolls for the twenty-first century
sex machines
smell and taste
vibrations for men
vibrators for women
virtual reality and teledildonics
technophilia
teledildonics
ten Bensel, Robin
Tennov, Dorothy
Tetsuwan Atomu cartoon character
text-to-speech synthesis
theory of the mind
therapy computers and
