矫饰的幻想:性爱机器人和/或性幻想
Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy
——原载《性学》2024年第27卷第3期——
<Sexualities> Volume 27, Issue 3, 2024
【摘要】本文对性爱机器人和/或性幻想进行了跨学科和交叉分析。我指出,性幻想是任何有关与机器人做爱和性爱的讨论中一个高度复杂且突出的分析载体。首先,我介绍了当代北美性爱机器人,并简要概述了它们与性玩具和色情作品的关系。接下来,我将对实验心理学、媒体和文化研究、后殖民主义、精神分析、女权主义、酷儿和批判种族理论等领域的性幻想研究进行简短但具有启发性的概述。我的目标是展示性幻想的多形态和生产性及其与现实的复杂关系。根据本文所讨论的性幻想理论,我研究了幻想在性爱机器人的诞生、营销和消费中的作用。从这里,我对激进女权主义者、新唯物主义者、残疾酷儿和跨性别女权主义者对性爱机器人及其用户的批评进行了评估。我认为,鉴于后数字时代对性幻想和性科技用户的污名化、监管和定罪,有必要通过性幻想的视角来理论化性爱机器人。鼓励未来的学术研究进一步研究性爱机器人/性幻想之间的关系,并思考它们的交集是否以及如何阻碍或促进替代性“感情网络”的发展,包括介于柏拉图式和浪漫之间或介于“碳性”和技术性/数字性之间的网络。
【关键词】性爱机器人、性幻想、性科技、交叉、数字性
[Abstract] This article provides an interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of sex robots and/as sexual fantasy. I demonstrate that sexual fantasy is a highly complex and salient vector of analysis for any discussion of love and sex with robots. First, I introduce contemporary North American sex robots and offer a brief sketch of their ontology as relates to sex toys and pornography. Next, I provide a short but instructive mapping of sexual fantasy scholarship from across the fields of experimental psychology, media and cultural studies, post-colonial, psychoanalytic, feminist, queer and critical race theory. My goal here is to demonstrate sexual fantasy’s polymorphous and productive nature and its complex relationship to reality. Drawing on the theories of sexual fantasy canvassed herein, I examine the role of fantasy to sex robots’ inception, marketing, and consumption. From here I offer an appraisal of radical feminist, new materialist, and disabled queer and trans feminists’ critiques of sex robots and their users. I argue that theorizing sex robots through the lens(es) of sexual fantasy is necessary given efforts to stigmatize, regulate, and criminalize sexual fantasy and sextech users in the post/digital age. Future scholarship is encouraged to further examine the sex robot/sexual fantasy nexus and to consider whether and how their intersections impede or facilitate the development of alternative “networks of affection” including those that lie between the platonic and romantic or between “carbonsexuality” and technosexuality/digisexuality.
[Key words] sex robot, sexual fantasy, sextech, intersectional, digisexuality
论文原文:Lara Karaian (2024). Plastic fantastic: Sex robots and/as sexual fantasy. Sexualities, Volume 27, Issue 3, Pages 633-652, 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607221106667
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