Robot sex, gay nanobots, and synthetic lust: gender and sexuality in a transhumanist future

I am a transhumanist: I believe that eventually our technology will advance to the point where we are able to replace the biological parts of our brains and bodies with mechanical or artificial replicas, or will be able to “upload” our minds into machine bodies. I’ve written about this topic a few times before, most recently in my article Transhumanism and the search for digital immortality.

But if humanity transitions to synthetic, non-biological bodies… what will that mean for sex and gender? What will it mean for sexual orientation? Do terms like “homosexual” and “heterosexual” even have meaning when our bodies are made of nanobots or plastic and wires? Will sexual orientation and gender become nothing more than choices–fashion statements that can be flipped on and off at will? Will gender identities just “melt away”, allowing people to be seen more uniquely as themselves? Or will it simply give rise to a whole new host of prejudices, power-struggles, and problems?

Check out my fascinating video interview with B.J. Murphy, writer for SeriousWonder.com and IEET.org, where we hash out some ideas of what the future might look like.

The main point of this interview was to talk about sexual reproduction, sexual orientation, and gender identity. But, part-way through the discussion we got side-lined by a related but separate conversation on emotions: will a robot body be able to experience lust, passion, and desire? And how can we be sure that we preserve those feelings in non-biological bodies?

Rather than just losing that conversation completely, I snipped that segment out and put it into a second “extras” video. So if you want to hear a transhumanist conversation about everything from robot arousal to cybernetic sex toys, you can see that here:

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