"A truly fascinating and chilling book which demolishes the hype about shiny new technologies, and shows how love and sex are being warped and commodified in new inhuman ways." Kathleen Stock OBE, author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism "An excellent explainer as to why the critique of and campaign against the production and normalization of porn dolls and sex robots is essential as part of the fight against sexual violence. Richardson brings a laser-sharp focus to a topic few of us understand, and even fewer have engaged in. Thank goodness she has." Julie Bindel, feminist and writer, author of Feminism for Women"Readable yet harrowing"The Spectator"Kathleen Richardson presents a forceful and wide-ranging critique of the ideologies that underpin the industries of pornography, prostitution, child sexual abuse, and the production of sex robots and related representational technologies. [Her] reframing of sex robots as extensions of exploitative sexual economies offers an important and timely intervention into contemporary discussions of intimacy and technology across AI ethics and feminist theory."Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies