New Technology, Same Old Stigma: Media Narratives of Sex Robots and Sex Work.
This qualitative study examines how sex robots and sex work are constructed in relation to one another in mainstream news media. While existing research examines how sex robots are broadly represented in fictional narratives, to date no study examines the relatively prominent association between sex...
| Publicado en: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 539 - 570 |
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