Desire in Code: Legal Perspectives on Sex Robots and Consent
At the intersection of law, technology, and gender is the book, The Regulation of Sex Robots: Gender and Sexuality in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Routledge, 2025), which extends that agenda with a framework for governing human-like, AI-enabled sexual technologies, moving beyond binary debates and pushing for context-aware regulation, rather than knee-jerk bans.
Nathan Lents on the Evolutionary Lessons of Sex and Gender Diversity
Nathan Lents, a professor of biology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, has devoted nearly 15 years to teaching a course on the biology of sex and gender. Those classroom discussions accumulated into his new book, The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships. In it, he argues that diversity is not an exception in the animal kingdom but a rule, and that accepting this truth reshapes both biology and culture.
Exploring the Shadows: Brittany Newell’s Dual Life as Dominatrix and Novelist
Her work challenges assumptions about power—and leaves readers with a deeper understanding of what people truly crave: not just pleasure or control, but the simple, aching need to be seen.