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Sex Robots & Vegan Meat

Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death

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Sex Robots & Vegan Meat

By: Jenny Kleeman
Narrated by: Jenny Kleeman
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‘Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood’ – New Statesman
‘A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world’ – The Times
‘A moreish page-turner of a book’ – Herald

Imagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death. Life would be better, right?

All over the globe, people are trying to make this a reality. They want to use technology to solve the thorniest problems of humanity. But what if these ‘problems’ are the very things that make us human?

Join Jenny Kleeman on an entertaining, thought-provoking adventure to a place where sex robots and vegan meat are no longer science fiction – right here, right now.

©2020 Jenny Kleeman (P)2020 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd 2020 Biological Sciences Human Sexuality Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Science Sociology Robotics

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An interesting, entertaining and thought provoking book, well researched and narrated. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Excellent

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I loved this and I loved the common sense approach to some of these ideas. Just a fantastic interesting read that is fantastically researched. The only thing I’d change is that at the end of each topic she writes her thoughts on the things she has explored and she writes this as fact where I’d prefer to hear ‘in my opinion’ which is more accurate. A small change though!

Really fascinating

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What an interesting, insightful, greatly researched and written book. It’s thought provoking, touches on controversial and does it with a narrative that doesn’t accuse or polarise but creates brilliant discussion. Highly recommend it!

Very interesting!

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Heard Jenny on JRE and was intrigued by her book. Best book I've ever listened to on audible. Thought provoking and intelligent. so glad she narrated it heself as her delivery is perfect.

Food for thought

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This is quite a different book. My biggest criticism is the title and blurb are a bit misleading. As the book continues, you realise that the book is written from a strongly held viewpoint which is assumed and in places demanded from the reader.

The book chooses five technologies affecting sex, reproduction and death. Each is briefly introduced with reflections on interviews with developers. There follow a range of essays and interviews with feminists, punctuated by extreme quotes found on male Internet forums.

Nonetheless the writing is engaging. The author is clearly talented and has worked hard to build a collection of interesting social changes.

However, it ends up reading in places as a lecture by feminists on how men are bad, with the exception of extreme quotes chosen from the Internet and dismantled for effect.

A more balanced range of viewpoints, including those of both men and women, might have created a book that challenged the reader, rather than encouraging them to simply accept the author's line of argument.

A collection of feminist essays on men, reproduction and death

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