{"id":49122,"date":"2012-07-13T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=49122"},"modified":"2013-11-08T03:46:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:46:58","slug":"technosexuals-and-their-mechanical-brides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/07\/13\/technosexuals-and-their-mechanical-brides\/","title":{"rendered":"Technosexuals and their Mechanical Brides"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Wired<\/a> describes the new documentary, The Mechanical Bride<\/a><\/em>, as a “moving, weirdly human exploration of artificial companionship.” \u00a0Directed by\u00a0Allison de Fren<\/a>, explores the range of mechanical brides, from robots to Real Dolls<\/a> (NSFW), and the “technosexuals who love them.” I can’t wait to see it.<\/p>\n

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The Mechanical Bride<\/em> will be screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival<\/a> in Montreal (July 19-August 7).<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wired describes the new documentary, The Mechanical Bride, as a “moving, weirdly human exploration of artificial companionship.” \u00a0Directed by\u00a0Allison de Fren, explores the range of mechanical brides, from robots to Real Dolls (NSFW), and the “technosexuals who love them.” I can’t wait to see it. Trailer: Bonus clip: The Mechanical Bride will be screened at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[403,55,290,120],"class_list":["post-49122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deviance","tag-gender","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49122"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58295,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49122\/revisions\/58295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}