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AI companions can keep the spark alive indefinitely. Before we celebrate that, we need to talk about what that means.

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Say the words 'AI' and 'relationship' together and something feels off. Until recently, the idea of humans being in a relationship with a machine would seem pure sci-fi or even dystopian. But just as ...

Among the vast galaxy of science-fiction stories, few feel as eerily prophetic as Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her. In it, a lonely letter-writer named Theodore falls in love with an operating system named ...

The landscape of modern romance is shifting beneath our feet in ways that few could’ve predicted just a decade ago. While dating apps once promised to help us find "the one" among billions of humans, ...

Justin Garcia is a sex researcher visited a brothel in Nevada as part of his work. Browsing the menu of available sex acts, the most expensive one caught his eye. It was called the White Whale, or the ...