The brave new world of cyber-brothels
It’s something out of an Aldous Huxley novel. Berlin, Germany, is home to the first “multidisciplinary” approach to brothels using artificial women, which combine virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies. It’s called a cyber-brothel. The concept of artificial women is hardly novel. But cyber-brothels are capitalizing on rapidly developing AI to make what […]
Cleaning Up the Transgender Mess
In the cultural whiplash of the first month of President Trump’s second term, two executive orders on gender ideology have brought government-sanctioned gender activism to a screeching halt. On his first day in office, the president affirmed the biological fact that male and female are “not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.” Eight days […]
The Politics of Shame
You’re not likely to find a winner in this story. In the politics of shame, everyone loses. By now, the debate surrounding Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, one of many controversies from the 2024 Olympics, is a familiar headline. The 25-year-old athlete won the gold medal in the women’s welterweight boxing competition at the Paris Games. […]