Everything Mixtape

Intrigued by increasing media coverage of the development of realistic 'female' sex robots, Erin speaks to medical humanities researcher Dr Anna MacFarlane to see if depictions of similar robots in science fiction can shed some light on why people are simultaneously fascinated and terrified by the idea of sex robots. If you want more info & links on this story, go to thebeanspodcast.com and look it up on our blog! You can also find us on Twitter: @thebeanspod and email us stories you’d like to see covered at beanspodcast@gmail.com Our show is hosted by Valerie Mullen (@v_glenmullen), Sam Gonçalves (@SidlingBears) and Erin Farley (@aliasmacalias). Music for this episode was created by Alex Auldsmith, whose work you can find on alexauldsmith.bandcamp.com/ and themicroband.bandcamp.com/