Six in a Bed The Future of Love - from Sex Dolls and Avatars to Polyamory

'A charming, insightful, and fearless guide to the new frontiers of sexuality.'
Steven Pinker, Harvard University and author of How the Mind Works
 
'Roanne van Voorst is one of the Dutch writers I admire most. She's radical and nuanced, idealistic and open-minded. Whatever she writes about, each time she broadens your horizons and opens your world.'
Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind: A Hopeful History
 
'As an anthropologist, Roanne van Voorst has the ideal method for gaining insight into something as corporeal as the future of intimacy: she immerses herself in the worlds she wants to understand ... Searching for practices that liberate love requires an open mind, which is precisely what she possesses. Empty moralising has no chance with her.'
Marjan Slob, De Volkskrant
 
'Van Voorst ultimately sounds a cautious note that none of these great technological or chemical inventions can really replace the surprising (and we might even say, endearingly annoying) aspects of human interaction...Without human interaction, or its replacement by images, disembodied voices and screens, we will not develop; we will get no feedback on our behaviour. If we outsource our decisions to machines, particularly about love, we will be reneging on a central feature of our humanity itself.'
The Critic