My new book, Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies, is coming out from MIT Press this June! It’s about the history of contemporary sex tech: interrogating that history, finding new histories, and imagining new futures for sexual technologies. It tells the history of sex tech through the history of the sex doll, debunking myths about its origins – like the tale that the first sex dolls were invented by sailors on long sea voyages – and uncovering the true stories of the earliest dolls. Before there were sex robots or internet-enabled vibrators, there were sex dolls at sea…
The good news is the book is available for pre-order through both Amazon and the MIT Press website. Here’s where to go to pre-order the book from Amazon. And here’s where to go to pre-order it from MIT Press. If you’re a journalist, podcaster, reviewer, etc., I’d love to talk to you about the project! You can reach me via email (bruberg @ uci . edu) or find me on Twitter. My personal account is @myownvelouria and the account for the book is @SexDollsatSea.
