Eros electrónico

Sexualidades futuristas en la antología Poshumanas (2018)

Abstract

According to sexologists’ predictions (Hooton 2015), robotic sex could become normalized, or even become a preferred form of interhuman relations, around the year 2050. In view of these nascent sexualities, this contribution aims to approach the question of technosexuality through two short stories, recently collected by researcher Teresa Pellisa-López and writer Lola Robles in an anthology entitled Poshumanas (2018), which brings together science fiction narratives by Spanish-speaking feminist authors. This paper examines the absurdist short story «Electroamor» (1959) by feminist author María Laffitte and, the short novel «Casas Rojas» (2014) by science fiction author Nieves Delgado. The two selected stories blur the critical and speculative discourses on technosexuality, leaving open to debate the ethical dilemma of human-robotic sexuality or artificially induced desire. The two stories will be read in the context of current debates on love and sex with robots, as well as theoretical considerations on the concept of «becoming other» (Deleuze & Guattari 1980) from a perspective of feminist posthumanism.