Episode 3: Dr. Bo Ruberg's Sex Dolls at Sea

Sex Industry Book Club

In Episode 3, we talk to Professor Bo Ruberg about their book Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies. The book reimagines the origin story of the sex doll through the tale of the sailor's dames de voyage

We discuss sex dolls and sex tech, the erasure of sex work labor, notions of masculinity in sailing culture, digging into archival history, and so much more! 

Episode Sponsors:

Assembly Four, creators of Tryst, the home of the independent escort.

Episode Hosts: 

Jessie Sage & Dr. PJ Patella-Rey.

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