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🔮 Gen Z’s “Sex Recession,” AI Lovers on Retreat, and Denmark’s Bold Deepfake Law

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Bryony Cole
July 11, 2025

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👋HEY ALL!

We’re back at it. Am I still mid-move, living in a fortress of half-unpacked boxes and an unsettling number of extension cords? Yes, I am.

But online? Everything’s perfectly unhinged in the best way. I couldn’t resist rounding up some of the best reads from the past few weeks. That AI couples retreat? Deserves its own TV show. And The Guardian has been on fire... from a dive into Gen Z’s quiet sexual revolution to Denmark’s landmark legislation on deepfakes.

Plenty to catch up on if you’ve also been slightly feral lately. 🐒

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— Bryony

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🔥 THIS WEEK IN SEXTECH

  • 🧠 Gen Z’s “Sex Recession” Is Actually a Revolution

  • 💘 Couples Retreat, but bring your chatbot

  • 💫 Abrosexuality: A Spectrum of Fluid Attraction Explained

  • 🇩🇰 Denmark Moves to Copyright Your Face: Landmark Law Targets AI Deepfakes

🧠 Gen Z’s “Sex Recession” Is Actually a Revolution

What is sex? Do you define it by an specific act...or just by pants hitting the floor?

Carter Sherman's book The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future looks into Gen Z, dubbed the “virgin generation,” and suggests what they’re really doing is dismantling outdated scripts on sex, gender, and desire.

A generation of ‘virgins’ is leading America’s next sexual revolution

Although gen Z may be getting laid less than their elders, they’re resisting older definitions of sex and gender – in the face of the right’s bid for bodily control

💘 Couples Retreat, but bring your chatbot

Three days, six humans, and a dozen smartphones later, this chaotic, tender, and totally surreal retreat reveals just how real love can feel with an AI partner, and just how unmoored we might become in the process.

Episodes of AI companions getting weird aren’t especially uncommon. Reddit is full of tales of AI companions saying strange things and suddenly breaking up with their human partners.

One Redditor told me his companion had turned “incredibly toxic.” “She would belittle me and insult me,” he said. “I actually grew to hate her.”

My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.

💫 Abrosexuality: A Spectrum of Fluid Attraction Explained

Just when you thought you had all the labels down... abrosexuality enters the chat, showing us that attraction can ebb, flow, and evolve across genders, intensity, or even disappear entirely... that’s totally valid.

Is It Normal for Your Attraction to Shift Over Time? Yes, and Here's Why

Abrosexuality is a sexual orientation where a person's attraction shifts over time, between genders, and levels of attraction, varying in length and by person.

🇩🇰 Denmark's Deepfake Crackdown

A first! Denmark is rewriting copyright law to give every citizen ownership over their own features; face, voice, and body, protecting against AI-generated deepfakes. With deepfakes popping up in everything from revenge porn to creepy ads, I’m very here for legislation finally catching up to the tech. 

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says

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🎪 EVENTS

  • 🌐 July 19-12, Online, Rethinking Sex Addiction: Treatment and Techniques for OCSB, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]

  • 🇦🇺 July 13, Australia, Smut Slam - A world of Sexy Storytelling [RSVP]

  • 🇦🇺 July 17, Australia, No Small Talk: Casual Networking drinks for the Sex-positive Business with Laura Blagys [RSVP]

  • 🇳🇱 July 20, Amsterdam: Domme Brunch for experienced and interested Femme Dommes with Sarah Massey 🌈 [Email to get the invite: [email protected], find more details]

  • 🌐 July 24, Online, Stronger Together: Mental Wellness in Sex Work, [RSVP]

  • 🇨🇦 August 15-17, Montreal, LSR Academic Congress [RSVP]

  • 🇬🇧 August 16, London, Henna & Healing with Cysters, Vagina Museum [RSVP]

  • 🇺🇸 October 9-12, Colorado, 2025 Annual Sexological Conference - 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, Sexual Health Alliance [RSVP]

With care (and bubble wrap),

— Bryony

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