“Love hurts”—as the saying goes—and a certain amount of pain and difficulty in intimate
relationships is unavoidable. Sometimes it may even be beneficial, since adversity can lead …

Building upon animal-model, human preclinical, and clinical findings, we outline a proposal
for the use of oxytocin in the therapeutic neuroenhancement of contemporary romantic …

Recent research suggests that romantic love may sometimes be literally addictive. Although
the exact nature of the relationship between love and addiction has been described in …

In human romantic relationships, sex and love often go together. But what if one party is not
a human, but a sex doll or a sex robot? In the 2002 BBC documentary Guys and Dolls, one …

The moral enhancement (or bioenhancement) debate seems stuck in a dilemma. On the one
hand, the more radical proposals, while certainly novel and interesting, seem unlikely to be …

The enhancement debate in neuroscience and biomedical ethics tends to focus on the
augmentation of certain capacities or functions: memory, learning, attention, and the like …

Pharmaceuticals or other emerging technologies could be used to enhance (or diminish)
feelings of lust, attraction, and attachment in adult romantic partnerships. Although such …

The growth of self-tracking and personal surveillance has given rise to the Quantified Self
movement. Members of this movement seek to enhance their personal well-being …

This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions
of the resulting posthuman future are informed by mythological, historical and literary …

Hyperagency objections appeal to the risk that cognitive enhancement may negatively
impact our well-being by giving us too much control. I charitably formulate and engage with …