The Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships
A research group dedicated to deepening our understanding of the nature and significance of intimacy, how relationships may be supported by technology, social institutions, and the state.
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Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships
About us
The Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships (CLSR) is a research group within the School of Philosophy, Religion, and the History of Science at Leeds. We are interested in deepening our understanding of the nature and significance of intimacy, and the ways good relationships of different forms might be supported by technology, social institutions, and the state. The centre exists to foster research by and between Leeds academics, to organise events and workshops, to support graduate study and research, and to communicate to the public
Research interests and areas of potential PhD supervision
· Friendship, romantic relationships, and the differences between them. · Sexual attraction, sexual desire, sexual activity, sexual identity. · The nature of love, including romantic love: what is love, the epistemology of love, love and narrative. · Sexual ethics, including objectification, consent, agency, and good sex. · Relationship ethics, including boundaries, norms, romantic virtues, communication, and breakups. · The politics of intimacy: equality and domination.
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· Intimate emotions: jealousy, envy, resentment, compassion, grief. · Change in relationships: aging, conflicts, childbirth, divorce. · Experiments in living: polyamory, relationship anarchy, aromanticism, singledom, living apart together. · Marginalised intimacies: racial objectification, disability, transgender intimacy. · Intimacy and the state: marriage, contract, sex work, immigration, work and human resources. · The future of love: technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, and love drugs.
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