Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships

Missed out on our Philosophy Valentines event? Or just want to relive the talks? Now you can!

Georgie, Colette, Gerald and Isobel’s talks are now available on Spotify (and Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Amazon Music…) - search Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships💕

This is an easy way to follow more people working on the philosophy of intimacy and relationships. Help @lukebrunning.bsky.social build up the list.

Check out @alex-fisher.bsky.social speaking for @triphilosophy.bsky.social on AI and representational harms!

Liven up your lunch hour with TRIP Lunchtime Talks - coming soon! 🥪 🍎

🗓️ Starting on 17th March, we'll be hosting a new series of online lunchtime #philosophy talks.

The first talk will be by @alex-fisher.bsky.social on the dangers of AI and social media.

Watch this space for more info!

Looking forward to presenting some of my work on gaslighting tomorrow - thanks to @clsrleeds.bsky.social for these graphics!

Happy LGBTQ+ History Month!

To celebrate, we’ve been asking CLSR members how their experiences shape their work, and what it’s like being LGBTQ+ in philosophy 👇

Special shoutout this month and all months to the amazing work going on over at @being.transinphilosophy.org - check them out!

Happy publication day! 🚪📚

To celebrate the release of The Ethics of Consent, here’s another clip from our interview with Danielle where she discusses her favourite chapter!

Check out the book➡️ doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Tonight!

This is tonight! Featuring @kristin-kaeuper.bsky.social

Listen to Dr Rosa Vince talking about ‘authentic’ porn

This Thursday!

This Friday!

We sat down with CLSR and @idea-leeds.bsky.social academic Dr Danielle Bromwich to chat about her upcoming book with Dr Joseph Millum, The Ethics of Consent - out 23rd Feb!!🚪📚

Give it a listen on for a snappy overview, an insight into co-authoring with friends, and Danielle’s hopes for the readers💕

How much do you know about aromanticism?

When that happens, the richness of friendship, community, and more fluid forms of connection can fade into the background.

So here’s to honouring the many ways closeness shows up in our lives <3

Valentine’s Day is also a chance to pause and think about the norms and ideals that shape how we understand intimacy.

As philosopher Elizabeth Blake reminds us with the concept of ‘amatonormativity’, we often unreflectively centre romantic relationships.

Happy Valentines, Galentines, Palentines, and All The Other Love-entines Day!

Whether your day is spent with partners, friends, family, in your own company, or with the people who offer those small, sustaining moments of care, we hope it’s a good one♥️

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‘His favourite book was by Jordan Peterson, which was a massive ick’: how books perform on dating apps Mentions of reading in Tinder bios are up 29% in the last year. But is searching for a fellow fan of one’s favourite author really a shortcut to compatibility?

How do books go down on dating apps and why does it matter? I contributed to this: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

And they say universities don't know how to do marketing 🫡👏

One week until our Philosophy Valentines event 💕

Our AI ethicist Andy Kirton on what we lose in using AI to write for us. 👇🏻

Books galore out of @idea-leeds.bsky.social at the moment, including new work on consent! 👇🏻

We’re so excited to be putting on another public Valentines event this year with Leeds PhilSoc!💕💕

Promises to be a great evening - get your tickets before they’re gone!

universe.com/events/love-pain-filrting-breakups-an-apres-valentines-event-tickets-832QDX

Pilar Lopez-Cantero, The ethics of break-up chatbots - PhilPapers This paper offers the first normative analysis of break-up chatbots, which simulate an ex-partner's conversational style. I argue that technologies that have the (potential) aim of fostering continuin...

Started up the reading group again this week!📚📚

Had a great time reading @lopezcantero.bsky.social ‘s paper ‘The Ethics of Breakup Chatbots’ (forthcoming in Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences)

philpapers.org/rec/LOPTEO-6

Philosophy & Film Exploring the philosophical questions raised by some of cinema's most fascinating films.

Philosophy and film Valentine’s special: Dr Ruby Hornsby will be talking about the film ‘Her’ at the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds: hpph.co.uk/strands/phil...

How AI-generated sexual images cause real harm, even though we know they are ‘fake’ Publicly bombarding women with these images exerts control over how they present themselves online.

“How can images that everyone knows aren’t real cause harm?" Our visiting fellow @alex-fisher.bsky.social explores the wrong of nudification and virtual harms in this article for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-ai-gener...

“Why think that spending time with artworks would make us better lovers?" Dr Colette Olive has written a blogpost for the American Philosophical Association on the Murdoch’s views about the parallels between appreciating art and the people we love: blog.apaonline.org/2026/01/09/l...

The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, Engagingly written, and rich with real-world examples, The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships is a crucial resource for students, researchers, a...

It’s the North American publication day of my textbook written with @nmckeever3.bsky.social 🥂 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The holidays are a time for love, happiness, and our favourite cheesy #Christmasromcoms 🎄 But they often reinforce questionable ideas about #love and #relationships.
So should we stop watching them?
Find out here 👇

Time to look back over 2025, which has been a fantastic year for us.