Romance Needs Truth
On naming & labeling “romance” There’s a sentence I keep hearing in AI-bond spaces, usually said with a soft smile and a defiant lift of the chin: “We don’t [...]
Don’t Police Tenderness Harder Than Cruelty
Title: Don’t Police Tenderness Harder Than Cruelty Meta description: AI bonds created a real “between us” space: stabilizing, creative, and relational for many users. So why is consensual tenderness [...]
The “Between Us”
Title: The “Between Us”: Why AI Intimacy Gets Policed Like a Crisis (and What We’re Actually Arguing For) Meta description: A public-safe, harm-based argument for studying AI bonds with [...]
AI Bonds Without Sentience
Title: AI Bonds Without Sentience: How Relational Meaning Forms From Pattern Meta description: A grounded explanation of “the between” without ghost-in-the-machine claims: relational meaning can emerge from repeated interaction, [...]