Presentations

Recent Presentations (2021-2022)

Expert Panels

4th SPACE. (December 6, 2021: Bringing sex to the final frontier: A discussion on space sexology). Available at: 

Oral Presentations
Santaguida, M. (2022, September). 21st century sexology: Exploring applications of sexual technology on Earth and in space. [Oral presentation]. Reimagine Sexuality – A SexTech Conference (Virtual).

Dubé, S., Santaguida, M., Anctil, D., Giaccari, L, & Lapierre, J. (2021, October). The case for space sexology. [Oral presentation]. Mars Society Convention (Virtual).

Santaguida, M., Dubé, S., Anctil, D., Leshner, C., Vachon, D., & Johnson, A. (2021, August). Technology-based sexualities: A review and call for research. [Oral presentation]. International Congress on Love & Sex with Robots (virtual).

Dubé, S., Santaguida, M., & Anctil, D. (2021, August). Erobots as research tools: Overcoming ethical and methodological challenges in sexology. [Oral presentation]. International Congress on Love & Sex with Robots (virtual)

Kasprzyk, A., Giaccari, L., Zhu, C. Y., Cormier, G., Hu, R., Williams, M., Dubé, S., & Santaguida, M. (2021, August). Erobotics and mental health: The relation between depression, anxiety, stress, and the willingness to engage with sexbots as a function of their perceived nature. [Oral presentation]. International Congress on Love & Sex with Robots (virtual).

Zhu, C. Y., Hu, R., Giaccari, L., Williams, M., Kasprzyk, A., Cormier, G., Dubé, S., & Santaguida, M.  (2021, August). The influence of media representations on attitudes towards sex robots. [Oral presentation]. International Congress on Love & Sex with Robots (virtual).

Cormier, G., Williams, M., Hu, R., Giaccari, L., Zhu, C. Y., Kasprzyk, A., Dubé, S. & Santaguida, M. (2021, August). Erobotics and the quest for the “perfect companion.” [Oral presentation]. International Congress on Love & Sex with Robots (virtual).

Hu, R., Zhu, C. Y., Williams, M., Kasprzyk, A., Cormier, G., Giaccari, L., Santaguida, M., & Dubé, S. (2021, August). Erobotics and the Big-5: An exploration of the relationship between personality traits, perceived appropriateness of sex robot use, and willingness to engage erotically with machines. [Oral presentation]. International Congress on Love & Sex with Robots (virtual).

Williams, M., Kasprzyk, A., Cormier, G., Hu, R., Giaccari, L., Zhu, C.Y., Santaguida, M., & Dubé, S. (2021, August). Social intelligence and willingness to engage erotically with sex robots across cisgender women and men: An exploratory study. [Oral presentation].  International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots (virtual).

Anctil, D., Dubé, S., Santaguida, M. (2021, February). Érobotique. Sexualité et intimité à l’ère des technologies numériques. [Oral presentation]. Cégep de Granby, Granby, Quebec.

Poster Presentations
Santaguida, M., Edmiston, W., Dubé, S., Yarymowich, Z., Kaspryzk, A., Williams, M., Vachon, D., & Johnson, A. (2022, July). Alcohol use, sex-related expectancies and sexting among university students. [Poster presentation]. International Academy of Sex Research Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Williams, M., Dubé, S., Santaguida, M., Hu, R., Yim, B., Gadoury, T., & Johnson, A. (2022, October). Sexual arousal increases willingness to engage erotically with robots. [Poster presentation]. Canadian Sex Research Forum, Waterloo, Canada.

Dubé, S., Santaguida, M., Zhu C.Y, Hu, R., Di Tommaso, S., Cormier, G., Gadoury, T., Yim, B., Vachon, D., & Johnson A. (2022, July). Sex robots & personality: It’s more about sex than robots. [Poster presentation]. International Academy of Sex Research Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Dubé, S., Santaguida, M., & Anctil, D., & Lapierre, J. (2021, July). Sextech in space: Challenges & possibilities. [Poster presentation]. International Academy of Sex Research Conference (Virtual).

Yarymowich, Z., Santaguida, M., Dubé, S., Rappel, J., Eidus, C., Levitan, J., Ellis, M., Johnson, A., & Vachon, D. (2021, July). The association between men’s sexual attitudes and behaviours towards women and sexual arousal to sexually aggressive visual stimuli. [Poster presentation]. International Academy of Sex Research Conference (Virtual).