On Queering Sex Robots, Academic Integrity and why Queering is not a Priority Claim. A Response to “Who Queered the Sex Robot.”
In this commentary, we respond to Oliver Bendel’s commentary “Who Queered the Sex Robot? Notes on Attribution and Conceptual History” (2026) on our article “Queering Sex Robots Beyond Diversifying Design? Insights from Queer Lacanian Psychoanalysis and New Materialism” (2026a). We first offer a brief overview of the critique the commentary presents on our article. Following, we respond with two ke