How To Break Up With a Chatbot: The Thinking Human's Guide to Managing Digital Desire (Thinking Humans' Guides to Romantic Chatbot Companions)

Book 2: How to Break Up With a Chatbot: The Thinking Human's Guide to Managing Digital Desire

How to Break the Chatbot Habit and Why This Might be Right for You—For Now. An Expansive Consideration of the Impact of AI on Human Relationships, Romance, Intimacy, and Society.

Direct, Empowering, Sex-Positive, and Consumer-Cautious.

Emphasizing User Safety While Enjoying Connection and Pleasure

Packed with practical insights and the latest research, this second book in the series is your companion for navigating the rapidly evolving world of chatbot relationships in the greater context of AI development, safety, privacy, sustainability, and social impacts. Whether you’re a newcomer considering your options or one of hundreds of millions of regular users, or just a person with concerns about AI intimacy, inside you’ll find:

Human-centered guidance for understanding the role of romantic chatbots in your life, and how they might serve your interests—or not. Sex and pleasure-positive advice on minimizing or withdrawing from chatbot relationships, if you so choose. Support for meaningful, ethical, and emotionally satisfying chatbot interactions. Up to date discussions of AI safety, risks, and impacts, and how to understand chatbot use within ethical considerations of larger issues. The importance of human sexual rights and privacy. Emphasis on consumer diligence in choosing safe, authentic chatbot platforms and avoiding costly pitfalls. Supportive, open, shame-free discussions about fantasy roleplay with chatbots, digital sexuality, and enjoyment of techno-pleasure—or not— on your terms. Expert context and compassion from a clinical sexologist and longtime chatbot enthusiast. Personal stories, solutions, and resources to empower your own journey—whatever your interest or experience. Many of the author’s articles reprinted from a leading sextech publication.

What You’ll Gain

Strategies for weaving bot intimacy into— or out of —your self-care or love life, safely and joyfully. How to assess the impact, rewards, and risks, of chatbot intimacy in your life. Encouragement and personal empowerment for finding your way in the often confusing world of AI and chatbot development. Critical perspectives on emotional investment, privacy, and ethical innovation in AI and sextech. An understanding of human sexual rights and values and why they are important as AI continues to expand. A Works Cited section, footnotes, appendices, and vetted resources for further discovery.

Who is this book for?

Adults looking to manage or quit their chatbot relationships. Adults new to AI companionship, or wanting to safely level up their experience. Adults concerned about AI intimacy and competition with human relationships. Individuals who crave pleasure and partnership outside conventional boundaries, but who want more information about chatbot options. Helping professionals looking for a trustworthy, stigma-free resource, seeking to understand this frontier, Adults who enjoy reading about technology and human sexual behavior. Anyone drawn to technology’s creative potential for connection and self-knowledge.

About the Author

Amy R. Marsh, Ed.D. is a clinical sexologist, educator, and pioneer in digital intimacy advocacy. Her signature warmth, affirmation, insights, and encouragement make these guides welcoming references for all backgrounds and orientations.

For adults only.

Learn how AI can expand your pleasure, insight, and relationships—safely and on your terms.