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🗓️ 5 January 2015
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Jesse has published books about sexuality and the biological underpinnings of religious belief. He's a research psychologist with broad experience, a wide open mind, and finely honed wit. We talk God, chimps, and why the penis is shaped that way.
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0:00.0 | Oh, daddy. |
0:30.0 | And keep your freak to yourself. |
0:36.0 | I'd be 2015 everybody. This is tangentially speaking. Chris Ryan your host that little mashup |
1:04.0 | consists of little chunk of prints, a little Marvin Gaye and then Ben Harper covering sexual healing. |
1:12.0 | A morey sex so by Rita Lee. If you listen to that song, find a translation if you don't speak Portuguese. |
1:20.0 | It will give you some great insight into the difference between your culture and Brazilian culture when it comes to questions of sex. |
1:32.0 | It's a very frank discussion of the difference between sex and love. |
1:38.0 | And it's a beautiful song. Very, very interesting a song. I doubt you would ever hear on an American radio station. |
1:46.0 | Then you've got George Michael of course wanting to come together. Macy Gray telling you about your mother telling you to keep your freak to yourself. |
1:56.0 | And then it ends with soon I will be home by Minu Chonello which has nothing to do with sex. I just find that to be really sexy song. So thought I'd end with that little groove. |
2:07.0 | This week's episode is about sex if you haven't figured that out yet. I guess this Jesse Behring who is a very interesting guy. I've known him for a few years. |
2:17.0 | He's a research psychologist who specializes in human sexuality. He's been all over the place. He was teaching at a university in Ireland when I met him. He's American. |
2:30.0 | And now he was in Ithaca for a few years. And now he has just moved to New Zealand. |
2:37.0 | So we did a Skype interview and unfortunately there was some sort of a thunderstorm happening down there and it kept cutting us off. |
2:45.0 | So I've tried to edit it together so that it won't be irritating to listen to it. It was kind of irritating to be involved in. |
2:54.0 | Unfortunately we had to keep reconnecting and picking up where we left off. So if you hear any sort of lack of flow in the conversation. |
3:03.0 | That's what it is. Hopefully that won't come through in the version you're listening to now. But anyway, Jesse Behring, he wrote his last book is called Purve. |
3:12.0 | It's a study of perversions. So we cover quite a bit of kinky ground in this episode. |
3:21.0 | He also wrote a book called Why is the penis shaped like that and other reflections on being human, which is a collection of essays that he wrote for a scientific American, I believe. |
3:32.0 | And he has another book called the belief instinct also known as the God instinct. I think it's the belief instinct in America and the God instinct in the UK. |
3:42.0 | I don't know, but it's the same book similar title. Very interesting stuff. So anyway, Jesse Behring is the guest this week. Fantastic guy. |
3:52.0 | And I think you'll enjoy it. |
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