About Dating and Intimacy
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The girls discuss how cancer has had an impact on dating and intimacy with their partners.
They speak to author Annie Belasco who wrote a book on her experiences of dating.
Then Gynae Cancer Nurse Specialist Tracie Miles from the Eve Appeal answers some of your questions about the impact of cancer on a sex life.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:10.7 | If I'm in the club and the mood takes me and there's a fitty and he's willing, |
| 0:15.2 | and I want to, I'm doing it. |
| 0:16.7 | I've both won then, yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | Dick picked before him. |
| 0:18.8 | Yes, exactly. Love it. You mean the big D. |
| 0:24.2 | That's the follow-up series. |
| 0:25.8 | That's the next series. That is below. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to You Me and the Big C with Lauren Mann, A.K.A. Girlvus' cancer. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello. Deborah James, better known to some of us as bowelbees. |
| 0:45.7 | Oh, you like it. |
| 0:46.7 | And me, Rachel Bland, from Big C Little Me, also heard on Five Live as well. |
| 0:51.8 | We are three friends. We are also bloggers. |
| 0:54.8 | We have one thing in common. We all have, we have had cancer. |
| 0:59.3 | And we're here on this podcast to tell you all about the highs as well as the lows. |
| 1:04.2 | You can get in touch with us. |
| 1:05.6 | Suggest future topics you might want to hear us talk about. |
| 1:08.3 | And do let us know your experiences as well. |
| 1:10.8 | Use the hashtag You Me Big C across all forms of social media. |
| 1:15.7 | Today, we're going to talk about dating and intimacy. |
| 1:19.5 | But before we get going with it, let's have a quick catch up, ladies, |
| 1:22.6 | because it's summertime. We've all been on holidays. |
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