ICYMI - AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
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4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode host Kate Lindsay is joined by porn historian Noelle Perdue, author of the Porn World newsletter. OpenAI announced that they’d allow adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT, just one more way AI and porn are becoming intertwined. As sex becomes more online, not only does it become more solitary, but also more surveilled. Both of these things are intended to divide us, but Noelle is confident that AI’s attempted sex-takeover will fail.
This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 0:51.2 | And we are here, finally, with porn historian Noel Purdue. I say finally because |
| 0:56.3 | we've been wanting to get together on the pod for a while, but also because there was a slight |
| 1:00.5 | location mishap involving Google Maps and its refusal to ever find Slate's office location |
| 1:06.6 | anywhere, anytime. But you made it. You're here. Noel, welcome to the podcast. I'm glad you made it. Safe and sound. Thank you so much. Trials and trib anytime, but you made it. You're here. Noelle, welcome to the podcast. I'm glad you made it. |
| 1:12.0 | Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Trials and Tribulations, but, you know, here is journey. |
| 1:20.2 | Yes, exactly. And so we're a porn historian. People might be, ears are probably peaked at that. And we are going to get into why we have Noel porn historian here. But we're first going to ask her the question we ask all first time guests on the ICYMI by podcast, which is what is your first internet memory? |
| 1:42.1 | I think that my first internet memory was chat roulette. |
| 1:46.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:47.0 | Specifically, not Omegel, but chat roulette. |
| 1:50.0 | Right, the difference was chat roulette would randomly match you with another person, but it was just video. |
| 1:58.0 | And I know in, so Omagal would randomly match you with another person with text and then it introduced video. And I know in... So O'Magle would randomly match you with another person with his text |
| 2:02.8 | and then it introduced video. But I know my real chat roulette experience was like, one in three, |
| 2:09.1 | one in five, you'd get someone... Jerking it. |
| 2:11.9 | With their penis out. Yeah. Yeah. With their penis out. Yeah, and I remember specifically getting in huge trouble with my cousin, |
| 2:23.1 | where we were kind of like talking to somebody that I, as per my memory, we met on chat roulette, |
| 2:30.2 | and we had like moved it to aim or something like that. |
| 2:34.1 | And they had like more of to aim or something like that. |
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