Best Of: Ask An Intimacy Coordinator
1A
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4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Our "Ask A" series returns, this time to talk to intimacy coordinators about their work.
Parts of Hollywood production teams have practiced parts of the role for years. But the job itself is still in its youth.
We discuss what it takes to do this work and the impact it's had on workspaces so far.
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| 0:00.0 | On Bowl's eye, Peter Dinklage, Bird Whisper. |
| 0:03.6 | I started talking to the crows and befriending crows. |
| 0:07.5 | I fed them every morning, they're at my door. |
| 0:09.8 | I'll talk with the Game of Thrones star about his new movie with Shirley McClain and because this is NPR, |
| 0:16.4 | Birds. That's on Bullsey for Maximum Fun.org and NPR. |
| 0:21.2 | Hey it's Jen. Just a heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:24.4 | This conversation may not be suited for young listeners. |
| 0:27.2 | We'll be talking about sex and consent today. |
| 0:29.7 | That also includes topics such as sexual assault depicted on screen. |
| 0:33.4 | If you need help with something that's happened to you, |
| 0:35.9 | you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline. |
| 0:38.8 | You'll be connected to a trained staff member |
| 0:40.7 | and a sexual assault service provider in your area. |
| 0:43.6 | Call 800 656 Hope. |
| 0:46.6 | That's 800 656 4473. |
| 0:50.9 | We also understand if you'd like to skip this conversation. You can find the rest of our |
| 0:54.6 | Ask A Series at the 1A.org. As always, thanks for listening and enjoy the show. When you look up the word intimate in the dictionary a few definitions come up |
| 1:11.6 | words in those definitions include warmth, private, sex, personal, |
| 1:16.7 | familiarity. Intimacy can start with the brushing of fingertips, delicately grazing your hand on someone's cheek and end with far more. |
| 1:25.0 | Some of you had your own experiences with this work. |
| 1:28.0 | Hi, I'm calling because I used to be an actress and I've done some sex scenes on TV and in one in particular I went into the |
| 1:36.7 | audition not knowing it was a sex scene and had to show up in a bikini and the producer hit on me and was very creepy and when I asked |
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