Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

Welcome to hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

So this week, Jenny and I wanted to talk about dating, which is kind of a euphemism for what we actually want to talk about, which is sex and double standards.

And what our grandmas told us not to do in

order to get married. It's never like a chill conversation. It becomes like a conversation about

like cultural nuance and and like it can never be a chill. I can never be, it can never be chill.

Like for me, I saw dating from two perspectives growing up because I did high school in

Venezuela and I did middle school in the States, right?

And then I did college in.

Yeah, it's a mind fuck.

That's a lot.

Because in, in middle school, I was like this, like, I'm a late bloomer, you know,

I like never, I hadn't touched a boy's hand. And then all I kept hearing was like, oh my God,

did you freaking hear Alexis, Gabe Justin, a BJ in the school bus. And I'm like, I don't even

know what B or J stand for. I am still watching.

I thought it was B.J. from like Barney and Friends. I'm like, BJ? She gave him a B.J stuffed plushy from the show.

That's so sweet. That's so romantic. But like it was so crazy here how romance was gone. Like, there was no romance. It was all

hooking up even at, like, the age of 13. I see. I see. There was, but have you seen the show

Penn 15? I've never related harder to a show because I was, the show takes place the same

exact year that I was in seventh grade

and they're in seventh grade and all of their experiences. And I think it took me a lot to

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