Death, Sex & Money - Secrets, Turn-Ons, and Fantasies: Your Stories About Porn
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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We revisit our most popular episode, featuring your stories about secret hard drives, fantasy plot lines, illegal downloads, titillating Tumblr feeds, and giving porn up completely.
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| 0:00.0 | Currently, my wife is out of town. |
| 0:03.0 | We've been married seven years. |
| 0:06.0 | For the past 20, I have been addicted to pornography. |
| 0:10.0 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:17.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:27.1 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:37.1 | Hi. I'd ask that you not use my name or my location. |
| 0:42.5 | I would like to remain anonymous. |
| 0:44.5 | We got this voice memo in the spring of 2016, from a listener I'll call James. |
| 0:50.0 | He'd stopped looking at porn months earlier at his wife's urging. |
| 0:58.6 | Now she was away, and those old cravings were coming back. |
| 1:05.0 | It is hard as fucking nails for me to want to not do anything about it. |
| 1:08.7 | She's going to be gone for another 11 days. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm afraid that I am not strong enough to make it on my own. |
| 1:18.3 | I hope I am. |
| 1:19.9 | We'll find out. |
| 1:28.2 | Hearing this message made us wonder how more of you feel about porn. |
| 1:31.6 | So we asked you, and a lot of you responded. |
| 1:32.8 | Porn? |
| 1:35.9 | My husband and I both watch porn. |
| 1:37.6 | We almost didn't get married because of it. I was living this double life of being a goody-goody church kid and getting just depraved as hell on my computer every night. |
| 1:46.4 | If I'm not having sex, I'm definitely watching all sorts of porn. |
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