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Death, Sex & Money - The Movies That Taught Us What Sex Could Be

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.2 β€’ 2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Your stories about the beloved – and complicated – movies you saw that taught you about sex.

Did you know we have a weekly email newsletter for the Death, Sex & Money community? Every Wednesday we send out a note from Anna, fascinating listener letters from our inbox, and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and follow the show on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. Just a heads up that this week's episode features candid and sometimes graphic details about sex and pleasure. So you may want to be more careful about when and where you listen to it.

0:12.6

My friend was like, you have to see this movie. My babysitter told me to close my eyes during that first big sex scene.

0:19.6

I just thought they had some awesome sex scenes in that movie.

0:22.5

But I was peeking through the cracks in my fingers over my eyes.

0:26.6

That scene really made me say, hey, this could be life.

0:31.9

This could be real.

0:36.1

This is death, sex, and money.

0:40.7

The show from W.N.Y.C. about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

0:49.5

And I'm not Anna Seale. I'm Lillianna Maria Percy Ruiz.

0:58.1

Or Lily Percy, as I also go by here in the States. I'm the executive producer of this show, and this episode is a personal one for me.

1:04.2

It's about movies. Movies have shaped and defined me more than anything else in my life.

1:12.4

Growing up in a Colombian immigrant family, one that was culturally Catholic, but conservative and evangelical in practice,

1:17.2

I turned to movies to learn about the outside world and myself. For example, Barbara

1:23.7

Streisand in Yentel taught me that my options in life were not limited by my gender.

1:29.0

Jody Foster in contact taught me that faith, mystery, and science could actually coexist.

1:35.3

Sleepison Seattle showed me that magic was possible, in and outside of a romantic relationship.

1:41.8

And Bull Durham, well, Bull Durham is where I first learned that sex could be

1:46.5

something that a woman not only wanted, but initiated. These are the ground rules. I hook up with one

1:53.3

guy's season. Usually takes me a couple weeks to pick the guy. It's kind of my own spring training.

1:59.0

And well, you two are the most promising prospects of the season so far.

2:04.0

Until I saw Bull Durham as a teenager, I didn't know that any of that was possible.

2:09.1

I had been told by my mother that sex was something women didn't enjoy, but instead did out of obligation, for their husbands.

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