Episode 101: Midori

Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell

Thaddeus Russell

Education

4.2 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 124 minutes

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In the heart of America’s historical capital of sex rebels, I spoke with sex educator and performance artist Midori about the very different sexual norms of the United States and Japan, San Francisco’s queer and kinky history, and what it’s like to be a social outsider who possesses the most intimate knowledge of a society. … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	Since we launched the brand new Renegade University a few weeks ago, the world has changed.
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0:34.1	To experience RU.2.0, go to Renegade University. To experience RU 2.0, go to Renegade University.com.
0:42.9	This is the unregistered podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell. This is a show about ideas,
0:49.3	people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:55.4	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor,
1:00.6	a businessman, a politician, a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host.
1:06.6	These are the things you're not supposed to say or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen.
1:14.6	Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.
1:19.6	They might be a journalist or a professor. They might be a porn star or a drug dealer.
1:24.6	They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job who doesn't
1:29.4	care about the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a
1:34.7	troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought and to expand
1:40.5	the scope of what is possible to say in our society. I'm interested in people who make me think.
1:49.1	My guest this week has spent her life crossing or blurring lines.
1:54.5	The lines known as borders around nation states.
1:57.6	The lines that are drawn around people of purported ethnicities or races, the lines
2:03.3	between genders, and most famously, the lines drawn around what is considered to be appropriate
2:10.2	sex. This is my interview with me, Dory.
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