Episode 148 - Karley Sciortino

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Karley Sciortino is on this week! She reflects on her childhood, growing up Catholic in the age of Britney Spears, and sexual awakenings, her parents' steadfast relationship, her first sexual experience, journeying across the pond for college, dropping out and not coming back, living in an "egalitarian-esque" artist commune for 6 years, first reactions to her sex-heavy blog, what "slut" really means to her, how writing helped uncover her sexual identity, falling in love, hard and fast, Eyes Wide Shut-style swingers' parties, her 30th birthday foursome, talking about sex: men vs. women, thoughts and insights during a #MeToo era, pushing her boundaries, and the time she might’ve gone too far.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	I just was a vacuum you know I wasn't thinking about what I was doing it wasn't I
0:20.1	didn't think I was doing like quote research you know I was also really late to the game I didn't understand
0:24.4	I didn't know what feminism was when I started writing my blog like I remember a few years into writing my blog
0:32.3	someone wrote about it like in a small
0:34.8	press and they referred to it as feminist and I Googled it like that's how I was yeah I would had no idea
0:40.9	until I was like you know know, whatever, 24 or something.
0:44.3	So all those early experiences were not, I don't know,
0:48.0	I wasn't approaching them with the critical awareness.
0:49.9	I was like super sexually curious.
0:51.6	I was really sexually rebellious given my upbringing.
0:54.8	So I think in a way it's just being, I liked being provocative.
0:58.0	That was Carly Shortino.
1:02.0	I'm San Francisco so and this is Talk Easy.
1:05.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hello everyone. Welcome to the podcast. This is Talk Easy. I'm
1:37.1	Sam Vricoso and today on the show is the one and only Carly Shortino.
1:42.1	She is a sex columnist at is the one and only Carly Shortino.
1:42.8	She is a sex columnist at Vogue,
1:46.0	and a general sex educator on all kinds of platforms,
1:51.0	including her Vice Show, which is called Sladever.
1:54.4	Her website which is Sladever.com and two years ago back in 2017 she wrote a wonderful book called Slade Ever,
2:04.0	Dispatches from an Autonomous Woman in a Post Shame world.
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