Escaping Compulsory Heterosexuality and Dating with Chronic Fatigue with Megan Moore

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Hannah Witton

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Megan, who is Hannah's assistant working behind the scenes on her YouTube channels and the podcast. Megan discusses having ME/chronic fatigue syndrome, and also how she somehow escaped compulsory heterosexuality as a lesbian. Her and Hannah talk about biphobia in some lesbian communities, and dating with a chronic illness. Finally, Hannah and Megan discuss the intersection of Megan's ME and eating disorder, and if orgasms really do help with chronic pain.

CW: eating disorders

Megan Moore (she/her) has been Hannah's assistant for just over a year, working on everything from analytics to the newsletter to finding the right GIF for the situation. You can find her on Instagram (@moogflorin) where she talks more about living with ME, being super gay, and allll the queer book recommendations she can fit in a caption. She lives in London with her wife and the world's angriest cat, finds writing about herself in the third person very weird, and always wants to see pictures of your dog!
Megan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moogflorin/
Megan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/moogflorin
Megan's blog: https://moogflorin.com/

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0:00.0	I can only talk about my own experiences.
0:03.7	I can't speak for anyone else.
0:04.9	And my experience is that the women loving women sex does go on for ages.
0:12.0	So like...
0:12.9	Even if you have chronic fatigue?
0:15.3	Yeah, I guess...
0:16.3	Nice.
0:17.3	Yeah.
0:17.8	Yeah, it's pretty great.
0:22.9	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
0:34.6	Hello, welcome back to Doing It. Today is a very special episode because the day this episode is published, 12th of May, is ME Awareness Day. And my assistant Megan, who works with me on a lot of the behind the scenes operations here at Doing It podcast with my YouTube channels and newsletter as well, has ME.
0:56.2	And so, Megan is stepping out from behind the scenes and social media today to come on the
1:02.7	podcast and chat with me all about her disability, her sexuality as a lesbian, eating disorders
1:08.6	and how all of those things intersect for her.
1:11.9	We talk about what M.E is and how it's affected Megan throughout her life.
1:16.5	Childhood crushes and how she somehow managed to escape compulsory heterosexuality.
1:22.0	Kind of.
1:23.2	We get into Megan's experiences with dating and relationships at university with ME as a lesbian,
1:30.0	biphobia in lesbian communities, and we answer your questions about if the lesbian stereotype of
1:35.9	sex going on for hours still applies if you have ME. And do orgasms really help with chronic pain?
1:43.5	Thank you so much to Megan for joining me for this episode.
1:46.8	Definitely check out her Instagram if you like books and gay things.
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