Feelings, Finances And Fetishes: Love Is A Racial Battlefield

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

To get y'all in the mood for Valentine's Day, we're exploring some of our juiciest listener love questions. Should your race and gender affect how much you pay into a relationship? What's the difference between a preference and a fetish? And what's the quickest way for black women to find love?

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0:00.0	What was that?
0:03.4	Yes!
0:05.4	Yes!
0:06.4	Try to hold back this feeling for so long.
0:13.8	And this youth!
0:17.0	What's good to all the lovebirds and loveloans out there?
0:19.6	You're listening to the Code Switch Quiet Storm from on WC-LD Radio.
0:24.0	You know, I'm on the West Coast so it would actually be K-C-S-R.
0:29.3	Code Switch Radio, I think.
0:30.6	Fine, fine, let's start over.
0:34.0	What's good to all the lovers and lovebirds out there?
0:39.7	You're listening to Code Switch Quiet Storm on K-C-S-R Radio.
0:43.5	I'm Gene Demby.
0:44.5	And that of course is Marvin Gaye with one of the sexiest love songs ever.
0:49.8	Let's get it on.
0:50.8	And I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji and this week we're going to get you in the mood for Valentine's Day.
0:57.2	Sex.
0:58.2	By helping tackle your reader questions and quadries about romance and race.
1:03.8	A LITERATION.
1:04.8	Oh, there's more of that.
1:06.4	Because we're going to talk about feelings, fetishes, but first, finances.
1:13.8	Oh.
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