Before we start, we want to recommend a beautiful season of The Heart from fellow Radiotopian Caitlin Prest, who's known for exploring big questions, creating cinematic love stories from a feminist perspective.

Caitlin revisits No, a series produced on the eve of the Harvey Weinstein scandals, about a topic that was supposed to be treated differently forevermore.

In the series, we follow the story of a young girl navigating love, sex, and the word no,

and all of the men in her life, she tried to say no to.

Do you want to start?

Me?

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, well, what were you thinking?

That you should start.

Why don't you lay down?

She kind of like, it's like, no, no.

Like, just kind of like a whisper.

I don't know.

Like, kind of keeping it sexy, but like saying like, no.

The way that you're touching me makes me feel like...

As soon as I knew that sex wasn't an option, I became a bit of a dick.

Later, I'm going to have to tell you that I don't want to have sex with you.

I mean, I thought that what she wanted was the same thing as what I wanted.

Do you know what I mean?

Mm-hmm.

And, you know, when it wasn't that way, I felt like I was trying to make it that way.

Caitlin addresses this difficult topic in a way that ends up being heartwarming, soul-crushing, and funny at the same time.

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