HBM080: The Ocean of Halves
Here Be Monsters
Here Be Monsters Podcast
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Remi Dun enjoys her job. She's good at it, she makes good money, and she generally enjoys her clients’ company. And although her job rarely gives her sexual pleasure, one client with a curious tongue gave her two surprise orgasms. Another client doesn’t know that she stops making sexy faces as soon as he can’t see her. And another client simply wants companionship—his dad died recently and he’s still emotionally raw. And yet another client wants a rubber band around his balls—the thick blue kind you find on broccoli in the grocery store.
Please Note: This episode is about sex. And there’s swearing.
Remi is a part-time sex worker. She uses pseudonyms. She’s not out. She worries that her friends would see her as destitute and her parents would convince themselves they’d been bad parents. Still, Remi finds joy and security in her secret second job. She hopes to someday be out and proud, like the ones who have inspired her.
Balancing her “daytime” and “nighttime” selves is part of a bigger plan: to create a financial stability, to be fierce, to practice her feminism, and to develop her own romantic relationships with partners outside of work. Though, sometimes she feels lost in her identities, swimming in what she calls “the ocean of her halves.”
Remi contacted us to share her secret. We mailed her a recorder for several months to record diaries and sounds from her life. If you have a secret you’d like to share, please get in touch.
Bethany Denton and Jeff Emtman produced this episode. Our editor at KCRW is Nick White. We are a part of the Independent Producer Project of KCRW.
Music: The Black Spot, Serocell
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters. |
| 0:05.0 | And just a heads up, this is here be monsters. |
| 0:07.0 | And just a heads up, this episode is about sex. |
| 0:14.0 | And there's also some swearing. |
| 0:16.0 | Enjoy the show. Also a weird thing that happened to me is a couple times and I was on the bus going to work. |
| 0:30.0 | I would smell a man and smell like soap. |
| 0:38.1 | You know it's close quarters and I would catch a whiff |
| 0:40.2 | of just like basic, I don't know like every brand soap like a dove or whatever and I |
| 0:50.0 | think it's just because so many of my clients, like most of them, all of them will wash with probably |
| 0:56.1 | that type of soap or a similar type of soap before I go and see them. |
| 1:00.6 | And so their genitals would smell like this soap and a couple times just twice I was on the |
| 1:09.9 | bus and like I said I caught a width of that exact smell on just some everyday person on the bus. |
| 1:17.0 | And it surprised me, but it was a minor trigger. |
| 1:25.0 | I guess maybe I shouldn't use that word because I'm not traumatized, but |
| 1:31.0 | it acted as a kind of catalyst inside me and I felt sick. I felt sick and I immediately clammed up and felt panicked and like that smell was all over me and it's like the most benign |
| 1:51.9 | basic and non-threatening smell. It's fucking soap. |
| 1:57.0 | But it was like non-threatening of what I was getting used to and it was too much. Here be monsters, the podcast about customer service. |
| 2:26.4 | The podcast about the unknown. Oh, My agency describes me online as a cute girl next door on the cusp of alternative that is a direct quote |
| 3:17.0 | the sexy librarian the the good student with a |
| 3:25.0 | student with a flare for the wild side and who after years of |
| 3:39.0 | obedience and towing the line and going by the books is looking for the opportunity to cut loose, |
| 3:50.8 | unleash, dominate, and be dominated, and engage in new levels of hedonistic erotic experiences. |
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