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How to Do It: Is What I Just Did Really “Cheating” on My Boyfriend?

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week, Stoya and Rich answer a letter from a letter writer who wonders if what she just did counts as cheating. Then they hear from a man who wonders how to get his husband to agree to indulge his new desire in bed. Slate Plus members get another episode of the How to Do It podcast every Monday. Sign up for Slate Plus now for just $1 for your first month. Read the How to Do It column on Slate here. If you’re in need of sex advice from Stoya and Rich, write in here or leave a voicemail at ‪(347) 640-4025 and we may use it on the show. Remember, it’s anonymous—and nothing is too embarrassing! Production by Chau Tu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:14.8

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0:19.2

You're listening to this week's free episode of How to Do It.

0:24.0

Slate Plus members get another episode of this podcast every Monday,

0:28.0

and that's where we chat about some of our juiciest letters.

0:31.0

To hear those members only episodes and get access to all of our how to do at

0:35.6

advice columns on slate.com sign up for slate plus at slate.com slash

0:41.3

htdi plus. dot com slash H.T. D. I. Plus.

0:44.0

Warning, this podcast contains explicit language, and by that we mean sex talk.

0:50.0

Hi, I'm Stoya. I'm a writer and semi-retired pornographer.

0:57.0

And I'm Rich Jezweak. I'm a writer.

1:00.0

Welcome to the How-To-Do-It podcast, where we try to help you with all of your sex and relationship issues twice a week.

1:06.8

You can ask us anything about sex or your bodies or dating etiquette or whatever.

1:11.1

We're here to help. So satisfaction is a thing that we want out of our relationships.

1:18.0

We want them to be mutually satisfying,

1:21.0

but it's not like a binary satisfied, not satisfied, it's more of a scale.

1:28.4

How satisfied should we expect to be by our partners?

1:34.4

I don't know.

1:34.8

I guess personally speaking, I expect to be satisfied sometimes.

1:40.4

I expect satisfaction to be part of the reality, but personally I never stay satisfied for long.

1:48.4

I don't know if it's kind of like my Larry David tendencies.

1:51.8

I do enjoy complaining a lot and I find myself appalled regularly

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