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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knox.

On today's podcast, I speak with Katie Simon, author of Tell Me What You Like, an honest discussion of sex and intimacy after sexual

assault. So, trigger warning, this is a conversation about both sexual assault, but also intimacy

and conversations about relationships and sex post-assault. We do not go into detail on the horrible traumas.

I think this is more of a conversation about, well, first of all, we spend a lot of time

even just dissecting the etymology of victim versus survivor language

and how language is important for how we identify both personally and

communally with traumatic things that happen. We talk about, you know, my conversation with Dan

and how sex is a story that we get to tell about ourselves for ourselves. We talk about, gosh, we also talk about

how the kink world has really done wonders for really starting a conversation in our broader

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