I Weigh - Will I Ever Have Sex Again with Sofie Hagen

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

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🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Jameela is joined by comedian and author Sofie Hagen to celebrate their new book “Will I Ever Have Sex Again?” with a candid and hilarious conversation. The pair discuss where the pressure to have sex comes from, the universal themes that unite people when they’re not having sex, and what Sofie learned while researching and writing the book, including how to draw boundaries, being sexual while fat and how to reframe flirting. Sofie’s book and stand up tour info available at www.sofiehagen.com - sign up now for pre-sale for “Will I Ever Have Sex Again?” by Sofie Hagen You can follow Sofie on IG @sofiehagendk Further reading from this episode - "The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk

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0:00.0	Sophie Hagen, welcome to Iway. How are you?
0:18.0	I'm good. How are you?
0:19.6	I'm so good. I'm all the better of seeing you. You're just
0:22.2	a very soothing human being. You're a salve on my very stressful day and immediately in your presence,
0:29.8	I feel more serene. How do you feel at the moment? Do you feel serene? Bringing out a book is
0:34.8	really intense, especially a very personal book? No, I don't feel serene. I think that would be a bit of an overstatement. I feel, I am excited.
0:43.4	I'm actually excited. And also just, it just feels very vulnerable, doesn't that? You know,
0:49.2	it's different than doing stand-up because you make a joke and a joke is in itself defensive.
0:55.8	You know, it's an inbuilt defense But this book is just very, very honest and it's been written over the course of quite
1:02.0	a few years and then suddenly it's going to be out for everyone to read. It feels like releasing
1:06.6	a diary, a very honest diary. Yeah, and it's extraordinary. I hate the word brave, think it gets
1:13.4	overused and used in the wrong capacities, but I do think it's a very bold thing to do that is
1:18.6	extremely admirable because when people put out such personal bodies of work, it opened up in
1:25.6	other people the ability they might not have had before to also face
1:30.2	a similar thing that they are, you know, going through. And you have a history of doing that
1:35.2	through your stand-up and through your online presence, because not everything you say,
1:39.9	online has always just been a joke. You've also talked about some important and serious things,
1:44.7	but I feel as though something that you represent to a lot of my friends in many different ways,
1:49.2	is you make them feel safe to think about and talk about certain experiences that they have,
1:55.1	that society has stigmatized. And I think that that's such an extraordinary, like,
2:00.2	it's so mad to me that you can be such a funny icon and then also hold such a significant space. So your book is called, will I ever have sex again? Yes. Tell us the premise of the book, please. The premise is I haven't had sex since 2015, and I felt very alone with that
2:21.3	because it's not that I haven't wanted to, I have a sex drive. It has just not happened,
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