ICYMI - AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
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🗓️ 4 July 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As sex becomes more online, not only does it become more solitary, but also more surveilled. For instance: Back in December, OpenAI announced that they’d allow adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT. On today’s encore episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by porn historian Noelle Perdue, author of the Porn World newsletter. While advances in AI and sex surveillance are intended to divide us, Noelle is confident that AI’s attempted sex-takeover will fail.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, and I do mean everyone because we have gotten some new listeners these past few months. |
| 0:05.5 | And because of this, we wanted to share one of our favorite episodes from late last year that you might have missed. |
| 0:11.4 | But honestly, we could have recorded it this week because the AI conversation has only gotten more urgent. |
| 0:17.6 | Enjoy. Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-YMI, or in case you missed it, |
| 0:36.9 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:39.4 | And we are here finally with porn historian Noel Purdue. |
| 0:43.4 | I say finally because we've been wanting to get together on the pod for a while, but also |
| 0:47.1 | because there was a slight location mishap involving Google Maps and its refusal to ever |
| 0:53.1 | find Slate's office location anywhere, |
| 0:55.5 | anytime, but you made it. You're here. Noelle, welcome to the podcast. I'm glad you made it. |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Trials and Tribulations, but, you know, here is journey. |
| 1:28.4 | Yes, exactly. And so we're a porn historian. People might be ears are probably peaked at that. And we are going to get into why we have Noel porn historian here. But we're first going to ask her the question we ask all first time guests on the ICYMI my podcast, which is what is your first internet memory? I think that my first internet memory was chat roulette, |
| 1:34.5 | specifically not omegal, but chat roulette. Right. The difference was chat roulette would randomly |
| 1:42.0 | match you with another person, but it was just video. |
| 1:46.5 | And I know in, so Omagle would randomly match you with another person with his text and then |
| 1:51.3 | it introduced video. |
| 1:52.8 | But I know my real chat roulette experience was like, one in three, one in five, you'd get |
| 1:58.5 | someone. |
| 1:59.6 | Jerking it. |
| 2:00.1 | With their penis out. Yeah. Yeah. With their penis out. With their penis. one in three, one in five, you'd get someone, would jerking it. For sure. |
| 2:01.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, with their, with their penis out. |
| 2:04.1 | With their penis out. |
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