Let's Talk About Porn Again

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We're revisiting our most-listened to episode ever, about porn. Your stories about secret hard drives, fantasy plot lines, illegal downloads, titillating Tumblr feeds, and giving porn up completely. We're sharing this episode as part of our month-long series called Our Sex (Mis)Educations. Find the entire series here. Sign up for our newsletter! Every Wednesday we send out podcast listening recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates about the show. We also let our subscribers know about upcoming live events and ways you can contribute your stories to Death, Sex & Money. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Want to tell us something? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Annabel Bacon, one of the producers here at Death Sex and Money.
0:04.8	And this week we're re-erring our most listened-to episode of all time.
0:08.6	It's called Let's Talk About Porn.
0:11.1	We wanted to revisit this episode because we've spent the past few weeks on the show
0:14.6	thinking about how we learn about sex and for many of us pornography plays a
0:19.2	role at some point and as you'll hear in this episode our relationships with porn can be so complicated.
0:25.0	You send us stories about how porn helped you get comfortable with your sexuality
0:29.0	and also how it's damaged your relationships out in the real world.
0:33.2	Okay, here's the show.
0:36.3	Currently my wife is out of town.
0:39.3	We've been married seven years.
0:42.0	For the past 20, I have been addicted to pornography.
0:47.0	This is death, sex, and money.
0:52.0	Hey man, got a big box of porn for you.
0:54.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:58.0	I don't actually have sex other than when I do porn.
1:01.0	And need to talk about more. I thought all pornsters had fake booze. I'm Anna Sale.
1:07.0	Hi, I'd ask that you not use my name or my location. I would like to remain anonymous.
1:20.0	We got this voice memo last spring from a listener I'll call James.
1:24.2	He'd stopped looking at porn months earlier at his wife's urging.
1:27.9	Now she was away and those old cravings were coming back.
1:32.9	It is hard as fucking nails for me to want to not do anything about it.
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