Welcome to Literary Friction. I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.

Hello, Octavia.

Hi, Carrie.

We've got a titillating sounding topic today, don't we?

Uh-huh.

Yes, it is future sex.

From Gay Talisa's, thy neighbor's wife, to Octavia Butler's Lilith's Brood trilogy, we'll

be talking about how writers have helped us to imagine the future of sex, sexuality, and

relationships.

Future Sex is also the title of our guest Emily Witt's first book, a personal and journalistic

exploration of the possibilities of free love in today's world, and especially in today's

America.

Octavia, can you introduce Emily, who's sitting with us here now?

Hell yeah.

Emily Witt has written for the New Yorker N-plus-1, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books.

She studied at Brown University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge,

and was a full bright scholar in Mozambique. So she's pretty badass.

She grew up in Minneapolis and she now lives in Brooklyn. And also, full disclosure, Emily is a friend of ours. And it's really lovely to see you over here on this side of the planet. Yeah. So we're going to try to be objective, but it's kind of a love fest. A little bit. True. So we'll be talking to Emily, then chatting about the wider theme, and then giving our book

recommendations with Emily again.

So stay tuned to literary friction.

Okay, let's just jump right in there.

Emily, thank you so much for coming on today.

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