Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the show. We got a great show plan for you. DMs. They'll be popping later in the show. So if you got a DM for us, that means you got a question, something you want to answer. Something's on your mind, something you want us to talk about, maybe even something you want us to circle back and drop deeper into. Put all those beautiful, lovely questions, ideas, and opinions

in our DMs on our Loveline at G page. That's where all that magic goes. We're going to be

talking about hookup culture. It's going to be opening up with some stats and then talking about

how to survive hookup culture. That's right, mental health intact. Why? Because there's nothing

wrong with casual sex. It is part of the normative dating process. Sex isn't bad. What's bad

is the way people maybe treat each other or they have false and problematic expectations,

but sex is a beautiful, healthy thing for us. So we're going to be opening the first hour,

just talking about a few stats or whatnot. And then later in the show, we'll be talking about some other ways to kind of survive and

conceptualize it. And what I mean survive, I just mean really get through that process with your

mental health and emotional health intact. I talk about this on the show often, which is technological advancements and developments.

They happen. Some of them have happened through the world of dating and sexuality. And sometimes

it's been the inverse where it's happened in the non-sexual, non-relational world. But of course,

sex and relationships find a way to be also further innovated as a result of technological advancements.

And I think that's an awesome thing.

They kind of feed into each other.

We're relational creatures.

You know, we're always in relationality, symbolically and literally, even when we're not with people, when we're literally in solitude, we are still thinking about

and connected to. Just because they're not physically present or able to be touched or seen

doesn't mean that we're not, again, still thinking about them, considering them, and still very

much connected. What does all that mean? Every song's about relationships and sexuality, every

movie, every book, you know, even as I said, I'm watching a movie that's about someone saving the planet from a, you know, Manhattan-sized asteroid coming to blow us all up. And of course, love is the center point within all of that.

It makes us do some wild, wild, wild things.

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