Mom, Don't Listen
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Marissa Martinelli is writing a real sex scene. Vanessa is READY.
This week on Hot & Bothered, we explore the trope “Mistaken Identity.” As Marissa tries to write a good sex scene for her mistaken characters, she and Vanessa explore the vulnerability of explicit sexuality, and wrestle with the freedom and the oppression of coded sexual language.
Vanessa turns to writer, romance-novel reader, and co-host of Thirst Aid Kit Nichole Perkins to understand what we talk about when we talk about throbbing members.
We also get our next (steamy!) writing assignment from #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn.
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| 0:00.0 | Spoke Media. Not sorry, Productions. |
| 0:07.0 | So when I was in like seventh or eighth grade, I remember the first romance novel that crossed my path because I was in Miss Frost's English class and the bell rang and I was minding my own business I was |
| 0:25.2 | packing up my bag and my friend Priya came over to me with a copy of this book and it was |
| 0:30.0 | held open at a certain page and she like thrust it at me and she said read this and it was a very |
| 0:36.8 | graphic sex scene or at least I thought so because I was like 12 or 13 and I was absolutely |
| 0:42.0 | scandalized and she was scandalized. |
| 0:44.0 | And it turns out I actually googled my way to this answer. |
| 0:49.0 | It was the pregnancy test by Aaron McCarthy |
| 0:52.0 | and I think that was my first brush with a romance novel. |
| 0:55.0 | That's this week's writer, Marissa Martinelli. |
| 0:59.0 | Hers is a prototypical story for how young women find romance novels. |
| 1:05.4 | Right around the time they are learning to find shame and their changing bodies. |
| 1:09.9 | They also find a shelf of books, behind a shelf of books books at their grandmother's house, or they steal a book off |
| 1:16.4 | of their mom's night table, or a friend secretly hands them the pregnancy test in Ms. Froth's |
| 1:22.1 | English class. I handed a fellow bunkmate, the sexy |
| 1:25.8 | book I had just finished, at a hostile in Salzburg in June of 2001, and she didn't leave |
| 1:31.6 | the hostile for the whole next day, staying in to read the steamy book. |
| 1:36.8 | She missed joining a bunch of us going on the Sound of Music Tour. |
| 1:40.5 | It was that sexy. |
| 1:47.0 | We love romance novels for more than the sex. If we wanted just sex with the female gaze at the center, |
| 1:51.0 | we'd read erotica, and we do. But the sex is what keeps us up late at night, |
| 1:56.4 | unable to put the books down. We love romance novels for more than the sex, yes, but we also love them because of the sex. |
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