Pillow Talk: Unlearning Catholic Shame
eileen kelly
Eileen Kelly
4.8 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
21-year-old Kiera-Faith Flynn speaks about how her religious and social upbringing has kept her from having sex.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Pillow Talk brought to you by Killer and A Sweet Thing. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Eileen Kelly and I'm Jacob Safarian. |
| 0:09.0 | On this podcast we normalize sexual experiences by allowing the people who live them to speak for themselves. |
| 0:15.0 | On today's episode, we're joined by Kira Faith Flynn, a virgin who was raised in a devout Catholic home. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to Pillow Talk. who was raised in a devout Catholic home, |
| 0:22.5 | welcome to Pillow Talk. |
| 0:24.4 | Why have you personally waited to have sex? |
| 0:27.5 | Yeah, I think my main reason is just that |
| 0:30.3 | it didn't feel right for me when I had the opportunity to. |
| 0:33.3 | So would you say it's more than circumstantia? |
| 0:36.2 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:37.1 | I definitely had the chance multiple times |
| 0:40.4 | and I could go out. |
| 0:41.7 | A lot of my friends say, you know, you could go out right now and just find someone and you'd be fine |
| 0:46.3 | You know, but I think the times I had the opportunity to like by my own choice. It's just been like nah good yeah this is not the the time |
| 0:55.7 | exactly what was the inspiration behind like you not feeling like it was the time |
| 1:00.4 | right now I think you know Catholicism is the main fear |
| 1:06.7 | factor you know and I I always that's how explain Catholicism in general is it's a |
| 1:11.7 | huge fear-based religion and I think being young |
| 1:16.3 | having my family kind of have those values it was what are they going to think of me at |
| 1:21.6 | would I go to hell you, when those beliefs were so ingrained |
| 1:25.3 | in me when I was little. |
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