Heads up that this episode will involve some discussion of sexual violence and sexual assault.

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I'm Ellie Anderson.

And I'm David Peña-Gusman.

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I have a lot to talk about in the bonus segment, as well as in the main episode today.

Of course, if you are listening to this episode, you probably already have a sense of what porn is. And if you somehow found yourself here as an eight-year-old and you don't know what that is,

then maybe you should stop listening now. However, in order to make sure that we're all on the same

page, even though I think our listeners come to this episode with a sense of what pornography is,

let's give a little dictionary definition. Merriam Webster defines pornography as

the depiction of erotic behavior, as in pictures, movies, or writing, intended to cause sexual

excitement. Okay, that's really interesting because when I think about porn and I think when

most of us think about porn,

we tend not to include erotic literature. We don't include writing, even though technically

it counts on this definition. We often think about videos and images on websites like

Pornhub, you know, or images on Playboy. And so we really don't think about erotic novels, even though those very much fall under

the definition here.

And I think the recent for that.

Even though they're very popular.

Yeah, they're very popular, large market for them.

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