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Welcome to the Double X Gap Fest for Thursday, January 28th, the Power Pony Edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, a host of NPR's Invisibilia.

I'm joined in the New York studios by June Thomas, editor of Outward Slate's LGBTQ blog.

Hi, June. Hey, Hannah. And Noreen Malone of New York Magazine.

Hi, Hannah. Hi. Oh, I forgot to say hi. Hi. Hello. And that other girl. Hi. We got a lot of

email this time. A lot of it with suggestions for leisure. Do you say leisure or do you just

say leisure? I see leisure because I'm an American, just like I say buttock. I say leisure because

it's funnier. We got a lot of leisure suggestions. Some of them were kind of X-rated, surprisingly,

leisure suggestions, you know, soft X. I'll say soft X, yeah. Soft X, yeah. We were ashamed. Masturbation, one reader told us is the most, how did she put it? It was basically like purposeless pleasure-seeking activity of all. How could you have left it off? And it's true. How could we have left it off? That's true. That's a good point. Although for many people, it might be stressful. What do I know? One person's leisure. I think of myself taking my leisure in my living room and, like, the people on the other side of the street can see right into my window. That would not be relaxing. There's a solution for that in America.

It's called curtains.

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