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Dear Sugars

Redux: The Dark Side Of Porn

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Sugars continue their series on porn with a letter from a woman whose fiancé is "addicted" to porn.

This episode was originally released on December 16th, 2016.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Produced by the iLab at WBUR Boston.

0:13.0

The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.

0:17.5

Sugar is here, the both of us, speaking straight into your ears.

0:23.0

I'm Cheryl Strayed.

0:24.0

I'm Steve Almond.

0:25.0

This is Dear Sugar Radio.

0:28.0

Oh dear song, won't you please?

0:35.0

Share some better sweet days with me.

0:42.0

I check my bell by every day.

0:50.0

Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.

0:57.0

Hi Steve.

0:58.0

Hi Cheryl.

0:59.0

So here we are at Porn Part 2.

1:03.0

I'd say the subtitle of this episode is Porn the Dark Side.

1:07.0

It's kind of a little heavy today.

1:09.0

I will say we tend to spend more time discussing the dark side of things on Dear Sugar Radio.

1:14.0

And here's why.

1:15.0

Because people write to us with their problems.

1:18.0

Listeners don't write to us when things are going swimmingly.

1:22.0

It's the things that cause them pain or anxiety or doubt.

1:26.0

And I want to just say I think that's worth acknowledging at the outset of today's episode

1:31.0

by probing into the difficulties that many of our listeners are grappling with when it comes to porn use.

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