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So Sunday afternoon I was at home laying in bed, having a bit of a headache, lights out, but looking at the computer.

And emails began to pour into my Savage Love inbox, all pointing me toward a blog post or a Facebook post written by Jean Gomeshi on his

Facebook page. Gamesi is the host and co-founder of Q, which is one of the biggest shows on the

CBC. It's also now broadcast down here on NPR. In his Facebook post, Gomeshi claimed that he

had just been fired by the CBC, cut from the show that he co-founded after his private and consensual sexual conduct came to the attention of his employers.

It's a really long post. If you Google, Facebook, Gian Gomeshi, you'll find it right away.

But the gist is this. He says, after apologizing to his readers for revealing these intimate details about his

private life and sexual conduct, that's really not their business. He says, I've always been

interested in a variety of activities in the bedroom, but I only participate in sexual practices

that are mutually agreed upon consensual and exciting for both partners. And he goes on to detail how

he had a relationship with a woman in her late

20s, and it was affectionate, casual, and passionate, he writes, and included roleplay dominance and

submission. He says that they had safe words, that they discussed their mutual interests in BDSM

at length, and they joked together that their relationship resembled something like 50

Shades of Gray. The two broke up. Gameshi says he ended the relationship. And again, according

to Gameshi, everything is according to Gamesi right now. His ex began harassing him after he

dumped her. The harassment included, quote, anonymously reaching out to other women that he had dated and, quote, reframing what had been an ongoing consensual relationship as something nefarious.

Gamesh says his ex took her story to a journalist who disliked him and in an effort to defame and destroy him just ginned up this whole story, that this BDSM sex that he had had with her was

non-consensual. And this all came to the attention of his bosses at the CDC, and they fired him for

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