Sex As a Deadly Weapon: Five Victims Speak Out

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Original Air Date: 10/20/2009 Oprah speaks to five women who dated Philippe Padieu, a man who knowingly infected them with the HIV virus. Oprah also talks to Dr. Kimberly Smith, an infectious disease specialist at Rush Medical Center, who says that she treats many single and married women who are HIV-positive, most of whom acquired the virus through unprotected sex with long-term partners and husbands.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:06.4	I believe the Oprah Winfrey Show was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.1	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the LOLs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:20.1	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:23.7	The moments that mattered, the eye-opening light lessons, never allow them to take
0:29.9	to some words.
0:30.9	I'm bringing them back.
0:33.4	It's time to open the vault.
0:35.6	I've personally chosen these classic episodes to share with you again.
0:40.5	Every single person you ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.2	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.9	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey Show, the podcast.
0:59.8	These five women live in suburban America.
1:02.5	They are mothers, some are even grandmothers.
1:04.9	One is a banking executive.
1:06.9	Another is an industrial engineer.
1:10.0	After long marriages, they are divorced and back in the dating world.
1:14.5	They're like many of you or women you know, except that they are all members of a sisterhood,
1:20.4	nobody, nobody wants to belong to.
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