Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and problem solvers.

I'm your host, Andrew Heaton, wishing you a very happy Valentine's Day this week.

To that end, on today's show, we will be talking

about sex. The economics of marriage, which is slightly less entertaining, and we will also

wander into some very dangerous what is gender territory. Some amount of sex, though. In fact,

I reveal more about my own sorted sex life than I probably should have, but it's too late to

redo it. We're at this point of the production cycle, so here we go. Oh, and parents, there's more

math than genitals in today's episode.

But there are still some genitals, so keep that in mind if you have kids in the car.

Because it's sex by the numbers right here on The Political Orphanage.

My guest today is Kathy Risenwich.

She is my favorite feminist writer and the writer for Sex and the State on Substack.

That is a newsletter that I regularly read.

I am a subscriber of it and I particularly enjoy it.

Not just because Kathy has a different viewpoint than me, but I think that she oftentimes has new ways of looking at things.

So it's not so much that I enjoy encountering challenging ideas.

But a lot of the time, Kathy just makes me think about things differently.

And I really enjoy that.

And I'm delighted to have you on the show, Kathy.

I'm so happy to be here, Andrew.

Thank you.

We're going to talk about sex, maybe economics, probably marriage, probably gender.

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