The Birds and the Bees Ep. 16

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Judaism, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 November 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Our Jewish guest, Bat Sheva Marcus, is a sex counselor, podcast host, and president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance. She tells us about the most common issues her patients face, the challenges of finding rabinically-approved erotica for observant Jews, and the importance of maintaining a sexual connection in long-term monogamous relationships. Our non-Jewish guest is Mallory Ortberg, founder and editor of feminist literary website the Toast, and Slate's new Dear Prudence advice columnist. She talks to us about her bestselling book, Texts From Jane Eyre, her evangelical pastor father, and the difficulties of dispensing advice. Her questions for the panel are whether lox is different from smoked salmon, and why there aren't as many Jewish denominations as there are Christian. For more Bat Sheva Marcus, check out her podcast, The Joy of Text, here: http://jpmedia.co/podcasts/joy-of-text/. You can read Mallory Ortberg's Slate columns here: http://www.slate.com/authors.mallory_ortberg.html. Check out The Toast at http://the-toast.net/. We love hearing from you. Email us at Unorthodox@tabletmag.com, and sign up for our weekly newsletter at http://bit.ly/UnorthodoxPodcast.

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0:28.1	Discount code, unorthodox, all caps.
0:33.0	caps. Welcome to Unorthodox, a weekly podcast from Tablet magazine,
0:38.0	and it really is weekly.
0:39.0	Like we have not taken a week off, we've scarcely taken a week off.
0:42.0	I'm Mark Oppenheimer joined as ever by
0:44.8	senior writer Leal Leibowitz. Hello hello. Good morning and deputy editor
0:49.2	Stephanie Butnik. Hi. Later in the show we'll be talking with Orthodox Jewish sex therapist about Sheva Marcus.
0:56.4	And our guest Gentile is Mallory Ortberg, daughter of an evangelical mega church pastor, and now
1:01.8	advice columnist for slate.com. But first are we recovered
1:06.4	from last night we the three of us went out drinking last night are we
1:09.1	recovered are we back I mean I like literally just walked in I haven't stopped drinking since like 98 so I'm good
1:16.1	Did you go to sleep last night? No really no okay just drank my weight
1:20.3	The only way to do this podcast. The only way to do this podcast, I can't do it otherwise.
1:26.0	Just got to rage on through the night. A little news of the Jews.
1:30.1	Nordstrom, where I don't think I've ever bought anything, but I hear it's a big story.
1:34.5	They have a great return policy.
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