The Demonic Dogfish
The Dating Detectives
Dear Media
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
This week Stella shares one of our most chilling Dogfish tales yet; a whirlwind romance with a “demonologist” that starts with roses and love-bombing and spirals into coercive control, veiled threats, and a horrifying online violation. In the Dogfish Debrief, we break down how spiritual manipulation shows up in abusive dynamics and dig into the hard, practical realities of revenge porn—what steps survivors can take, where the laws still fail, and how community support can make all the difference.
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized |
| 0:06.6 | for the purposes of protection and safety. The following program is provided for entertainment |
| 0:11.0 | purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held |
| 0:15.4 | as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular |
| 0:19.5 | individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.5 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic |
| 0:25.9 | Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support. |
| 0:41.0 | Hi, happy dating detectives Monday. |
| 0:42.1 | National holiday. Hi, everybody. |
| 0:43.9 | Oh, we have quite a story today. |
| 0:47.5 | I'm, listen, I could, oh, but there's some trigger warnings. |
| 0:51.8 | First, I don't even know where to freaking start. |
| 0:54.1 | This is, I think, |
| 0:55.0 | our first demonic episode, like trigger warning. We have a demonic dogfish. There's some satanic |
| 1:02.6 | stuff. So that's something. And then there's also some definite mention of physical violence |
| 1:08.6 | and revenge porn. And in the dogfish debrief, which |
| 1:12.2 | if you're new here at the end of the episode, McKenzie and I debrief what we can learn from the |
| 1:17.2 | stories. And we're definitely going to do a more in-depth conversation about revenge porn. |
| 1:22.9 | But Stella, on a lighter note, is our new favorite person. |
| 1:28.3 | I love her so much. |
| 1:30.6 | Like the best vibes. |
| 1:32.7 | Yeah, and I feel like she would be the best girlfriend to have |
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