We Get It On (With Ourselves)

Still Processing

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

As a break from the onslaught of traumatic news, this week we're talking about what makes us feel good about ourselves. Really good. We start by exploring what has been lost with the recent closure of Craiglist's personal ads section: a unique place, so distinct from Tinder or Grindr or Bumble, where you could search honestly for your own sexiness. Then we share some our personal tips for maintaining and nurturing that feeling once you find it. Finally we jam out to some of our all-time favorite songs of seduction, from k.d. lang to Beyoncé to Cardi B, and explain why exactly they make us feel the way they do. And finally, here’s a link to all of our favorite jams to turn it up by yourself: Still Processing Presents: The Autoerotica Mix (Spotify). Discussed This Week: The Magicians (SyFy) “We need to talk about how Grindr is affecting gay men’s health” (Jack Turban, Vox) “‘I Am Super Straight and I Prefer You be Too’: Constructions of Heterosexual Masculinity in Online Personal Ads for “Straight” Men Seeking Sex With Men” (Chelsea Reynolds, Sage Journals) “Missed Connections: Craigslist Drops Personal Ads Because of Sex Trafficking Bill” (Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times) “A Field Guide to Getting Lost” (Rebecca Solnit, Penguin Books) “Sexiness: Rituals, Revisions and Reconstructions” (Tamara Santibanez, Discipline Press) Still Processing Presents: The Autoerotica Mix (Spotify)

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:01.2	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:02.7	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.2	I'm mostly right about how humans relate to technology.
0:08.0	And I'm mostly right about how popular culture and movies relate to humans.
0:12.4	This is still processing.
0:24.6	Okay, so today we're going to take a break from the mayhem and the madness of the news.
0:30.2	And we're going to tend to our inner selves.
0:32.7	And we're going to talk about what it means to cultivate desire in a time of distress.
0:39.3	Ooh, yes.
0:40.7	Also, this is a race year episode.
0:43.6	Then we normally do.
0:44.9	So please be advised.
0:46.7	If we had to give it a rating, it would be rated R.
0:50.1	So be mindful if you're with anyone who, you know, might get offended or might have
0:55.5	sensitivity to the topics of SES.
0:59.9	We're talking about sex, baby.
1:02.5	So proceed with caution.
1:04.5	Maybe you want to bring a towel with you.
1:06.6	But before we get to that and what it means, Wesley,
1:09.6	what's popping in your world?
1:11.3	I saw Illa Dogs over the weekend.
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