intro
Theme includes sample of Run For You by Buke & Gase. Check them out! Intro background music is a song by Múm.
dirty, shameful
An excerpt from Norm MacDonald’s latest album, which is brilliant. Get it here.
sacred
Cartoonist extraordinaire Chester Brown, author of Paying For It, talks about whether sex is sacred. Then Tracy Quan, author of Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, lends her keen insight to the question.
kissing
Dan’s goes to the movies and decides he wants to stop being a dog. More with Chester and Tracy on the subject of smooching. A little Randy Newman and Nick Kroll follows.
casual
Dan and Tracy talk about the pleasures and perils of a hedonistic life. News Flash: It seems that men and women are different!
sex in a city
Fiction by Daniel Kaufman. A young woman has a one-night stand. Performed by Eileen Hsi. Original scoring by Lee Rosevere.
empty feeling
Dan and Chester and Tracy talk about what’s going on when we feel bad after sex. Tracy explains why sex workers prefer married men.
pretty woman
Tracy talks about how sex work and romance differ, and how the clients sometimes get caught up in the illusion.
bowm chika boww!
The power of YES. Dan talks porn with a little help from Cayne Collier and Bill Hicks. Song is “Does That Turn You On” by Lemon.
ryan returns!
Contract disputes have finally been ironed out and Ryan Ridley is back for more fun!
the power of no
Uncle Marty tries to persuade Dan of the virtues of deprivation.
monogamy
More from Chester, Tracy and Ryan on the pros and cons and tenability of fidelity. Playboy Party Girl Suzy McCopin and Melissa Lefton argue about whether repression is a good thing. Dan Savage (in clips) gets to the heart of the matter.
futuresex
From the vault! A bit of Ryan and Dan’s first go at podcasting. Dan wonders whether we’re headed to utopia or hell and Tracy says neither.
plane crash follies
A passenger goes for one last score. Performed by Mike McCafferty and Rachel Adams.
cigarette
After a year and a lifetime of thinking it over, Dan still doesn’t know much! Music is “Latchbox 1” by Hang Glider followed by “Let’s Do It” by Maggie Mull
thanks
Production assistance by Mark Hutchison and Bryan Lotz. Thanks to all the nice people who wrote to make sure I was still alive.
discuss!
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Photograph: Rodin’s The Kiss, by Daniel Kaufman
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