Why Dating Is So Damn Awkward

Why Dating Is So Damn Awkward

Does dating suck because you’re awkward, or are you awkward because it’s a date? Ty Tashiro, psychologist and author of Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and Why That’s Awesome, explains why steeling yourself and weathering the first five minutes of awkwardness is usually worth it. “Don’t be a wallflower,” he says, meaning it literally: research shows that location is a powerful predictor of social success. But what if our love lives need awkwardness? Host Maureen O’Connor wonders if awkwardness, coded differently, is the very definition of romance. Call 646-494-3590 with cringeworthy meet-cutes and awkward sex stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Not You. It's Us.

It's Not You. It's Us.

Two years and 115 episodes later, Sex Lives calls it quits. To figure out how to end things, host Maureen O'Connor invites her original co-hosts David Wallace-Wells and Allison P. Davis back into the ...

16 Jun 201736min

Sex in the Summer of '65

Sex in the Summer of '65

Linda Rosenkrantz was an art-world 'it' girl when, in the summer of 1965, she started carrying a reel-to-reel tape recorder everywhere she went, recording conversations at the beach, during parties, a...

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The Day Her Baby Called Her Boyfriend 'Dad'

The Day Her Baby Called Her Boyfriend 'Dad'

Alyssa Shelasky returns with an update on life as a mom who used an anonymous sperm donor to have a baby: One year later, she isn't single, anymore. Alyssa is house-hunting with the boyfriend her daug...

2 Jun 201729min

Diary of a Sex Coach

Diary of a Sex Coach

As a teenager in Louisiana, Myisha Battle learned about sex from textbooks censored with Sharpie markers. Today, she's a San Francisco-based sex coach dedicated to helping other women orgasm— and to s...

26 Mai 201734min

Accio Jizzrag! All About Harry Potter Erotica

Accio Jizzrag! All About Harry Potter Erotica

In the horny imaginations of Harry Potter super-fans, Professor Snape is a BDSM sex god and Hermione Granger is a squirter. So say Potterotica hosts Allie LeFevere, Lyndsay Rush, and Danny Chapman, wh...

19 Mai 201725min

Dan Savage's Sex Life

Dan Savage's Sex Life

He's been telling Americans how to fuck for 26 years, and he's still not done. Dan Savage reflects on his unlikely career and tells stories from his own sex life— including losing his virginity in a c...

12 Mai 201751min

All the Feels About Gay Weddings

All the Feels About Gay Weddings

Gay marriage has moved to the mainstream, but has wedding culture followed? What parts of wedding culture are worth keeping, anyway? Sex Lives assembles a panel of gay writers to discuss their persona...

5 Mai 201728min

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