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Maybe they’re not actually straight? We discuss a new book on the historyof clandestine same-sex coupling and a new dating-app-alarmism classic,“Tinder and the Dating Apocalypse.” With Maureen O’Connor, Rich Juzwiak,Jesse Singal, and David Wallace-Wells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

12 Aug 201527min

It includes one with multiple holes in a single wall! Merely one of many amazing things we learn from talking to the man behind the new Museum of Sex history of hard-core and we go long on just how much sex goes on behind the scenes of the Bachelorette (and how this season finally broke the show's prudish code of sex etiquette). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

5 Aug 201528min

A team of scientists have determined universal penis beauty standards-- but do we agree with their findings? A heated debate about grooming, size, and male locker room culture follows. We also discuss a new study about race and online dating, and anthropological findings that suggest fewer than half of the world's cultures engage in romantic kissing. With Allison P. Davis, Maureen O'Connor, and guest host Rich Juzwiak. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

29 Juli 201528min

This week: First you fall in love, then you get naked-- but what if it was the other way around? Maureen learns how nudists flirt, and Allison interviews the stars of her favorite TV show, Dating Naked. Plus, a visit to the Hooters of dicks. With Allison P. Davis, Maureen O'Connor, and David Wallace-Wells. More at thecut.com and nymag.com.This episode is sponsored by Showtime's "Masters of Sex." The critically acclaimed series "Masters of Sex" returns Sunday. New episodes air on Sundays at 10/9 Central Time, only on Showtime.Panoply’s conducting a survey. Click here to fill it out: Panoply.fm/surveyBy filling it out you'll help Panoply make great podcasts about the thing you love, and things you didn't even know you loved.Panoply.fm/survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

22 Juli 201531min

This week: How embarrassing is it to still love Sex and the City? Maureen interviews Candace Bushnell about her new book, which is sort of about her wanting to murder Sarah Jessica Parker (also about the weird way she identifies with Nathan Zuckerman). We also talk about a new study that sort of explains how ugly people manage to bag hot ones. With Allison P. Davis, Maureen O'Connor, and David Wallace-Wells. More at thecut.com and nymag.com.This episode is sponsored by Showtime's "Masters of Sex." The critically acclaimed series "Masters of Sex" returns Sunday. New episodes air on Sundays at 10/9 Central Time, only on Showtime.Panoply’s conducting a survey. Click here to fill it out: Panoply.fm/surveyBy filling it out you'll help Panoply make great podcasts about the thing you love, and things you didn't even know you loved.Panoply.fm/survey  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

15 Juli 201530min

This week: The world’s first hand’s-free couple’s vibrator is here, and maybe not surprisingly it is also a monster crowd funding hit. We talk to Alexandra Fine, one of the two women behind the device, so to speak, and debate whether it looks more like one of Despicable Me’s minions, a wishbone, or a beetle. We also talk about what it’s like to hand over your own dating life to an amateur dating coach—in this case, you fall in love with the coach. With Alison P. Davis, Maureen O'Connor, and David Wallace-Wells.More at thecut.com and nymag.com. This episode is sponsored by Showtime's "Masters of Sex." The critically acclaimed series "Masters of Sex" airs Sunday. New episodes air on Sundays at 10/9 Central Time, only on Showtime.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

8 Juli 201527min

This week: Is there a "chivalrous" way to manage semen? Does it say something different when you ask a guy to come on your back versus on your tits? And why, for the love of God, do we have to decide these things so quickly? Also: 2015, the Year of the Strap-On. With Allison P. Davis, Maureen O'Connor, and David Wallace-Wells. More at thecut.com and nymag.com. This episode is sponsored by Showtime's "Masters of Sex." The critically acclaimed series "Masters of Sex" returns Sunday. New episodes air on Sundays at 10/9 Central Time, only on Showtime.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1 Juli 201520min

This week: What does it mean to make a boner pill for women? We'll solve the problem of the low libido, right after we figure out whether it’s actually a problem or not (with help from Melissa Dahl of the Science of Us). Also: People who post on Facebook about marrying their best friend are probably in doomed relationships, science says (and also maybe into weird role play). With Allison P. Davis, Maureen O'Connor, and David Wallace-Wells. More at thecut.com and nymag.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

24 Juni 201523min