26.5 Losing it: An Interview about Virginity (Bonus Ep)
In this bonus episode Dr Jodi McAlister joins Adele to talk power, purity, and (un)punctured hymens -- that’s right it’s time to talk virginity and virginity loss.
Jodi is an author and academic whose work focuses on the history of love, sex, women and girls, popular culture and fiction. Is it any wonder we love her?
Features:
A (brief) history of female virginity
The dangers of virginity
Consummate virgins
Absurdly readable bodies
The rise? (and rakish potential) of male virgins
A passionate discussion about Passions
Books and other Media We Discuss:
Bridgerton, the TV show
The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
The Consummate Virgin by Jodi McAllister
The Cognitive Estrangement (as discussed in Metamorphoses of Science Fiction by Darko Suvin)
The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen Woodiwiss
Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers
Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis by David R. Shumway
Dawson’s Creek, the TV show
Misrule by Jodi McAllister
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the TV show
Outlander, the TV show
Unclaimed by Courtney Milan
Passions, the TV show
Cherry Falls, the film
The Heiress Effect by Courtney Milan
You can find Dr Jodi McAllister on twitter as @JodiMcA and via her website http://jodimcalister.com.au/
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This episode was recorded on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri, Boonwurrung, and Gadigal people and edited by Rudi Bremer on Gadigal country.
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