In this episode we chat to special guest Tegan Higginbotham, comedian, writer, actress and all round smut lover about writing sexy words for modern women. This fortnight Tegan read the classic Lady Chatterly’s Lover, a book banned in the UK until 1960 for its use of “four letter words,” and together we ponder why the author, DH Lawrence, never talks about foreplay, always talks about the bowels, and thinks the clitoris is a beak.

A huge thank you to Tegan for joining us on this episode - make sure you check out her podcast, Rue Lamark.

Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

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It's a feminist podcast! New to Lipp Media, Feminism Ruins Everything is a weekly show offering feminist critiques to movies, musicals, and pop culture phenomena... potentially ruining them forever in the process. Hosted by Millicent Sarre ('Friendly Feminism for the Mild Mannered') and Ellis Dolan ('School of Rock' Australasian Tour), this episode explores the classic teen film 10 Things I Hate About You, dissecting the dense feminist values embedded in it's foundations.

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We’re tackling the hairy questions in an episode dedicated to pubes! Whether you love them or hate them we’re sure everyone has spent a chunk of their adult life thinking about their thatches of curls. Sam and Abby look at the history of pubic hair removal and how changing standards of beauty affect the bodies of women and men. 

Content warning: this episode references use of whorephobic language 

References and extra reading for nerdy sluts:

• For a look into the history of women’s hair removal check out this visual exploration or this post from the Women’s Museum of California.  
• The Cosmopolitan/Esquire/AskMen survey that Sam referenced is here.
• And the study of Australian women’s motivations behind hair removal: "The hairlessness norm extended: Reasons for and predictors of women’s body hair removal at different body sites," Marika Tiggemann and Suzanna Hodgson, Sex Roles, 59, 2008: 889-897.
• For details on the cross-cultural perspectives of pubic hair removal, check out "Pubic hair removal practices in cross-cultural perspective," Lyndsey K Craig and Peter B Gray, Cross-Cultural Research, 53(2), 2019: 215-237. 
• To explore issues related to male body hair: "“I think gorilla-like back effusions of hair are rather a turn-off”:‘Excessive hair’ and male body hair (removal) discourse," Gareth Terry and Virginia Braun, Body Image, 17, 2016: 14-24.

Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

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G’day ya flamin’ galahs! Sam’s journey to find some sexy Australiana has landed us with a tale of almost no sex but a lot of pregnancies. Tune in as we jump into the Victorian regional community of Wirralong and the life of their sexiest, single policeman. Although we finally found an area that academia doesn’t give a shit about, we still have some facts for you. Did you know, for example, that romance by Australian authors is one of our biggest literary exports? Crikey!

Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

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Can contraception be sexy? To help answer this question Abby looked at ‘Play it Safe’, an erotic anthology that includes safe sex practices and we discuss whether romance and erotica owe it to their readers to include safe practices. We also discuss the logistics of putting condoms on with bad eyesight, ginger butt plugs and our new favourite hero Supermarket Slut. But we know you’re all really here for the chats and stats. 

Featuring special guest: Bec Villanti, one of the founders of vegan-friendly feminist condom brand, Jonny. You can check them out here: https://jonny.com.au/

Extra reading and references for nerdy sluts 

• ‘Do condoms kill the mood of a book? Erotia authors don’t agree on safe sex demands’ by Rachel Kramer Bussel, Salon. 
• ‘Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behaviour,’ Amanda B Diekman, Mary McDonald, Wedni L Gardner, Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24 (ZOOO), 179-188. Cambridge University Press.
• A critique on the above study and the essay that sparked the online debate that Sam references from NPR: Romance Fiction and Women’s Health: a dose of skepticism. 
• ‘Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels,’ Laura M Moore, 2019
• ‘Rates of STIs are increasing but young people still don’t use condoms,’ Triple J Hack

Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

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Sam continues to bring the goods with not one but TWO mermaid-themed erotic novels. Come get wet with us as we dive into the erotic debate of whether mermaids would have sex like dolphins or like pelagic fish. If your life has been missing the appropriate amount of sexy fish facts and the word slit (and I mean, haven’t they all), this is the episode for you. 

Content Warning: this episode contains some references to suicide

Fact check: it is approximately 5% of the ocean that has currently been explored by humans not 15-20% as we guessed at

References for nerdy sluts 

• “A phallus out of water: the construction of mer-masculinity in modern day illustrations.” Olle Jilkén, 2018. 
• “We are the lost”: Recovering the Feminist and Transcultural Complexity of Mermaids in Literature Schaack, L.J. (2018) Faculty of Humanities Theses
• To understand more about how sirens became the femme fatales we know them of today, check out this twitter thread from Dr. Emily Wilson, who is the first woman to even translate Homer’s Odyssey into english. 

Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

Other intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. 

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Step into our VIP, all white, zebra print, smooth jazz bar-cum-weekend RnB club, as we look at the representation of class in romance. Using a book that flips the ‘white male billionaire’ trope on its head, Abby and Sam start to question whether we’ve been reading romance or capitalist propaganda this whole time. We’re talking class wars, father figures and why no penis should ever kiss a womb. 

Content Warning: This episode includes some references to domestic violence

References for nerdy sluts:

• “Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia.” Peter Darbyshire, Studies in Popular Culture Vol. 23, No. 1 (2000), pp. 1-10.
•  “Slippery when wet: The shifting boundaries of the pornographic (a class analysis).” Rebecca Huntley, Continuum Vol 12, No. 1 (1998) pp. 69-81.

A big thank you and shout out to our talented friends:

Original BOOKSLUT artwork by Brady King and music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

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Pop your feet up, it's our first fetish episode! Tune in as we dip our toes into the most statistically common of all: foot fetishes. This fortnight Sam read LG Denier’s (lol) Leg Lover and we discuss the difference between a fetish and kink, theories of how foot fetishes evolved and the logistics of a footjob from the point of view of two novices. Sam continues her journey of self-discovery, while Abby’s journey is more about realising that if she could choose a sentient cloud over people she probably would. As always, it turns out we're here for the sex but not for the sexism.

A big thank you and shout out to our talented friends:

Original BOOKSLUT artwork by Brady King and music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

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It’s a tale as old as time: boy meets girl, boy stalks girl, girl freaks out that boy has a room full of whips and then love I guess? Yep, we’re talking about the phenomenon of 50 Shades of Grey. Everyone has an opinion on this book and Sam and Abby grapple with the question of how you critique such a popular book while respecting the genre. Did it help normalise erotic romance for women? Yes. Did it misrepresent the BDSM community? Also yes. The answer is, as always, complicated. 

A big thank you and shout out to our talented friends:

Original BOOKSLUT artwork by Brady King and music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

Other intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. 

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Have you ever asked yourself if you would have sex with a zombie? No? Yeah, us neither... Lucky for you, despite its name this book barely mentions zombies and is instead about a hot werewolf getting it on with a hot Samantha. Come with us on a journey into the absurd as we discuss zombie tropes, the politicised zombie body, zombie fleshlights and of course, nursing.

References for nerdy sluts:

A staring point if you'd like to read more about the racist history of zombies

• The Tragic, Forgotten history of Zombies, The Atlantic
• Where do Zombies come from?, The BBC

A big thank you and shout out to our talented friends:

Original BOOKSLUT artwork by Brady King and music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries

Other music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. 

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