In this episode Abby brings a graphic novel called Open Earth to the table, and with it, a chance to rant semi-coherently about non-monogamy. Is polyamory a radical sex uptopia or really a lot of talking and shared calendars?

We’re talking hierarchies and anarchy, jealousy and boundaries, while asking some big questions like, if you left Earth (fair enough it’s a shit show), how would you reshape society’s rules around relationships? Would platonic be just as important as romantic? Would you be monogamous if it wasn’t the norm?! And would you have a threesome while also eating a hamburger? 

References for nerdy sluts:

• Abby references Understanding Non-Monogamies, edited by Meg Barker and Darren Langrdridge. Routledge: London New York (2010). In particular Chapter 25: What’s queer about non-monogamy now? By Eleanor Wilkinson 
• For those looking for a great place to start to explore non-monogamy, check out The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
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Sam gives us our first look at Alyssa Cole’s work in The AI who loved me for the opportunity to nerd out about sextech and the implications of getting down and dirty with AI. That’s right, we’re talking about robots, while, thanks to zoom, sounding like robots. Meta. As it turns out humans love anthropomorphising their Roombas and Alexa has had more lovers proposing marriage than a Mills and Boon heroine. With the sex robot industry being skewed towards men we ask the important questions; would you bang a bot? And if you’re going to have sex with a robot, why settle for human features? And perhaps most importantly, is Abby the only person who found the Bicentennial man a 10/10 hottie?

Content Warning: this episode includes some references to rape.

References for nerdy sluts:

• If you want to play around with generating your own erotica through a neural network as we do at the end of this episode, you can do that here. 
• Those interested in the total badass Romance author, Alyssa Cole, should check out this interview. 
• ZDNet, Sex robot molested, destroyed at electronics show, 2017
• Responsible Robotics, FRR Report: Our Sexual Future with Robots 2017 
• González-González, Gil-Iranzo & Paderewsky. Sex with robots: analyzing the gender and ethics approaches in design 2019
• Frank, L., Nyholm, S. “Robot sex and consent: Is consent to sex between a robot and a human conceivable, possible, and desirable?” Artif Intell Law 25, 305–323 (2017). 
• Cranny-Francis, A, “Is data a toaster? Gender, sex, sexuality and robots.” Palgrave Commun 2, 16072 (2016). 
• Kubes, Tanja. "New Materialist Perspectives on Sex Robots. A Feminist Dystopia/Utopia?." Social Sciences 8, no. 8 (2019): 224.

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Does the term curvy make you cringe? In this episode, Abby and Sam look at the anthology 'Curvy Girls: Erotica for Women' to examine ideas around body positivity, fat phobia and sex. This is an episode dedicated to the womxn who feel they’re being watched when they eat because their bodies don’t fit the mainstream definition of physical beauty. Representation of diverse bodies having sex matters. And frankly, everybody deserves stories of getting down and dirty with a hot chef in a professional kitchen.

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Please enjoy the awkwardness of Abby and Sam struggling through zoom podcasting to talk about sex in the time of Corona. Inspired by articles that kept coming up on our news feeds, we’re looking into the growth of erotica and porn during self isolation. It starts off promising with legitimate stats, turns to the beauty of a well organised sex toy stash, devolves into our fear of Bloody Mary and then pivots back to our ol' fave: Chuck Tingle. 

Sure it's a mess but we figure anything goes in a pandemic.

Extra reading for nerdy sluts:

• The Guardian, Filth in a time of handwasing: why lockdown erotica is the hottest trend in publishing 
• The Australian, You give me fever: lockdown lust heats up erotica
• ABC, Romance fiction got us through the GFC and World War II. Here's why it could help us during Covid-19
• Pornhub, Coronavirus Insights
• and check out Chuck Tingle's work here

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Alright folx, cuff your jeans* and let’s talk about bisexuality. It’s not often our Bi+ pals get the spotlight because bi-erasure is a thing and we need to stop it and embrace our non-monosexual friends. In this episode we are serving you pure Sam and Abby anarchy meaning we spend less time on the the book and more time shitting on Freud (figuratively), unzipping pants (literally) and reminiscing about hypersexual teenage games.

*Sam tells me this is a Bi+ thing but I thought it was just fashun.

References for nerdy sluts:

• Shaw, Jeneice. "Trustworthiness and Stability in Same and Different Sex Relationships: Heterosexuals’ Attitudes toward Bisexuality." (2019).
• Flanders, Corey E., Marianne E. LeBreton, Margaret Robinson, Jing Bian, and Jaime Alonso Caravaca-Morera. "Defining bisexuality: Young bisexual and pansexual people's voices." Journal of Bisexuality 17, no. 1 (2017): 39-57.
• Feinstein, Brian A., and Christina Dyar. "Bisexuality, minority stress, and health." Current Sexual Health Reports 9, no. 1 (2017): 42-49.
• Campbell, Christine, Nikki Hayfield, and Elizabeth Reed. "Bisexuality and relationships project report." (2020).
• Sarah McVeigh, Triple J Hack, Bisexuality: 'You want both, but you don’t want both all the time' (2016).

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It’s high time we tackled the big V. That’s right, Abby and Sam are talking maidenhood taking, cherry popping, V card stamping and deflowering so bring your critical thinking sledge-hammers to crack open chastity belts worldwide. The book this week was a gift from a friend whom Abby will never forgive, and we pose the question; exactly what is “virginity” and why should we care?

Bonus fun podcast activity: look up synonyms for virginity and rage my fellow booksluts. Raaaaage.

References for nerdy sluts:

• The Latin Book Sam references in relation to historical tests of virginity is called De Secretis Mulierum, or 'Women's Secrets,' frequently attributed to Albertus Magnus, from the 13th or 14th Century. 
• The research Sam refers to is from Laura M. Carpenter :"The ambiguity of “having sex”: The subjective experience of virginity loss in the United States." Journal of Sex Research 38, no. 2 (2001): 127-139.

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Strap in for an episode of cock-filled nonsense. On a quest to find something that actually gets the blood flowing, Sam brings ‘The Collection’ by Nina Leger to the studio for an in depth discussion of Nymphomania while Abby becomes side-tracked by the politics of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). We meet in the middle to look at the history of pathologising women and why so many debunked ideas of women’s sexuality are still used in popular culture. 

*Content warning* this episode includes references to female genital mutilation

References for nerdy sluts 

• Ussher, Jane. “What Makes a Woman a Nymphomaniac?” The Conversation, 25 December, 2013. Available at: https://theconversation.com/what-makes-a-woman-a-nymphomaniac-20306
• Luta, Isabella. "Nymphs and nymphomania: mythological medicine and classical nudity in nineteenth Century Britain." Journal of International Women's Studies 18, no. 3 (2017): 35-50. Retrieved 15 March, 2020 from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol18/iss3/4
• Piquet-Pessôa, Marcelo, Gabriela M. Ferreira, Isabela A. Melca, and Leonardo F. Fontenelle. "DSM-5 and the decision not to include sex, shopping or stealing as addictions." Current Addiction Reports 1, no. 3 (2014): 172-176. Retrieved 15 March, 2020 from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-014-0027-6
• Groneman, Carol. "Nymphomania: The historical construction of female sexuality." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, no. 2 (1994): 337-367. Retrieved 15 March, 2020, from: www.jstor.org/stable/3174802

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Abby takes her first steps into Harry Potter fan fiction and we realise that maybe we’ve missed our calling. Join us for a discussion of wizarding sex toys, the eroticism of Firenze and the possibilities of a horcrux orgy.

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In this episode we go back to the 18th century to look at the first Western erotic novel, the aptly titled Fanny Hill. Within the pages we discover that thigh sex is a thing and that the 18th century had a lot of fun words for genitalia. Give it a go with your lovers, spice up your dirty talk and report back.

*Content warning* this episode contains references to rape. 

For those looking to check our academic sources or for further reading (you nerdy, saucy minxes!):

• Weed, David. "Fitting Fanny: Cleland's" Memoirs" and the Politics of Male Pleasure." In Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 7-20. Duke University Press, 1997.
• Fisher, Will. "“Wantoning with the Thighs”: The Socialization of Thigh Sex in England, 1590–1730." Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, no. 1 (2015): 1-24.
• McCracken, David. "A Burkean Analysis of the Sublimity and the Beauty of the Phallus in John Cleland’s Fanny Hill." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 29, no. 3 (2016): 138-141.
• Lubey, Kathleen. Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760. Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.

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It’s time to look at the creepier side of sex. What happens when you combine horror and erotica, two of the most maligned genres of literature? Is there anything scarier than a sexually empowered woman? And why is Abby kind of turned on by people getting turned inside out?

*Content warning* this episode contains some references to suicide 

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