Rachel talks about election anxiety and the book, The Fourth Turning. She is then joined by this month’s guest, Missy XD, author of Tales of a Phone Sex Girl.  They talk about sex work, intimacy, anonymity, and of course, Missy shares some stories from her time on the job!

Episode Notes:

Conversation with MissyXD begins at 00:12:50.

Follow Missy XD:

Book: Tales of a Phone Sex Girl, By Missy XD (2024): https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Phone-Sex-Girl-Missy-ebook/dp/B0D4NJ4GNS 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missy.848375 

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missyxd5 

Discussed in the episode: 

[Intro] Vox, Your Guide To Coping With Election Anxiety, by Allie Volpe (October 28, 2024), https://www.vox.com/even-better/379814/election-anxiety-stress-coping-strategies-control-community 

[Intro] The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny, by William Strauss and Neil Howe (1997): https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464 

[Intro] The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End, by Neil Howe (2023): https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-Here-Seasons-History/dp/1982173734/ref=sr_1_1

Phone Kitten: A Cozy, Romantic, and Highly Humorous Mystery, by Marika Christian (2010):  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11222521-phone-kitten 

Baby Reindeer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13649112/ 

Fatal Attraction: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093010/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 

NY Post, “$4 a minute for fetishes: How the 1-900 phone-sex industry changed America” By Micheal Kaplan (2021): https://nypost.com/2021/11/12/how-the-1-900-phone-sex-industry-changed-america/ 

Touching Base, Inc, “NDIS And Sex Work” by unknown: https://www.touchingbase.org/ndis-and-sex-work/ 

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Podcast artwork by Yogesh Nankar (Design by Dreamers).
Intro and Outro music by John Bartmann.

Book cover artwork used with permission by the author.