Human sexual activity

Hi, Eric.

So, in this week's episode, Medea and I chat with Isabella Scott about her new book, The Bed Trick, Sex and Deception on Trial.

And I said this in our author intro, but this is one of those, like...

It's, if not stranger than fiction, it is as strange as fiction, you know, which is kind of apropos because the bed trick is like a literary trope about like not knowing who you're in bed with or who you might, the sexual deception, in other words.

We are joined today by Isabella Scott.

Based in London, Isabella's writing has been published in Granta, the Financial Times, and the London Review of Books.

She joins us today to discuss her debut, The Bed Trick, Sex and Deception on Trial.

Now, the case at the center of this book is, if not stranger than fiction, at least as strange as fiction can be.

Hi, Eric.

So, in this week's episode, Medea and I chat with Isabella Scott about her new book, The Bed Trick, Sex and Deception on Trial.

And I said this in our author intro, but this is one of those, like...

It's, if not stranger than fiction, it is as strange as fiction, you know, which is kind of apropos because the bed trick is like a literary trope about like not knowing who you're in bed with or who you might, the sexual deception, in other words.

We are joined today by Isabella Scott.

Based in London, Isabella's writing has been published in Granta, the Financial Times, and the London Review of Books.

She joins us today to discuss her debut, The Bed Trick, Sex and Deception on Trial.

Now, the case at the center of this book is, if not stranger than fiction, at least as strange as fiction can be.

And sexual.

Let's not forget sexual.

Sexual is the biggest thing.

Yes.

I mean,

putain just means fuck.

Putain.

Fuck checker.

It means fuck.

We're going to go to GoogleTranslate.com.

I don't think that's how you spell it.

How the fuck? P-U-T-I-N, I'm guessing.

Fucking.

But my point here is that, like, it's not about, like, the framing of addiction, but it is about the framing of, like, I am doing this.

I think I guess what I'm saying is more and more as I think about this practice, the more I realize that, like, Sex, because I don't have a regular sexual partner, I very rarely have even a short period where I have a repeat sexual partner.

You know, that like a porn, well, wanking and porn is a part of my like escapism and my like relief from the world.

There's a reliability on it.

Maybe they still make me feel good.

Maybe we have great, amazing, you know, S.E.X. And I really enjoy that.

And so I want to be connected to that person.

Right.

'Cause there's so many frameworks that the kink community has created around consent and aftercare-

Mm-hmm

Mm-hmmI'm currently teaching my Pleasure Liberation Sexuality program.

It's like a 16-week program, small groups, and one of my members was like, "I don't like the word aftercare.

I like continued care."