The Ethical Slut

My grad program would disagree with you.

In my marriage and family counseling class, I had to read a book called The Ethical Slut, which is why polyamory is great.

You should have open marriages and stuff like that.

They pretend to be value neutral, but they have a very definite set of values they're

Well, it was in a polyamory conference that I'd been invited to speak at.

And they had come in to meet, I guess, Dossie Easton is a friend of theirs, one of the authors of The Ethical Slut.

And we shook hands and they said, congratulations on your book.

And I, oh, thank you very much.

And so the question that began to burn in my soul was, okay, but when is my body for myself? Like, when is my body for me? And that unraveled an awakening in me, if you will, because the message is never that your body is your own.

And I remember reading the book, Ethical Slut, and Forgive me, I don't recall the two authors who wrote that book.

But I remember in the book, it said, sex is fun and pleasure is good for you.

And just those few words together, sex is fun and pleasure is good for you.

Just was I was like, I don't think I've ever read that on paper before.

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And the book

I recommend to read about those things that like open my mind so much is it's called The Ethical Slut.

Yes.

I also talked about it last

They keep saying E and M.

All I know is this man did not read The Ethical Slut.

I don't think he's quoting it from that.

Well, I just don't think he thinks very much about it.

Okay.

Well, you know Janet and Dossie from The Ethical Slut, yeah?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, yeah.

Speaking of, I've been reading, which I feel very late to the game, especially being somebody who talks about sex and open relationships on the, on a weekly podcast.

I've been reading The Ethical Slut.

Have you ever read The, The Ethical Slut?

I've heard of it, yeah.

It's incredible.

Like, it was, it was frosh when I was in college.

Oh, okay.

Anyway, um, I, I really think everybody starting college should be assigned The Ethical Slut.

Listen, I, again, because I'm the type of person that I am, it's all or nothing.

I was like, let me get into what is this polyamory thing? So I picked up The Ethical Slut.

That is a book and it's about polyamory and all this stuff.

I started reading it and then immediately I was like, closed it.

it was a big red band

yeah

we literally spent the day talking all this stuff and i ended up giving him i get i gave him the ethical slut book so he can give it back to broccoli mind you we actually made out at broccoli's place we made out at broccoli's place while broccoli was watching and broccoli kissed him too so i don't understand all these weird people sending mixed messages there was who else was there there was a trad husband trad husband actually i love trad husband

Trad husband is, oh, the one that you knocked down.

if you have all the information.

And we read, and we were reading b- I mean, we read The Ethical Slut, which is-

Mm

... uh, if I can remember the author's name.

... you have all the information

... and we read, and we were reading b- I mean, we read The Ethical Slut, which is, uh...

Mm.

Fucking-