Pleasure-Seeking
Pleasure-Seeking
Podcast Description
The Pleasure-Seeking podcast explores what we want and why we want it, using pop culture and personal experience as entry points to discuss how desire shapes our lives. Expect intimate interviews with intriguing guests, Q&A-style sex and relationship advice, and thought-provoking conversations about how sexuality and modern culture intersect. Hosted by Camille Sojit Pejcha, a journalist whose insights on sexuality and culture have been published in The New York Times and other leading outlets. www.pleasure-seeking.com
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The podcast focuses on themes such as the intersection of desire with pop culture, sexuality's cultural implications, modern relationship dynamics, and personal experience narratives. Key episodes include predictions about sexual trends for 2025, explorations of ethical pornography with industry leader Erika Lust, and discussions on beauty culture's impacts on dating, drawing on films like The Substance as well as contemporary societal critiques.
The Pleasure-Seeking podcast explores what we want and why we want it, using pop culture and personal experience as entry points to discuss how desire shapes our lives. Expect intimate interviews with intriguing guests, Q&A-style sex and relationship advice, and thought-provoking conversations about how sexuality and modern culture intersect. Hosted by Camille Sojit Pejcha, a journalist whose insights on sexuality and culture have been published in The New York Times and other leading outlets.
In this episode, I team up with fellow sex writer Magdalene Taylor to unpack the defining sexual and pop culture moments of 2024 and predict what we think is coming in 2025. We discuss sex in the movies, polyamory’s PR crisis, the politicization of big boobs, bathhouse feminism, Brat summer, the Sapphic pop renaissance, Sabrina Carpenter’s sexuality, the rise and fall of the Girl’s Girl, and so much more.
People, places, and things we mentioned: The Veggietalesification of Culture, as predicted by Brad Troemel; your fave is selling a pedophilic fantasy, by Jade Fax; Post-Election, Beware ‘Self-Care,’ by Jessica DeFino; The “Girl’s Girls” Have Lost The Plot by Magdalene Taylor; All Fours by Miranda July; “bathhouse feminism,” as discussed by Sighswoon, Pornhub’s 2024 data, etc.
Get more of Magdalene’s insights by subscribing to her newsletter Many Such Cases. The podcast is illustrated by Molly Crabapple, with music by Sinning. Thanks for listening!
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