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Speaker 1: Pushkin. I'm Emmaline Nagowski and this is the Come as

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Speaker 1: you Are podcast where I answer questions about sex with science.

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Speaker 1: And in this episode, we're doing something a little different. Mo.

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Speaker 1: What are we doing today? Hey, Emily, So today we're

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Speaker 1: going to do an episode called real Talk, Fake Sex.

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Speaker 1: And here's how it works. I'm going to play you

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Speaker 1: a clip from pop culture. It could be anything about sex,

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Speaker 1: and you, as an expert sex educator, are going to

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Speaker 1: very importantly, at the end of the episode, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to ask you to rate the scene from zero stars

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Speaker 1: to five stars okay on the Emali Nagosky scale of

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Speaker 1: how great is this scene in terms of like, is

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Speaker 1: it violence portrayed as sex or is it actual doing

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Speaker 1: the work of sex educators everywhere and making everyone sex

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Speaker 1: life better? Yep? Pop culture can do everything in that range. Yep.

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Speaker 1: I know that you are a little averse to pop culture. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to say that I live under a rock is maybe

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Speaker 1: it's not an understatement, but oh, it's very close to

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Speaker 1: the description. But in particular things about sexuality in pop culture.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm here to answer questions about sex with science

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Speaker 1: and So many of the myths that people bring to

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Speaker 1: me in their questions are things they learned from pop culture.

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Speaker 1: So the reason I'm willing to experience this torture of

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Speaker 1: it's important for us to break down the myths as

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Speaker 1: they are represented to us. But some pop culture things

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Speaker 1: it's worth highlighting those two. Actually, let me just do

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Speaker 1: a little survey really quickly. I get a sense of

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Speaker 1: where you're coming from in your pop culture knowledge. Are

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Speaker 1: you ready? Have you ever seen Sex in the City.

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Speaker 1: I have seen a fragment of one episode. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: good to know. Have you ever seen the Tracy Ellis

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Speaker 1: show sex Education on Netflix? I have only seen the

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Speaker 1: meme of the girl who says, have you read that book?

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Speaker 1: Come as you are? Only Negowski? It's really good, just

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Speaker 1: you know most women's volves don't look likely do on Pornhub?

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Speaker 1: Good to know that your starting place for pop culture

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Speaker 1: So Emily, I have devised a five star rating system.

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