Melissa Febos: Hickeys, Daddy Issues, and Celibacy

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Melissa Febos talks about how the conditions of our childhoods inform our adult relationships, dealing with daddy issues (yay!!!), and her new book, Abandon Me. Melissa also discusses the freedom in the lack of societal scripts around queer sex, why her life as a dominatrix helped prepare her for teaching higher ed, and why she chose to be celibate for six months. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1 You can recommend a guest or let us know what you think about the show on Twitter or by emailing [email protected] More information: www.LGBTQpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Hey, this is LGBTQ&A, where we get to know different members of the LGBTQ community.
0:05.5	I'm Jeffrey Masters, and I'm here today with Melissa Fibos.
0:08.5	Melissa is the author of Whipsmart about her time as a dominatrix, and her new book is called Abandon Me.
0:13.7	Stay tuned. Hey, Melissa.
0:27.3	Hi.
0:28.3	Welcome to the show.
0:29.1	Thank you.
0:29.8	Thank you for having me.
0:30.6	You're so welcome.
0:31.6	It feels a little weird saying your name, I have to be honest, after everything you wrote in the book about it.
0:36.8	Because you feel like you know me. I feel like I know you wrote in the book about it. Because you feel
0:37.5	like you know me. I feel like I know you and I feel like I know what saying your name like connotates.
0:43.0	Oh, right. Because there's a whole essay about my name. Yes. It's true. You know, I once walked into a meeting
0:47.6	with an editor when I was my agent and I were shopping the book and I walked into the office in this
0:52.4	very sort of like well composed
0:54.4	editor was like hi and I was like hi and she was like I know a lot about you I was like it's true
1:03.8	but I know nothing about you right isn't that also kind of just like a given for like memoirs
1:09.8	hopefully right I'm used to it.
1:11.7	Yeah, I mean, also, I guess it'd be like very, it would be very bad if they were like,
1:15.2	I don't know anything about you.
1:16.1	I just read 300 pages.
1:17.0	So what's your story?
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