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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Lovecast at Savage. Love. |
0:05.0 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
0:14.5 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Lovecast. |
0:23.1 | The New York Times had a story this week that I wanted to highlight because it |
0:26.4 | confirmed a couple of my priors. |
0:29.2 | There's been a lot of that going around in the last two weeks. |
0:31.2 | A lot of people out there looking for stories that confirm their priors. |
0:35.6 | And I guess I'm no exception. |
0:38.3 | But I didn't find this particular prior confirming story in the news, politics, or opinion |
0:43.1 | sections of the paper, which is where most people are finding stories that confirm their |
0:47.7 | priors since Kamala Harris lost the election to Donald Trump two weeks ago. |
0:52.5 | Nope, I found this piece in the travel section, and it's not about the election or fleeing |
0:57.0 | the country. |
0:58.3 | It's about, well, it's about tourists who travel to places to have sex with other tourists. |
1:05.9 | The New York Times can't call it sex tourism because that term has very negative connotations. Sex tourism is |
1:12.9 | typically used to refer to people who go someplace far from home to commit a sex crime, which |
1:18.5 | forced the New York Times editors to go with a somewhat clunkier descriptor of this piece. This story |
1:24.1 | about tourists going places to have sex with other tourists, maybe a local or two, |
1:29.4 | isn't a story about sex tourism. |
1:31.1 | It is a story, according to the editors of the New York Times travel section, about how, |
1:35.6 | quote, the tourism industry has embraced the sexual wellness trend in the years since the |
1:41.0 | pandemic ended. |
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