Yeah, I did a diagram of love actually recently and like over half of the relationships

in that movie are between like a man and a woman he's never spoken to.

Welcome to Irong about the podcast where we reveal that the lies we believe the most

are the stories we tell ourselves every day. I fucked that up. That was supposed to be a Stephen

Jay Gould quote something about how we get the stories the wrongest that we tell ourselves the most.

Yeah, I think that's true. As I got to my friend's house where I'm now recording this episode,

she was like what are you talking about today? And I was like sexting and she was like oh,

sexting's having a moment isn't it? And I was like I feel like sexting's been having a long

moment for 12 years. Yes, this is definitely a consistent narrative although maybe there's

an archetypal evolution that I'm very sure about the subject matter. I am Michael Hobbs,

I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. I am Sarah Marshall, I'm working on a book about the

Satanic Panic. And today we have a special guest Amy Hasanoff. Hello Amy. Hi, thanks for having me.

Amy is a researcher at the University of Colorado Denver and the author of Sexting Panic. Yeah.

And she got in touch with us about a week ago, two weeks ago, after she listened to our episode

for Halloween last year about the Rainbow Party Panic and she pointed out that we are in the midst

of a teenage sex moral panic about sexting that has been going on for as long as any of us have

been alive. Well, at least of sexting age. As long as any of us have been legal sexting age,

this has been happening. I love the long panics. Well thanks for having me. I'm really sad that I've

almost listened to your entire back catalog. Oh my gosh. It's like it's going to be over and I'll

have to wait like a normal person for each new episode. I feel like I was just old enough when I

started having texting capabilities that I managed to miss this one because I like first

was able to text like my freshman year of college. Okay. So I feel like growing up like right before

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