If you want to skip some serious talk about dating violence, including stalking and sexual abuse, that discussion takes place from 32:22-1:03:22.
Twisted Love is absolutely a book, we absolutely read it, and now, we are absolutely terrified for the female population! Join us for a deeply researched, at times harrowing discussion of our most bonkers book yet, which features a "romance" between a delusional 22-year-old woman and the man hell-bent on abusing — sorry, wooing — her. The book also features weird toddler flashbacks, a lot of Krav Maga, and dubcon sex in an apple orchard, but we genuinely don't have time to get into all that. Hope you enjoy some little-known facts about human sexuality and domestic violence instead.
The books cited in this episode were Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski and Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft. Here is the Guardian article Lena mentioned about sexual strangulation.
Thanks, as always, to Deoxys Beats for our intro and outro music, "RedLips."
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