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With Neil Strauss & Esther Perel at The Strand in NYC

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

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I Can't Sleep With Her. I Can Sleep With Him. I Know You Don't Like It. I'm Going to Do That.

"I feel like we make these cultural differences too quickly and too much," he says. "If I don't tell you the truth, then you won't get upset ... You won't have negative emotions that I'll have to go deal with." In a book called Lust in Translation, Pamela Druckerman looks at different cultures' views on affairs. 'Sometimes telling the truth isn't the best move... Sometimes you're telling the truth because you're a selfish bastard,' she writes.

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