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s05e91 | So Over The Rainbow | with Alasdair Gunn & Eliza Mondegreen

Calmversations

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The Dark Sexual Component of Whipping Girl

"Whipping girl" is about a woman being demeaned and then resurrected by the power of the male. "It's pseudo-erotic because it's been that," says author Eliza Drexler. The book has an erotic component, but there are other ways to look at it, she adds.

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