Sex. Love. Literature.
Ayanni Cooper and Corinne Matthews
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LP 05 - Checking In & Sparking Joy
Sex. Love. Literature.
09/16/21 • 49 min
E18 Love Is Blind and Other Dating Reality TV (Part 2)
Sex. Love. Literature.
05/23/22 • 57 min
In the second of two episodes on Netflix’s Love is Blind, we continue our discussion with June and Lauren on dating reality television. We get into the gendered expectations around love and sex; why you should never feel guilty about enjoying reality shows; and our guests’ favorite matchmaking show of all time, Are You the One?
You can find Lauren and June's new show, Under Review, where ever you get your podcasts. (But here's a link to their Spotify page: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H32AGeE1ZQeRSNfy3AATI?si=422e16fdf7bf4e8e)
*SLL will be on hiatus through September 2022*
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Lit discussed this episode includes:
Love Is Blind, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Mr. Sunshine (Kdrama), Are You The One?, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Iron Chef, Nailed It, Survivor, and more~
The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig.
“What’s Sparking Joy” BGM is Candy-Coloured Sky by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
E17 Love Is Blind and Other Dating Reality TV (Part 1)
Sex. Love. Literature.
04/08/22 • 62 min
This episode, we’re joined by Lauren and June, two fellow PhD candidates and podcasters, to discuss Netflix’s Love is Blind and other dating/matchmaking reality shows. In the first part of two, we discuss how being on a reality show turns people into characters, get into our own reality TV viewing practices, and discover that Ayanni has seen way more of them than she thought!
You can find Lauren and June's new show, Under Review, where ever you get your podcasts. (But here's a link to their Spotify page: https://open.spotify.com/show/1H32AGeE1ZQeRSNfy3AATI?si=422e16fdf7bf4e8e)
Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @SexLoveLit.
Lit discussed this episode includes:
Love Is Blind, Below Deck: Sailing Yacht, The Bachelor, Next, I Love New York, Business Proposal, Thirty-Nine, Obey Me: One Master to Rule Them All, Mr. Sunshine, Dear Shandy, Tick Tick Boom, The Floor is Lava, Millionaire Matchmaker, Too Hot To Handle and more~
The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig.
“What’s Sparking Joy” BGM is Candy-Coloured Sky by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
E15 Hulu's The Great, Season 2 (Part 2)
Sex. Love. Literature.
12/23/21 • 70 min
In part two of two of our The Great, Season Two deep dive, we focus more on the second half of the season. We take a closer look at Peter and Catherine’s evolving relationship, how sex is used to build story, and why, to quote Aunt Elizabeth, “Women don’t end up with men who fuck their mothers.” If you'd like more info about where the season begins, as well as in-depth character introductions, listen to the first part of our The Great mini-arc (Episode 14).
You can find The Great on Hulu.
Media mentioned in "What's Sparking Joy":
- "Millennial Love" from the Search: WWW soundtrack
- "Se Acabó" by Bomba Estéreo
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E14 Hulu's The Great, Season 2 (Part 1)
Sex. Love. Literature.
12/23/21 • 61 min
Welcome to the first of our two-part deep dive on Hulu's "anti-historical" comedy-drama: The Great, Season 2. We had so much to say (and honestly, there was just so much sex) we decided to break our discussion in half. This episode, we focus on where we find Peter, Catherine, and the Russian Court as the season opens on Catherine’s chaotic coup. Now that she has Russia, what's she gonna do with it?
You can find The Great on Hulu.
Media mentioned in "What's Sparking Joy":
- Happiness (KDrama, Viki);
- The Wheel of Time (Amazon);
- Doom At Your Service (Kdrama, Viki);
- Arcane (Netflix);
Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @SexLoveLit.
E13 Hometown Cha Cha Cha (Korean Drama)
Sex. Love. Literature.
11/10/21 • 91 min
The SLL crew takes a trip to the seaside and deep dives into another Korean drama: Netflix's Hometown Cha Cha Cha. This episode, we’re joined by friend/spouse-of-the-show Andrew Cooper as we chat about the "manic pixie dream guy," the allures of small-town neighborhood stories, and ask ourselves how much rom com is too much rom com 🤔
Corinne was a guest on the Afternoona Delight Podcast episode "All About Kdrama Kissing," which you can listen to here, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can learn more about the Noonas on their podcast website: https://www.afternoonadelight.com/.
You can find Hometown Cha Cha Cha on Netflix.
Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @SexLoveLit.
E01 Hulu's The Great (Season 1)
Sex. Love. Literature.
08/24/20 • 59 min
La Petite 01 - True Beauty (Korean Drama)
Sex. Love. Literature.
04/12/21 • 27 min
Episode Content Warning: Brief Mention of Suicide and Abuse.
Introducing La Petite SLL, our new mini-episodes! This time, we take a quick look at the use of the tropes “Love Makes You Evil” and “If I Can’t Have You, No One Can” in the popular Korean Webtoon turned drama True Beauty. What happens when a female friendship turns sour because of jealousy over a man, and why do we hate it so much 😒??
Don't forget to subscribe to Sex. Love. Literature! You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @SexLoveLit. Mention of abuse at (10:55) and of suicide at (23:44)
LP 07 Sparking Joy in 2022: A Pop-Culture Roundup
Sex. Love. Literature.
02/09/22 • 49 min
In this "La Petite," we check in about pop culture that has brought us joy in the past and present, and hopefully will continue do so in the future. We start off with a round of “What’s [Was] Sparking Joy” for us in January, move on to thinking about our favorite pop culture of 2021, and then what we’re looking forward to in 2022. What media are you looking forward to this year?
You can find Corinne on episode 199 of Vox Popcast, Nancy Drew & the Hidden Staircase to Pop Culture Immortality~
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All the lit discussed this episode:
- Midnight Poppy Land by Lilydusk
- Our Beloved Summer
- Ranking of Kings
- Bad Mode by Utada Hikaru
- Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore
- Hospital Playlist
- Mad for Each Other
- Daebak Realty
- Doom At Your Service
- Yumi's Cells
- Arcane
- Jujutsu Kaitsen
- Welcome to Your Fantasy (podcast)
- Afternoona Delight (podcast)
- In the Serpent’s Wake by Rachel Hartman (and Tess of the Road)
- Into the Spider-verse 2
- His Dark Materials
- Everything, Everywhere, All At Once
- Destiny 2
(This episode was recorded on January 22.)
The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig.
“What’s Sparking Joy” BGM is Candy-Coloured Sky by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
We used a room tone from http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
E33 Rinko-San Wants to Try (Rinko-san wa shitemitai)
Sex. Love. Literature.
10/13/23 • 75 min
This episode, on the recommendation of an SLL listener, we’re excited to do a deep dive into the Japanese Drama, Rinko-San Wants to Try. We get into how the show complicates conceptions of virginity, plays with the friends with benefits trope, and maybe get in our feelings a lil bit about a second female lead who really got under Ayanni’s skin.
As two people who study, analyze, and have a literal podcast about media, we stand in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike–along with their counterparts in other industries/countries, who also deserve fair wages and labor protections–none of the works we discuss here or in other episodes would exist.
Lit discussed this episode: Get Up EP by NewJeans, Pop Culture Happy Hour (this episode specifically: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/1193958358/newjeans-is-a-new-kind-of-k-pop-juggernaut), My Dearest, Hit the Spot, Because This is My First Life, Lost You Forever, Friends With Benefits, No Strings Attached, Nevertheless..., Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Sex Education
Bonus reading (aka works cited & consulted):
- Jones, Gretchen. "'Ladies' Comics': Japan's Not-So-Underground Market in Pornography for Women." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement, no. 22, 2002, pp. 3-31.
- Lieber-Milo, S. “Cute at an Older Age: A Case Study of Otona-Kawaii”. Mutual Images Journal, no. 10, Dec. 2021, pp. 93-108, doi:10.32926/2021.10.lie.otona.
- Sato, Kumiko. "From Hello Kitty to Code Row Kewpie: A Postwar Cultural History of Cuteness in Japan." Asian Intercultural Contacts, vol. 14, no. 2, 2009. https://www.asianstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/from-hello-kitty-to-cod-roe-kewpie-a-postwar-cultural-history-of-cuteness-in-japanA.pdf
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The SLL Theme music is “Pluck It Up” by Dan Henig. What’s Sparking Joy BGM is "Candy-Coloured Sky" by Catmosphere | https://soundcloud.com/ctmsphr; Released by Paper Crane Collective; Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
Recorded September 2023
SLL is a podcast relishing the romantic, the sexy, and the scandalous in pop-culture. English academics by day and podcasters by night, hosts Ayanni and Corinne take a semi-scholarly look at why the “sex-stuff” in media matters in the bedroom—and beyond.
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How many episodes does Sex. Love. Literature. have?
Sex. Love. Literature. currently has 60 episodes available.
What topics does Sex. Love. Literature. cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts and Tv & Film.
What is the most popular episode on Sex. Love. Literature.?
The episode title 'E26 Hit the Spot aka Fanta G Spot (Part 2)' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Sex. Love. Literature.?
The average episode length on Sex. Love. Literature. is 61 minutes.
How often are episodes of Sex. Love. Literature. released?
Episodes of Sex. Love. Literature. are typically released every 26 days, 20 hours.
When was the first episode of Sex. Love. Literature.?
The first episode of Sex. Love. Literature. was released on Aug 23, 2020.
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