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'X' explores pleasure and pain in a dystopic world

'X' explores pleasure and pain in a dystopic world

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How do freedom and rights intersect with sex, pleasure and the
self? It's a question the U.S. is facing in the wake of the Supreme
Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade — and a central
theme in writer Davey Davis's new novel. In X, Davis relocates the
conflict over these ideas from courts and abortion clinics to queer
clubs and BDSM dungeons in a more dystopic version of our
present.

In this episode, guest host Anna Sale talks to Davis about why
sadism is romantic, how bureaucracy can become a tool of oppression
and why bad behavior doesn't make us less human.

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