«Wait, Is This a Date?» Podcast Episode 104: Sexting or Something Like It | Autostraddle

Exactly what comes after DM slides? Sexting! Or you’re me personally there are like six even more tips. Nonetheless our very own main subject recently is actually sexting and we also’re joined by among my personal very preferred article authors:
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
.

We begin with a game of Sapho or Drew’s 2014 Journal prior to getting into all ins and outs of sextual interactions. We’re chatting tenses, we are talking instigation, we are talking pictures — like the huge probabilities of the alive picture. This week all of our immediate interaction is also hotter than normal!


SHOW NOTES

+ regrettably, you need to be Kayla’s gf observe her writing skills via sext, but everyone can read her ability as a copywriter in fiction. Discover certainly the best stories by the girl:

Field Games

.

+ We’ve been seeking a lesbian Grindr as evidenced by
this informative article
from B Nichols circa 2011.

+ And by
this podcast event
with Shelli out of this season.

+ Evidently Scissr
generated the Guardian
before the ill-fated launch.

+ I in fact interviewed Mae Martin two times. After
period one
and after
period two
.

+ Okay now I’m perplexed just how

The Huntsman: Winter’s War

actually gay?? I am talking about, look at this photo:



Drew:

Are you doing role plays out of a scenario of, «You’re pressing me now» or, «If only you had been pressing me personally?» Exactly what tense are we in?


Kayla:

Yeah, I happened to be gonna ask alike question really, for the reason that it’s a thing that’s usually interesting for me, especially even though we are all writers also.


Christina:

I found myself browsing say a small grouping of article authors. Just what tight tend to be we working in, exactly how tend to be we feeling? Is this a close next? What is occurring right here?


Drew:

Hi, I Am Drew!


Christina:

I Am Christina!


Drew:

And introducing

Hold Off, Is It A Romantic Date?


Christina:


Hold Off, Is It A Romantic Date

is actually an Autostraddle podcast focused on the wild and crazy world of matchmaking.


Drew:

Queer matchmaking.


Christina:

You mentioned one thing untamed. I happened to be gonna introduce my self again but i am grateful you stated queer relationship, In my opinion that is actually an improved changeover.


Drew:

But kindly queer, introduce your self.


Christina:

As Drew mentioned, I am Queer, I-go by Christina, periodically. I am a writer at Autostraddle, a queer on the net that is typically deranged and after this i have already been ingesting a bag of M&Ms, only a Ziploc case of M&Ms from day to night. I do feel lightly sick, but that is the bet i have made a decision to get.


Drew:

I think it sounds beneficial?


Christina:

Yeah, I’m experiencing great about it. There is merely M&Ms in right here and Whiteclaw.


Drew:

Cool.


Christina:

Let us quest on. That are you?


Drew:

Successful mix. I am Drew Gregory, i’m additionally an author at Autostraddle in which i really do many movie protection also talk about matchmaking, queer matchmaking. I am in addition a filmmaker and a trans lesbian.


Christina:

Hot. Sick and hot.


Drew:

Yeah. I additionally spent the week-end with my family for the first time since the pandemic. So, this is where I’m getting into this podcast event from that headspace and memories.


Christina:

Yes. That’s a truly interesting energy to create in, I’m happy you have it. There is a-game, depending on typical, to experience.


Drew:

Yes. Yes, we do.


Christina:

Immediately after which we’re going to have the main talk with these special secret visitor, the person you do not get to know exactly who its but, audience.


Drew:

Yeah. And our very own topic recently is sexting.


Christina:

Blah! which is how I experience sexting, we’re going to enter it.


Drew:

Appropriate.


Christina:

Let us beginning. Why don’t we begin this game!


Drew:

Cool, you look awesome comfortable. Okay. Very, the last time that we created a game title, it was to roast you, Christina.


Christina:

Yes, that’s me personally.


Drew:

Thus, I was thinking that this week i’d pull in a casino game to roast myself.


Christina:

Oh, fascinating.


Drew:

Yeah. So, title for this video game is the extremely artistically titled «Sappho or Drew’s 2014 log?» So, i’ll be saying some rates and you’re going to let me know if you feel the offer is through Sappho or by me personally in 2014. I could provide some framework if you need, or we are able to only leap right in.


Christina:

Nope, I Have it. Why don’t we roll.


Drew:

Great. Okay. Therefore, very first quote is actually: «worries of demise is actually driving a car period.»


Christina:

Fuck. This is certainly gonna be more difficult than I imagined. I’m going to state, I’m going to claim that’s you.


Drew:

Truly me. Great job. Okay. Another one: «again, really love pushes me personally on.»


Christina:

Are some of these likely to be both? That feels like it might be both.


Drew:

No. that might be great but no, none of them tend to be both.


Christina:

Okay. So, then again, I simply must claim that which Drew.


Drew:

No, that’s Sappho.


Christina:

Damn, that is Drew fuel.


Drew:

Yeah. There are plenty of these being, these include pretty much all Drew energy, and evidently all Sappho fuel.


Christina:

No. Yeah. I get the game, turns out.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Okay.


Drew:

Okay. «I’m not sure what you should do, my personal thoughts are broken down.»


Christina:

Sappho.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Yes. I am fist putting.


Drew:

Yeah, fist push away.


Christina:

Thanks.


Drew:

«the woman locks are as silver because the mirror she holds and it flows the whole way down the woman back.»


Christina:

Sappho.


Drew:

No, which is me.


Christina:

Drew! Wow, all right.


Drew:

«I’m not expected to talk but I nod and react to the woman touch.»


Christina:

Drew.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Yeah.


Drew:

«i need to suffer.»


Christina:

Once again, Sappho but I want it to be both.


Drew:

It is Sappho.


Christina:

Yeah.


Drew:

«existence will simply be therefore diligent.»


Christina:

Drew?


Drew:

Uh-huh (affirmative), you are undertaking well only at that. I want you to know that I tried this from various pals plus they were unsuccessful, like statistically performed even worse than they should have, so that you’re killing it yet. Okay. «She slid her definitely my personal as well as through my personal locks and I also started performing the exact same to the lady, shortly we were kissing.»


Christina:

Sappho?


Drew:

No, that is me.


Christina:

Hair is a theme for you personally, clocking that.


Drew:

Oh, yeah. Check that. «i’ve perhaps not got one-word from the lady. Frankly, I wish I were dead.»


Christina:

Drew?


Drew:

No, that is Sappho.


Christina:

Deleting my personal profile. Sappho.


Drew:

Yeah. «You emerged and that I ended up being longing for you.»


Christina:

Ooh, Sappho.


Drew:

Yeah. «i wish to say something but embarrassment prevents me personally.»


Christina:

Drew.


Drew:

No, that’s Sappho.


Christina:

But things had been generated, i do believe by myself.


Drew:

Yeah.


Christina:

Yeah.


Drew:

Definitely.


Christina:

Certainly.


Drew:

I think which is the most me of these, basically fantastic because gay embarrassment has just been happening for millennia.


Christina:

Yeah. Untold millennia, its element of all of our community and society. Hot.


Drew:

«There is the painter and there is the woman examining by herself, external, interior, who is she?»


Christina:

Which Is Drew.


Drew:

Really.


Christina:

Yeah. Is that 14-year-old Drew?


Drew:

No, no, no. 2014 myself. Very, this will be yeah. Therefore, that is all from my record. Thus, that has been really me personally journaling in a museum and that I ended up being merely extremely hit by painting, because who doesn’t journle in galleries?


Christina:

Are you homosexual?


Drew:

I would end up being homosexual.


Christina:

You are gay. When your youngsters are journaling in museums they could be homosexual, only an email.


Drew:

Everybody else should be aware that I happened to be not out in the cabinet at that time thus, it was fully merely, thought I happened to be a direct man.


Christina:

Vibing.


Drew:

Yes. Vibing indeed. Okay, some more. «you have thoughts as a result of what we should performed in the past as soon as we were new only at that.»


Christina:

Sappho.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Yes. I am great.


Drew:

You are doing quite nicely. Okay. «we just drift collectively and move apart the remnants of the most useful interests lingering since next great enthusiasm presents itself.»


Christina:

Drew.


Drew:

Yeah. I found myselfn’t maintaining rating however’ve received these types of.


Christina:

Yeah, i am additionally now regretting not keeping score. I’d have hated if we were maintaining rating and I was actually performing defectively, but now that I’m successful, I’m like, just what—


Drew:

I’m going to say you’ve gotten nine correct.


Christina:

Okay. That appears like a great number.


Drew:

Yeah. Okay. Here is the final one.


Christina:

Okay.


Drew:

It really is a very complicated one though. Okay?


Christina:

I’ve reached get 10.


Drew:

Yeah. Okay. Ready? «I woke right up this morning with a big pimple needs to develop under the skin between my personal eyebrows daily before my personal date, needless to say.»


Christina:

I’m going to claim that’s Drew.


Drew:

It is. Large surprise, large surprise.


Christina:

Large surprise, large shock. Sappho had not been letting all of us to the zits of her existence, unfortunately.


Drew:

Well, thanks a lot a great deal for playing.


Christina:

Wow. Which was very fun.


Drew:

I’m hoping you learned many about myself, or learned absolutely nothing about me.


Christina:

I think We discovered, personally discovered that my personal understanding of you is actually proper hence our company is pals. And that I genuinely believe that’s a fantastic thing for my situation to master.


Drew:

Yeah. I found myself experiencing a breakup during this time, it had been harsh.


Christina:

Yeah, didn’t appear perhaps not rough, we’ll claim that, did not appear gentle, maybe we could state?


Drew:

I survived, so performed Sappho, well eventually she died but, you realize


Christina:

Sure, sure, sure. Are you ready to talk about our very own primary subject? Do you think we are psychologically truth be told there?


Drew:

Oh, my personal God, i am thus prepared.


Christina:

I am ready, once more, to accomplish plenty of reading, it is gonna be a listen and discover area in my situation and I also’m actually grateful that individuals have actually this type of a guest who is therefore brilliant and careful and, i believe, a professional inside the world of sexting.


Drew:

Oh, I concur. Kayla, would you like to introduce your self?


Kayla:

Yes. I’m Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, I am in addition a writer at Autostraddle and elsewhere on the web, yeah.


Christina:

Sexting specialist, sextpert.


Kayla:

And sexting specialist. Yes.


Christina:

Yes. I am getting that in all of your supplies moving forward.


Kayla:

It is a very important section of my personal CV.


Christina:

Sure. Yes. We love to admire a CV here.


Drew:

Needs the folks in the home, or wherever you’re playing this, to know that, I am not sure, per month ago We texted Kayla to inquire of for advice on exactly what it’s choose satisfy some body when you’ve been having an online courtship, whatever, and Kayla, I was wanting this psychological support, et cetera, etc. And Kayla ended up being like, Oh, we simply sexted. I happened to be like, first got it, started using it, first got it. Okay, cool. Cool, cool.


Kayla:

Yeah, it wasn’t that strong, I guess initially.


Christina:

I think that is actually an attractive, simply a great means of framing things. Things we can usually deliver a Drew/perhaps Sappho perspective to circumstances. Could always be very deep, but sometimes it will start out not too deep and acquire deep, which is really breathtaking. Needs everybody around to remember that gorgeous thing.


Drew:

Yeah. Thus, what exactly is your link to sexting? Have you ever usually enjoyed it? Can it be always been something which’s, has actually it created as time passes your comfortability with-it?


Kayla:

Yeah. What i’m saying is, i do believe i did so constantly adore it, I wasn’t sexting right up a violent storm in my, I am not sure, like in school or such a thing, After all, to be fair, I found myself profoundly closeted. And, my dating and intimate record was actually all-kind of a mess for a while but once I did come out, I would personally state yes, that sexting was actually anything I became into practically right-away and part of it, I think simply getting a former Tumblr child somewhat. I found myself just familiar with connecting with others by doing so, using the internet, over book or whatever. I would done that for a long time, this just thought really natural for me, particularly since I have hadn’t had some sex and material. Very, it almost believed much easier initially after which I just realized that I appreciated it, therefore proceeded, and yeah. But then there clearly was a long time frame in which I didn’t really think about sexting much, it had been within my last commitment immediately after which whenever that union ended in a pretty remarkable method, out of the blue there was clearly this era of the time where I found myself sexting constantly, whoever, anytime, anywhere.


Christina:

Merely «You up?» consistently.


Kayla:

Exactly. It absolutely was a steady flow. Yeah. Which is my personal journey with sexting, I guess. It is not many, plenty, maybe not a large amount once more.


Christina:

Peaks and valleys.


Kayla:

Exactly.


Drew:

If you’re sexting, do you really largely, really does which means that sending pictures to you or will it suggest filthy talk text texting sexting?


Kayla:

Yeah…


Christina:

That was a concern I really have for people, because You will find problems delineating thereon top.


Kayla:

Yeah, I think that, which is a thing that varies one person to another because for me I usually, it is a multimedia knowledge. You’ve got the texts, you’ve got the photographs, you really have i assume that’s it, I’m sure many people would sound message type things, i am less into that, i believe.


Christina:

You are not sending a VR lens or something, there is no Oculus happening?


Kayla:

I want a 4D experience.


Christina:

Yeah.


Kayla:

No. It really is more or less simply messages and photographs but I am not always planning on that reciprocally, I guess, is what i’d say would be that, i love to use photographs but I am not like, «Now I need photos!’


Christina:

Yeah, «Pics or it didn’t occur!»


Kayla:

Precisely. I am not sure about you, Drew.


Drew:

Yeah. What i’m saying is, personally i think like We’ll do both but generally at different occuring times. Personally I think like whenever I’m delivering photos, I’m picture prepared and therefore doesn’t merely imply, I don’t know, appropriate everything is trimmed and bare and etc, etc, additionally only spiritually, I think truly a different sort of power that Now I need in order to book sext versus send photographs sext, and that I don’t know. I additionally feel like a lot of times in terms of sending images, I think I will do a lot more of, that is for — not for everybody, however for like 20 men and women to my close friends or whatever, in place of delivering it especially to someone. That is a lot more for, easily’m in a relationship, I’ll send sexy photographs but I really don’t often send pictures to someone who i am freshly internet dating or interested in, but I will a lot more book. I also believe I’m much better at, I am not sure, like i am an author much better than i am a photographer?


Christina:

Needless to say, yeah. That is correct.


Drew:

And thus, personally i think like i really could with confidence declare that I’m decent on texting area of sexting.


Christina:

Yeah, I would personally believe that of you. That appears like some thing, a skill ready you would have.


Drew:

Yeah. But we essentially just do that if I’ve had intercourse with someone prior to. I don’t—


Kayla:

Really?


Drew:

Yeah…


Christina:

Okay. Very, interesting, fascinating.


Drew:

Well, there is two. Both, i am going to take action with someone that i have had intercourse with before or whom I don’t think i am going to actually have sexual intercourse with.


Christina:

Oh, okay. Positive. Okay.


Drew:

For instance, You will find sexted with others that happen to be, I am not sure, just who slid into my DMS and inhabit, I’m not sure, there seemed to be an individual who stayed in Paris who was talking to me during the pandemic and I also was actually like, «It’s a pandemic. You Are Living on an alternate continent, this is so perhaps not real—


Kayla:

The limits are low.


Drew:

Yeah, like whatever. Just in case someday we found, fantastic, nonetheless it didn’t feel — I wasn’t internet dating this individual, but We have stop whenever circumstances started to relocate that direction using individual who i am practically dating in Canada where it really feels as though, «Oh, at some point i am going to have intercourse using this individual, most likely.» And so the majority of sexting in my experience in text lies in the things I be aware of the person is actually into, and that which we’ve done together or the thing I genuinely believe that they will wish me to do, and that I merely feel just like basically have not in fact had sex because of the person—


Christina:

You will want that standard knowledge.


Drew:

I think very.


Christina:

And after that you wanna convert that inside texting space.


Drew:

Yeah, I Do Believe therefore.


Christina:

Interesting.


Kayla:

Yeah, i am talking about, i am the complete opposite. I am wanting to contemplate an example where I didn’t do the precise inverse of these. I’ve always, basically was frequently sexting with some one, it was sexting taken place for a while before we in fact had sex, and I really very nearly use it as a chance and figure out what they can be into.


Christina:

Appropriate, you are bringing your learn knowledge in to the real space sooner or later.


Kayla:

Yes.


Christina:
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