“hold off, So is this a romantic date?” Podcast Episode 104: Sexting or Something enjoy it | Autostraddle

Exactly what comes after DM slides? Sexting! Or if you’re me personally you will find like six more steps. Nevertheless our very own primary subject recently is sexting and in addition we’re accompanied by among my personal very preferred authors:
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
.

We start with a game of Sapho or Drew’s 2014 diary before getting into every particulars of sextual relationships. We are speaking tenses, we are chatting instigation, we are speaking photos — including the huge likelihood of the real time pic. This week all of our drive communication is additionally hotter than normal!


SHOW RECORDS

+ unfortuitously, you ought to be Kayla’s sweetheart observe her writing skills via sext, but anybody can study her writing skills in fiction. Discover one of my favorite stories by the lady:

Field Games

.

+ we have been asking for a lesbian Grindr as evidenced by
this short article
from bridgette b tumblr Nichols circa 2011.

+ and also by
this podcast event
with Shelli using this year.

+ Seemingly Scissr
produced the Guardian
before its ill-fated launch.

+ I really questioned Mae Martin two times. After
season one
and after
season two
.

+ ok I am just baffled just how

The Huntsman: Winter’s War

isn’t really homosexual?? I am talking about, understand this photo:



Drew:

Are you presently performing character plays from a scenario of, “You’re holding myself immediately” or, “I wish you were pressing me?” What tense are we in?


Kayla:

Yeah, I happened to be browsing ask exactly the same question really, for the reason that it’s something that’s always interesting for me, particularly even though many of us are article writers also.


Christina:

I was gonna say a small grouping of writers. What tense are we working in, how tend to be we experiencing? Is this a detailed 3rd? What exactly is occurring right here?


Drew:

Hi, I Am Drew!


Christina:

I Am Christina!


Drew:

And thank you for visiting

Hold Off, So Is This A Romantic Date?


Christina:


Wait, Is This A Date

is actually an Autostraddle podcast specialized in the wild and crazy field of online dating.


Drew:

Queer dating.


Christina:

You said one thing wild. I became likely to present myself personally once again but I’m happy you stated queer matchmaking, i do believe that actually is actually a much better transition.


Drew:

But kindly queer, introduce your self.


Christina:

As Drew pointed out, I am Queer, I go by Christina, periodically. I’m a writer at Autostraddle, a queer on the net who is frequently deranged and today i’ve been ingesting a bag of M&Ms, just a Ziploc case of M&Ms throughout the day. I really do feel gently nauseous, but that is the bet I’ve decided to just take.


Drew:

I believe it sounds beneficial?


Christina:

Yeah, i am feeling great about it. There’s just M&Ms in right here and Whiteclaw.


Drew:

Cool.


Christina:

Let’s journey on. That happen to be you?


Drew:

Winning mix. I am Drew Gregory, i will be also an author at Autostraddle where I do a lot of movie protection in addition to discuss dating, queer dating. I am additionally a filmmaker and a trans lesbian.


Christina:

Hot. Crazy and hot.


Drew:

Yeah. In addition spent the weekend using my family the very first time since the pandemic. Therefore, this is where I’m getting into this podcast event from that headspace and memories.


Christina:

Yes. That’s a really fascinating electricity to take in, i am grateful that you have it. We’ve a-game, according to normal, to try out.


Drew:

Sure. Yes, we would.


Christina:

Immediately after which we’re going to have our very own main discussion with your unique secret visitor, whom you aren’t getting understand which truly however, listeners.


Drew:

Yeah. And the subject recently is sexting.


Christina:

Blah! That’s the way I feel about sexting, we will enter it.


Drew:

Appropriate.


Christina:

Let’s beginning. Let us begin this game!


Drew:

Cool, you look super comfy. Okay. Thus, the last time that we developed a casino game, it had been to roast you, Christina.


Christina:

Yes, that is me.


Drew:

Very, I was thinking that this few days I would personally present a game title to roast my self.


Christina:

Oh, fascinating.


Drew:

Yeah. Therefore, title of this online game may be the really creatively named “Sappho or Drew’s 2014 log?” So, I’m going to end up being saying some estimates and you’re browsing tell me if you think that the quotation is by Sappho or by me in 2014. I can give some framework if you like, or we could simply leap right in.


Christina:

Nope, I get it. Why don’t we roll.


Drew:

Great. Okay. So, very first quotation is actually: “The fear of passing is simply worries period.”


Christina:

Fuck. This really is gonna be more challenging than I thought. I will say, I’m going to declare that’s you.


Drew:

Its myself. Great job. Okay. The next one: “once more, love pushes me on.”


Christina:

Tend to be these gonna be both? That feels like it may be both.


Drew:

No. That would be fantastic but no, not one of them tend to be both.


Christina:

Okay. Thus, then again, i just must claim that that will be Drew.


Drew:

No, that’s Sappho.


Christina:

Damn, which is Drew electricity.


Drew:

Yeah. There are plenty of these which can be, these include literally all Drew electricity, and apparently all Sappho power.


Christina:

No. Yeah. I get the video game, works out.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Okay.


Drew:

Okay. “I am not sure how to proceed, my thoughts are split.”


Christina:

Sappho.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Yes. I am fist working.


Drew:

Yeah, fist push away.


Christina:

Thanks.


Drew:

“Her hair is as gold since mirror she keeps therefore passes all the way down the woman back.”


Christina:

Sappho.


Drew:

No, which is myself.


Christina:

Drew! Wow, okay.


Drew:

“I am not likely to talk but we nod and answer the woman touch.”


Christina:

Drew.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Yeah.


Drew:

“i have to endure.”


Christina:

Again, Sappho but I want that it is both.


Drew:

It is Sappho.


Christina:

Yeah.


Drew:

“Life will simply end up being so patient.”


Christina:

Drew?


Drew:

Uh-huh (affirmative), you are performing effectively only at that. I want you to find out that I tried this out on a few pals and so they unsuccessful, like statistically did worse than they should have, and that means you’re eliminating it up until now. Okay. “She slid her definitely my as well as through my hair and that I started doing equivalent to the lady, soon we were kissing.”


Christina:

Sappho?


Drew:

No, that is myself.


Christina:

Hair is a theme available, clocking that.


Drew:

Oh, yeah. Have a look at that. “You will find maybe not had one word from her. Frankly, I wish we were lifeless.”


Christina:

Drew?


Drew:

No, that’s Sappho.


Christina:

Deleting my personal membership. Sappho.


Drew:

Yeah. “You arrived and I also was actually wanting for you.”


Christina:

Ooh, Sappho.


Drew:

Yeah. “i do want to say something but shame prevents myself.”


Christina:

Drew.


Drew:

No, that’s Sappho.


Christina:

But things happened to be produced, i do believe by myself.


Drew:

Yeah.


Christina:

Yeah.


Drew:

Completely.


Christina:

Certainly.


Drew:

In my opinion that is essentially the most me personally of those, and is great because homosexual shame has just already been going on for millennia.


Christina:

Yeah. Untold millennia, its element of our very own society and tradition. Hot.


Drew:

“you have the artist and there’s the woman examining by herself, outside, interior, who’s she?”


Christina:

That’s Drew.


Drew:

Really.


Christina:

Yeah. Would be that 14-year-old Drew?


Drew:

No, no, no. 2014 me. So, this is certainly yeah. Thus, this will be all from my diary. So, that was actually me personally journaling in an art gallery and that I had been simply very struck by paint, because would youn’t journle in museums?


Christina:

Are you gay?


Drew:

I would end up being homosexual.


Christina:

You are gay. Whether your children are journaling in galleries they may be homosexual, simply a note.


Drew:

Every person should know that I happened to be not out with the wardrobe during the time therefore, it was completely just, thought I found myself a right man.


Christina:

Vibing.


Drew:

Yes. Vibing undoubtedly. Okay, some more. “You will have thoughts caused by what we should performed in those days as soon as we were brand new at the.”


Christina:

Sappho.


Drew:

Yes.


Christina:

Yes. I am brilliant.


Drew:

You’re undertaking quite well. Okay. “We simply drift collectively and drift aside the remnants of the greatest interests lingering just like the after that great love comes up.”


Christina:

Drew.


Drew:

Yeah. I happened to ben’t keeping score you’ve become a lot of these.


Christina:

Yeah, I’m also now regretting perhaps not maintaining score. I Might have hated whenever we happened to be maintaining score and that I was actually performing poorly, however that I Am doing well, I Am similar, just what—


Drew:

I’m going to say you have got nine appropriate.


Christina:

Okay. That seems like a great number.


Drew:

Yeah. Okay. Here is the final one.


Christina:

Okay.


Drew:

It’s an extremely tricky one though. Okay?


Christina:

I reached get 10.


Drew:

Yeah. Okay. Ready? “we woke up this morning with a large zit just starting to develop in skin between my personal eyebrows per day before my personal go out, of course.”


Christina:

I will point out that’s Drew.


Drew:

It’s. Big shock, huge surprise.


Christina:

Big surprise, big shock. Sappho was not permitting united states inside zits of her existence, sadly.


Drew:

Well, thank you plenty for playing.


Christina:

Wow. Which was therefore fun.


Drew:

I am hoping you learned a large amount about myself, or learned absolutely nothing about myself.


Christina:

I do believe I learned, Personally, I learned that my personal knowledge of you is actually correct which we have been buddies. And I genuinely believe that’s a great thing for me personally to understand.


Drew:

Yeah. I became experiencing a separation during this time period, it actually was rough.


Christina:

Yeah, failed to appear maybe not harsh, I’ll declare that, failed to look mild, possibly we could state?


Drew:

I survived, so performed Sappho, well eventually she passed away but, you are aware


Christina:

Sure, sure, sure. Isn’t it time to talk about our main subject? You think we’re emotionally indeed there?


Drew:

Oh, my Jesus, I’m therefore ready.


Christina:

I’m prepared, once again, to complete countless reading, this is exactly likely to be a listen and find out room for me and that I’m really glad that people have this type of a guest who is so brilliant and thoughtful and, i do believe, a specialist in realm of sexting.


Drew:

Oh, we concur. Kayla, do you want to present yourself?


Kayla:

Yes. I’m Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, I am in addition a writer at Autostraddle and somewhere else online, yeah.


Christina:

Sexting expert, sextpert.


Kayla:

And sexting specialist. Yes.


Christina:

Yes. I’ll be getting that throughout of one’s products going forward.


Kayla:

It’s an essential element of my CV.


Christina:

Yes. Yes. We like to respect a CV here.


Drew:

Needs individuals at home, or wherever you’re listening to this, to find out that, I am not sure, 30 days ago I texted Kayla to inquire about for advice on exactly what it’s prefer to meet some body when you have already been having an online courtship, whatever, and Kayla, I was desiring all this mental assistance, etc, et cetera. And Kayla was actually like, Oh, we simply sexted. I became like, started using it, got it, started using it. Okay, cool. Cool, cool.


Kayla:

Yeah, it was not that strong, I guess at first.


Christina:

I do believe which is actually an attractive, simply a nice means of framing things. Circumstances we are able to usually deliver a Drew/perhaps Sappho perspective to things. It can continually be quite deep, but often it may start completely not too deep acquire strong, which is truly breathtaking. I’d like everyone out there to consider that beautiful thing.


Drew:

Yeah. Very, what’s your own relationship to sexting? Have you ever always appreciated it? Can it be long been a thing that’s, provides it created after a while your comfortability along with it?


Kayla:

Yeah. I am talking about, In my opinion used to do usually adore it, I happened to ben’t sexting up a violent storm in my, I am not sure, like in university or something, After all, become fair, I became profoundly closeted. And thus, my matchmaking and intimate record ended up being all-kind of chaos for a time but when i did so come-out, i’d say yes, that sexting was something I happened to be into just about straight away and part of it, I think merely becoming a former Tumblr child a bit. I happened to be only regularly connecting with folks by doing so, on line, over text or whatever. I would accomplished that for so long, so it only felt very normal in my experience, specially since I have hadn’t had plenty of intercourse and material. Thus, it practically thought simpler in the beginning then i simply realized that we enjoyed it, also it carried on, and yeah. But there seemed to be a long period where I didn’t think about sexting that much, it was within my last commitment after which when that connection finished in a pretty remarkable method, all of a sudden there was clearly this period of the time where I found myself sexting continuously, whomever, whenever, wherever.


Christina:

Just “You upwards?” consistently.


Kayla:

Just. It had been a steady stream. Yeah. That is my trip with sexting, i assume. It is not loads, alot, perhaps not many again.


Christina:

Peaks and valleys.


Kayla:

Exactly.


Drew:

If you find yourself sexting, would you primarily, does that mean sending pictures to you or does it imply filthy talk book texting sexting?


Kayla:

Yeah…


Christina:

That has been a question I really have actually both for people, because We have problems delineating on that top.


Kayla:

Yeah, i do believe that, that’s something that may differ person to person because for me I usually, it’s a multimedia knowledge. You’ve got the texts, you’ve got the images, you may have i suppose that’s all, i am aware some people do sound message kind material, i am much less into that, i believe.


Christina:

You are not delivering a VR lens or something, there’s really no Oculus occurring?


Kayla:

Needs a 4D knowledge.


Christina:

Yeah.


Kayla:

No. its essentially simply texts and pictures but I am not always planning on that in exchange, i suppose, is what I would state would be that, i love to make use of photos but I am not similar, “Now I need pictures!’


Christina:

Yeah, “Pics or it did not take place!”


Kayla:

Precisely. I don’t know about you, Drew.


Drew:

Yeah. I am talking about, I feel like I’ll do both but normally at differing times. Personally I think like when I’m giving photographs, I’m picture ready and that does not just indicate, I’m not sure, the right everything is trimmed and bare and etc, etc, and only spiritually, i do believe really a separate energy that i want to book sext versus deliver photos sext, and I have no idea. I also feel just like a lot of times with regards to sending photos, I think We tend to carry out more of, that is for — perhaps not for all of us, but also for like 20 individuals on my close friends or whatever, instead of sending it particularly to some body. That’s a lot more for, easily’m in a relationship, I’ll deliver beautiful images but I do not usually deliver images to a person who I’m newly matchmaking or enthusiastic about, but i’ll more book. I additionally think i am better at, I don’t know, the same as I’m an author better than I’m a photographer?


Christina:

For sure, yeah. That is true.


Drew:

And so, i’m like I could confidently point out that i am very good during the texting area of sexting.


Christina:

Yeah, i might believe that of you. That may seem like some thing, a skill set you’ll have.


Drew:

Yeah. But I practically only accomplish that easily’ve had intercourse with some body before. I Really Don’t—


Kayla:

Actually?


Drew:

Yeah…


Christina:

Okay. So, interesting, interesting.


Drew:

Well, there’s two. Either, i’ll exercise with somebody who I’ve had gender with before or who I do not think i am going to actually ever have intercourse with.


Christina:

Oh, okay. Certain. Okay.


Drew:

As an example, We have sexted with people who happen to be, I don’t know, whom slid into my DMS and live-in, I don’t know, there is an individual who lived in Paris who had been talking-to me personally during pandemic and I ended up being like, “It is a pandemic. You live on another type of region, this is so maybe not real—


Kayla:

The stakes tend to be low.


Drew:

Yeah, like whatever. Of course someday we met, fantastic, nonetheless it did not feel — I happened to ben’t matchmaking this individual, but We have stop whenever situations started to move around in that way utilizing the one who i am practically dating in Canada in which it actually is like, “Oh, at some point I will make love with this specific person, probably.” Therefore most of sexting for me in book is founded on the thing I be aware of the person is into, and what we should’ve accomplished collectively or the things I think that they will wish us to carry out, and I only feel like basically haven’t really had intercourse with the individual—


Christina:

Needed that baseline knowledge.


Drew:

In my opinion very.


Christina:

And after that you desire to translate that to the texting room.


Drew:

Yeah, I Do Believe thus.


Christina:

Interesting.


Kayla:

Yeah, i am talking about, i am the complete opposite. I’m wanting to imagine an instance where I didn’t do the specific inverse of that. I’ve always, if I was actually regularly sexting with some body, it had been sexting occurred for a while before we actually had sex, and I really virtually use it as a chance and figure out what they can be into.


Christina:

Correct, you are delivering your own research knowledge to the physical room sooner or later.


Kayla:

Yes.


Christina: