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Sexual Empowerment, Brothels & Purity Culture with Melissa Duge Spiers (The Glory Whole Memoirist)

February 13, 2023 Jodi & Erin Season 4 Episode 404
Get Comfortable
Sexual Empowerment, Brothels & Purity Culture with Melissa Duge Spiers (The Glory Whole Memoirist)
Show Notes

On this episode, Melissa Duge Spiers joins us. We are going to be talking about her upcoming (and award-winning) memoir, The Glory Whole, her experience visiting a legal brothel and writing about it in a viral Huffington Post article. Melissa also talks with us about leaving the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church, non-monogamy, purity culture and sexual empowerment. Then we let you know what music we are listening to and wrap things up with some spicier and more personal questions in our Dish Bish segment at the end.

About our Guest:
Melissa Duge Spiers s an award-winning memoirist, screenwriter and essayist based in Silicon Valley, CA. Her upcoming memoir, The Glory Whole, won the 2021 Book Pipeline Unpublished Manuscript competition, and her first feature screenplay, Brave Woman, garnered awards and placement in Sundance and several other renowned film festivals. Melissa also writes for magazines and blogs, with work appearing in The Huffington Post, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Bitch Magazine and more.

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Huffington Post Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/boyfriend-brothel-threesome-sex-worker_n_620d24eee4b097efdfbacc35

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