Episode 14: Built-In Bras and Human Redemption

This week I am joined by Cleo Stiller. Cleo is a Peabody Award and Emmy Award-nominated journalist, television host and author of Modern Manhood: Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today, a #1 New Release on Amazon that has been featured in Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, PBS, ABC News and more. Stiller’s work was named by Harvard’s Nieman Lab for Journalism as a Trend to Watch in 2021. Her acclaimed television show Sex.Right.Now. with Cleo Stiller takes a no stigma, no judgment and fact-based approach to conversations about health, gender and pop culture for which her team received multiple award nominations. She currently serves as an Emmy Awards Judge for News & Documentary.

In this episode we talk about growing up in an open household & talking to parents about sex, developing breasts early and how that adultifies young girls, why the Aziz Ansari story felt so familiar to so many people, redefining the concept of virginity, how we tell virginity stories in the media based on gender, why fantastic hook-ups are pretty rare, the importance of teaching pleasure-centered sex education, the possibilities of human redemption, and more.

You can follow Cleo and her work at cleostiller.net and on Instagram and Twitter @cleomsf.