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Struggle Session: Nuanced Understandings, Asexual Identities, Divorce Contingencies, Basic Maintenance, and More…

Lots to cover, so let’s get right to it…

Regarding my comments about Leonardo DiCaprio at the top of last week’s Lovecast

Can’t find a way to call in and leave a reply, but I don’t agree with Dan’s response to Leo DiCaprio’s relationship with a woman under 25. Dan makes valid points but I don’t think, as a man, he will ever truly understand the nuances of this situation and the exploitation that women experience in these unbalanced relationships. Having been a young woman on the arm of an older man that was mildly famous I can vouch for these relationships not being easy.

While I can never fully understand the nuances of being a woman… which would include the nuances of being woman in an unbalanced relationship with an older man… I am a gay man. I’ve had relationships with men, some of which involved power imbalances; sometimes power imbalances I didn’t initially...

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