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Jun 2025
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I Want to Be Chill About Sex but I Liter...

Zoë Lilou
About this episode

I so badly want to be cool. You know - hot, unbothered, effortlessly detached. I want to have casual sex and not spiral. I want to leave someone’s house and not immediately romanticize the way they said goodbye. But the truth is... I can’t.

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