Full Disclosure: Sex, Culture, And Comedy

This week Rachel Kramer Bussel, author and editor of modern erotica, steps into the bedroom to chat with Eric. The two discuss the openness with which they share their life both in-person and online, and the challenges of maintaing relationship boundaries while still telling their own stories. The two also talk about the ever-eroding boundaries of privacy, and how society will eventually need to be more accepting of those whose non-traditional identities are exposed. Later Rachel talks about growing up as a child in New Jersey, and what initially drew her to literature and writing. Although she attended the notoriously counter-culture UC Berkeley, it wasn't until Rachel moved to New York that she began exploring her own alternative sexual identity, which she began incorporating into her writing. Eric hasn't read erotica since the days of dial-up internet, so when he read Rachel's work it was with relatively fresh eyes. Eric and Rachel discuss what compels readers to erotica, and why it seems that the audience