Sexting Pioneers

Content note: this episode contains adult themes and discussions of sex

Sinéad and Mel are charging up their Nokia 3310s and delving back into those early sexting attempts: it’s finally time to talk about the FIRST time. From the Louise Rennison snogging scale (IYKYK), to house parties fuelled by WKD Blue and getting off with each other in the kitchen, teenagers in the 2000s were sex-obsessed and information-starved.

 Forget school sex ed: late night TV, poring over Heat magazine for hints and wild rumours kept us going. Add in impossibly glossy sex scenes in rom-coms, we were left with wildly unrealistic ideas about what intimacy should look like.

Fast-forward to adulthood, and millennial women know how to fake enthusiasm but not how to ask for what we actually WANT in the bedroom. This episode we’re looking back at those early experiences of ‘everything but’, the sexual politics of being a teenager and asking how all that teenage chaos shaped our relationship with sex, pleasure and intimacy today.

This is If Destroyed Still True: the podcast where millennial best friends Sinéad Kennedy Sklar and Melissa Murdock rewind the mixtape of their teenage years and press play on the moments that shaped who they are today. We ask ourselves: how does this show up in our lives now? And if you could talk to your teenage self: what would you tell her?

Hit follow, share your own teen chaos memories with us @IDSTpod, and get ready to laugh, cringe, and remember your first time.

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