In this episode of Good Girls, we review the classic sex-positive bible The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy. We discuss what it was like reading this foundational (and delightfully cringy) book written by old hippie occasional lovers, and how their boomer perspectives on sluttiness, non-monogamy, consent, jealousy, and pleasure landed with us as monogamous women.

We explore the book’s strengths, with its approachable, reclaiming energy and thoughtful exercises around intimacy and love muscles. But we have some critiques...the overly broad approach, casual attitude toward cheating, dated examples, and occasional culty historical shoutouts. Along the way, we share personal reflections on brunching with situationships, exercising our own love muscles in monogamy, and what we actually took away as vanilla listeners.

Whether you’re curious about opening things up or just here for the hippie sex wisdom, we break down why this book remains influential even if it’s not our new lifestyle handbook.

After talking about AI-generated romance, we put AI's romance-writing abilities to the test with ridiculous prompts, questionable book concepts, and a few attempts at crafting the perfect sex scene. From billionaire bosses and secretaries to unhinged romantasy plots, we're sharing the best, worst, and weirdest results we could get from AI. ...With a magical sentient butt plug with anxiety taking the cake for best.

We confirm that AI is completely incapable of building sexual tension, and is deeply committed to phrases no actual human being would ever say out loud. For now, we feel safe saying the future of romance is definitely not artificial.

Join us as we ask the important questions: Can AI write smut? Nah. Should AI write smut? Well...it should definitely write what Emily Weinstein thinks romantasy (romastasy) is as the AI-generated unicorn sparkly book summary is untopped.

In this episode of Good Girls, we talk about the New York Times article "The New Fabio is Claude" and how AI is shaking up the romance industry. We discuss Coral Hart, the author churning out 200 AI-assisted romance novels a year under multiple pen names, and share our honest reactions after reading her work.

We break down what feels missing in AI-generated stories...that human connection, emotional depth, and organic tension...and talk about the ethics of it all, from AI scraping existing books that go uncredited to authors not disclosing their use of AI. We also cover the survey showing a third of authors are quietly using AI, the challenges of writing sex scenes with guardrails, and why tropes like forced proximity just don’t hit the same with AI --- based off the mess of Coral Hart's books.

This is our take on whether AI can truly write romance, and why we’re still betting on human romance writers for the good stuff. Stay tuned for our follow-up where we test it ourselves!