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Dictionary [|Sara Jones Video LI]

she is the professor. she explaning about sex work.first she is old women from 2016.she is on interviev

This is a [|play]called "Sell/Buy/Date." It's my first since "Bridge and Tunnel," which I did on Broadway,and this one, I -- thank you -- I've excerpted it just for you, so here we go.

Right. Class, let's be absolutely [|certain]all electronic devices are switched off before we begin. So class, hopefully you'll [|recognize]what you just heard me say as the -- ? Very good, the cellular phone [|announcement]. Right? This was also known as a mobile phone. So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an [|external]electronic [|device], right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and among their biggest fears was the [|sheer][|mortification]that one of these might ring at some [|inopportune]moment. Right? So a bit of [|trivia]about that [|era]for you. ([|Laughter])

So the format of today's class is I will be presenting [|multiple]BERT [|modules]today from that period in history, right, so starting circa 2016. And [|remember], this was the very first year of the BERT program. So we've got quite a few of these to get [|through]. [|Bear]in mind, I will be living into various different bodies,different ages, also what were then called [|races], or ethnic groups, as you'll remember from Unit 1. And -- (Laughter) -- and along the [|gender][|continuum], I will be living into [|males]as well. It was quite binary at that time. (Laughter) Also, don't forget, we are reading the book module for next week's focus on gender.Now, I know some of you have [|requested]the book in [|pill]form. I know people still believe [|ingesting]it is better for [|retention], but since we are trying to experience what our [|forebears]did, right, let's please just [|consider]doing the actual [|ocular]reading, okay? And also, how many people have your emotional [|shunts][|engaged]? Right. Please [|toggle]them off. Okay? I know it's [|challenging], but I want you to be able to feel the [|entire]natural emo range, all right? It is [|essential]to this part of the [|syllabus]. Yes, Macy? All right. I understand. If you're unwilling to -- All right, well, we can discuss that after class. All right, we will discuss your [|concerns]. Just relax. Nobody's died and gone to [|composting]. Okay. After class. Okay? After class.Let's just get started, okay. This first subject identified as a middle-class homemaker. Remember, these early [|modules]in these people's full identities were [|protected], and this [|allowed]them to speak more freely on our topic, which for many of them was [|taboo].

Okay honey, now, I'm ready when you are. No, sweetheart, I said, I'm ready when you are. I'm freezing.It's like a meat locker in here in this recording studio. I should have brought a shmata. All this fancy technology but they can't afford heat. What is he saying? I can't hear you! I can't hear you through the glass, honey! There you are in my ear. Oh, you can hear me? The whole time. Oh, yes, I am a little chilly.Yes, oh the cold is for the machines, the new technology. Okay. Yes, now remind me again, you're recording not only my voice but my feelings and my memories? Right. Yes, BERT, yes, I read about it.Bio-Empathetic Resonant Technology. Right, right, so people will be able to feel my experience and my memory? Okay. No, right, I'm ready. I just thought you were going to give me a test to see how my memory's doing. I was going to tell you you're too late, it's already bad news. No, no, go ahead, honey.

Oh, that's the first question? What do I think of prostitution? Are you soliciting me, young man? I've heard of May-December romances, but what are you, about 20 years old? Eighteen? Eighteen years. I think I have candies in my purse older than 18 years old. (Laughter) I'm teasing you, sweetheart. No, I'm comfortable with any question. Sure. So about the prostitution -- oh, sex worker, sex worker. No, just in my day, they called it prostitution, not sex work. Oh, because it includes pornography also? Okay. No, well, I guess when I was a girl, we didn't really have a name for that either. We would have said dirty magazines, I suppose, or dirty movies. Well, it's not like what you have with the Internet. No, well, I don't mind sharing. My late husband and I, we were a very romantic couple. Lots of tenderness, you understand. Well, as you get older, you know, at one point I thought my husband might be helped by using some of the pills men can take, but he wasn't interested in those, so I thought, what about maybe watching an adult movie on the Internet? Just for inspiration, you understand. Well, at the time, neither of us were very good on the computer, so usually, if we needed help with the Internet, we would just call our children or our grandchildren, but obviously, in this case, that wasn't an option, so I thought, I'll have a look myself, just to see. How difficult could it be? You search for certain key words and you look -- Oh wow is right, young man. You can't imagine what I saw. Well, first of all, I was just trying to find, you know, couples, normal couples making love, but this, so many people together at one time. You couldn't tell which part belonged to which body. How they even got the cameras to capture some of this, I couldn't tell you. But the one thing they didn't capture was making love. There was lots of making of something, but they took the love part right out of it, you know, the fun. It was all very extreme, you know? Like you would say, with the extreme sports. Lots of endurance, but never tenderness. So anyway, needless to say, that was $19.95 I'll never get back again, but it only showed up on the credit card as "entertainment services," so my husband was never the wiser, and after all of that, well, you could say it turned out he didn't need the extra inspiration after all.