The perils of "Massage Therapy"
A story about how massage therapy can be a dangerous business - in ways that you never would imagine.
"My family is saying there's probably mafia on both sides of this case. You need to get a gun."
A story about how massage therapy can be a dangerous business - in ways that you never would imagine.
"My family is saying there's probably mafia on both sides of this case. You need to get a gun."
"At the hospital when they removed his clothes, they found women's underwear and a series of foam pads attached to Doug's hips and thighs"
Producer: Eric Winick w/ Jay Allison
Program: Transom.org
A couple weeks ago we linked to the NY Times audio slide show about a lesbian-only community. This week the New Yorker takes on the the lesbian separatists of the 70's. I guess covering radical dykes is suddenly en vogue in the New York press??
Producer: Ariel Levy
Program: New Yorker
Playtime: 11 minutes 35 seconds
Date: March, 2009
For men, more $$ = more dates - at least in online dating.
Columbia Business School behavioral economist who used to run a speed dating service: "Yes if you want to put it very coarsely - and maybe you shouldn't put this on the air - the gold digger stereotype holds true."
On the other hand "There is no amount of money that will make an undesirable women attractive on these sites."
Ah, romance...
Saltcast (the audio blog of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies) features a story about a producer doing a story about swingers - yep, those swingers. To use or not to use "graphic" audio...
Oleg Kalugin was a KGB agent in Washington DC. And he really lived the life.
- Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 11 minutes 30 seconds
Transom.org offers up a stunning monologue. Matthew is engaging, moving, and dynamic. Includes some sexual references.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 18 minutes 45 seconds
An extraordinary series of interview about men who've volunteered for chemical castration. In one possibly upsetting interview, a sex offender discusses how he chose it, and life now. Also, a man who was not a sex offender but physically castrated himself to reduce his testosterone fuelled aggression.
– Audio Documentary London Bureau
Playtime: 52 minutes 12 seconds