Last Talk With A Lonely Girl | Speeches Before They Died

The Speech Guys

This episode is rated PG-13 as it discusses the significance of sex and sexuality in society and culture. The Speech Guys read and discuss excerpts from the final interview Marilyn Monroe gave just a few weeks prior to her taking her life in August 1962. This is the second episode in the "Speeches Before They Died" series. Questions and topics explored in this episode consider how Marilyn Monroe experienced both conflict and satisfaction with her fame and her depiction as a sexual object in culture, the masculine-feminine dynamic in the sexualization of women, the nature of beauty, glamor, and "sexualness", and the challenges in articulating and implementing an egalitarian notion of sexual responsibility! Special guest hosts include Anne Marie Williams and her sister Clare Schultz! Anne Marie references the contemporary academic consideration of sexual consent as an objective barometer of moral sexual behavior. Two pieces of scientific literature concerning this question are investigated in detail below. The first URL links a literature review published by the University of Tennessee in January 2017. The second links a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology in February 2020. "Sexual Violence, Consent, and Contradictions: A Call for Communication Scholars to Impact Sexual Violence Prevention " https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1362&context=pursuit "Contributions From Psychology to Effectively Use, and Achieving Sexual Consent" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7042399/