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Better Sex with Rachel Bloom

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June 25, 2019 Scriptnotes, Transcribed

John and Craig welcome back longtime friend of the podcast Rachel Bloom (co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) to discuss how sex and sexuality are portrayed on both the big and small screen. They cover ways to approach sensitive topics in a writers room and the moments we still haven’t seen on screen.

Links:

* Rachel Bloom’s Realistic Sex [Interview](https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a26453707/rachel-bloom-realistic-tv-sex-scenes/)
* [Sex Education TV Series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Education_(TV_series))
* [Moan: Anonymous Essays on Female Orgasm](https://www.amazon.com/Moan-Essays-Female-Emma-Koenig/dp/1455540552) with foreword by Rachel Bloom
* [How to Draw a Horse](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-to-draw-a-horse)
* [Dig it!](https://apps.apple.com/al/app/dig-it/id1453411110) on the App Store
* [Hello from the Magic Tavern](https://hellofromthemagictavern.com/)
* [A Very Fatal Murder](https://www.theonion.com/c/a-very-fatal-murder)
* [Rachel on Tour](https://racheldoesstuff.com/tour/)
* [John August](https://twitter.com/johnaugust) on Twitter
* [Craig Mazin](https://twitter.com/clmazin) on Twitter
* [Rachel Bloom](https://twitter.com/Racheldoesstuff) on Twitter
* [John on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/johnaugust/?hl=en)
* [Outro](http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-the-outros) by Jim Bond and James Llonch ([Send us yours!](http://johnaugust.com/2014/outros-needed))

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**UPDATE 6-28-19:** The transcript of this episode can be found [here](https://johnaugust.com/2019/scriptnotes-ep-406-better-sex-with-rachel-bloom).

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