The Intimate Lifestyle

Amy Gahran aka Aggie Sex, is the author of the book Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator which delves into customizing your relationships to fit your needs. Still don't quite understand the relationship escalator from that short description? Amy, who's appeared on CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, goes deep into this topic and how it relates to how people behave in their relationships.    This conversation will make some people rethink their relationships and how society shaped the norms revolving around it. Some of the topics we touched on are:   Amy’s background and how this factored into doing a research that delves into the different forms of relationships that became the basis of the book (3:37). The concept of relationship anarchy and how it is juxtaposed to the relationship escalator (7:25). How relationship anarchy is a philosophy that promotes not taking anything for granted, and everything is negotiated and consent-based (7:25), and the different forms of relationship anarchy (12:42). How social nor