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Frisky

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 10

Welcome to Frisky, the podcast where marketing meets sexuality. Each week, hosts Athanasia and Daniela dive into bold, research-based conversations with leading academics and industry experts, exploring how sexuality, well-being, desire, gender, and marketing collide.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - marketing
03/08/2026
#62
🇬🇧 Great Britain - marketing
14/07/2026
#60
🇫🇷 France - marketing
18/05/2026
#70
🇫🇷 France - marketing
17/05/2026
#54
🇫🇷 France - marketing
16/05/2026
#36
🇫🇷 France - marketing
15/05/2026
#27
🇫🇷 France - marketing
14/04/2026
#85
🇫🇷 France - marketing
13/04/2026
#69
🇫🇷 France - marketing
12/04/2026
#52
🇫🇷 France - marketing
11/04/2026
#35

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https://www.outvertising.org/
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https://effie.org/
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https://factoryinternational.org/whats-on/marina-abramovic-balkan-epic/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNXP3LQQ2EA
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Welcome to Frisky

Season 1 · Episode 1

Thursday, April 9, 2026 • Duration 21:26

Join Athanasia and Daniela in the first episode of Frisky, a podcast on everything sexuality and marketing. Research minded but conversational in nature, Frisky discusses research in sexuality, gender, and romance.

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Daskalopoulou, A and Zanette, MC (2020) Women’s consumption of pornography: Pleasure, contestation, and empowerment. Sociology, 54(5), 969-986.

Daskalopoulou, A, Pirani, D and Ostberg, J (2025) Sexuality in Marketing and Consumption: Queer Theory, Feminist Research, and Intersectionality (1st ed.). London, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003454533.

Nelson, M (2015) The Argonauts. Minneapolis: Greywolf Press.

Preciado, PB (2018) Countersexual manifesto. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Mid-life sexuality, with Katherine Sredl

Season 1 · Episode 3

Thursday, May 14, 2026 • Duration 34:13

Katherine Sredl from Quinlan, Loyola University Chicago and University of Rijeka discusses with Frisky mid-life sexual subjectivity. While the sexual script does not make much space for mid-life women, popular media such as ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘And Just Like That’ reveal how women can reclaim sexual pleasure. Join us in this episode for a conversation on life stages and sexuality, aging well, and women’s right to pleasure.

Daskalopoulou, A and Zanette, MC (2020) Women’s consumption of pornography: Pleasure, contestation, and empowerment. Sociology, 54(5), 969-986.

Sredl, KC, Parmentier, MA, Zayer, LT and Coleman, CA (2024) Midlife, Liminal Identities, and Consumption: A Sociology of Sexuality Perspective on “And Just Like That”. In Sexuality in Marketing and Consumption (pp. 151-168). London: Routledge.

Walther, L (2022) Women's sexual practices: The b-spot of marketing and consumer research. In The Routledge Companion to Marketing and Feminism (pp. 189-205). London: Routledge.

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Online Dating, with Stefania Masè

Season 1 · Episode 5

Thursday, May 7, 2026 • Duration 26:53

Is it possible to find love through dating apps? Tune in for dating advice in online dating. We welcome Stefania Masè from IPAG Business School to talk about value conflict in online dating and the commodification of love under capitalism.

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Minina, A, Masè, S and Smith, J (2022) Commodifying love: Value conflict in online dating. Journal of Marketing Management, 38(1-2), 98-126.

Illouz, E (1998) The lost innocence of love: Romance as a postmodern condition. Theory, Culture & Society, 15(3-4), 161-186.

Illouz, E (1997) Consuming the romantic utopia: Love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism. University of California Press: Berkley and Los Angeles, California.

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Queer Creativity and (Un)Becoming, with Mohammed Cheded

Season 1 · Episode 4

Thursday, April 30, 2026 • Duration 33:23

We welcome Mohammed Cheded from Kedge Business School to talk about queer creativity and (un)becoming. Based on Mohammed’s research we delve into the liminal, affective, and risky nature of navigating in-between gender identities, and discuss how consumer practices can disrupt binary boundaries.

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Cheded, M and Liu, C (2022) ‘Which part of the day is (wo) man o’clock?’: Desires, urges and possibilities of (un) becoming. Marketing Theory, 22(1), 67-84.

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Women’s Reading of Fantasy Romance, with Anuja Pradhan

Season 1 · Episode 3

Thursday, April 23, 2026 • Duration 29:08

What can we learn about romance and yearning by looking at women’s reading of fantasy romance books? Anuja Pradhan from the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication discusses her research with women’s experiences of this genre and its readers. Tune in for a deep dive into romance, sexuality, and book recommendations.

References

Pradhan, A and Daskalopoulou, A (2026) Romantasy: Sexy tales of women‑centred fantasy fiction are boosting the publishing industry. The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/romantasy-sexy-tales-of-women-centred-fantasy-fiction-are-boosting-the-publishing-industry-272737.

Balling, G and Martens, M (2024) BookTok helped us sell it: How TikTok disrupts publishing and fuels the# Romantasy boom. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies [Online First].

Hakala, H, Niemi, L and Kohtamäki, M (2017) Online brand community practices and the construction of brand legitimacy. Marketing Theory, 17(4), 537-558.

Daskalopoulou, A and Zanette, MC (2020) Women’s consumption of pornography: Pleasure, contestation, and empowerment. Sociology, 54(5), 969-986.

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Excessive Masculinity, with Jacob Ostberg

Season 1 · Episode 2

Thursday, April 16, 2026 • Duration 34:32

Do men need to vent their masculine energy Jacob Ostberg from Stockholm Business School explores how masculinity is experienced as an excessive energy to be spent that cannot be simply contained. Starting from Swedish family men, we venture into expressions of excessive masculinity in media.

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Ostberg, J (2010) Thou shalt sport a banana in thy pocket: Gendered body size ideals in advertising and popular culture. Marketing Theory, 10(1), 45-73.

Thurnell-Read, T (2011) Off the leash and out of control: Masculinities and embodiment in Eastern European stag tourism. Sociology, 45(6), 977-991.

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LGBTQIA+ representations, with Rodney Collins

Season 1 · Episode 10

Thursday, June 11, 2026 • Duration 33:28

How are brands doing in representing LGBTQIA+ identities and communities? Rodney Collins, Co-director of Intelligence at Outvertising, takes Frisky into the advertising industry, discussing inclusive representations and the impact of brand advocacy. Do not miss highlights and examples and some predictions of what it will come next.

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https://www.outvertising.org/

https://effie.org/

Pockets campaign National Lottery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNXP3LQQ2EA

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Porn studies, with Clarissa Smith

Season 1 · Episode 9

Thursday, June 4, 2026 • Duration 37:51

Porn studies meet marketing in this episode with Clarissa Smith from Northumbria University. We explore how people access and consume porn and sexualised material, ranging from romance novels to podcasts. Follow us for a deep dive into the freedom, fantasy, and fear of pornographic consumption and what it tells about us.

References

Attwood, F and Smith, C (2025) Ten years of Porn Studies. Porn Studies,11(4), 293-317.

Attwood, F, Mercer, J and Smith, C (2025) Stardom at the margins: Performing porn celebrity. Porn Studies, 12(1), 1-4.

Juffer, J (1998) At Home with Pornography: Women, Sexuality, and Everyday Life. New York: New York University Press.

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Athanasia and Daniela on Marina Abramović’s ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’

Season 1 · Episode 8

Thursday, May 28, 2026 • Duration 26:38

Athanasia and Daniela discuss the ‘Balkan Erotic Epic’, a performance work created by the iconic artist Marina Abramović. A four-hour ritual where ancient myth meets performance art, Balkan Erotic Epic explores the eroticism, spirituality and traditions of Abramović’s homeland through 13 visceral scenes.

https://factoryinternational.org/whats-on/marina-abramovic-balkan-epic/

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Intimate Consumption and Brazilian Waxing, with Carol Zanette

Season 1 · Episode 7

Thursday, May 21, 2026 • Duration 30:47

We welcome Carol Zanette from NEOMA Business School to talk about the history of Brazilian waxing. We discuss how colonial imaginaries and the ‘male gaze’ are connected to the practice of Brazilian waxing. Tune in for a discussion about cleanliness, sexiness and sexualisation, and emotional labour and worker rights.

References

Zanette, MC and Scaraboto, D (2024) Being versus Getting a Brazilian: Colonial Imaginaries of Sexuality. In Sexuality in Marketing and Consumption (pp. 137-150). Routledge.

Padilha, J and Frankel, M (2010) Brazilian Sexy: Secrets to Living a Gorgeous and Confident Life. Penguin.

Coskuner-Balli, G (2020) Citizen-consumers wanted: Revitalizing the American dream in the face of economic recessions, 1981–2012. Journal of Consumer Research, 47(3), 327-349.

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