In this episode of Modern Love: The Podcast, the actor Stephen Bogardus (currently co-starring in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's musical "Bright Star" on Broadway) reads Marc Jaffe's essay "Finding Equilibrium in Seesawing Libidos," about a medication that leads to a hypersexualized wife, and a husband puffing to keep up. In time, the mismatch subsides, leaving them partners in a bigger way.
Of their sex life before the medication, Mr. Jaffe wrote: "My wife's requirements were that her job had to be going well, the children didn't need her attention, the house had to be clean, the temperature had to be between 76 and 8 4 degrees, and the Democrats had to control at least one branch of government."
Of their sex life after: "Now she merely had to have a job, the children had to be alive, the house had to be standing, the temperature had to be between 0 and 104 degrees and the Democrats had to control at least one branch of government."
Afterward, Mr. Jaffe and Modern Love column editor Daniel Jones share their experience with and since this column.
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