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The Hook Up
The Hook Up is about love, sex and relationships. We answer your questions, learn things together, cry over heartbreak and normalise shit. Every Tuesday Dee and Pip debate your dating dilemmas and hear your cooked stories. Every Thursday it's the sex ed you never had — we call on an expert to go dee...
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How To Stop Self-Sabotaging w/ Dr Rebecca Ray
Have you noticed a pattern in your love life of ending things when a relationship starts to get serious? Or maybe you pick a fight, or ghost people or...
Is Having A Type Problematic?
Whether it’s someone’s personality, physical attributes, career or aesthetic - sometimes we lean into a “type” of person who we’re attracted to and wa...
Life As An Asexual Icon w/ Allie Daisy King
As much as we talk about sex on The Hook Up, for some people they have absolutely no interest in it. That’s what it’s like for writer, fashion girly,...
What Are Your Relationship ‘Hacks’?
Doing the crossword together every week, writing letters to each other, mandatory date nights, surprise gifts, a commitment to a yearly getaway, and s...
Harrison James on Love And Healing After Child Sexual Abuse
Studies show that nearly 30% of Australians have experienced child sexual abuse - a horrific stat that award-winning activist and co-founder of the #Y...
Is It Ok To Date Your Friend’s Ex?
Hooking up with your mate’s ex might be one of the biggest violations in a friendship. But is it totally black and white, or are there some grey areas...
What Is PrEP? And Should I be Taking It?
When you hear about HIV you might think of the AIDs epidemic during the 80s. But so much has changed since then, including the invention of a preventi...
What’s It Like To Date A Sex Worker?
They say it’s one of the oldest professions in the world, and with sites like OnlyFans booming in popularity, getting into the industry is easier than...
Sex, Intimacy And Disability w/ Madeleine Stewart
Over 20% of Australians live with a disability yet there’s still so much stigma and misconceptions when it comes to their sex lives. That’s something...
Freud, Pavlov's Dog & The DSM: The Evolution Of Psychology
Did you know psychology has only existed for 147 years? For such a young science, it’s had a huge impact on humanity and how we understand relationshi...
Why Some Men Are Threatened By Successful Women In Dating
Research shows women are out performing men in education, and are buying more houses - but at what cost to their love lives? We speak to author Stefan...
Is Your Partner Intimidated By Your Success?
Success looks different for everyone. Maybe you own property, or have built a great career. Maybe you’re highly educated, well travelled, creative, am...
What You Need To Know Before You Say I Love You
Saying I love you to someone can be such a huge thing - so how do you know when you actually feel it? And when is the right time to say it? Plus how d...
When Should You Say I Love You?
These are the most feared words for any budding relationship. I Love You. Everyone's advice is always “just say it when you genuinely feel it!” which...
How To Deal With A Mismatch In Physical Affection
73% of you have dated someone where there’s been a mismatch of PDA in your relationship. So what can you do if one of you loves physical touch and the...
Is PDA A Sign Of Intimacy Or Is It Performative?
How do you feel about holding hands, hugging, kissing and canoodling in public? Is it cringe or cute? We hear your stories about PDA - witnessing it i...
Will AI Save Dating Apps?
People are emotionally, mentally and spiritually exhausted by dating apps, so much so that hundreds of thousands of swipers are deleting them. Now to...
Is Second Puberty Real?
We’ve all been through puberty. It was sometimes traumatic, mostly awkward, it even had its endearing moments - and going through it shaped the way we...
Advice If You’re LGBTQI+ And Live In The Country
If you’re LGBTQI+ and live rurally, it can be so hard to explore your sexuality or discover your identity, especially if you don’t have any queer comm...
What’s It Like To Date In The Country?
Dating and relationships out bush is a pretty unique and sometimes challenging experience - everyone knows everyone’s business, you bump into casual h...
Reconnecting To Pleasure After Burnout, Stress or Grief
How you’re feeling emotionally has such an impact on your sex life. It can be hard to feel turned on or connect with people when you’re feeling down,...
How We All Become Obsessed With Romantic Love
Throughout most of history, marriage wasn’t seen as something you did ‘for love’. We paired up for resources, family alliances and survival - so when...
What It’s Like To Have PMDD w/ Emma Hardy
PMDD (aka premenstrual dysphoric disorder) isn’t ‘just PMS’ - it can be completely debilitating and life changing. In this ep, Dee chats to debut aut...
Dumping Over Text, Romantasy Smut & Mummy's Boys w/ Comedian Daniel Foxx
Daniel Foxx thinks you should break up with them over text. And that’s not the only hot take from this week's guest. Fresh off his Australian stand up...
Lust, Limerence and Why We Love w/ Dr Anna Machin
What's the difference between lust, limerence and love? Can love be addictive? Is romantic love technically even real? And if love is so natural to hu...
Love Isn’t Dead!!!
The world is kind of cooked right now, so in the words of our lord and saviour Rihanna, we wanted to find love in a hopeless place. In this ep, you te...
An Expert’s Advice On Dating Your Co-Worker
Over 60% of you said you’ve hooked up with or dated someone you work with! But a lot of the time it can get really messy and end badly. So in this ep,...
Is Hooking Up With A Coworker A Bad Idea?
According to some surveys, over 60% of people have had a workplace romance - which has worked out really well for some, but for others it’s gotten sup...
The Truth About The ‘Biological Clock’
For years women and people with eggs have been told they have a ‘biological clock’ when it comes to their fertility, but how true is that really? And...
The Hook Up Live: IYKYK
triple j's award winning and most complained about show is back for another round of The Hook Up Live at Melbourne International Comedy Festival! Dee...
When Is The Right Time To Move In With A Partner?
Moving in with a partner is usually considered the ‘next step’. But how do you know when you’re both ready? Because in our last ep we heard it can mak...
Does Moving In With A Partner Make Or Break The Relationship?
Shacking up with your lover can be so exciting and a real milestone for a relationship, dialling up the intimacy and creating a solid foundation for t...
Being Single, Hook Up Culture & The Male Gaze w/ Elouise Eftos
She’s ‘Australia’s First Ever Attractive Comedian’ but she’s never been in love before. In this ep, Elouise Eftos chats about the male gaze, female se...
Friends With Exes: Green Flag Or Red Flag?
For some of us, being friends with an ex is a sign of emotional maturity. But for others, it’s a warning sign that there might still be feelings, or t...
We Need To Talk About Arousal Non-Concordance
Ever been mentally turned on but your body isn't responding? Or maybe your body is turned on but your mind isn’t? That's arousal non-concordance, and...
Are Humans Naturally Monogamous?
Do you think humans are biologically wired for one partner? Or have we been socially conditioned into monogamy? We deep dive into the science and hist...
Unpacking The Manosphere w/ Tarang Chawla
Louis Theroux’s new Netflix doco Inside the Manosphere has everyone talking. So in this episode, Dee chats with men’s violence prevention advocate and...
Are Friendship Icks The Same As Relationship Icks?
Sometimes our mates do or say things that are a turn off - but unlike a relationship, sometimes we let them slide. In this episode we find out your fr...
BONUS: Is It Still Embarrassing To Have A Boyfriend? w/ Chanté Joseph
Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now? When writer Chanté Joseph asked that question in Vogue last year, she broke the internet. It pissed a lot of p...
An Expert’s Advice On Dealbreakers Like Having Kids
If you really want (or don’t want) kids, what do you do if you’re dating or in a relationship with someone who doesn’t feel the same way? It can be on...