Tonight on The Independents: At the Intersection of Public Policy and Sexytime!

Every Friday on Fox Business Network’s The
Independents—your very favorite new nightly cable news
show—we will be taking a respite from the breaking news of the day,
and exploring in more depth a series of stories grouped around a
single theme. Like, you know, sex.

So tonight at 9 pm ET & 6 pm Long Beachian, as well as on
the midnight-hour re-runs, we will be talking about:

* The social, biological, evolutionary, and religious impulses
toward sexytime, and how modern technology affects the mating
ritual, featuring a you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it panel of
blue-eyed priest Father
Jonathan Morris and evolutionary anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher. It’s genuinely
insightful stuff, which I know, because we’ve already taped it!

* How the only reason that The Pill is
threatening Obamacare in any way is that it
stupidly requires a doctor’s prescription. This segment stars
Bloomberg Opinion columnist
Megan McArdle, who is very sensible and has excellent taste in
dudes.

* Should prostitution be legalized? Do social conservatives
worry about the black markets that prohibition creates? Are hookers
Republican? How many months, precisely, will Kennedy punish her
husband if he wanders down the wrong street in Amsterdam? Swear to
God, these topics are all broached, with novelist and former sex
worker Tracy Quan
and Sun-Sentinel columnist
Noelle Nikpour.

* Should Valley porn stars wear
safety goggles? Porn actress-turned anti-porn activist Brittni Ruiz says
professional sex is unclean and made by people who are unhappy.

All these topics and more, tonight at 9 pm ET, with your host
Kennedy, plus
co-hosts Matt
Welch and Kmele Foster. Click
on the links to read the open threads for Episodes
Three and
Two. And you can follow the show on Facebook, and give
us some NSFW heckling on Twitter @IndependentsFBN.