Karley Sciortino is an American writer, television host, and producer. She is the founder of ''Slutever'', a website that focuses on sex and sexuality, and executive producer and host of the ''

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'' documentary series of the same name. She also writes ''

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'' online sex and relationships column, ''Breathless.''

Career

''Slutever''

Sciortino started her blog ''Slutever'' in 2007 while living in

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. Initially, the blog centered around her and roommates' sexual exploits and life in their squatting commune, but soon evolved into what ''

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'' called "a chronicle of sexual experimentation." In 2012, Sciortino and producer Adri Murguia started a web series called ''Slutever'' for ''Vice'', which ran for three seasons. The series took a journalistic approach to exploring

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aspects of modern sexuality, with Sciortino as host. In 2017, Sciortino and Murguia co-created a ''Viceland'' television series, also called ''Slutever'', which built thematically off the webseries. The second season of Viceland's ''Slutever'' aired in 2019. Sciortino's memoir ''Slutever: Dispatches from an Autonomous Woman in a Post Shame World'' was published by

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(New York City) on February 6, 2018.

''Now Apocalypse''

Sciortino and

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co-wrote the first season of ''

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'' (executive produced by

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), a surreal comedy television show premiering on

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in 2019. Sciortino is also the show's consulting producer. The series was cancelled after one season.

''Easy''

In 2017, Sciortino starred in "Side Hustle," Episode 3 of Season 2 of

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television show '' Easy''.

Personal life

Sciortino was born in

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. She was raised Catholic in an Italian-American family in upstate New York. She later moved to London where she lived in a

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commune. In 2010, Sciortino moved to

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, and she currently lives between New York and

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. She has dated both men and women.

References

External links

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Slutever BlogSlutever Viceland Show
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