90s Talk Show – Sex & Relationships

Lisa and Linda tell their story, for each of them it was love. Linda technically had him first but, she said Lisa set her up from the start.

Lisa disagrees with that characterization. She was very close to Chris for years before they were even together. Linda was hardly even dating the man for boys, and they were broken up when it happened. Of course, Lisa admits to setting up Linda with Chris just so she could get closer to Chris.

The story comes grudgingly out, as we hear Chris has done jail time but got out early because of overcrowding. He says he never heard from her after their brief meeting. Linda jumps in to say she was writing with him at jail. Chris later says it wasn't planned with Lisa, they were just getting along really great as friends...

The plot thickens as it turns out Lisa gave up her twins for adoption, and each set was born with asthma. As audience questions come in Linda tries to explain her 'fascination with black culture'.

This segment closes with Lisa defending her choice to put her twins up for adoption. Her sister claims she only kept the kids around to please Chris, and sister Linda takes the high road and says she'll raise the kids herself.

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Two pairs of identical sisters who stopped speaking. Twin brothers in a paternity fight. Twin brothers who came to this stage as women. April 30th, 1993.

April 30, 1993 — the full 43-minute episode of the Geraldo Rivera Show.

"Imagine living your life as a double," Geraldo opens. "I am surrounded by a sea of doubleness." What follows is four sets of identical twins, and one question none of them answers the same way: how much of who you are is actually yours?

REGINA AND VIRGINIA — identical twins who can't even agree on how long they've been estranged. Regina says three years. Virginia says six. "I feel sorry for her," each says about the other. Their father didn't call them by name until they were 21. When Geraldo pushes for a reconciliation live on air, it doesn't happen.

CHANEL AND GABRIELLE — identical twins who were born twin brothers. They say they knew by the age of five or six, began dressing as women at 14, and discuss the birth names they left behind and the operations still ahead of them.

RALPH, ROSS AND HARMONY — identical twins in a paternity case. Ralph is the man the court names as the father of 16-year-old Harmony, says he had no choice in the matter, and has been jailed over unpaid support. His twin Ross says he slept with Harmony's mother too. Harmony, face to face with the man the court calls her father: "In my heart, you are the biggest scum on earth."

NINA AND PAULA — identical twins, one gay and one straight. Nina came out to her sister at 29. Paula says she already knew.

Then psychologist Dr. Jane Greer, author of Adult Sibling Rivalry: Understanding the Legacy of Childhood, gives a name to the pattern running through every family on that stage — "twin-dividuality," the struggle to build a separate identity while sharing a face, and what she calls the "cold war" between twins who can't say the word anger out loud.

A raw 90s daytime talk time capsule — family, identity, rage, and the reconciliations that never quite arrive.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Regina and Virginia
02:36 Chanel and Gabrielle
09:03 Ralph, Ross and Harmony
13:39 Rick, Harmony's uncle
14:34 Nina and Paula
24:40 Dr. Jane Greer on adult sibling rivalry
39:34 The last attempt at reconciliation
42:45 Dr. Greer's closing advice

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July 23rd, 1992. Geraldo Rivera on his namesake talk show introduces us to Debbie, who spends Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday with her husband Kevin, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday with her fiance Rob.

"Well I've been with a few fish in the sea, and...I've never felt the way I do this woman. .... We're open minded, we share a lot of affection when we're together."

The conversation moves on to what led Debbie, Kevin and Rob into this situation. After the spark had died Debbie talks about how they were willing to try anything to stay together, and had even brought another girl into the relationship.

Today in 2025 relationships remain multi-faceted, with different strokes for different folks.

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September 20th, 1993. Geraldo Rivera on his namesake talk show introduces us to Alexander, a man that originally said he didn't mind sharing his wife with another man or woman.

"What Alex told his wife Angela was she could have all the lesbian affairs she wanted, as long as he was a part.."

This segment is interspersed with clips from an earlier episode showing the same man in a similar situation.

We meet the current couple before meeting Angela who was eventually cut out of the relationship. Angela details how Bridgette was originally her lesbian lover, before stealing boyfriend Alex and dumping her.

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An accident leaves this woman in a wheelchair, and a positive AIDs test threatens this couple's romance. How do they maintain intimacy with no sex? February 4th, 1992.

Bonnie Parker's story comes first. The loss of sex in her relationship stems from a faulty penile implant for her husband, his penis eventually rotted and fell off. What used to be a healthy relationship has gone downhill, but Bonnie has stood by her man throughout. The children have suffered as the parents have grown further apart.

Jay McKinney was severely electrocuted and loss the use of his legs, and his sex life. His doctor is on stage and explains the options for a man like Jay. His genitalia effectively has gangrene and will need to amputated, but there are reconstruction options. They won't ever be as good as the original but it is an option, at least. He's tried it out and it works good now even though was a little big at first.

Ellen Stohl was paralyzed from the neck down and is an incomplete quadropalegic. Although much of the upper body has returned since her car accident, all limbs are affected. At first she bought the line and considered painting with her teeth or working with computers, but as the accident happened when she was a virgin -- she wasn't going to let society take away her gender because of a disability.

Michelle Wilson describes her HIV diagnosis. She called her husband Steve immediately to tell him, terrified and with visions of imminent death. The doctor, in fact, told her this when they went in for a review of the diagnosis. Steve describes going through a period of abstinence, even though they were newlyweds and going through a vivacious beginning of their relationship. They learned together how the disease of spread and what the realities of living with AIDs are.

A heart attack, two bypass surgeries, and much more before he was forty years old. Robert Kowalski tells how heart disease runs in the family, his father passed at 57, he figured he would go early as well. He says his sex life has improved greatly after the first heart attack, it changed his whole perception of life, from thinking he would 'die in the saddle' while having sex to living for passion.

This episode is interspersed with audience questions, cultural insights, and solid relationships holding the people on stage together through great difficulty.

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October 16th, 1995. Geraldo Rivera on his namesake talk show brings us the story of twin brothers who dated the same woman.

"I don't know how she could do something to him like that, I mean he is the sweetest guy..."

We hear the details of how Jamie and Laurie were going steady, only for Laurie to connect with his twin brother while Jamie is away on a fishing trip. Jamie and his current girlfriend Kelly are on stage, while twin brother Joey and Laurie come on the set later in this segment to set things straight. The story remains disputed.

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1995. Geraldo on his namesake talk show introduces Bobbi Lee and Mike, sometimes called "Psycho Mike" by his friends. It's only been a few months they've known each other, but Mike has given her his car, flowers almost every week, and lots of love letters -- Bobbi says they're not going out together, but is she leading him on?

"Have you ever heard the phrase, get a life?"

Later in the segment we hear from PHD Lillian Glass, author of 'Toxic People'. Lillian has read the love letters backstage and tries to get some responsbility out of Bobbi.

"How do you say no to him?"

Relationships remain tricky in 2025 and jealousy only makes things worse. It takes two to tango.

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1974. Geraldo Rivera on his Good Night America news program brings us star of the erotic 'Behind the Green Door' and other films.

"..this is gonna be the in thing...I felt it'd be nice to do as a challenge as an actress, because there were no spoken words in the film.."

Ms. Chambers details why she chose the work she does, what it means for the rest of her professional career. Later in the segment Chuck Traynor, Linda Lovelace's ex-husband is on the show where he talks about working in the emerging adult entertainment industry.

The hardcore pornographic 'Behind the Green Door' was released in 1972. Marilyn Chambers passed away in 2009.

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What happens when the fax machine and the home computer enter the dating world? 1989 finds out, looking foward to "sex in the 1990s."

Geraldo brings together two sides of early tech culture. On one side: Chuck Farnham, creator of the adult computer program "Smutstack," debating Paige Mellish of Feminists Fighting Pornography and psychologist Dr. Peter Wish over interactivity, age verification, bulletin-board shareware, and whether adult software is harmless fantasy or escalation. On the other side: self-described "fax king" Paul Hollendorf, who says he received 8,000 faxes and throws fax parties, and Barry Kachalowicz, founder of the "Singles Facts" fax dating service - plus Aggie & Jeff, a couple who actually met through his service.

Closing the hour, Omni Magazine editor and futurologist Patty Adcroft offers the history of the internet view: infertility science, blurring gender roles, "serial marriages" across longer lives, and - with AIDS reshaping behavior - non-contact dating as a form of safe sex.

A pure 90s nostalgia time capsule for fans of 64 90s daytime talk, pre-internet dating, and how America first argued about computers and intimacy.

GUESTS IN THIS EPISODE
Chuck Farnham - software creator
Paige Mellish - Feminists Fighting Pornography
Dr. Peter Wish - psychologist
Paul Hollendorf - fax party organizer
Barry Kachalowicz - founder, Singles Facts
Patty Adcroft - Omni Magazine editor / futurologist
Aggie & Jeff - met via Singles Facts

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro: Sex in the 1990s
01:00 Meet the Computer and Fax Guests
02:46 Demo: How the Program Works
04:10 The Debate: Fantasy vs Harm
08:00 Psychologist on Alienation and Risk
10:43 Lawsuit Over Look-Alike Program
11:40 From Mainstream to Extreme? Geraldo Presses
14:39 Age Checks and Kids Finding It Anyway
16:34 Bulletin Boards Contradict "Hard to Get"
22:02 The Fax King and 8,000 Faxes
24:43 Why Singles Facts Started
27:54 Aggie & Jeff: A Fax Match That Worked
31:23 Grim Outlook vs Optimistic Future
34:08 Futurologist on Science and Equality
36:51 Serial Marriages Prediction
38:47 Safe Sex, AIDS and Monogamy

ABOUT THIS ARCHIVE:
For more than 50 years, Geraldo Rivera has covered the stories that divide and define us. This upload is part of the Geraldo Rivera vault restoration - uncut classic broadcasts remastered from the original tapes.

Subscribe for more from the vault: investigations, true crime, and classic Geraldo moments every week.

#GeraldoRivera #90s #ClassicTalk #90sTV

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