Podcast Season 2, Episode 49, with Host Karen Yates Running time: 51:14 minutes Do you avoid difficult conversations with partners, or leap right into the sticky stuff? In the second episode in our Eavesdropping series — unplanned, no-holds-barred conversations, beginning with a guest’s question for Karen — Brandon Hunter-Haydon asks, “What does it mean to choose pain over suffering?” Read the […]
#S2E48 | Do you need a surrogate partner?
Podcast Season 2, Episode 48, with Host Karen Yates Running time: 50:52 minutes What exactly does a surrogate partner do? In a continuing exploration of sex work today, we hear from two professional surrogates about the intimate work of redressing trauma, dismantling unhealthy assumptions about sex, and helping clients move toward the relationships they want. Read the transcript More episodes Episode Chapters […]
#S2E42 | “Help! My partner wants me to Dom her”
Podcast Season 2, Episode 42, with Host Karen Yates Running time: 10:26 minutes Panelists respond to a nervous listener whose partner wants to be dominated in bed. Read the transcript More episodes Episode Chapters PANEL: Sex With Friends (2:10) STORYTELLER: Jane deLaubenfelds (9:49) Episode Guests Goddess Erica Ren Grabert Brandon Hunter-Haydon Episode Subjects Anxiety BDSM Books Boundaries Couples Communication Kink Kink 101 […]
#S2E40 | Sex and depression with author JoEllen Notte
Podcast Season 2, Episode 40, with Host Karen Yates Running time: 44:02 minutes Karen interviews sex writer JoEllen Notte on sex and depression: how to talk to your doc about sexual side effects of antidepressants, ways to approach a partner experiencing depression, and new approaches to sexuality. Read the transcript More episodes Episode Guests JoEllen Notte Episode Subjects Anxiety Books Couples […]
#S2E38 | “Everything’s changed”: Dating & relationships in the time of COVID
Podcast Season 2, Episode 38, with Host Karen Yates Running time: 44:58min Many people are radically re-examining their relationship values — both in dating and with long-term partners — after a year and a half of pandemic living. Panelists discuss newfound pickiness on dating apps, being honest with yourself, and finding your center in a time of crisis. Read the transcript […]
#S2E17 | How Much Porn Is Too Much?
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 17 / with Host Karen Yates Has your porn use ever felt like a problem? Where’s the line between “often” and “addiction”? Learn to differentiate between the two in this ep as Karen speaks with a sex therapist and a somatic sex educator. They talk about shame, pathologized behaviors, and compassion toward ourselves when we feel out […]
#S2E7 | Communicating In and Out of Bed
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 7 / with Host Karen Yates Are you saying what you really feel and want in the sexual arena? Sex and intimacy coach Tazima Parris, sex-positive psychotherapist Brandon Hunter-Haydon, and kinkster and coach Peter (aka MksThingsHappin) offer strategies on communication–before, during, and after sex. Plus Karen Yates’ Sermon on the Pubic Mound® on anxiety and what it […]
