The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 6, Episode 17, with host Karen Yates NYC burlesque artist Fancy Feast discusses her memoir, Naked, and how being a fat performer, phone sex worker, and sex toy store clerk revealed to her Americans’ fears and expectations about sex. Episode Links Fancy Feast Karen Yates – Sex educator, writer, energy worker Naked–buy on Bookshop and […]
Tristan Taormino–Sex‑Positive Trailblazer
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 6, Episode 15, with host Karen Yates In this lively interview with award-winning author and sex educator Tristan Taormino, she discusses her memoir, A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten, recounting her queer youth and relationship with her gay dad, making feminist porn, being a femme dyke, and why people aren’t having sex now. Episode Links Tristan Taormino […]
Sex with Comedians: Gena Gephart
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 5, Episode 3, with host Karen Yates Chicago-based comedian and writer Gena Gephart talks about her gross-out humor, her podcast, selling panties, and one follower’s extreme fetish. Karen responds with her Sermon on the Pubic Mound®. CW: Contains graphic description of bodily fluids used in fetish play. Episode Links Guest links: Gena Gephart Karen Yates […]
“Bad Sex,” A Pleasure History, with Nona Willis Aronowitz
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 3, Episode 23, with host Karen Yates Karen speaks with author and Teen Vogue columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz about her new hybrid memoir, “Bad Sex,” about the history of free love, feminism, and her own journeys in nonmonogamy and beyond. Episode Links Nona Willis Aronowitz Buy “Bad Sex” – Plus more recs on our Bookshop […]




