The Wild & Sublime Podcast with Host Karen Yates Karen talks with kink coach Sarah Sloane about the leather movie Pillion, now on HBO, plus how to make sense of kink as it’s represented in popular culture versus real life. Episode Links Pillion (2025) The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin Books by Laura Antoniou Sarah Sloane – Kink […]
The Invite and More — Sex Positive Summer Movies
The Wild & Sublime Podcast with Host Karen Yates Karen talks about The Invite and I Want Your Sex, two very different sex-positive comedies out this summer that lampoon both long-term and open relationships and kink. Episode Links The Invite (2026) I Want Your Sex (2026) Interview with Gregg Araki in The Guardian Karen Yates – Sex educator, writer, energy […]
Thee Debauchery Ball with Khari B.
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 6, Episode 21, with host Karen Yates Where are all the cool people at? Event producer and spoken word musician Khari B. discusses his legendary twenty-year event, Thee Debauchery Ball, a kinky house music party in Chicago for melanated people. Karen and he discuss Black sexuality, creating safe spaces, and the documentary Thee Debauchery Ball. Filmmaker […]
Being Black and Kinky with Filmmaker David Weathersby
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 6, Episode 12, with host Karen Yates Chicago documentary filmmaker David Weathersby talks to Karen about his work chronicling the Black kink community in Chicago, including his upcoming series Sex in Color and his film Thee Debauchery Ball. Episode Links Documentary filmmaker David Weathersby / @davidweathersby on Instagram Thee Debauchery Ball event info Watch the documentary Thee […]
