Podcast Season 3 Episode 20Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 16:42 min Want to try some kinky stuff with your partner, but have no idea where to begin? Panelists offer tips for those curious about experimenting with power play, sensation play, and beyond. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Cassie Porter – Somatic sex educator & […]
#S3E19 | Pleasure Tips, Impact Demo, and More: June Live Show
Podcast Season 3 Episode 19Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 1:10:45 Our live June stage show features an impact demo – whips, canes, paddles, oh my! – a panel convo on getting more pleasure in sexy encounters, interview with a sex shop owner, and an erotic story. Recorded at Hungry Brain Chicago. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects […]
#S3E18 | Religion and Sex Guilt
Podcast Season 3 Episode 18Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 34:53 min Can you get beyond religious guilt in your sex life? Can you be a religious person and also kinky, queer, polyamorous? This deep conversation explores themes of faith, the damage restrictive religions can do to our erotic spirit, and how to work toward getting free. Episodes […]
#S3E15 | April Live Show: Rope, Tantra, and More!
Podcast Season 3 Episode 15Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 1:07:08 Karen can’t come to the phone now… She’s all tied up. A raucous live recording of Wild & Sublime’s Chicago stage show, featuring a rope tutorial, music, storytelling, tantra interview, and more. Recorded April 16, 2022, at the Hungry Brain. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links […]
#S310 | Play spaces, play parties
Podcast Season 3 Episode 10Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 36:09 min Do you want to know more about playing in groups and the nitty-gritty details? Listen to those that run play parties, a dungeon and a bathhouse talk about their respective scenes. Recorded live at Constellation Chicago in October 2019. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects […]
#S3E5 | Asexual Adventure with Lily Be
Podcast Season 3 Episode 5Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 45:34 min Storyteller Lily Be shares how pegging, a bunch of unfulfilling relationships, and one late-night Reddit deep-dive helped her realize she’s asexual — which also brought her closer to her mother. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links S2E55: Best Erotic Story S2E4: Your True […]
#S3E2 | Eavesdropping: Kink Misconceptions
Podcast Season 3 Episode 2 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 40 min In a new Eavesdropping conversation, sex coach Tazima Parris asks Karen about kink myths, and the ways kink can be used to reframe and heal from negative life experiences. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Tazima Parris – Sex coach S1E10 […]
#S2E55 | Best Erotic Story
Podcast Season 2 Episode 55 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 18:10 min “Kink helped me find who I am.” Storyteller Lily Be shares how becoming a Domme helped her get over a bad breakup and discover her own sexual identity in a powerful story from one of our live shows. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects […]
#S2E49 | Eavesdropping: Is suffering optional?
Podcast Season 2 Episode 49 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 51:14 min 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 […]
#S2E42 | “Help! My partner wants me to Dom her”
Podcast Season 2 Episode 42 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 10:26 min Panelists respond to a nervous listener whose partner wants to be dominated in bed. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Goddess Erica – Sexual empowerment coach Ren Grabert – Sex educator Brandon Hunter-Haydon – Psychotherapist & intimacy coach A worksheet to talk […]
#S2E40 | Sex and depression with author JoEllen Notte
Podcast Season 2 Episode 40 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 44:02 min 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. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Sex […]
#S2E36 | Chemsex is Killing Us
Podcast Season 2 Episode 36 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 50:43 min Crystal meth and other “party and play” drugs have dug deep roots into gay sex and beyond. Two guests discuss party culture, addiction, harm reduction, and rediscovering your sexuality in recovery. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links The Tweakers Project on Facebook 12-step […]
