Podcast Season 2, Episode 20, with Host Karen YatesRunning time: 48:51min What can kink teach us about community, energy work, and trauma? In this erotic biography episode, somatic psychotherapist Elmo Painter talks about her history as a professional dominatrix, and how working with the body and energy then directly informs her therapeutic practice today. Karen Yates shares about her own energy work […]
#S2E16 | What to Say During Kinky Play
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 16 / with Host Karen Yates A listener asks, “It’s hard for me to communicate during a kink scene … Suggestions?” Our sexperts discuss kink communication–before, during, and after. Plus, a steamy story from the Pride Parade that’s sure to make you sweat. EPISODE CHAPTERS INTRO (1:58) AFTERGLOW Q&A: Kink Communication (3:19) STORYTELLING: Deb R. Lewis (14:38) Episode […]
#S2E15 | What Turns You On?
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 15 / with Host Karen Yates How can we discover what turns us on? Does “the erotic” come from taboo, longing, surprise? How can we get more of it to juice our relationships and fantasies? Panelists offer tips to cultivate more eroticism in our lives. EPISODE CHAPTERS INTRO (1:14) PANEL: What is “The Erotic” (5:13) SERMON […]
#S2E14 | How to Get Good at Sex
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 14 / with Host Karen Yates Afraid of putting a kinky desire out there? A newbie kinkster question leads to a surprising answer from our sexpert panel with sex and intimacy coach Tazima Parris, therapist and founder of Best Therapies Jason Best and psychotherapist and intimacy coach Brandon Hunter-Haydon. Plus Karen Yates’ Sermon on the Pubic Mound® […]
#S2E13 | From Iowa Boy to L.A. Leatherman
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 13 / with Host Karen Yates Pup play, leather, kink, sobriety, and the search for intimacy. In this erotic biography episode, Tom Pardoe shares his journey from Iowa musical theater kid (with a girlfriend) to out-and-proud L.A. leatherman–how he moved out of shame and hiding, and into making the deep relationships he was looking for. EPISODE CHAPTERS INTERVIEW: Tom […]
#S2E9 | Erotic Lit for the 21st Century
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 9 / with Host Karen Yates Snowed in? How about some spicy reading material to keep you warm and cozy? Karen Yates interviews therapist Meg Weber on her new memoir, A Year of Mr. Lucky, about a yearlong BDSM relationship, and publisher Sienna Saint-Cyr speaks about creating SinCyr Publishing and the consent-based erotica they always wanted to […]
#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 […]
#S2E4 | Your True Sexual Self
Podcast / Season 2, Episode 4 / with Host Karen Yates When it comes to sex, who are you… really? In this cabaret-style episode, Sarah Sloane of #open, the dating site for nonmonogamous people and their partners, defines demisexual, aromantic, and asexual—and why labels are good as we understand more deeply who we are. Sex & relationship coach Tazima Parris and […]
