The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 4, Episode 9, with host Karen Yates In this lively interview with bisexual mega influencer and Men’s Health columnist Zachary Zane, he discusses Boyslut, his new book that chronicles his sexual journey, as well as how to live a more shame-free, sex-positive life. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Click on guest name(s) for all podcast appearances […]
#S3E25 | Building Stronger Open Relationships with Kate Loree
Podcast Season 3 Episode 25Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 42:17 min Polyamorous therapist and author Kate Loree chats with Karen about her new comprehensive book “Open Deeply,” about consensual nonmonogamy, and how to work through the bad feelings that can damage good relationships. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Kate Loree – Sex-positive […]
#S3E23 | “Bad Sex,” A Pleasure History, with Nona Willis Aronowitz
Podcast Season 3 Episode 23Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 45:31 min 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. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Nona Willis Aronowitz […]
#S3E14 | Should We Open Up Our Relationship?
Podcast Season 3 Episode 14Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 24:16 min When is the right time to start a polyamory convo with a long-term partner? Panelists respond to a listener who’s on the fence about opening up a monogamous relationship. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Tazima Parris – Sex Coach Matthew Amador […]
#S2E54 | 2021 Most Downloaded! What Open Relationships Can Teach Everyone
Podcast Season 2 Episode 54 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 52:14 min What kind of relationships do you want to make? Our most downloaded episode of 2021 is a real conversation for ALL relational styles: ethical nonmonogamists discuss relationship structures, communication skills, trust, jealousy, and the work of getting to know ourselves. Plus Karen’s Sermon on the […]
#S2E52 | Are you polysaturated?
Podcast Season 2 Episode 53 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 18:39 min How can you tell when you’ve got enough partners? Panelists respond to a listener question on avoiding overcommitment and burnout while living a nonmonogamous life. (But! But! What if the new person you’ve just met is *really* cute?) Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects […]
#S2E41 | Easy Sex with Friends + “Topless”
Podcast Season 2 Episode 41 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 20:24 min “Do I enjoy sex with friends, and risk losing the friendship? Or do I find strangers, and keep my friends separate?” Panelists weigh in on mixing sex into established platonic relationships, and a storyteller recounts the terror and thrill of going topless onstage. Episodes Topics […]
#S2E37 | “My partner is a flirt!” & ENM Dilemma
Podcast Season 2 Episode 37 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 22:31 min “My partner is a flirt. He says this is who he is…” Panelists answer a frustrated listener’s question on different social styles within a couple. Plus, the sticky wicket of starting a nonmonogamy convo in an established relationship. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode […]
#S2E28 | Queer, Kinky, Funny: “In at the Deep End” with Kate Davies
Podcast Season 2 Episode 28 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 34:53 min This wry, insightful, and sexy story is sure to liven up your summer reading list. Author Kate Davies talks about “In at the Deep End,” her novel about a woman’s pivot from hetero monogamy to a queer relationship, and the resulting deep-dive into London’s kink […]
#S2E26 | “Many Love”: A Polyamory Memoir w/ Sophie Lucido Johnson
Podcast Season 2 Episode 26 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 17:08 min Expanding definitions of love, reframing jealousy, and taking pleasure in seeing partners happy with other people. Author/illustrator Sophie Lucido Johnson talks about her polyamory memoir “Many Love” which chronicles her journey in ethical nonmonogamy. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Sophie […]
#S2E6 | What Open Relationships Can Teach Everyone
Podcast Season 2 Episode 16 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 52:01 min What kind of relationships do you want to make? In this deep long-form conversation for ALL relational styles, author and raconteur Cooper S. Beckett; Maile, Director of Product at #open, and Gabrielle Smith, sex and relationship writer and ethical nonmonogamy advocate discuss relationship structures, communication skills, trust, jealousy, […]
#13 | Anything That Moves
Podcast Season 1 Episode 13 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 38:57 min Bisexual? Pansexual? Heteroflexible? What’s up with that? Sarah Sloane joins Karen Yates to sort through the nuances of “bisexual,” “pansexual,” and “heteroflexible” in collaboration with #open, the dating app for ethically nonmonogamous people and their partners. Plus, our panel—kinkster and dom MksThingsHappin, sex writer Jera Brown of […]