Podcast Season 3 Episode 13Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 41:05 min Filmmakers Alex Liu and Leo Neri speak with Karen about “A Sexplanation,” their lively and smart new documentary on sex education in the US told through the lens of Liu’s own upbringing. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links A Sexplanation – Available on […]
#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 […]
#S2E45 | Coming Out as Queer
Podcast Season 2 Episode 45 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 8:40 min Has your identity shifted? Do you want to… tell anyone about it? Panelists answer a listener question on the value and meaning of coming out as queer (or as anything!). Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Matthew Amador – Psychotherapist for love, […]
#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 […]
#S2E34 | “Group Sex! How-tos and more”
Podcast Season 2 Episode 34 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 45:16 min Group sex: Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Panelists answer a listener question on planning or attending a group-sex event for the first time. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Aiden Nicholson – Queer midwife and OBGYN advanced practice nurse Tom […]
#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 […]
#S2E2 | Bust Out of Your Sex Rut
Podcast Season 2 Episode 2 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 33:46 min Monogamous, polyam, kinky or solo—we all get into sex ruts! Our panel discusses how to climb on out and bring a sense of play back into your sex life. Plus Karen Yates’s Sermon on the Pubic Mound® on confronting trauma when trying new things. Episodes Topics […]
#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 […]
#11 | Queerness and MORE
Podcast Season 1 Episode 11 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 30:04 min Queer once meant gay, but does it still? Sarah Sloane talks gay vs. queer, and how a once-maligned word has taken on expansive new meaning. Matt Griffo sings a spooky-sexy song. Aiden Nicholson discusses the joys and importance of regular STI testing and getting […]
