This week on the Good Sex @ NYU podcast, April and Danielle talk with Grayson Chao about the relationship between physical therapy and having good sex. 

Grayson Chao is the Manager of the Physical Therapy Department at NYU’s Student Health Center. In this episode, he answers questions around maintaining pelvic health, addressing sex-related trauma in his practice, and how to work around permanent physical limitations in having sex.

This episode may be activating for some. Be sure to listen to your body and take care of yourself!

If you or someone you know has experienced a sexual assault or relationship violence, we encourage you to reach out for support.  

NYU Students: Contact the Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999 or chat using their app and/or Sexual & Relationship Respect Services 

For everyone: Contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233  

For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html

Are you crushing on someone and want to take it to the next level by talking to them? Today's tip is on flirting. Flirting is about complimenting someone on who they are, not sexualizing them. It's also about honoring their boundaries if they aren't into it.

This episode may be activating for some. Be sure to listen to your body and take care of yourself!

If you or someone you know has experienced a sexual assault or relationship violence, we encourage you to reach out for support.  

NYU Students: Contact the Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999 or chat using their app and/or Sexual & Relationship Respect Services 

For everyone: Contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233  

For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html

This week, April and Danielle talk to Zahava Weissbuch, a masters student in Global Public Health at NYU who is the founder of the sex education platform “Minx.” 

In this conversation, we talk about being unapologetically yourself and learning how to let go of internalized oppression. Zahava also speaks on prioritizing pleasure in every sexual experience and how she was able to do that after experiencing sexual assault.

This episode may be activating for some. Be sure to listen to your body and take care of yourself!

Click here if you are interested in completing a questionnaire for Zahava’s sex education platform.

If you or someone you know has experienced a sexual assault or relationship violence, we encourage you to reach out for support.  NYU Students: Contact the Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999 or chat using their app and/or Sexual & Relationship Respect ServicesFor everyone: Contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233  For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html

Join Danielle for this episode about regulating our emotions which is important in healthy relationships.

This episode may be activating for some. Be sure to listen to your body and take care of yourself!

If you or someone you know has experienced a sexual assault or relationship violence, we encourage you to reach out for support.  

NYU Students: Contact the Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999 or chat using their app and/or Sexual & Relationship Respect Services 

For everyone: Contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233  

For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html

April and Danielle are joined by Leah Robinson, the Assistant Director of The Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars Program at NYU, which is an all-university honors program that engages and empowers a cohort of undergraduate students around creating social change..

In this episode, Leah talks about the tension in her life between the fear-based lens of sex and relationships that she grew up with and the more sex-positive, accepting mindset that she chose to adopt. We talk about the norms around shaving body hair and the negative implications of complimenting people’s bodies. Additionally, she acknowledges the importance of finding her community and the deep friendships that have impacted her journey. 

This episode may be activating for some. Be sure to listen to your body and take care of yourself!

If you or someone you know has experienced a sexual assault or relationship violence, we encourage you to reach out for support.  

NYU Students: Contact the Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999 or chat using their app and/or Sexual & Relationship Respect Services 

For everyone: Contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233  

For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.htm

Episode Summary: 

Being single is normal, beautiful and a valid life choice. It isn’t for everyone but it should be seen as an active state of being, where we embrace who we are and what we need. How do you feel about being single or others being single? Let’s choose to find value in being single. 

For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html

In this episode, April and Danielle are joined by Chris Diggs and Dr. Rafael Rodriguez to discuss restorative practices. Listeners might recognize Dr. Rodriguez, NYU’s Associate Vice President and Dean of Students, from his previous episode in season 2, episode 8. Chris is the Senior Director of the NYU Changemaker Center. 

This conversation explores the key concepts of Restorative Practices and how they can be used to build and maintain the relationships in our lives. Restorative practices have their origins within indigenous communities who have historically resolved conflict by focusing on strengthening relationships between individuals and ties to one another in their communities. Chris and Rafael share how they use restorative practices in their own professional and personal lives. 

This episode may be activating for some. Be sure to listen to your body and take care of yourself!

If you or someone you know has experienced a sexual assault or relationship violence, we encourage you to reach out for support.  

NYU Students: Contact the Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999 or chat using their app and/or Sexual & Relationship Respect Services 

For everyone: Contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233  

For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html

Welcome back for season 3 of Good Sex @NYU! New this season, we are giving you Just the Tip. This will be our new short segments that offer a tip on sex, dating, and health. This episode includes practical tips for self-validation on a daily basis.

Tune into to @hello_hpo on TikTok and Instagram or @Good Sex at NYU on YouTube for our videos. If you have questions about this episode or others then you can contact us at [email protected].

For NYU student with urgent mental health or safety concerns then please contact Wellness Exchange at 212-443-9999 and for all or listeners then please call 988.

Have you missed your weekly dose of Good Sex @NYU? April and Danielle have missed you and and we have exciting news and a few changes to share. Our first full episode will drop on Monday, September 25, we hope you will join us for our sometimes funny and always sex positive conversations in our second season.

Today on the podcast, April and Danielle are joined by NYU Counseling and Wellness Racial Justice team members, Bernadette Mwelu Kerr and Sian Caisey. Listeners might remember Bernie from our Sex and Spirituality episode last season but she is a licensed clinical social worker who has been at NYU for 7 years starting as a crisis response counselor in Wellness Exchange and shifting to her current role as counselor at the Tisch School of the Arts. Sian Caisey has been an NYU counselor for 5 and a half years and prior to her role she worked for 14 years with young people with substance use and mental health needs involved in the juvenile and criminal justice system. 

In this episode, Bernie and Sian described the origins of the racial justice team and the need to find safe spaces to process oppression that is faced within an organization and within the student population they work with.The conversation explores the definition of intergenerational trauma and how that shows up in clinical practice. Bernie and Sian highlight the challenges of navigating NYU as a person who identifies as BIPOC as well as the strengths and connections that they have seen in their work. Since the podcast is about sex and relationships, we chat about the joy and difficulties that can come up with interracial dating and dating with implicit bias no matter your identity. Additionally, we discuss the resources that are available through Counseling and Wellness Services and NYU generally.

This episode mentions relationship violence and may be activating for some. Be sure to listen to your body and take care of yourself!

If you or someone you know has experienced a sexual assault or relationship violence, we encourage you to reach out for support.  

For more show notes and resources, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html