It's Not Human Sexuality

In early 2020, Grace Franklin began her position as the Director of Public Health for San Miguel County, a gorgeous Colorado mountain community where few locals live and many tourists come to play. She would have never guessed the health crisis that was headed her way!

Join Dr. B, Mandy Johnson, and Reproductive Lawyer Ellen Trachman as she reveal complexities to consider when having a baby through surrogacy, retrieving sperm after a partner's death, and more.

As a child, Diann Kissell endured years of sexual abuse from her father and lost many of her family members to murder when she was 13. Against all odds, she's lived a joyful life and raised a loving family of more than 5-children and 25-grand-children. Kissel has told her story in her co-authored biography "A Turquoise Life," on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1987, and here on the podcast hosted by her daughter, Mandy Johnson, joined by Dr. Betsy Cairo.

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Al Vernacchio is the sexuality education coordinator and chair of the upper school english department at his Quaker high school in Wynnewood, PA. He has developed an entire curricula of reproductive health and sexuality education and successfully implemented it at his school, which is no easy task. Vernacchio has more than 25-years of sexuality education experience. Mandy Johnson and Dr. B explore his work and discuss how it overlaps with their own, especially during the pandemic.

Under President Biden's new administration, transgender military members can once again receive their necessary medical treatment. Captain Alivia Stehlik explains why this momentous change may only be temporary, and she expresses how the transgender experience is different for everyone.

Alivia Stehlik is a proud transgender woman in the US military. Dr. B and Mandy Johnson explore her life's story and her body's response to both starting and pausing hormone therapy.

Colorado teacher Ali Ham dives into the challenges and triumphs of teaching an entire course that explores reproductive health for high schoolers with hosts Dr. Betsy Cairo and Mandy Johnson. Ali uses Dr. B's textbook "Reproductive Health: The Biology, Psychology and Sociology of Sexuality" which is provided free of charge to schools who adopt the curriculum by the non-profit Look Both Ways. Tune in to hear what it's like to teach what we used to call "sex ed." Now, it's reproductive health and it shapes our whole world.  

Dr. B and Mandy Johnson usher in a new era of the "It's Not Human Sexuality" podcast with this new episode featuring sex therapist Dr. Joe Kort. The podcast format now focuses on regular interviews with experts who expand and explore our understanding of reproductive health. Reproductive health affects us all, even when that means being catfished by scammers or navigating hook-up culture while wearing a mask, Dr. Joe Kort explains. Join the INHS crew as we dive into our inaugural guest interview episode!

How to break up with someone gracefully is a dark art. To be broken up with is terrible. To lose a partner to death is a tragedy. Reproductive biologist Dr. Betsy Cairo and sexuality education teacher Mandy Johnson explore the cycle of grief we all go through when relationships end.