Pleasure Lab

Description

• Zed and Amy talk about all kinds of body work (00:40)
• Body Trust team co-working (31:50)
• TT@H: commit to a poem (35:27)

Mentioned in this episode:

• Xan West's Show Yourself to Me
• Our favorite online project management tool Freedcamp

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

• Zed and Amy talk stoking the fires in wintertime (00:40)
• Sadness and rain sounds (22:49)
• TT@H: diaphramatic breathing (25:22)

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

Amy and Zed explore cauldrons of digestion and soups (00:40). In the Whimsey section, Lizz and Amy talk soup, farming, and abundance (24:42). TT@H: Lizz gives us a bromantic cabbage recipe (43:52)

Resources we mentioned:

• Stone Soup children's book by Marcia Brown
• Cabbage recipes can be found at nomnompaleo.com
• The ugly fruit and vegetable movement info here
• One of Michael Pollin's great books Cooked

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

This episode is all about proprioception.

• Amy and Zed talk fall season, back to school, strap-ons, and strange questions. (00:40)
• Whimsey: Amy and Alex dive deep into the body experience of proprioception (31:30)
• TT@H: Listen along while Amy reads proprioception erotica (59:03)

Lots of books and resources were mentioned:

• How we are motivated as described in Gretchen Rubin's Better Than Before
• The capacity of the brains of humans and rats to adapt to tool usage as described by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee in The Body Has a Mind of Its Own
• Dena Hankins and her soon to be released Lysistrata Cove can be found at denahankins.net
• Jessica Jones TV show can be found on Netflix and elsewhere.
• Aimee Mullins gave an awesome TED talk called "My 12 pairs of legs"
• More about smarty-pants Marcia Baczynski can be found here www.askingforwhatyouwant.com
• And the tiny dildos Zed referenced came from the creative folks at Tantus

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

Zed and Amy talk Erotix Journal and putting it in words (00:40)

Whimsey: Amy in conversation with TT Baum (16:05)

TT@H: TT gives us an experiment in penetration (44:55)

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

Amy and Zed talk about racism and resilience (00:40)

TT@H: burnishing a portal of pleasure (23:16)

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

Amy and Zed talk about Pride month and claiming your own erotic pride (0:40)

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

Amy and Zed talk May, potency, and BDSM (0:40)

Robert Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" (28:48)

TT@H: merry-go-round sensory stretch (26:07)

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

- Amy and Zed talk May, potency, and BDSM - Robert Frost poem - TT@H: merry-go-round sensory experiment

Zed and Amy talk about holes, puberty, and springtime (00:40)

April Fool's Outtakes (25:29)

TT@H: planting seedlings with intention (22:02)

The Try This @ Home experiment came from the book E-Squared by Pam Grout.

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

Length: 1:08:00

• Alex and Amy on quickening and online embodiment (00:40)
• Amy and Zed's Book Club (44:22)
• TT@H: Alex on quickening into pleasure (39:37)

During the Whimsey segment, Amy and Zed mentioned several books:

• The Grave Tattoo, Val McDermid
• Lying, Sam Harris
• Eat Me, Nicky Dyal and Richie Rhombus
• Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch
• The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson
• For Real, Alexis Hall
• Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin.

Music: Grateful to Little Dog Big Ears for their Creative Commons licensed music She Sees Mice (intro and outro) and New Ages I (try this at home section). Also to Orquesta Arrecife for their snippet LA MORDAZA (whimsey section).

Oh, and Val McDermid: we want to buy you a drink!