Pleasure Lab

Length: 57:36

• Amy and Zed ponder composting and disgusting (00:40)
• Amy reads an excerpt of her short story "Waiting to Pee" (44:22)
• TT@H: Zed on mindfulness (39:37)

Several books were mentioned in this episode:

• Plants with Benefits by Helen Yoest
• Intercourses by Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge
• along with the non-book Squatty Potty
• Amy was reading from Best Women's Erotica, Volume 1 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, just published by Cleis Press.

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: 1:11:27

• Conversation with Amy and Alex about winter playtime (00:40)
• Lizz, Zed, Amy and Alex ponder Body Trust's mission (31:20)
• TT@H: Lizz on ways to teather the mind (25:47)

Amy mentioned a book review of The Cabaret of Plants by Robert Mabey, to be found in the New York Times.

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 ponder "holy days" (0:40) Three acoustic communities (40:20) TT@H: Zed with an erotic fast write (37:37)

This is our 13th episode and so we're gathering the data on this experiment. Send us an email ([email protected]) telling us what you're liking about the Pleasure Lab podcast, what you'd suggest we change, what new things you think we should try, and any other brilliant ideas you might have. We'll be very grateful!

In this episode, we snuck in a few short musical clips (from legally purchased copies) so, out of respect for those artists, here's what you'll hear snippets of:

• The Back Street Boys "Bye, Bye, Bye" from This Is Us album. Copyright 2009 RCA/JIVE Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment.
• Tori Amos "Amber Waves" from Scarlet's Walk album. Copyright 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
• The Edwin Hawkins Singers "Oh Happy Day" from The Best of The Edwin Hawkins Singers album. Copyright 2001 Buddha Records.

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 about sex positivity (00:40) Alex & Zed on dominance and sadism (41:55) TT@H: Lizz shares circular breath with the planet (37:55)

This episode's reading

• Better Than Before, by Gretchen Rubinhttps://gretchenrubin.com/books/before-after/before-
• The Sex Myth, by Rachel Hillshttp://rachelhills.tumblr.com/
• The Gift, by Lewis Hydehttp://www.lewishyde.com/publications/the-
• Woman on Fire, by Amy Jo Goddardhttp://amyjogoddard.com/
• Perv, by Jesse Berringhttp://www.amazon.com/Perv-The-Sexual-Deviant-All/dp/0374230897

Plus dominance and sadism bonus:

• how to top your master (you need a fetlife account to view this)https://fetlife.com/users/117165/posts/1883144
• Enough to Make you Blush, by Princess Kali http://amzn.to/1QjmDez

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 about spirituality (0:40)Interview with Kari Points re trauma and deep sea creatures (39:46)TT@H: password experiments (37:35)

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 astronomy and flower essences (0:40)

Amy interviews Mel Reiff Hill about The Gender Book (27:03)

TT@H: a two-fer with M'kali Hashiki (25:45)

Find out more about Mel and his book The Gender Book

Amy and Zed mention Rudy Ballentine's book Radical Healing

Got something you want us to discuss? Email us at [email protected].

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 age and eroticism (0:40)

Amy shares an excerpt from "Stilettos" (28:03)

TT@H: plug a hole and do some housework (23:44)

Amy's story is available in the anthology Sex Still Spoken Here which you can order from your local bookstore, or on Amazon.com as paperback or ebook.

Zed and Amy do mention age*eroticism*taboo photo project.

Got something you want us to discuss? Email us at [email protected].

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 how to sustain the bliss of erotic connection (0:40)

Zed shares their poem "For the Record" (32:42)

TT@H: erotic superhero names (29:23)

You can find more of Zed Sinclair's spoken word at records.mrsexsmith.com

Thanks to Dan Fogelberg for a clip of "Make love stay" from the album The Very Best of Dan Fogelberg, 2001, Sony. Downloaded (and paid for) from iTunes.

We mention the amazing Betty Martin. You can find out more about her work at bettymartin.org

Got something you want us to discuss? Email us at [email protected].

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 discuss workshop aftercare and being bright and shiny (0:40)

Amy interviews Dawn about trans* sexuality and binary sacred spaces (23:39)

TT@H: orgasmic prayer (17:44)

You can learn more about Dawn at www.sacrederoticfire.com

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 get loopy talking about what to wear to workshops (00:40)

The whole Body Trust team talks portals, pleasure, and sex toys (21:46)

TT@H: celebrate International Masturbation Month (18:37)

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).