Polychat

First off, apologies for the intrusive sound of our house being quietly torn apart beneath us. Secondly, it feels awesome to be back with such a well-spoken and reasoned guest as Kaitlynn. We talk about her transitions and address many of your wonderful questions. Those who wrote us with longer questions, fear not, we will get to them in our next episode! Listen to Episode 38 here. Show notes: Guan Yin Tea House in Austin, Texas West China Tea Co. Brooklyn Tea Imports N++ is a game you need to play. Poly Instagrammers (thanks Kaitlynn!) Kaitlynn’s IG Polyfi Family Team Amorous

We hope your winter solstice plans for merriment are met roundly with mirthful success. In the meantime, please enjoy the last Polychat of 2016, in which Tran and Caleb are joined by playwright Adi Eshman, who has a few questions of his own. Listen to Episode 36 here.

Tran and Caleb found a secret stash of questions cleverly hidden by Tumblr’s best of breed UI, so they decided to answer as many as they could. Listen to Episode 34 here. Show notes: The True Meaning of HIPAA Re-examining the effectiveness of monogamy as an STI-preventive strategy. A Comparison of Sexual Health History and Practices among Monogamous and Consensually Nonmonogamous Sexual Partners.

Hello, good tidings to all you lovely folks out there. In this episode, Tran and Caleb stave off the political toxicity of the final presidential debate by answering your questions, emailed to us via SMTP to [email protected]. We’ve finally caught up with our e-mail backlog, but I’m just discovering that our Tumblr “Ask us anything” inbox is quite full as well! So stay tuned for the next episode, we’ll get to those questions ASAP. And as one helpful commenter noted, we should probably move that link way up the page into a position of prominence. Consider that advice received and acknowledged! Listen to Episode 33 here. Show notes: “One must always choose the lesser of two weevils.”

Our sincerest thanks to our beleaguered fans who have been anxiously awaiting another episode of Polychat. Your moment of triumph and reunification is at hand! Zounds! Tran and Caleb begin to answer the mountain of letters that have piled up over the summer. And as always, we entreat you to send us more via our e-mail, [email protected]. Listen to Episode 32 here.

Hello everyone! We’re posting from Paris, France where we’re having the dreamiest time. Before leaving, we recorded a podcast with a long time Polychat collaborator, filmmaker Kevin Losani of Elite Daily. Kevin was instrumental in making a short documentary about us, and he ended up learning a bit more about himself during the process as well. Listen to Episode 31 here. Show notes: The Elite Daily video about Polychat Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Danish sex education Elite Daily’s Surrogate Motherhood video Hedonism II “I’m gonna get weird with it!”

The wonderful poly couple Katy and Angel11:11 join Caleb and Tran for a double date episode. We answer your questions and ask a few of our own of our eloquent guests. Find out about plant intelligences, transitioning from poly to monogamy and back again and more! Listen to Episode 30 here. Show notes: MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Erowid, a diverse storehouse of information and resources about various mind-altering plants and chemicals. Visit AudibleTrial.com/Polychat and sign up for a free 30-day trial, you’ll help Polychat keep our servers running and you can listen to the Ethical Slut, Sex at Dawn, Opening Up or many other lovely tomes available in their digital library.

Tran takes the reins on this episode as we take on some of your fascinating letters and share our recent experience meeting Madison Young. Listen to Episode 29 here. Show notes: Madison Young Stealth Audible.com promotion: We didn’t mention it on the podcast today, but if you visit AudibleTrial.com/Polychat and start a free 30-day trial, we’ll get a small referral fee that we can use to pay our bandwidth bill. Plus, you get to listen to a audiobook, any book, for free! We’ll recommend The Ethical Slut and Sex at Dawn.

Tran and Caleb have a pre-interview interview with Maria, a Brooklyn-based documentarian working on a project about polyamory and the folks who practice it. Also, we answer a question from a younger listener who has not yet been in a relationship, but wants their first to be poly. Your applause, please. Listen to Episode 28 here. Please send your questions to [email protected] and we will answer them in a future podcast. Show notes: “The Ethical Slut” by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy "Sex at Dawn” by Cacilda Jetha and Christopher Ryan (and the accompanying TED talk) Who is Mephibosheth? Methuselah?

Tran shares with us a lovely tale of birthday pizza brunch and changes of heart, and together with Caleb answers our beautiful-inside-and-out listener’s questions. Listen to Episode 27 here. Show notes: “Very rare.” Have you heard of this Dan Savage character?