Reproductive Justice: Power, Positions & Pleasure

The unapologetic sexologist, Michelle Hope, joins us to chat about HIV stigma, forced sterilization, COMMUNITYx, reproductive justice and more. We also address listener questions about anal sex, positions for a tilted cervix and loss of libido.

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EPISODE #201: Reproductive Justice: Power, Positions & Pleasure

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You're listening to the Sex with Dr. Jess podcast. Sex and relationship advice you can use tonight.

Brandon (00:18):

Welcome to the Sex With Dr. Jess podcast, I'm your co host Brandon Ware here with my lovely other half, who’s celebrating her birthday week.

Dr. Jess (00:27):

Yeah it’s my birthday week but you know we're on what, day twelve of our fourteen day quarantine right now? This is a condition of our travel back home, that we can't go outside or let anyone in or even meet anyone outside.

Brandon (00:43):

It's amazing how I miss walking in the really cold weather.

Dr. Jess (00:47):

I've never wanted to go out in winter so badly.

Brandon (00:50):

The other day I was like, I wish I could put it in the garbage.

Dr. Jess (00:53):

That's the exciting point. So I guess we'll be celebrating my birthday with takeout. And maybe my mom will come by and wave from the door, even though it's what, negative twelve degrees celsius out there?

Brandon (01:05):

I think that's without the wind chill. We talk about the wind chill and the humidity all the time.

Dr. Jess (01:09):

And it was your birthday last week.

Brandon (01:11):

It was.

Dr. Jess (01:12):

You turned…

Brandon (01:14):

forty three.

Dr. Jess (01:15):

I swear to god, Brandon, so I met you when you were what, twenty three?

Brandon (01:19):

Yes. We moved in together when I was twenty three.

Dr. Jess (01:24):

It kind of baffles my mind. I don't know like, it just, I can't imagine you as forty-three year old.

Brandon (01:31):

Why?