Secular Sexuality

The Atheist Community of Austin Holiday Trivia Challenge - Preliminaries - Year End Special



We are pre-recording this challenge so that we could give you something interesting to watch over the holidays, but also give our hard working hosts and crew some time off to spend with their family and friends.



This will be a 5 part series, with one episode appearing on each of our AEN Network shows. The schedule is as follows:



The preliminary rounds will consist of 5 questions each, and will be shown on the Secular Sexuality channel on Thursday, December 23rd at 7pm Central: http://tiny.cc/ytss



The first two Quarter Final rounds will consist of 7 questions each, and will be shown on the Truth Wanted channel on Friday, December 24th at 7pm Central: http://tiny.cc/yttw



The second two Quarter Final rounds will consist of 7 questions each, and will be shown on Talk Heathen on Sunday, December 26th at 1pm Central: http://tiny.cc/ytth



The two Semi-final rounds will consist of 7 questions each, and will be shown on The Non-Prophets on Sunday, December 26th at 3pm Central: http://tiny.cc/ytnp



The Championship round will consist of 7 questions, and we will have a Consolation round consisting of 3 questions. These will both be show on The Atheist Experience channel on Sunday, December 26th at 4:30pm Central: http://tiny.cc/ytaxp

Each and every week we end by reminding you to take a quiet moment to yourself and show yourself some love, so it should come as no surprise that self-compassion is big in our book. After being told that you were born into sin and that your every thought should be held captive it makes sense that self-criticism and self-flagellation are part and parcel of our culture, something new research suggests compassion based therapies can do something about.

This week Licensed Professional Counselor Callye Lawrence joins the show to teach Christy how self-compassion can help us better connect to our partners, our lovers and ourselves. Mindful Self-Compassion, your calls and questions and what’s turning us on this week on SecX!

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Sexualization, objectification, fetishization, dehumanization? Oh my. It’s tricky to know where appreciation ends and obsession begins- throw in a dash of marketing and pinch of patriarchy and we have a capitalistic conundrum for the ages. Resident sex-work royals Sinn Sage and Arden Hart join Christy in a conversation about sex worker’s rights, trans bodies and the tricks of the trade, plus your calls and questions and of course, what’s turning us on this week on SecX!



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So much of what we take as biological fact is actually just culture, and I’m tired of pretending it’s not. But if cultures are like families- you’re stuck with the one you’re born with until you build another, then why not get to work? Laura Magee returns to the show to look around the world with Nate and Christy in search of myths, metaphors and metaanalysis so we can cherry pick the best ingredients and add some flavor to our extra virgin purity culture. Our thoughts and conversation, your calls and questions plus what’s turning us on this week on SecX!

Dive deeper into the episode and find what’s turning us on this week at https://www.vcatx.com/media/Culturallybound

In the 3 and a half years since the ACA began production on Secular Sexuality we’ve had some incredible experiences. Like the time we had the world’s #1 legal escort and #1 phone sex operator in back to back weeks, or the time we recorded a live concert with Shelley Segal. Or the time a catholic guest walked off set 30 minutes into the interview. Good times all but none of them compare to the holiday magic of this years’ Thanksgiving episode, recorded entirely on set of a steamy Sinn Sage production. Watch this VERY SPECIAL episode where Christy interviews Sinn Sage and crew in between takes and catches as much of the action as YouTube will allow. It’s an early Christmas Miracle and a Sinnful delight on this week’s holiday SecX!

Everyone’s got a story to tell and for all the troll-y haterade the internet offers us, the democratizing megaphone is in safe hands here. Phoebe J. Rose holds such a microphone for trans folx of all stripes as they document and declare their own history to a world short on trans stories. Join P*ck and Nate as they explore their own stories and the power of sharing and caring for ourselves and our community. Trans story time with Phoebe Rose, your calls and questions and what’s turning us on this week on tonight’s SecX!

Nothing says ‘the holidays are here’ like your parents scratched up DVD of Christmas Vacation or awkwardly squirming in your seat during the more sexist parts of Miracle on 34th St. In hopes that we can offer an alternative this holiday season we’ve invited writer, researcher and friend of the show Dianna Anderson to join Christy in a conversation about sex positive and feminist film so that the only thing problematic about your tv viewing will be trying to convince your family and friends to start a new tradition. Our top picks plus your calls and questions and of course what’s turning us on this week on this pre-holiday SecX!

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You may love your pet, and you may pet your love, but have you ever asked your lover to be your pet? After all, we ain’t nothing but mammals (who do it like they do it on the discovery channel), so why not take a walk on the wild side and let out our animal instincts? Join the show as Shade Wolf of Pet-Play Pride TX takes Christy and P*ck to obedience school so we can bone-up on tails of animal lust and learn a few tricks ourselves. All that plus your calls and what’s turning us on this week on SecX!

The modern polyamory movement can readily trace it’s ties back to the feminist and counter-cultural movements of the 60’s and 70’s. Fueled by a willingness to question convention and a mandate to empower women, it’s no wonder polyamory would eagerly distance itself from the historical (and not so historical) polygamy of The Church of Latter Day Saints. How different are these approaches, really, and how does the ghost of Mormon plural marriage hang over modern ideas of ethical non-monogamy? Find out as Dan Beecher of the Thank God I’m Atheist podcast joins P*ck and Christy in an exploration of consent, coercion and copious copulation, plus your calls and what’s turning us on this week!

The world is opening back up and the internet’s hottest club has everything- sexy kinksters, a Montero aesthetic and a clunky graphic interface from circa 2007. At FetLife dot com you can explore new and exciting sexualities- meet cougars, bears, bunnies and possibly predators all while navigating a naked MySpace-inspired fever dream. This week web-hostess with the mostess Tanjil Wright joins Nate and Christy in navigating the dated digital landscape of one of the internet’s most perplexing pervy parties plus your calls and questions and what’s turning us on this week!