Sex Ed Before Bed

By Rebecca Nava

Society & Culture Education Sexuality

What's Sex Ed Before Bed about?

The podcast explores sexual politics and health in Canada and beyond via interviews with industry experts and people with lived experiences. Expect to hear from LGBTQ+ identifying Canucks, the poly community, BDSM practitioners, educators, psychotherapists, physicians and program facilitators.

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Sex Ed Before Bed episodes:

01.27.2021
Rewrite Your Future: A Rape Prevention Program That's Working
1 in 5 university-enrolled women will experience attempted or completed rape. Rape is one of the most underreported crimes - 10% are reported. A world without rape. A world where sexual violence is rare. This is the goal of Sara's work...
12.16.2020
Self-Compassion in the Age of COVID-19
Why the hell are we so afraid of our own damn feelings? Turns out the frightening, painful work of facing ourselves is the self-compassion we need in the age of COVID-19.
05.18.2020
It's Normal for Sex to Take Work
With great attraction comes great sex, forever, right? Not so much.
10.17.2019
Poverty, Class, Culture and Taboo in Langa, South Africa
In 2019, I traveled to South Africa and Namibia. While visiting Cape Town, I went on a Township Tour with Lele Mbinda and visited his hometown of Langa just outside Cape Town. Lele opened my eyes to not only how people...
01.21.2019
Sexual Violence and the Canadian Legal System
The podcast explores sexual politics via interviews with industry experts and people with lived experiences. Expect to hear from LGBTQ+ identifying Canucks, the poly community, BDSM practitioners, educators, psychotherapists, physicians and program facilitators.
12.19.2018
Male Sexual Trauma and Hope for Healing
The podcast explores sexual politics via interviews with industry experts and people with lived experiences. Expect to hear from LGBTQ+ identifying Canucks, the poly community, BDSM practitioners, educators, psychotherapists, physicians and program facilitators.
07.11.2018
Sex Myths Uncovered
Sex Myths Uncovered is a panel I was asked to host in Toronto. If you ever wanted to hear a complex, nuanced, high-level conversation about sex politics, this is it! A groundbreaking, funny, frank conversation from five very distinct, brilliant vantage...
01.06.2018
Unpacking Polyamory
On this episode, I partner with Vanessa and Maggie, hosts of 21 Questions, to speak with revered sex therapist and social worker, Angie Gunn. Angie addresses our questions about polyamory, also known as consensual non-monogamy, ripping apart misconceptions about people who...
11.19.2017
Sexual Self-Esteem & Tantra 101
Sofia Fortin is the founder of the Happy Vagina Project. Her mission is to create connections between the art of sex, feminine woo woo and unleashing your inner awesome. Sofia is a certified sexuality coach and sex educator who is inspired to help...
09.09.2017
Mindful Masturbation
The podcast explores sexual politics via interviews with industry experts and people with lived experiences. Expect to hear from LGBTQ+ identifying Canucks, the poly community, BDSM practitioners, educators, psychotherapists, physicians and program facilitators.
08.26.2017
Making Love on Camera - Day in the Life of a Porn Star
"Fuck rap, I'm gonna do porn". - Malcolm Lovejoy Malcolm Lovejoy is a Toronto-based porn star. He started as an emcee and rapper, and still dabbles in those things, but now his main source of income is porn. Porn gets a bad...
08.26.2017
Navigating Consent
Karen B.K. Chan is a legendary sex educator in Toronto, Canada. For more than 20 years, she's been teaching youth, adults and couples about sex, sexuality and emotional intelligence, but I first learned about her when someone showed me a...
07.29.2017
Chronicles of a Trans Life
Wes Heney was born female. That is, he had the anatomic composition or body of a person most people would see as female. As Wes reached puberty, he grew breasts that he detested. He dressed like a guy and wanted...
07.29.2017
Pleasure and Politics: What drove a Social Psychologist to open a Sex Shop?
Veronica is a social psychologist, and the owner of The Nookie, a downtown Toronto sensuality shop. V describes her escape from corporate life into value-based entrepreneurship, manifested in a sex shop that urges all genders to seek more pleasurable experiences. The...
07.29.2017
Day in the Life of a Sex Therapist
So what does a sex therapist do? Matthew Ridley is a Pre-Clinical Fellow with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and holds an M.Sc. from the University of Guelph in Couple and Family Therapy. In episode 3, Matthew and I...
07.29.2017
Sex Education in Ontario: Then and Now
Carly is a sex educator, she visits schools to teach Ontario’s relatively new sex education curriculum, launched in September 2015. Carly also remembers the old sex ed curriculum, you know, the one that hasn’t changed since 1998. That one. Carly...
07.29.2017
The Roots of Domestic Violence
Whitney Wilson manages the Domestic Violence Court Referral Program at The John Howard Society. When a person is charged with domestic violence, they might attend a program run by her to help them challenge their attitudes and behaviours. So what causes...