Remember when we talked to TDo in season 1 about discovering her queerness and coming out to her mom? Well, she's back and better than ever. This week, we're chatting with TDo all about kink, specifically impact play, edging, and Shibari (a form of Japanese rope bondage). Talking points include giant tubs of Crisco, suspension, and aftercare for tops.

If you're interested in learning more about kink, you can check out the resources that TDo and Jen mentioned in the episode here: Vox Body, Twisted Monk, The Duchy, and Dark Odyssey.

This week, Jen takes us on a journey through the history of kink and BDSM. It's a broad overview, but we cover ancient history all the way up to modern movements. Talking points include vagina worship, consent concepts in the Kama Sutra, the ickiness of Marquis de Sade, leather daddies, Tom of Finland, and Dykes on Bikes. 

This week we talked to Emerson, the person behind The Kink Educator Instagram account that serves up bite-sized informative tidbits all about how to engage in safe and healthy kink. We discuss the four main pillars of kink: negotiation, consent, communication, and aftercare. Emerson believes that these concepts can be used not only in kinky sex, but also in vanilla sex and even non-sexual situations.

Of course, it wouldn't be an episode on kink if we didn't discuss the problematic Mr. Christian Grey...but we also share our views on other pop culture instances of kink, including the movie Secretary and the new Netflix show Bonding.

To finish up the episode, Emerson gave us a list of her favorite resources for getting involved in kink, including The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book by Janet Hardy and Dossie Easton, the Ask a Sub meme account on Instagram that also has a Patreon for long-form content, Watts the Safeword on Youtube, and Evie Lupine on Youtube.

In this week's episode, Kaylee and Jen do a deep dive into sex ed policy around the United States. First, Kaylee covers the variations of rules for sex ed content on a state-by-state level. Then, we go through the history of abstinence-only sex ed funding in the US, particularly looking at the Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA), Title V of the Social Security Act, and Community Based Abstinence Education (CBAE). After covering these federal grants, Kaylee makes the case that abstinence-only sex education perpetuates systemic racism in the US. 

You can get involved to fight against systemic racism in sex education by asking your representatives to support the Real Education for Healthy Youth Act and the Youth Access to Sexual Health Services Act, or by donating to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the US (SIECUS).

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Content warning: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault and child pornography.

This week, Kaylee opens up about a revenge porn experience she had when she was a teenager. While this story does involve some ridiculous things like MySpace and victim-blaming cops, we also dig into the harsh aftermath of the incident⏤from having one's sexual privacy violated to being treated as a spectacle of men's sexual entertainment. Jen and Kaylee also discuss how legislation for revenge porn has changed over the last 13 years...including how a federal revenge porn law still doesn't exist in United States.

This week we talked to Kate Isaacs, founder of the Not Your Porn campaign and host of the Let's Talk About Porn, Baby podcast (find it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts) about all things porn-related. First, we share our experiences with porn when we were growing up, including "fit blonde chicks" and blowjob POVs. Then, we discuss how porn can act as a sex educator for kids and how to address those problems as a parent. Finally, Kate tells us all about the horrors of tube sites (like Pornhub) for problems like revenge porn, underage porn, and stolen porn.

Is it possible to watch porn ethically? Find out on this episode of the Sex Ed Podcast.