Sex Nerd Sandra

UNDETECTABLE = UNTRANSMITTABLE! Half the folks in the USA with HIV cannot pass on the virus. Wut? PrEPducator and sex-positive HIV counselor Raul Quintero (@rq_rude) shares mind-blowing updated research and enlightening new info about prevention and treatment of HIV today.  TOPICS: Dating someone with HIV, miracle pills, getting a prescription for PrEP / Truvada, PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis), body fluids, stigmas, myths, fears, outdated info about HIV transmission, hope and compassion, WHO (World Health Organization) and CDC, hilarious STI testing swab techniques and more.   For more resources, checkout aidsmap.com, benryan.net and poz.com for accurate HIV information.

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THERAPY! MASCULINITY! GENDER! Dave Ross, comedian and former co-host of the show, shares what it was like being the co-host of this sex podcast for 100 episodes. It's an episode about closure and reflection on a working relationship. It gets deep. It gets honest. Team Fun gets real.    Join Sandra at Patreon.com/sexnerdsandra for bonus episodes and more!

SEXY GIFS! SEX TRAFFICKING! THIS PODCAST IS BACK! Online platforms are kicking off adult content. Tumblr just banned porn and erotic images. Looking at freedom of speech, public health concerns, sex-positive access to self-affirming imagery and sex worker rights, Lady Cheeky and Sandra explore the implications of the just implemented Tumblr Porn Ban.

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FUN WITH BRAINWASHING! Meet Miss Holly, a kinky pioneer using clicker training for sexual happiness. Turns out methods used to train dogs, parrots and dolphins can help humans develop deeper, happier relationships. TOPICS: Consensual brainwashing, Chris Pratt in Jurassic World, people-pleasers, pleasure, brain chemicals, dog vs human training, Dom/sub relationship training, domestication fetish, "positive punishment" vs "positive reinforcement" vs "negative punishment" vs "negative reinforcement," sex magic, ASMR whisper tingles, triad polyamory, kinky marriage, oral sex communication, dangers, and achieving goals. PLUS training concepts like triggers, cold shaping, marks, rewards, the 3 fail rule and coming on command.

ARE YOU ON TEAM FUN? Author, podcaster and feminist troublemaker Jaclyn Friedman helps Sandra as they splash around the murky waters of consent. Going beyond no-means-no, they examine issues in heterosexual context, showing how to move from awkward to confident and from clunky to kind. TOPICS: The sex-positive movement vs the anti-sexual-violence movement, unscrewing masculinity/media/sex ed, sexual liberation, romance, body language, making it sexy, bad sex vs violence, affirmative/enthusiastic consent, sex scripts, consent apps, coerced experiences, thinking ethically vs legally, body sovereignty, gender, unpacking old trauma, playing Gotcha, the rules, drugs and alcohol impairment vs taking the edge off, which questions are rapey and how to violate our very own boundaries!

WHIPPING AMERICA BACK INTO SHAPE! Mistress Tara Indiana (Den of Iniquity) shares what 25 years of domination could do for America, with a hearty look at politics, sex and the middle-aged white men. TOPICS: Plural of "Dominatrix," female supremacy, Trump's micropenis, kink-positive politics and so much more!

BREAST ORGASMS! Tantra, sex and relationship expert Psalm Isadora is the star of "Cougar Club" on Playboy TV. She enlightens Sandra on confident seduction, growing up conservative, finding Tantra in India, shooting a reality TV show, owning her eroticism and dating young men.

CAN SCIENCE MAKE YOU SEXIER? Behind-the-scenes audio of a fantastic interview from the Sex Nerd Sandra Fusion TV special, "The Search for Sexy." Dr David Frederick of Chapman University shares immediately useful love life skills culled from attraction research. Let's make the world a better place to date! TOPICS: Muscles, value, idiosyncratic preferences, online dating, kindness, confidence, creating intrigue, danger, falling in love, limerence, increasing arousal, unexpected reward, playing hard to get, sparking connection, honest and dishonest signaling, direct or innocuous pickup lines, high status signaling, breasts vs bottoms, waist-to-hip ratio, ovulating stripper research, humor, paradox of choice, online photos, and more! Checkout the Fusion TV special "The Search for Sexy" hosted by Sex Nerd Sandra on YouTube! Online dating? Let Sex Nerd Sandra tune-up your dating profile! Click Here to checkout her new project, PROFILE PUNCH-UP! For serious. do your profile right and they come to you.

RACE PLAY! A great night continued as "The Perverted Negress" Mollena talks about what to do when "some of edge play is 'this is so f***ed up I've got to try it'" and her husband Herr Meister (Mr. Master) gets up to share how he moved to America to follow his dream. TOPICS: Racially-motivated scenes, feeling drawn vs repulsed, when to try the thing, choosing the right partner, role-play, Master and slave, Torah, collaring ceremony, dreaming to have a submissive, accepting yourself, "real slavery and suppression vs consensual love in this way," "Playing Well with Others," "Sound of Music." AUDIENCE Q&A: Asexuality in kink, edutainment, sharing fantasy with a partner, flogging catharsis and getting into the scene.