Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Professional shamanatrix Dia Dynasty joins us to talk about how she incorporates healing and spirituality into her work as a domme.

Kevin Patterson is the author of the definitive book on how race and polyamory. He'll provide insight on creating inclusive environments and talk about his new book, Love’s Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities.

Writing Ourselves Whole is a collection of essays and creative writing encouragements for sexual

trauma survivors who want to risk writing a different story. Each short chapter offers encouragement, experience, and exercises. Sections focus on writing as a transformative practice, embodying our story, how to write trauma without retraumatization, writing joy and desire, and more. The author Jen Cross joins us to talk about her work with transformative journaling.

As various industries grapple with revelations about sexual harassment and abuse, the dialogue around these issues has reached a fever pitch. Pleasure-focused communities are not immune from consent violations, sexual harassment, coercion, misconduct, abuse, and violence. It’s time for folks from sex-positive, sex educator, kink, queer, polyamory, swinger, and sex industry communities to come together and talk publicly about these important issues. The evening included a panel of Smoky of Obsidian LA, Pon

As various industries grapple with revelations about sexual harassment and abuse, the dialogue around these issues has reached a fever pitch. Pleasure-focused communities are not immune from consent violations, sexual harassment, coercion, misconduct, abuse, and violence. It’s time for folks from sex-positive, sex educator, kink, queer, polyamory, swinger, and sex industry communities to come together and talk publicly about these important issues. The evening included a panel of Smoky of Obsidian LA, Pon

As various industries grapple with revelations about sexual harassment and abuse, the dialogue around these issues has reached a fever pitch. Pleasure-focused communities are not immune from consent violations, sexual harassment, coercion, misconduct, abuse, and violence. It’s time for folks from sex-positive, sex educator, kink, queer, polyamory, swinger, and sex industry communities to come together and talk publicly about these important issues. The evening included a panel of Smoky of Obsidian LA, Pon

Polly Rodriguez the CEO of Unbound, a sexual lifestyle company that specializes creating sexual health products that are approachable, affordable and exceptionally well designed. Her goal is to re-define the retail experience in this category and make it enjoyable and educational for all. We'll talk sexual health innovation, financial barriers sex companies face, and Women of SexTech.

Tristan visits western North Carolina with producer Raymond and they talk about the cult documentary Wild Wild Country, Jesus Christ Superstar live, and other pop culture topics as they relate to sex/gender.

Sex is a social skill because sex has to start with knowing yourself - your body, your boundaries, your desires. That is only the first step. The second step is sharing that truth with others by effectively communicating. The final step is co-creating and navigating the awkward dance that is two (or more) sets of boundaries and desires colliding to create something that hopefully is mutually delicious. This is the mission of Dawn Serra, educator, coach, podcaster & organizer, we'll chat about her work organizing the Explore More Summit as well as her new weekly livestream at O School called Pop Culture Undressed.

This week's guest is pro domme from Chicago with a master's degree who uses it to build educational relationships with her clients. Mistress Velvet began introducing black feminist theory into her sessions with clients and the results have trickled out into other areas of their lives. We'll talk about what inspires her work with clients as well as her new workshop on how to become a Dominatrix.