Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

From the sinfully delicious mind of Joanna Angel, founder of adult company BurningAngel and award-winning adult actress and director, comes Night Shift: A Choose Your Own Erotic Journey! "This interactive story is a fun way to enjoy a smorgasbord of sex scenes." - Publishers Weekly

We're excited to have Joanna Angel back on the show to talk about her new book, Night Shift, and how you can work on choosing your own erotic adventures.

In the wake of #MeToo, #TimesUp, and so many horrifying stories about sexual abuse and harassment, Erika brings her progressive message about female desire and sexual agency to LA. We are experiencing a societal shift, giving women a sense of power to demand change, take complete ownership over their bodies, and move toward a safer, sex-positive culture. As a leader in the ethical adult cinema movement, Erika’s cutting-edge representation of women’s pleasure and sex on screen challenges the unchecked misogynistic attitudes, racist categorizations, and degrading narratives of mass-produced, mainstream pornography. Her films are as inclusive as they are stylish and sexy, and make consent and communication a priority—on the screen and behind the camera.

Part 2 of this special episode recorded in front of a live studio audience at Swingset Takes Over Desire in Cancun in November 2017. Tristan is joined by Cooper Beckett, Dylan Thomas, and an audience of attendees, and we talked about swinging, polyamory, open relationships, bisexuality, post-sex pizza, and what it's like to spend a week in sex paradise. We chatted about BDSM in swinger spaces, consent, shame and shamelessness, embracing your desires, sexual greed, taking up space, introversion, sexual fluidity, and the complexities of gender roles in sexual spaces. There is lots of real talk about stepping outside society’s boxes and living an authentic sexual life.

Tristan joined the folks from the podcasts Life on the Swingset and Ending the Sexual Dark Age at their sex-positive vacation called The Swingset Takes Over Desire at Desire Resort & Spa in Cancun, Mexico and she recorded this special two-part episode there. We talked about swinging, progressive swinging, polyamory, open relationships, bisexuality, post-sex pizza, and what it's like to spend a week in sex paradise. Tristan coins the term heterosexual tourism (HT) and talks about what it means and how her experiment in HT went. Cooper Beckett, Dylan Thomas, and an audience of attendees discuss defying gender expectations, challenging heteronormativity, body acceptance, sex and aging, and exploring new kinds of masculinity. There is lots of real talk about stepping outside society’s boxes and living an authentic sexual life.

Join Tristan and her friends Devin and body-positive performer April Flores as they test out two of the top sex machines on the market: The Motor Bunny and The Sybian. You will hear candid discussion about pleasure and orgasms, masturbation and sex toys as if you're eavesdropping on an intimate conversation. Then each person test drives the machines and you get to hear their experiences (and their orgasms!) in real time. This is truly unlike any other episode we've done!

Jessica Graham demonstrates in her book Good Sex that a deep spiritual life and an extraordinary sex life are not mutually exclusive in this keenly personal and unflinchingly frank guide to finding mindfulness in sex without losing the fun and adventure. Not only a tool kit for creating a rich and deeply satisfying sex life, this playful, explicit, and transformative book conveys the deeper message of how combining meditation with sex can bring about profound spiritual awakenings. Graham discusses everything from open-eyed orgasms to threesomes to how to deal with a partner with a low sex drive. From a sex-positive and nontraditional stance Good Sex explores nonmonogamy, the benefits of pornography, sexual trauma, consent, and much more.

In 2001 Searah Deysach opened Early To Bed, the first woman-owned sex toy shop in Chicago, an institution in the local queer and sex community. After years of selling vibrators, she expanded into also carrying gear for trans folks of all ages. We'll hear stories from how the business has changed over the years for both owners and customers, learn how to hand-sell a vibrator to a stranger, and take a tour of her screwy sex toy museum.

Wit López is a hairy, disabled, gender non-conforming/nonbinary trans performance/visual artist and independent curator of African American and Boricua descent. Their work explores the absurd and the macabre as tools of healing and decolonization.

Jessica Halem leads inclusion efforts for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, staff, faculty, and trainees throughout Harvard Medical School and its hospitals. She talks about her experiences training doctors on sexual histories, advice for queer and trans folks going to the doctore, and #queerandcaredfor.