Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Do we need male and female signs on bathroom doors? Should schools, businesses, and non-profits ask us to check gender boxes on bureaucratic forms? Heath Fogg Davis, author of Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? talks about his practical strategies to help organizations of all kinds and sizes design and implement gender policies that are both trans-inclusive and institutionally smart. He offers an impassioned call to rethink the usefulness of dividing the world into not just male and female categories but even additional categories of transgender and gender fluid. We'll explore the underlying gender-enforcing policies and customs in American life that have led to transgender bathroom bills, college admissions controversies, and more, arguing that it is necessary for our society to take real steps to challenge the assumption that gender matters.

Kate McCombs is a speaker, writer, and empathy educator whose work is about helping people feel more comfortable talking about sex and feelings. She believes that meaningful conversations and accurate information can help us create a healthier and more joy-filled world. We discuss taking her signature Tea & Empathy workshop on the road, training doctors, activists, and other professionals in how to avoid burnout and increase their empathic communication skills in the process. Tea & Empathy is one part self-care, one part communication skill-building.

Author & academic Mimi Schippers talks about her work exploring the feminist, queer, and anti-racist potential of polyamory, multi-adult intimate relationships, and group sex.

Jacq T. Stripper talks about the strippers' magic, being an entrepreneurial megababe, and why dancing naked is just a job like teaching kindergarten.

Author, publisher, poet, blogger, artist, model, porn critic, & copyeditor Lynsey G shares tales from her career as an Adult Entertainment Journalist.

No one likes a know-it-all, but everyone loves a girl with brains and heart. Our guest is Dedeker Winston, author of The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory -- an intelligent and comprehensive guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of alternative love, offering relationship advice radically different from anything you'll find on the magazine rack. She'll discuss her journey from conservative Christian to globe-trotting (and dating) sex educator and coach.

Increase connection, desire, intimacy, and sexual satisfaction with your lover. Jaeleen Bennis, CEO of Bondassage, joins the show with her co-author Eve Minax to discuss their book, technique, and online workshops.

The events and changes that have occurred over the past half-century for LGBTQ people are nothing short of remarkable. At the same time, our stories are at risk of being lost; our pioneers and elders are passing away at an alarming rate. Now is the time for OUTWORDS: a national archive of in-depth, on-camera interviews with both well known and ‘regular’ LGBTQ Americans — each person providing the unique, personal story of what he or she has witnessed and experienced, over decades of extraordinary challenge and change for America’s LGBTQ community. By recording and appreciating our journey, we can help guarantee that the lessons of our past are not lost to future generations.

Calling in from Brooklyn, Dirty Lola brings her story time to the show, sharing adventures and exploits as a sex educator and performer. She's also an expert on polyamory, kink, and will discuss what it means to be a Bossy Bottom.

KD Diamond returns to the show and talks to Tristan live in the studio this week about the most recent International Ms Leather and the art and fetish of bootblacking.