Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Maggie West is live in the studio interviewed by Tristan on the eve of her new book release. 23 is a photo book about the spectrum of gender and sexuality. The book features nude photographs of twenty three cisgender and transgender Los Angeles based artists, models and performers. 23 has recently been featured on Dazed & Confused, Nylon, Vice, Cosmopolitan, Paper and Out Magazine.

Our guest Rich Ivey was recently featured in the documentary film Tickled. The film focuses on the manipulative abuse of another fetishist over the years, but showcases Ivey's work as honest, ethical alternative. He talks about when he first new about his tickling fetish and how he came to found the site MyFriendsFeet.

Bevin Branlandingham is live in the studio with Tristan talking. #FatSexWeek. Her motto: "Life is really great when you learn to love your body and step out of the closet! I believe all bodies are good bodies and work to make the world safe for people to love themselves."

Kitty Stryker is a writer, activist, performer, sexpert, queer femme, and cat mom who writes both vulnerably and humorously on sex work, gender, sexuality, patriarchy, feminism, body image, capitalism, banking/payment processors, censorship, obscenity, and a whole lot more. She is working on a book about the practical applications of consent culture, after having run a 4 year project discussing how consent culture can be a viable pushback against rape culture.

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Eri Kardos has delivered hundreds of self-development presentations, work- shops, unconferences, and private coaching sessions across the globe. She regularly partners with corporations, universities, business groups, and community organizations. She is known for her passion and insight on a wide variety of Personal and Relationship Development topics including building a new relationship foundation, preparing for marriage (and other big commitments), allowing individuals and relationships to grow over time, getting “unstuck” when a relationship has stagnated, building more intimacy, making a clear co-parenting plan, creating smoother transitions when a relationship is ending, opening a safer space for divorce and other potentially difficult conversations, and fostering a friendship based on mutual understanding after the romance is gone.

This week we're talking about the new conference in Canada, Converge Con. Organizer Kale Gosen joins us along with keynote speaker Tracy Bear, to discuss their individual work as writer, researchers, and sex educators, while also giving a preview of the exciting new sex con happening for the first time next month on the west coast of Canada.

Writer, comedian, social commentator and speaker Catherine Deveny joins us live from the future - calling in from Melbourne! Catherine Deveny is one of Australia’s busiest and most highly regarded professional speakers. She lectures, emcees, debates, facilitates and performs stand-up comedy for tens of thousands of people a year. She speaks on a diverse range of topics from new and old media, changing family and work life, cycling, feminism, disability, mental illness, comedy and inspirational presentations based on her own life.

Sex is fun. It feels good and brings us closer together. But for many of us, the sex we’re having doesn’t deliver the excitement it used to, it doesn’t connect us to one another like we want or need it to. We try to “spice things up” with new positions but still don’t feel the kind of intimacy we seek. Discovering the connection that’s missing isn’t as simple as just contorting your body differently―it’s an inside job as well. Elizabeth McGrath, author of The Couple's Kama Sutra, explores how to find connection, increase desire and spice up your sex life using exercises and positions from ancient and modern sexuality.

Southerners On New Ground (SONG) is a regional Queer Liberation organization made up of people of color, immigrants, undocumented people, people with disabilities, working class and rural and small town, LGBTQ people in the South. SONG envisions a sustainable South that embodies the best of its freedom traditions and works towards the transformation of our economic, social, spiritual, and political relationships. Membership Director Kate Shapiro joins the show to talk about SONG's work and how longing, desire, and organizing all come together in queer liberation.

Superheroes of sex ed, married couple Ken Melvoin-Berg and Sunny Megatron are partners in every sense of the word. In addition to co-producing Showtime’s “Sex with Sunny Megatron,” they initially gained recognition writing and teaching about everyone’s favorite subject: SEX.

In Showtime's original series, “Sex with Sunny Megatron,” Sunny takes viewers on a journey into the world of adult play, as everyday people expose their deepest and most intimate fantasies. Always honest, funny, and sex-positive, the show provides an interesting, fresh twist on sexual exploration.