Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Gender Spectrum’s mission is to create a gender-inclusive world for all children and youth. To accomplish this, they help families, organizations, and institutions increase understandings of gender and consider the implications that evolving views have for each of us. Executive Director Lisa Kenney joins us to talk about the work of Gender Spectrum as well as their book, The Transgender Teen. This comprehensive guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, gender-variant or gender-fluid.

Sex educator Elle Chase returns to the show to celebrate the release of her new book, Curvy Girl Sex. It covers sex positions from basic to advanced, specific challenges faced as plus-sized lovers, and precise tips, tricks and techniques that cater to your big, beautiful body. She'll talk body positivity and how people of all sizes can benefit from the inclusive, shame-free advice.

Dalychia Saah & Rafaella Fiallo of Afrosexology talk live about their vision for sex and sexuality. Afrosexology was birthed out of our desire to experience a more sex-positive Black community. One that encourages self-agency & promotes love in regards to our bodies, relationships, and sexualities. One that liberates us from the sexual shame & policing that we've inherited from generations of sexual & body oppression. One that follows in the tradition of Black sexual politics by seeking to rediscover and reclaim our sexuality.

Writer, actor & advocate Jen Richards is live in the studio with Tristan this week! They'll talk about about her Emmy nominated show Her Story, which goes inside the dating lives of trans & queer women as they navigate the intersections of desire & identity, as well as her latest role in the ABC series "Nashville".

A respected writer, speaker, researcher and mental health advocate, JoEllen Notte has done extensive work on the effects of depression on sexual function and relationship, creating created the first sex-positive online survey on the topic in 2014. JoEllen has written about sex, mental health, vibrators, and how none of us are broken on the award-winning RedheadBedhead.com as well on xoJane, Bitch Media, Daily Dot, YourTango, PsychCentral, AlterNet and Kinkly

David Ley returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Ethical Porn for Dicks: A Man's Guide for Responsible Viewing Pleasure. Our media is filled with confusing, polarizing messages about the dangers of porn, while at the same time sexually explicit images are pronounced in advertising and entertainment. Using a natural question/answer format for people feeling fear and shame about porn use, this accessible, funny, and well-informed book is the first one to offer men a nonjudgmental way to discover how to view and use pornography responsibly.

Expert and Design Innovator Lidia Bonilla joins the conversation with a topic we don't always think of with sex: money. How does debt impact your relationships and your sex life? Learn ways to bring more pleasure into your daily life and how to bring up sex toys, submission, and other topics with your partner.

Madison Young comes back to the show to talk about new motherhood, pregnancy sex, and why we should be documenting our own sexual revolution.

Assured, honest, and lyrical, the book Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube paints a powerful portrait of self-reliance in the face of extraordinary circumstance. Author Blair Braverman endures physical exhaustion, survives being buried alive in an ice cave, and drives her dogs through a whiteout blizzard to escape crooked police. Through it all, she grapples with love and violence—navigating a grievous relationship with a fellow musher, and adapting to the expectations of her Norwegian neighbors—as she negotiates the complex demands of being a young woman in a man’s land.