Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Author and educator Lee Harrington joins us to discuss his new book, Traversing Gender: Understanding Transgender Realities. This book helps make the intimate discussions of gender and transgender concepts available for everyone to understand. From language and an array of gender journeys, legal systems and skills for being an ally, this book is a resource whether you are new to trans concepts or are trans yourself. Social, medical, sexual, and mental health are also addressed, with ideas that can help everyone.

This week Adam Powers shares their recent piece that went viral 'The Only Poly People You Will Date'. We'll discuss the inspiration for the piece, responses from poly folks on the internet, how to build poly community, and what we can learn about navigating the waters of dating while poly.

Tristan spends an hour with Joani Blank, one of the original founders of Good Vibrations in San Francisco. Blank discusses her history in the Bay Area and how she came into sex education in 1971. They also discuss her writing, starting a sex-positive publishing company (Down There Press), and her experiences with forming worker collectives and the cohousing movement.

Tristan is joined by very special guests trans icon Buck Angel, YouTube sensation Gaby Dunn, porn superstar Joanna Angel, and podcast host Sex Nerd Sandra who do some sexy storytelling in honor of Tristan's Birthday. That is followed by the What Do You Know About Tristan? Game Show played by Elle Chase (Curvy Girl Sex), Jane Ward (Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men), and surprise guest all the way from Melbourne Australia, Cyndi Darnell. The evening was emceed by Lynn Comella and included more than a few surprises! A supersize show at 75+ minutes which was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the famed Pleasure Chest in Los Angeles.

Award-winning somatic sexologist, bestselling author, Jaiya talks about her work to end sexual frustration and fear of failure. Jaiya is the of author of Red Hot Touch, and the founder of New World Sex Education and will talk about her work as a sex educator and sexologist, including practices for cultivating connection and arousal that will help you find the path to your passion.

Princess Kali, a pioneering kink educator and presenter, goes deep into the underlying desires on both sides of the equation that fuel erotic humiliation and similar play in her new book: Enough to Make You Blush. Using both personal experience and extensive interviews she talks about the important distinctions between ideas such as embarrassment, humiliation, degradation, objectification, as well as what it is that draws people to each (“Being human is really complicated. Being a lamp is not.”). This episode was recorded live at IMsL 2016.

Writer, artist & performer Lyric Seal aka Neve Be joins the show to talk about their work as an artist, performing in porn with Pink & White production, and their upcoming project, Diathesis a film that dances through the panic attacks of 3 queers of color, who are heroes in their own story.

Lanae St. John who you may also know as "The Mama Sutra" joins the show to talk about her work as a board certified sexologist and sex coach.

Dr. Mireille Miller-Young returns to the show for a full hour talking about her award-winning book, A Taste for Brown Sugar, which boldly takes on representations of black women's sexuality in the porn industry. It is based on Mireille Miller-Young's extensive archival research and her interviews with dozens of women who have worked in the adult entertainment industry since the 1980s. The women share their thoughts about desire and eroticism, black women's sexuality and representation, and ambition and the need to make ends meet. Miller-Young documents their interventions into the complicated history of black women's sexuality, looking at individual choices, however small—a costume, a gesture, an improvised line—as small acts of resistance, of what she calls "illicit eroticism." Miller-Young wants the voices of black women sex workers heard, and the decisions they make, albeit often within material and industrial constraints, recognized as their own.

Jacky St James returns to Sex Out Loud to talk about her new television series on Showtime. Submission is an American erotic mini-series created by Paul Fishbein and Jacky St. James. The show, starring Ashlynn Yennie and Skin Diamond, focuses on a woman exploring BDSM for the first time. Jacky talks about directing erotic scenes, why all women should dabble in XXX, and inevitable 50 Shades of Grey comparisons.