Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

This week features Andre Shakti, one of the busiest and queerest gals in porn. We talk desire, safety, and her work to re-eroticize acts and experiences that are traditionally taboo in today’s industry. Spend an hour with Shakti and learn to f*ck the world on your own terms! Recorded live in person at the Sex Down South 2015 conference.

This week we welcome Deborah Kagan, Mojo Recovery Specialist and author of Find Your ME Spot: 52 Ways to Reclaim Your Confidence, Feel Good in Your Own Skin and Live a Turned On Life and the forthcoming The Sensually Empowered Woman. We'll discuss the source of true self-esteem, holistic sexuality, and how to recover your mojo (or increase what you already have).

This week's guest is award-winning writer & teacher Cris Mazza to discuss Something Wrong With Her, a hybrid memoir, and the companion piece to her most recent novel, Various Men Who Knew Us As Girls. In the past 15 years, Cris Mazza’s work as a novelist expanded as she continued to consider psychological and emotional complexities of life, but has begun to do so with the contributing complication of place: How regions or localities that still have their own unique characteristics of landscape, society, and culture impact the human experiences (sexuality, family, authority, gender) that Mazza explores in fiction. Mazza’s latest books, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls and Something Wrong With Her, return to her native San Diego in the 70s and 80s, and the unsettling times before law governing sexual harassment existed.

Portrait photographer, designer & artist N. Maxwell Lander comes to the show to discuss his recently published book "Carnal Anomaly", a fine art photography book that poses the question, what if the human body were an artifice, an artifact, or a tool? Brilliant color photographs re-envision the human body through stunning portrayals of fetish, BDSM, and body modification. Lander is joined by JP Robichaud, one of the models and muses of the book as we discuss issues around violence, kink, and photographic depictions of our dark sides.

This Friday Willy Wilkinson, MPH, writer and public health consultant joins us to discuss his memoir: Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency. Wilkinson, a mixed heritage, Asian American trans man and social movement leader has been advocating for marginalized populations since the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Poetic, humorous, and profoundly provocative, this compelling memoir explores the ambiguity and complexity of Willy’s intersectional experience with race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, and parenthood—within a larger cultural competency, public health, and policy advocacy framework.

This week we're live with author, editor & photographer David Steinberg. Over the last 15 years he has photographed the intimate sexuality of over 160 couples of all ages, body types, ethnicities, and sexual preferences, attempting to capture on film the honest emotions of people engaged in sex. We discuss his latest book, This Thing We Call Sex: A Radically Sensible Look at Sex in America, as well as how he became a publisher of artistic, imaginative sexual and erotic material, focused on offering sex-positive alternatives to the dominant sexual cultures of fear, denial, and moral judgment.

A live show with Tristan Taormino discussing current events, news, and special sex topics. Call in with questions!

In this second part of the show featuring 2015 Southern California Leather Master titleholder, the host of the Sex Nerd Sandra podcast, Vice President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, and the reigning AVN BBW Performer of the Year, guests talk about everything from fat girl fantasies and dominance to the myths of the Great Dick/Brain Divide. We take audience questions about Master/slave relationships, BDSM beginners, diversity in sex education, and more, then share our resolutions for the New Year. This star-studded event was recorded in front of a live studio audience at The Pleasure Chest in Los Angeles.

This show features the host of the Sex Nerd Sandra podcast, the reigning BBW Performer of the Year, 2015 Southern California Leather Master titleholder, and the Vice President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee who discuss the power of humor in sex ed, mainstream representations of kinky sex, what a plus-size activist can teach us about sexual confidence, and the importance of curiosity in sex. Guests are put to the test when Tristan asks them about their most important sex advice, plus they talk about their favorite sexy gifts to give and receive. We take thought-provoking questions from the audience about consent, anal sex, erotic boundaries, and more. This star-studded event was recorded in front of a live studio audience at The Pleasure Chest in Los Angeles.