Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Tonight's show welcomes back sexuality expert and educator Amy Jo Goddard who just published her new book "Woman on Fire: 9 Elements to Wake up Your Erotic Energy, Personal Power and Sexual Intelligence" as well as re-releasing her book "Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men". Amy Jo teaches intensive workshops, maintains a private coaching practice, and hosts events for clients. She creates unique opportunities for women and couples to deeply explore, heal, and grow their sexuality, and also writes about practical, real-world sexuality and evolved relationships.

Give Me Sex Jesus is a new documentary that tells six personal stories of struggle from within the Evangelical community to remain sexually pure until marriage. We discuss the film with the filmmakers Matt Barber and Brittany Machado and talk about the Purity movement, abstinence-only education, belief, faith and what happens when our bodies and desires do not behave.

This week's show features filmmaker and radical artist Sarah A.O. Rosner. Rosner founded AORTA films in 2015, a production company dedicated to making queer/feminist porn for our impending post-human future. Joining with a filmmaker (who wishes to remain anonymous) 5 burgeoning performers (Parts Authority, Ginny Woolf, Xposed Brick, Erykah Ohms, and Toxic Shock), musician Ashur Rayis, and editor Jacqueline Mary, Rosner conceived and directed AORTA films' first feature, "The OH Files". AORTA films is dedicated to creating experimental, lusty, heartfelt work, and excited to pursue future projects after this first foray into the world of pornography.

This week we welcome Andrew Morrison-Gurza and Stella Palikarova, creators of #DeliciouslyDisabled and

Deliciously Disabled: a disability awareness consulting and motivational speaking company that strives to bring disability into pop culture and raise awareness surrounding the lived experiences of people with disabilities. We talk about creating conversations around disability that are based in positivity that both Persons with Disabilities and non-disabled individuals can use when discussing disability. We also discuss how to expand the conversation of sex and disability into all of our sex education.

April Flores returns to the show to discuss her newest site FAT GIRL FANTASIES. Having made her start with legends like Belladonna and Bizarre magazine, April now finds herself documenting her own filthy sex life, and the sex she sees around her. She’s the fat girl of your fantasies, and now she’s serving up her iconic attitude and hers, yours, and everyone’s fat girl fantasies. We'll discuss body diversity, sex-positive activism, and making yourself feel powerful.

This week we welcome back to the show Shine Louise Houston, the founding producer and director of Pink & White Productions, who is currently finishing her latest erotic thriller, SNAPSHOT. Written and directed by Houston, SNAPSHOT draws inspiration from film classics such as Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Antonioni’s Blow Up, featuring a diverse cast and intimate portrayals of queer sex in Houston’s signature cinematic style. We'll also discuss how she's telling a different kind of coming out story with her work and also share stories from working with the leads Beretta James, Chocolate Chip, & Lyric Seal.

Tristan is delighted to welcome educator and author Cory Silverberg to Sex Out Loud. A sought after lecturer and workshop leader, a frequent contributor to TV/radio, and for over 10 years Silverberg has written the Sexuality Guide for About.com. In 2012 his book project became the most funded children's book on Kickstarter and What Makes a Baby" was published in 2013. Today we'll talk about his newest book in his series, Sex Is a Funny Word: A Book About Bodies, Feelings, and You

Tristan welcomes professor and author Jane Ward to discuss her brand new book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men. From the military to fraternities to Craigslist, they talk about the numerous sites where white heterosexual men have sex with other men and what it means for the hetero/homo binary, queer politics, race, sexual identity, and the overlooked sexual complexity of straight men. She makes the case

about why this matters and how it has broad implications for everyone, whether straight or gay.

This week we welcome back award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and advocate Tina Horn to discuss her first collection of nonfiction stories, Love Not Given Lightly. In her vast experience in sexual undergrounds, Tina has befriended pro-dommes, porn stars, kinky fetishists, rent boys, and more. Instead of writing a sex worker memoir, she opted to tell the stories of the people she met along the way. Illuminating human issues of desire, gender, beauty, and ultimately friendship, the stories in this book will do no less than alter the way you think about modern sexuality in America.

Editor Jon Pressick and Cleis Press recently published the collection Best Sex Writing of the Year, which Library Journal said "highlights not only the diversity of sexual issues prevalent in the public discourse but likewise the importance of all things sexual to human culture.” Tune in to this show to hear how the editor put together the collection and hear excerpts read aloud by writers Mollena, Amy Dentata, and Ashley Manta.