Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall discuss their recently released book, Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders, a memoir of how their relationship survived Jacob’s gender transition. Their story has been the subject of numerous articles (including in The New York Times) and radio shows (like NPR’s Story Corp). They'll discuss their personal journey along with ideas around queer identity, long-term relationships, and society concepts of gender. This show is live and we'll be answering listener questions.

Logan Levkoff, PhD, sexuality educator, sexologist, and author talks to Tristan about designing sex ed programs, becoming an AASECT certified sex educator, and empowering children, adolescents, and adults to embrace their sexuality and challenge the impractical, and often unhealthy, messages that they are exposed to. She'll talk about her latest book, "Got Teens? The Doctor Moms’ Guide to Sexuality, Social Media, and Other Adolescent Realities" and answer questions from listeners on how to navigate conversations with teens and the best ways to create sexually healthy adults.

If you are a fan of queer sex books, then you already know (and love) the work of kd diamond, founder and art director of Salacious Magazine. Diamond has illustrated Tristan Taormino's Secrets of Great G-Spot Orgasms and Female Ejaculation and Ultimate Guide to Kink, as well as the books Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Playing Well with Others, and the Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure. This week Tristan talks to Diamond about becoming an artist, making cartoons sexy, and the latest project from diamond and Allison Moon, Girl Sex 101, a road trip in a book.

Tristan interviews one of her trailblazing influences, the "Mother of Masturbation": Betty Dodson. Dodson is an artist, author, and PhD sexologist who authored the books Sex For One, Orgasms for Two, and My Romantic Love Wars: A Sexual Memoir. Her collaborative partner Carlin Ross is an entrepreneur and sex educator and together they are two intergenerational, sex-positive feminists whose dialogue on sexuality and feminism entertains and educates. This interview was recorded live at CatalystCon 2014.

This Friday Tristan interviews performer Belle Knox, who became known in March 2013 as "the Duke University pornstar" after being outed by a class mate and writing about her experience for xojane.com. Since then, Knox has appeared in many media outlets spreading a sex positive message and sex worker equality and this week on Sex Out Loud she'll talk about her experiences and how she became Belle Knox.

This Friday Tristan interviews Whitney Strub, scholar, professor, and director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at Rutgers. Stub's latest book is "Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression." The book charts the course of censorship and law all the way back to the colonial era while focusing on Supreme Court and the complicated questions it has inspired regarding censorship, sexual expression, and the place of social mores in constitutional law. The show is live, so call in with questions about sexual politics and the law.

Tristan celebrates her birthday and the 100th episode of Sex Out Loud with a very special show featuring...her mother! That's correct: the woman who gave birth to and raised America's foremost authority on anal sex, open relationships, and feminist porn will join her for a LIVE conversation about Tristan's upbringing, sex education, sexual politics and feminism. Plus, Tristan and her mom will take phone calls from listeners! Every single person who calls will win a prize, so don't be shy: now is your chance to ask Tristan's mother anything!

This Friday features Thomas Maier, award-winning journalist, author, and TV producer. His book "Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love" is the basis for the hit Showtime series currently filming its second season. Learn why Tristan calls the book a thorough, fascinating, juicy biography and a great read. If you're a fan of the show, you'll learn so much more about the lives of sexologists Masters & Johnson.

Award-winning artist, performer, playwright, and artistic producer, Regie Cabico has been on two seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and NPR's Snap Judgment. The recently dubbed "the Lady Gaga of poetry" shares his spoken word skills in storytelling and humor. Twanna Hines first started writing about sex anonymously as Funky Brown Chick. The award-winning educator, writer, and media commentator now focuses on the sociology of sexuality and its relationship to culture and technology. This episode was filmed before a live studio audience at CatalystCon East 2014.

Recorded live at CatalystCon, Tristan Taormino interviews writer, educator, and interdisciplinary media-maker Tina Horn. They discuss Tina Horn's new sexuality podcast, Why Are People Into That?! aka YAPIT, which focuses on a subject of human sexuality and features interviews with experts exploring science, psychology, social dynamics, and history as well as scintillating stories and tips for exploration. They also discuss her upcoming project, a handbook for modern sex workers.