Chris chats with comedians Joel Kim Booster, Eman El-Husseini, Eitan Levine, Elsa Eli Waithe, Reena Calm, and Saurin Choksi about comedy and talking about sex and sexuality on stage. In addition to these hilarious comics, award-winning playwright and founder of Smut Slam Cameryn Moore also joins the conversation along with Berlin-based professional dominatrix Lady Velvet Steel. Make sure to check out Lady Velvet Steel's hilarious Conan segment and Eitan Levine's video about joining the circus. You can also sing along to Hamiltoe for free! Listen to Joel Kim Booster's album Model Minority and Eman El-Husseini's album Unveiled on Spotify. Watch Eman's 2012 Canadian special. Learn more about Elsa Waithe's comedy class. Buy Reena Calm's book Once a Pun a Time…: Legend of a Sighs Queen. And the next time you're in Brooklyn check out both of the live comedy shows Saurin Choksi produces: Comedians You Should Know New York and Brown Privilege Comedy. Podcasts recommended in the show include episode 27 of Reply All, The Fever and episode 115 of Criminal, Cecilia. Always feel free to email Chris about anything at [email protected]. You can also tweet at him: twitter.com/sexwithchris. Find him on Snapchat: ChrisSowa. And message him on Fetlife: Chris Sowa. Go to sexwithstrangersshow.com if the links mentioned above aren't showing up where you're listening to the show.

Chris travels to Berlin to chat with kinky and sex-positive Germans, including professional dominatrixes Lady Velvet Steel and Kat Rix, professional submissive Candy Flip, and queer feminist pornographer Katybit. Check out the music video for Even the Cutest Kittens Have Fleas, Shauna's blog Stumbling on Sexuality, Cosima's German-language blog Cusilife, and Daria's custom leather collars. Email Chris about anything at [email protected]. Tweet at him: twitter.com/sexwithchris. Find him on Snapchat: ChrisSowa. And message him on Fetlife: Chris Sowa. Go to sexwithstrangersshow.com to find more SWS episodes or to donate to the show.

Chris chats with sex researchers Dr. Justin Lehmiller and Roni Wiener about sexual fantasies, thinking oneself to orgasm, the importance of sex research, and much more. Justin also speaks at length about his book, Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life, which is based on the responses 4,175 American adults gave to a 369-question survey about sexual fantasies. Check out his excellent blog sexandpsychology.com for more of Justin's musings on sex and science. You should also consider filling out Roni's diverse orgasm survey. Learn more about Roni's classes and workshops at sundragonrising.com. And for more on the “replication crisis” in science check out this episode of Vox's The Weeds and this episode of You Are Not So Smart. Always feel free to email Chris about anything at [email protected]. You can also tweet at him: twitter.com/sexwithchris. Find him on Snapchat: ChrisSowa. And message him on Fetlife: Chris Sowa. Go to sexwithstrangersshow.com to find links mentioned in the show.

Chris chats with people who have grown up Amish. Guests include Ira Wagler, author of the aptly named Growing up Amish. Misty Griffin also joins the conversation to talk about her memoir Tears of the Silenced that soberly addresses issues related to sexual assault within the Amish. It is currently available for free in Kindle form to Amazon Prime subscribers. Always feel free to email Chris about anything at [email protected]. You can also tweet at him: twitter.com/sexwithchris. Find him on Snapchat: ChrisSowa. And message him on Fetlife: Chris Sowa. Go to sexwithstrangersshow.com to find links mentioned in the show.

Chris travels to Nevada to chat with Alice Little and Jenny Jade from the world famous Moonlite BunnyRanch as well as stripper and cam model extraordinaire Lita Crystal-Skull (formerly of the Alien Cathouse Brothel) and independent Las Vegas escort Kate Layne. Journalist Lux Alptraum joins the conversation to talk about her Vox article: A Push to Shutter Legal Brothels in Nevada is Based on Misguided Ideas about Sex Work. And we also hear from sex researcher Roni Wiener who is working on their thesis centered on diverse orgasm experiences. Fill out this survey surveymonkey.com/r/DOES2 now to help Roni advance our scientific understanding of orgasms. It will only take you 15 to 25 minutes. Update: Shortly after this episode went up Dennis Hof the owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch passed away. He was 72. Always feel free to email Chris about anything at [email protected]. You can also tweet at him: twitter.com/sexwithchris. Find him on Snapchat: ChrisSowa. And message him on Fetlife: Chris Sowa.

Chris chats about gay bathhouses with a handful of people, including the manager of Club Philadelphia and a woman who attended bisexual night at Hawks PDX. Kevin Allison from the Risk! Podcast also returns to share some of his experiences at bathhouses and sex clubs around the world. And Steamworks Chicago gets discussed quite a bit. Articles mentioned in this episode include the Detroit Free Press profile of Schvitz and the PBS NewsHour article 8 Things You Didn't Know About Truvada. Please email Chris if you think you're a good fit for a future episode: [email protected] and follow him on social media at twitter.com/sexwithchris or find him on Snapchat: ChrisSowa.

Chris chats with Kevin Allison from the Risk! Podcast, Sunny Megatron and Ken Melvoin-Berg from American Sex Podcast, and Cii Marqui, Jaxon, and Juice from Sex with Strangers a Grown Folks Podcast. Check out Sunny Megatron's article Diary of a Sex Clown: Life Lessons From a Clown Fetishist for more information on clown sex. Watch this video for more insight into prostate massages. Listen to this to hear Ken talk extensively about water sports and then check out I'm Bouta BUST. On a more serious note, the two stories from Risk! Dealing with domestic abuse are The Monster and the Man and Unbreakable.

Reverend Cindi Knox, porn star Chanel Preston, comedians Liza Treyger and Megan Gailey, writer/activist/Juggalo anthropologist Kitty Stryker, and others share their thoughts on a diverse range of issues including #MeToo and Time's Up. This show also features a brief clip from episode 36 of American Sex Podcast, which also includes a lengthy conversation about SESTA/FOSTA. For more on that issue check out episode 598 of the Savage Lovecast, this techdirt post, this Vox story, this Guardian piece, and the Lawfare post mentioned on the show. Also check out the Allure article Cindi recommended: Navigating Beauty Standards as a Trans Woman is an Impossible Balancing Act. Other media mentioned include SNL's Welcome to Hell, that appalling Tony Robbins video, and episode two of Chanel's podcast Sex Think. Finally, don't forget to check out consentculture.com and Kitty's book Ask: Building Consent Culture. Correction: It was suggested that Jen is the only parent featured in the show. That is not true. Cindi is both a parent and a grandparent.

Chris travels to the Thai cities of Bangkok and Chiang Mai to chat with sex workers and others with insights into Thailand's sex industry, including members of EMPOWER – the country's oldest and largest sex worker organization. The EMPOWER Foundation's 2016 community research project entitled Moving Toward Decent Sex Work is available in full here and is definitely worth reading. We also recommend The Third Gender a documentary by Vivienne Chen about the Thai trans community, which is available for free on Youtube. For more on this community check out the Wikipedia page for Kathoey. Finally, make sure to pay a visit to Can Do Bar if you ever find yourself in Chiang Mai.

In this follow-up to episode 26, Chris returns to Alaska to attend a memorial and vigil observing the 15th Annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. The event took place at the Alaska Center for Alternative Lifestyles (ACAL), Alaska's only sex club. Terra Burns returns to update us on her continued fight for the human rights of sex workers in her home state. Amber Batts, currently on parole for sex trafficking (despite never trafficking anyone), tells her story. This episode also features stories about the intersection of drugs and sex work. Finally, Sarha Shaubach, ACAL's owner, recounts her reign as the 2013 International Ms. Leather. You can support Tara and CUSP's efforts to make it illegal for Alaskan police officers to sexually penetrate people under their investigation here, and you can read more about convicted rapist and former Anchorage police officer Anthony Rollins here and here.