Volume Up! Nate and Ryan get real about Men, Masculinity, and Purity @Wildgoose Festival. While purity culture has had a disproportionately negative impact on women, men have also been harmed. Join us as we explore how transactional faith led to transactional intimacy and we need to do to fix it.

Trans Talk with Guests Tristan Chipman And Ryan Patrick by Ryan Clark and Nate Novero

During Touch 4.8 Charna Cassell: Men, Trauma and Dysregulated Intimacy, Ryan Clark and Nathan Novero interview LMFT, and a Trauma-Trained Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach, Charna Cassell who helps people heal and find pleasure in their bodies. For over two decades, first, as a sex educator and sex toy clerk at Good Vibrations located in San Francisco. Then, as a Master Somatic Coach and bodyworker, and now, a licensed psychotherapist.

We talk about trauma and intimacy, especially how it impacts our ability to be in the moment. Please support our podcast on Patreon and don't forget to share this episode with your friends!

Touch 4.7 Our Pain Made Flesh is a compelling conversation with a psychotherapist and ordained minister, Eric Minton, about his book "It's Not You, It's Everything: What our Pain Reveals about the Anxious Pursuit of the Good Life." We discuss how children and youth are expressing their anxieties about living in our frenetic and social media saturated culture. Ryan Clark and Nathan Novero discuss strategies for parenting and coping in a world that is literally killing us.

Reflecting on 4.5 with Dr. Monique Moultrie, Ryan interviews Nathan on what it was like to grow up brown in a white town. From skipping dances to becoming a filmmaker, Nathan talks about being treated as white - most of the time.

This mini-audio documentary is produced by Nathan Novero and is an interview with co-host Ryan Clark and Dr. Monique Moultrie who is the Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Religious Studies at Georgia State University. She is also the author of "Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality". We are deeply grateful for her time to work on our documentary project. Please enjoy this important and fascinating sample where Dr. Moultrie helps listeners distinguish between the "Black" and "White" church purity experience.

Touch 4.4 When We Get Angery by Ryan Clark and Nate Novero

Ryan and Nathan talk about confronting your own body and learning to accept it. They discuss Paul and original sin and the deep need to be accepted.

Ryan Clark and Nathan Novero speak with Dr. Tina Shermer-Sellers about sex education with kids and adults. Her new book Shameless Parenting helps parents deal with their own shame to pave the way for great family conversations on intimacy. A shoutout to Max Searle and Fed Savage for Season 1, Episode 3 of The Wonder Years (2021).

Nathan Novero and Ryan Clark are back with Season 4 of Touch Podcast. They talk about Purity, faith, men's groups, movie making, and life during the pandemic.