How young is too young to masturbate? Scarleteen's Heather Corinna helps a listener and in the process pulls back the curtain on what really happens at naptime. Plus, inspired by feedback on last week's All The Parts Are Good Parts episode, Jaclyn shares resources for adults who want to teach the young people in their lives well about sex. And: we're going on a summer vacation!

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Won't someone think of the children? Heather Corinna will. The founder and proprietor of Scarleteen.com joins Jaclyn to talk about the good kind of entitlement, how we should be thinking about sex ed for 6 year olds (and every age), the time when sex saved their life, and what's new in the new edition of their book, S.E.X.: the all-you-need-to-know sexuality guide to get you through your teens and twenties.

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Jaclyn explains why banning rape porn is wrong, weighs in on whether or not you should pee before sex, shares some thoughts about Jewish hair, beauty, politics and romance, and then slips you a hilarious outtake from the Sex Object episode. All in a 15 minute quickiesode!

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How do we get through tragedy and horror? Jaclyn takes Mr. Rogers' advice and looks for the helpers in Orlando and the Stanford rape case, in order to find some hope. Then she's joined by Tristan Taormino to help out a listener whose friends are definitely not helping when it comes to her polyamorous relationship.

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What does it mean to live every day as a woman in a world that hates and objectifies women? That's the question at the heart of Jessica Valenti's brave, raw new memoir, Sex Object, and it's the subject of this intimate conversation between Valenti and our host, Jaclyn Friedman.

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Should you ever work for your rapist? What if you already are? Dr. Brittney Cooper's on hand to help out a listener with that question. Plus all the bloody details on period sex, and a call for your Unscrewed book recommendations — all in another jam-packed quickiesode.

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Can a single woman in the Black Church get some and also get to Heaven? That's the question Dr. Brittney Cooper set out to answer for herself a few years ago. What she found -- and what she wrote about it -- has sparked a national conversation at the intersection of sex, shame and Sunday sermons.

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Vibrator reviews, advice on how to reclaim masturbation as "real" sex, and a media criticism mea culpa, all in this Spare Parts quickiesode. Plus: find out what reduced Dr. Joycelyn Elders to tears on her first day of college...

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Why is masturbation still considered taboo or less-than-sex more than 20 years after Dr. Joycelyn Elders was forced to step down as Bill Clinton's Surgeon General after suggesting we should tell young people that solo sex was a great way to be sexual without getting or giving HIV? Jaclyn asks the legendary woman herself that very question, and lots more. Dr. Elders' answers will surprise you, make you laugh, and make you angry, in all the right ways. Plus there's watermelon.

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Asexuality, open relationships and mismatched libidos collide in this week's listener advice question. Plus a defense of Sex and the City that didn't make last week's Sex and the Single Ladies episode, and some Purple prose: all in the quickiesode we call Spare Parts!

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