Pleasure isn't optional - it's a key ingredient in both our humanity and our political resistance. Let historian Hanne Blank explain as she talks with Jaclyn about what she learned during the 80s AIDS crisis, the importance of marshmallows when the world is on fire, and why an old slogan from a 1960s French Art movement should be our mantra right now. (Rewind)

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Things are not great. Neither is Jaclyn.

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Feeling ground down? Paralyzed? We've got a brass-tacks activism episode that'll plant a little green shoot of hope in even the weariest heart. Featuring Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of URGE.

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Kavanaugh feelings, secret masturbation and the secret power women have had all along, all in one 15-minute quickiesode.

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Unscrewed is back and we're starting the new season with some cleansing anger as Jaclyn catches up with Soraya Chemaly about her brand-new book Rage Becomes Her.

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Can you heal the trauma of revenge porn by deliberately becoming a nude art model? Lena Chen, one of the first known women to have private nude photos of her nonconsensually shared across the internet, moved to Berlin and tried it. What she learned along the way may surprise you.

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Could your food cravings be telling you you have a pleasure deficit? Body Kindness author Rebecca Scritchfield joins Jaclyn to explore the connections between body image, diet culture, health and sexuality

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Jaclyn catches up with Pamela Merritt, co-founder and co-director of Reproaction, who gets real about what it takes to unscrew the sexual culture in more conservative or otherwise untapped communities.

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In part two of our conversation about sex and mental health, Jaclyn talks with therapist Shadeen Francis about destigmatizing, deshaming, and decolonizing our mental wellness, both in and out of the bedroom. Also there are donuts.

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Last quickiesode of the season brings fake fake lesbians, body sommeliers and more.

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