Wild & Sublime

By Karen Yates

A podcast about sex for everyone, no matter your preferences, orientation, or relationship style — based on the popular live Chicago talk show, hosted by sex educator Karen Yates. Panelists, interview... more

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The podcast currently has 144 episodes available.

Wild & Sublime episodes:

December 05, 20242024 Most Downloaded! "More: a Memoir of Open Marriage"
Molly Roden Winter talks with Karen about her bestselling memoir More, which honestly chronicles opening up her long-term marriage while being a mother and then caregiver to her parents. Be on the lookout for our next season--"Polyamory in Depth" --starting in January!
We are part of the Lincoln Lodge podcast network!
Buy More through Bookshop. Help independent booksellers and Wild & Sublime! https://bookshop.org/shop/wildandsublime

FEATURED:
Molly Roden Winter - author @mollyrwinter on instagram
Karen Yates - host, somatic sex educator, intuitive, energy worker

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45min
November 21, 2024Flirty fall entertainment
Listen to steamy storytellers from our sixth anniversary live show as they heat up your earbuds. Plus the audience tells us about their oh-so-sexy breakthroughs.
In this episode:
Storyteller Elizabeth Gomez tells us about college frolicking
Storyteller Ashley Meyer shares a kinky goodbye
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates

Our live show was sponsored by uberlube and Rowan Tree Counseling!

Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
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31min
November 07, 2024Thee Debauchery Ball with Khari B.
Where are all the cool people at? Event producer and spoken word musician Khari B. discusses his legendary twenty-year event, Thee Debauchery Ball, a kinky house music party in Chicago for melanated people. Karen and he discuss Black sexuality, creating safe spaces, and the documentary Thee Debauchery Ball. Filmmaker David Weathersby joins the conversation midway to discuss the making of the film and watching the party’s evolution.
In this episode:
Khari B.--event maker and spoken word musician. IG: @theedebaucheryball
Documentary filmmaker David Weathersby. Also on Instagram.
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
“Being Black and Kinky with David Weathersby” Wild & Sublime episode
Thee Debauchery Ball info
Watch the documentary Thee Debauchery Ball on Amazon Prime or Tubi
The main show sponsor of the October 2024 show was uberlübe, high-performance lubricant. Show sponsor was Rowan Tree Counseling, a therapy practice that is anti-racist | queer-allied | poly-affirming | sex-positive. Available in Illinois!
Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free…
Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
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38min
October 24, 2024Redefining sex for more pleasure and excitement
What’s keeping your sex life from being more exciting? Panelists discuss limiting beliefs and tips to move past them in this dynamic conversation. Plus Karen’s Sermon on the Pubic Mound. From the October 2024 live show.

Panel with:
Sex coach and pleasure mentor Tazima Parris
Therapist for all things queer and kinky Jake Penrod from Live Oak
ENM/kink coach Sarah Sloane
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
The main show sponsor of the October 2024 show was uberlübe, high-performance lubricant. Show sponsor was Rowan Tree Counseling, a therapy practice that is anti-racist | queer-allied | poly-affirming | sex-positive. Available in Illinois!
Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free…
Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
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46min
September 14, 2024Pride: more love, more openess
Panelists discuss issues facing LGBTQ+ folx inside their respective groups and across affinities, offering skills and strategies to combat isolation and forge bonds. Plus an interview with drag artist Cindy Nèro about her art and mentorship, and Karen’s Sermon on the Pubic Mound. From the June 2024 live show.

GET TIX for our sixth anniversary live show in Chicago: Oct. 11, 2024!

In this episode:
Interview with drag artist, mentor and storyteller Cindy Nero
Panel with Channyn Lynn Parker, CEO of Brave Space Alliance; Luke Romesberg, Director of Youth Housing from Center on Halsted, Chicago; Jordan Dunmead from Live Oak
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
The June 2024 show was sponsored by Rowan Tree Counseling, a therapy practice that is anti-racist | queer-allied | poly-affirming | sex-positive. Available in Illinois!
Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free…
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August 08, 2024Sexy summer entertainment!
Listen to performers from past live Chicago Wild & Sublime shows as they heat up your earbuds. Plus audiences tell us what sex secrets they’re keeping, and Karen presents a Sermon on the Pubic Mound about great sex.

In this episode:

B and Lee Honey”s storytelling event at GD2
Storyteller Mistress BlaqueIvory
Storyteller Alan Colorado
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
The live shows featured here were sponsored by Illinois-based Rowan Tree Counseling.

Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!

The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!

Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free…

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39min
June 27, 2024“Naked” truth with memoirist Fancy Feast
NYC burlesque artist Fancy Feast discusses her memoir, Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques, and how being a fat performer, phone sex worker, and sex toy store clerk revealed to her Americans’ fears and expectations about sex.
In this episode:
Burlesque artist Fancy Feast
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
Naked –buy on Bookshop and support Wild & Sublime and independent booksellers
Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free…
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56min
June 13, 2024Zachary Zane is a BOYSLUT! [Rebroadcast]
In this lively interview with bisexual mega influencer and Men’s Health columnist Zachary Zane, he discusses Boyslut, his recent book, now in paperback, that chronicles his sexual journey, as well as how to live a more shame-free, sex-positive life. [Rebroadcast]

Get tix to our Chicago Pride Show on Friday, June 28, 8pm!
Help us continue to spread the message of sex-positivity! Leave a tip for our work or join our monthly Patreon members’ club!
In this episode:
Zachary Zane - author and sex columnist
Boyslut, the book. Get it at Bookshop, our affiliate partner!
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58min
May 30, 2024Tristan Taormino—sex-positive trailblazer
In this dynamic interview with award-winning author and sex educator Tristan Taormino, she discusses her memoir, A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten, recounting her queer youth and relationship with her gay dad, making feminist porn, being a femme dyke, and why people aren’t having sex now.

Get tix to our PRIDE SHOW. Chicago, Friday, June 28 at 8pm.
In this episode:
Author and sex educator Tristan Taormino
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten –buy on Bookshop and support Wild & Sublime
Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free…
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1h 9min
May 16, 2024Overcoming jealousy and envy in relationships
Our panel of sex-positive therapists discuss the roots of jealousy and envy, and share the best ways to approach these uncomfortable feelings in both open and monogamous relationships. From our May 2024 live show.

For info and tickets to our live Pride Show in Chicago on Friday June 28, go here.
In this episode:
Sex-positive therapist Matthew Amador
Sex and relationship therapist Ari Kimble
Sex-positive therapist James Chamerlik
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
Get Say It Better in Bed, Karen’s free guide to upping your intimacy pleasure. Download here!
The Afterglow, our Patreon membership group, brings you regular bonus content, early alerts, and goodies! Our newest $10/mo member benefit: 10% off all W&S merch! Or show your love for Wild & Sublime any time: Leave a tip!
Be Wild & Sublime out in the world! Check out our new tees and accessories for maximum visibility. Peep our Limited Collection and let your inner relationship anarchist run free…
Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
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40min

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