Wild & Sublime

By Karen YatesSociety & Culture Health & Fitness Arts Relationships Performing Arts Sexuality

Wild & Sublime episodes

October 24, 2024Redefining sex for more pleasure and excitement
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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!
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September 14, 2024Pride: more love, more openess
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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.

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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…
Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
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Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
MAIN LIVE SHOW SPONSOR: Rowen Tree Counseling, Illinois

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August 08, 2024Sexy summer entertainment!
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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…

Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.

Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
MAIN LIVE SHOW SPONSOR: Rowen Tree Counseling, Illinois

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39 min
June 27, 2024“Naked” truth with memoirist Fancy Feast
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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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Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
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56 min
June 13, 2024Zachary Zane is a BOYSLUT! [Rebroadcast]
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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]

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In this episode:
Zachary Zane - author and sex columnist
Boyslut, the book. Get it at Bookshop, our affiliate partner!
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Want to rev up your relationship? Host Karen Yates, a somatic intimacy coach, gives you easy tools to put into practice right away with her free guide: Say It Better in Bed! 3 Proven Ways to Improve Intimate Communication. Download today!
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58 min
May 30, 2024Tristan Taormino—sex-positive trailblazer
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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…
Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
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Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
MAIN LIVE SHOW SPONSOR: Rowen Tree Counseling, Illinois

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1 hr 9 min
May 16, 2024Overcoming jealousy and envy in relationships
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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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Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
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May 02, 2024"Sex When You Don't Feel Like It" with Cyndi Darnell [rebroadcast]
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Do you and your partner have mismatched libidos? In this fascinating interview that turns many long-held ideas on their head, sexologist and author Cyndi Darnell talks about her book that helps people connect to their authentic desires and build connection. [Rebroadcast]

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In this episode:
Cyndi Darnell - Sex & relationship therapist, clinical & somatic sexologist
Buy Sex When You Don't Feel Like It: The Truth about Mismatched Libido and Rediscovering Desire on Bookshop – support independent booksellers and Wild & Sublime when you buy through our link! Plus many more sex & relationship book recs.
Prefer to read the convo? Full episode transcripts are available on our website.
Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
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46 min
April 18, 2024Being Black and kinky with filmmaker David Weathersby
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Chicago documentary filmmaker David Weathersby talks to Karen about his work chronicling the Black kink community in Chicago, including his upcoming series Sex in Color and his film Thee Debauchery Ball.
In this episode:
Documentary filmmaker David Weathersby. Also on Instagram.
Thee Debauchery Ball event info
Watch the documentary Thee Debauchery Ball on Amazon Prime or Tubi
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.
Support the show
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Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
MAIN LIVE SHOW SPONSOR: Rowen Tree Counseling, Illinois

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39 min
April 04, 2024Using Tarot for Sex and Relationships
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Art therapist and counselor Alyse Ruriani explains how Tarot, the ancient divinatory card deck, can be a tool for self-growth and inner work around one’s sex life and relationships. Host Karen Yates uses herself as the subject in a reading–with a little bit of anxiety!
In this episode:
Art therapist and counselor Alyse Ruriani. Also on Instagram
Host, sex educator, and energy worker Karen Yates
Rowan Tree Counseling
Buy Tarot for Change and the Queer Tarot deck on Bookshop, our affiliate partner. Need a good read on sexuality or relationships? Check out our recs on Bookshop
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.
Support the show
Get tickets to our 8th Anniversary Show, Sunday Oct 25, 6pm at Lincoln Lodge in Chicago!
MAIN LIVE SHOW SPONSOR: Rowen Tree Counseling, Illinois

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About Wild & Sublime

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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,…