Women Like Sex

A frank, funny conversation about how aging, menopause and ED don’t have to derail your sex life, but can actually make it better.

Because enough was enough eons ago. Because we can and must do better for younger generations.

Jennifer Knapp was a Contemporary Christian Music superstar – and then began advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, starting with her own. The Grammy-nominated musician, author, advocate and theologian uses her voice, music and humor to entertain, educate and uplift. She also has a great gift for flipping scripts on society’s most absurd obsessions with human sexuality.

Justin Hancock – creator of BISH (one of the most comprehensive sex ed websites), author and podcaster – busts two of the most important yet ignored sexuality myths. And shares many thoughtful, nuanced insights that he’s gained in his nearly three decades in youth relationships and sexuality education. He’s got plenty of great advice for adults too.

In the inaugural episode of the WLS mini-series on sex and aging, Dr. Justin Lehmiller (Kinsey Institute senior research fellow) discusses why sex gets better with age, how older men fantasize about romance more than older women, and the importance of masturbating for menopause.

Tia Levings chronicled her narrow escape from extreme Christian patriarchy, and an abusive husband, in her best-selling memoir A Well-Trained Life (2024). This year, she published I Belong To Me, walking us through how she regained a voice silenced by men for decades. These powerful cautionary tales help others flee the same dangerous oppression she faced, and explain the religious fundamentalism shaping US politics. Tia is strong as hell, has a great laugh and curses like a sailor – my favorite kind of guest.

Tracy DeTomasi, national gender violence expert, offers great, simple guidance on the best sex ed to teach kids, how to respond to "It's not all men," what we can all learn from beaches, and so much more. Always with a ready laugh and a magical ability to call out problematic thinking on the spot, without ever alienating the thinker.

Award-winning NPR and PBS journalist and host Khalil Ekulona shares his experiences and reflections on how myths about sexuality often remove humanity from one of our most human acts. We also discuss his honor system (and my honor-ish system), what his sisters taught him about women, and what Ella Fitzgerald, Wayne Newton and Tony Bennett taught him about relationships

Kate Downey explains how living with menstrual “death cramps” for decades led her to pick up a mic and record her journey to a successful diagnosis, in the investigative podcast CRAMPED. As well as some of the new science she’s learned about the female reproductive systems, our problematic medical system, and sexist crash test dummies and countertops.

As walking sociologists, who better than our trans peers can teach us just how much of a cultural construct gender is? That’s exactly what my friend Professor Queerstrokes does here, with one of the world’s greatest laughs to boot. We discuss how gender tropes constrict, confuse and hurt us all; how to be the best ally to trans people; and how men supported his transition much more than the women in his life.