Sex Gets Real 202: Training doctors & moving on after harming someone with Bianca Palmisano

Don’t forget to grab your seat for the LIVE taping of Sex Gets Real to celebrate our 200th episode. Enter to join us here. This week, I am joined by the incredible Bianca Palmisano from Intimate Health Consulting. Bianca specializes in training medical doctors, nurses, and staff to be more inclusive when treating marginalized folks, especially around sexuality and gender. …

Sex Gets Real 199: Being a survivor & the ethics of sex toys with Sarah Holliday

Formidable Femme, aka Sarah B Holliday, is here this week talking about sex toy companies, the ethics of selling sex toys, rejecting the perfect survivor narrative, healing from trauma, plus we field a listener question about abuse. Sarah is deeply committed to changing the way the sex toy industry operates, and she has loads of ideas about what makes for …

Sex Gets Real 197: Cavanaugh Quick dives into awkwardness, body language, being a switch, & consent

Talking to other sex educators, researchers, and experts is one of my favorite things in life, especially when the conversations are rich, personal, nuanced, and challenging. I met Cavanaugh Quick through O.School (where we both live stream sex ed for free), and the first time I saw Cavanaugh talk about feminist porn, I knew I wanted to have them on …

Sex Gets Real 196: Luna Matatas on seducing the anus, strap-ons, & sex clubs

What do butt play, pegging the patriarchy, non-sexual Dominance & submission, strap-ons, and sex clubs have in common? Why, Luna Matatas, of course. She is joining me this week to talk about all the delicious, yumminess that is kink and pleasure. As a fellow O.School Pleasure Professional (check out her Fuck Like a Goddess weekly live stream), she loves talking …

Sex Gets Real 195: Former pro dominatrix Mona Darling on kink, pet play, & orgasm control

Mona Darling is here to talk all things kinky. As a former pro Dominatrix with over 20 years of experience dominating folks in the kinkiest of ways, she has some fantastic advice on how to get started in kink, the skills most people overlook that actually make kink juicy and meaningful, and how to find your inner Domme if you’re …

Sex Gets Real 98: Should a virgin just do it?

New sex for us and sex for newbies. Dawn attended a BDSM conference for Valentine’s in Canada and tried several new things. Dylan scored a ton of presents. We have a backlog of listener emails, too. One listener wants to give his girlfriend a vibrator but she’s inexperienced and he isn’t sure where to start. Another listener is a virgin …