5 Sex-Positive Podcast Recommendations

Normalizing conversations about pleasure through podcast recommendations

Curator:

👉🏽 Danielle Bezalel of Sex Ed with DB.

Why this theme?

👉🏽There are so many sex educators bringing their audiences nonjudgmental, science-backed, medically accurate sex education. But their content gets suppressed for being "inappropriate," even though conversations about sex and pleasure should be normalized.

Let's learn about how to have more pleasurable sex together.

Podcast Picks

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In this prelude episode, educator and author Dr. Emily Nagoski argues that pleasure is the bedrock of sexual well-being.

Emily is joined by writer and organizer Adrienne Maree Brown, who offers advice on how to reconnect with pleasure and make it a lifelong practice.

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Get ready to bust some myths as we pull back the curtain on one of the most misunderstood topics in human sexuality — masturbation.

Joined by Dr. Eric Sprankle, acclaimed author and professor of clinical psychology, we’re stripping away the stigma, debunking falsehoods, and exploring the evolution of sexual psychology. We take you on a journey from the origins of the vibrator to its current status as a self care tool, and discuss religious perspectives on masturbation and how they have been perpetuated over time.

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Does a change in your intimate needs have to mean a change of heart? In this episode of Lovers, Shan Boodram sits down with Karamo Brown, TV personality (Karamo and Queer Eye), author, and culture expert, for a raw and revealing conversation about intimacy and growth.

Karamo opens up about how his intimate needs evolved through his twenties, thirties, and forties — both emotionally and in the bedroom.

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Cuddling? Talking? Assessing the bed sheets? What is the perfect sex aftercare package? Poppy and Rubina delve into the often overlooked but important aspect of caring for your partner after sex.

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This show covers the basics of butt anatomy, ass play safety tips, and all of the many reasons we enjoy butt stuff.

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Community

🎙️ Skipping Stones with Seth Roberts is a grounded, thoughtful show that blends humor, philosophy, and real-life conversations.

đź©° Dancing With Shadows is a new narrative podcast about journalist Nicky Anderson’s childhood love for ballet turned into a lifelong fascination.

🎧 5 Random Questions returns for season three with guests like Lauren Passell and Tom Webster. Each week, Danny Brown asks five completely random questions generated on the spot.

💖In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends Audio Maverick. She writes: “It’s an absolute love letter slash history of audio that focuses on the life and work of Himan Brown.”

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Podcast news from Podnews

  • PodX Group is to acquire Lemonada Media. The Swedish company already owns a number of podcast production houses across the world. It’s their first acquisition in the U.S.

  • Spotify announced that it is to add a “play” count, visible within the app, for all podcasts. “Plays will capture engagement across audio and video content on Spotify,” the company says, also pointing to a blog post for creators.

  • The South African government is planning to regulate podcasters. A government minister said that there was “an obligation to protect the rights of the people who use these podcast platforms, including equality, dignity, and privacy,” adding: “You can’t have a platform where anything goes and has no regulatory parity.”

Spotlight

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Despite decades of policy ideas, pouring millions of dollars into the problem, and a slow pace of gun control measures, the United States hasn’t made much progress on curbing the epidemic of gun violence in our country.

For the past 25 years, Professor Jens Ludwig of the University of Chicago has examined the questions of: why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it?

In his new book, Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence, Ludwig — director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab — discusses why we've been thinking about the gun violence problem in the wrong ways.

Drawing upon behavioral economics, he explains that most shootings are not premeditated; rather, they are the result of arguments that escalate into violence. Using data-backed interventions, Ludwig introduces new ideas beyond policy and policing to get at the real root causes of gun violence today.

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