How We Talk About Sex Hosted By Eric Leviton

My guest is Jenny Block, the author of “Open”, “O Wow – Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm” and “The Ultimate Guide to Solo Sex.” We talk masturbation, Kleenex, the clitoris, faking orgasm, a study on homophobia, politics, sports, and her article, “Why the LGBTQ Community is a Waste of Your Time.”

Zoey Trope remembers having sexual fantasies at the age of 7 or 8 and has been exploring her sexuality on some level ever since. She is in an open marriage with one man while exploring her kinky/submissive side with another man who is her Dom. We talk all about her experience with a couple of Doms and how she found her husband through an ad on Craigslist. You can find her on twitter @zoeylikesit and her blog at xoxofufu.com.   I hope you enjoy the conversation. I know I did.

Shannon Boodram is a clinical sexologist and author of LAID and a Sex/Love expert to millennials, using her own very popular YouTube channel, Shan BOODY that talks about sex, love, and relationships. I ask a lot of questions about her videos and her guests and at the end we take a Cosmo sex quiz, which is a first for this podcast! I also added my own postscript about my receiving a dick pic for the very first time the night before I uploaded this conversation.

Charlie Glickman is my guest. We discuss how he started his sexual education to becoming a sex & relationship coach, a sexuality educator and a sexological bodyworker as well as bring co-author of The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure: Erotic Exploration for Men and Their Partners. We talk about how to approach prostate pleasure; somatic sex therapy, which includes sexological bodywork; the 3 minute game that helps with sexual communication; and how to get freaky without being creepy.

Hudsy Hawn is an internationally well-known Lifestyle Educator, an entertainer, an author and a former Miss Teen Talent Alaska. She got into the Lifestyle about 11 years ago and it changed her life. We discuss working in a dungeon and at The Stockroom in California; different kinds of kinks; masturbating to James Spader; polyamory; knowing the difference between Slaves, Switches and Dommes; consent; dog play; and being safe, sane, and consensual. You will love her!

My guest this week is a return guest from 3 ½ years ago. Sapphire and I met when I hosted an hour of radio for Playboy Radio. We travel all over the place, talking about changes in her life both personally and professionally. We touch on how men need to step up when dating; bisexuality; Hitler dicks, angry dicks and limp dicks; public sex; Symphorophilia; sensory depravation; fantasies; threesomes; and the Sex Terminator. Enjoy!

Sexpert Tyomi is my guest this week. She’s been posting videos on sex positions and other topics on YouTube.com for the last 5 years. More recently she has been blogging about various sexual topics like PE, masturbating, finding the right vibrator and her own experience with fetish training. Enjoy!

Parish and I talk about masturbation, manifesting, Jehovah’s Witness, marriage at 19, inviting demons into your life through blow jobs and anal, spirituality, releasing judgment, pregnant threesomes, the pocket rocket, the law of attraction, psychoneuroimmunology, a near-death experience, naming body parts, and sexy Saturdays.

Woody Allen once said, "Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love." But even if you're satisfied with your solo play, wouldn't it be nice to have new and exciting techniques to try? What if you wanted to try new things, vary it a bit or even do it with a partner? Where do you start? How do you approach it? What toys can I get to enhance my experience? Elle Chase is a sex educator who has many sexual workshops that she presents. I asked her to come onto the podcast to talk about "Mutual Masturbation - Give Yourself a Hand" because it's National Masturbation Month!

My guest this week is Lanae St. John, a board certified sexologist, sexuality educator, and writer. She received her Doctorate in Human Sexuality from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, where she focused on Child and Adolescent Sexuality. She blogs about sex, parenting, relationships, and gender at TheMamasutra.net. We discuss many topics on how to communicate better with your children when it comes to sex and sexuality, like menstruation, being open and honest about sex and we also cover five concepts that Lanae believes are foundational when teaching your kids about sex. www.cyclebeads.com www.dearkates.com www.shethinx.com

Nikki Irish is an escort, who’s also an educated southern redhead with a wicked sense of humor and a love of the irreverent. She is a funny, sexy, and vivacious woman who LOVES sex. We talk about how she balances her personal life with her professional life and all the things that come with it. Enjoy the conversation!

April is STI Awareness month so I thought it was time to bring back Jenelle Marie Davis of The STD Project. It's also the four-year anniversary of The STD Project so let's talk about awareness and how we can communicate even better when it comes to our status. Jenelle was recently voted one of the 50 most influential women and she is one of the 40 Under 40 business leaders in Western Michigan.

Dr. Patti Britton is a pioneer in the new growing field known as Sex Coaching. She's been a professor and trainer for 35+ years, a sex educator, and a counselor. In 2005, she authored the very first book on sex coaching, The Art of Sex Coaching: Expanding Your Practice. “Our sexuality needs to be decontaminated, normalized, validated, celebrated, and upheld.” SexCoachU.comdrpattibritton.comSexcoaches.org

Adam Lippin of Cuddlist is my guest this week. I'll use his words to introduce him. "Most of us don’t get enough touch in our lives. We’re touch-deprived, and most of us don’t even know it consciously. All we know is that there’s loneliness and stress and a deep sense of missing out. And there is something missing: touch and the connection with others that it fosters.That’s why we started Cuddlist. Safe, non-sexual, consensual touch fills a need that’s badly neglected in our society. Cuddling relaxes us and reduces stress at the very least, and on the deeper level it nourishes our soul and helps us get in touch with our higher self."

My guest this week is Olivia Samson. If you look at her twitter account @oliviacasualsex you'll find her talking about #polyamory #openrelationship #sexpositive #genderequality and you'll see it from someone who is still learning as she's going and willing to let you in on her thoughts and feelings as she goes. You can also read her blog at oliviasamson.net and read her articles on hamburgersnheroin.com. BUT, the best way to get to know her is to listen to our conversation right here. Enjoy.

Kristin Russo is back for a second time! She's the co-founder & CEO of Everyone Is Gay & The Parents Project and is the host and co-producer of First Person, a video series on gender and sexuality from PBS Digital and WNET. We talk about the book tour for "This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids" and how she became the host of "First Person" - a show about sexuality and gender…among many other things. http://everyoneisgay.com/   http://www.autostraddle.com/ http://www.isabellarotman.com/ https://www.radremedy.org/  

My guest this week is Alison Bass, author of "Getting Screwed - Sex Workers and the Law." Alison wound up writing the book because she felt this was an untold story and there was a lot of harm being done to sex workers and to ALL women by criminalizing prostitution. She talked to experts in this field - sex workers, policy makers, law enforcement, and human rights activists. She learned that the narrative of prostitutes being drug-addicted, victimized women wasn’t true and that the laws criminalizing prostitution were actually hurting public health and the very people they’re designed to protect. http://www.sexworkersandthelaw.com http://www.alison-bass.com/

Amy Jo Goddard, author of "Woman on Fire" is my guest on the podcast. We all need to be the agent of our own sexuality. To be the agent is to be in charge – to be the one moving things forward. No one else should be the agent of our own sexuality. The government wants to be the agent of our sexuality. Sometimes boyfriends and girlfriends want to be the agent of our sexuality…and wives and husbands, companions. No one else gets to be agent, but YOU have to claim that. “When we really come into a full and authentic place of sexuality, that’s what empowerment really looks like. We really change our lives and relationships, because we show up very differently when we are fully in our agency.” What does a sexually empowered person look like? Download her fact sheet for free athttp://amyjogoddard.com/factsheetdownload You can find all the exercises from the book in one .pdf file online for free at womanonfirethebook.com Email Amy Jo at moreplease@amyjogoddard.com for more information

Al Vernacchio, author of "For Goodness Sex," joins me on the podcast this week. Al is the Upper School Sexuality Educator and also teaches in the English department at Friends’ Central School in Wynnewood, PA. A Human Sexuality educator and consultant for over 20 years, Al has lectured, published articles, and offered workshops throughout the country. His work has been featured in “Teaching Good Sex”, a November, 2011 cover story in The New York Times Magazine.

The podcast is now officially International! While I was in Amsterdam for my birthday, I talked to Mariska Majoor of the Prostitution Information Center, which she opened in 1994 after she had stopped working as a prostitute. The PIC’s goal is to make it easier for people in general to talk openly about sex work and to create public respect for sex workers (a word used increasingly frequently rather than “prostitutes”). She is also the chairman of PROUD, which represents the interests of sex workers, not just in the workplace, but also in politics, media and society. One of the main tasks is to improve the image of female and male sex workers. "The biggest problem is still the stigma that hangs on everybody in the box, even if you do it with great pleasure. We have to try to do something about it," says Majoor.