What if I told you that the shame you feel when a condom commercial interrupts the game you were watching with your parents was the result of a shadowy cabal of mysterious industry insiders? Not from the contraceptive industry or the NFL, from religion or even the ‘Big Family Therapy’ lobby, but from the Motion Picture Association of America, a mystifyingly cryptic relic of post war moral panic. This small and secretive organization with a long and difficult to measure reach is the topic of my conversation with Laura Magee and Josh Enter
Read morePorn, huh?
I was once told that there is one sin that always goes alongside porn- masturbation (*shiver*) . Fast forward a couple of degrees, countless conversations with clients, co-hosts and guests on SecX and uh, a fair amount of personal research and turns out there is just so, so much more to porn. Catch my conversation with Laura and Sinn below and be sure to check back afterwards for some footNOTES!
Read moreMiss O Kissed by Latex
Introduce a little claustrophilia into your life this week with one of SecX’s all time favs- Miss O Kissed. Miss O Kissed has brought us some of the most interesting topics from her incredible life including neuroqueering, asexuality and burlesque and I honestly couldn’t be more excited to learn about her work as a designer and fetishist. Latex, rubberism and a plenty of swooshing sounds
Read moreCulturally Bound
Ever catch one of those videos of police sirens from all over the world and realize, ‘holy shit how do people in X find that sound to be Y’? Turns out that there’s a lot in the air- so many of the things we assume are biological facts are really just cultural preferences. This week Laura Magee returns to the show to highlight some of the strange goings-on from the world over and to help us consider our own cultural assumptions and beliefs, plus of course your calls and what’s turning us on this week.
Read moreTalking to Your Kids about Secular Sexuality
I get it- talking about kids and sex in the same YouTube video is a really great way to alert the algorithm and end up on a watch list. But kids are in fact sexual beings, with bodies and genders and genitals all of their own. So how do we reconcile +200 years of puritanical squeamishness with a generation born into instant access to the greatest collection of sexually explicit data ever compiled?
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