Alice Little: Taking Down the Whorearchy, Legalized Sex Work & Sex Tips
This week’s guest is Alice Little—likely the top earning legal sex worker in America, where she isthe #1 luxury companion at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada. Alice holds degrees in psychology, sociology, physiology, and anatomy and is an advocate for legalized sex work and education. Alice and Liz talk about the logistics of legalized sex work, from licenses to law enforcement; the cornucopia of services she offers and clients she sees, and why we need to take down the whorearchy. Liz also asked her for tips on some of the most requested topics from the Sex Ed community!
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Asa Akira: The Adult Film Biz, Motherhood & Sex Drive
This week’s podcast features Asa Akira—legendary porn star, podcaster, author, PornHub ambassador—and a new mom. Asa has performed in over 500 films, is known as the queen of anal, and in 2013 became the second Asian person ever to win AVN’s Performer of the Year award. Asa and Liz talk about her pregnancy and postpartum experiences and how they affected her sex drive; what it means to be a MILF; and how she’s navigating and winning the shifting landscape of the adult biz.
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Barbara Carrellas: Conscious Kink, Tantra & Energy Orgasms
Today, our guest is Barbara Carrellas, the founder of Urban Tantra, an approach to conscious sexuality that adapts and blends a wide variety of sacred sexuality practices from Tantra to BDSM. Barbara and Liz talk about conscious kink; that one time she had an energy orgasm in a tree; how Tantra can prepare you for death; and so much more.
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Nick Kroll & Andrew Goldberg: Big Mouth, Hormone Monsters, Puberty & Enthusiastic Consent
This week’s guests are Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg, who are life-long friends as well as co-creators and writers of the hilarious, Emmy nominated animated Netflix series, Big Mouth, Season 3 of which premieres October 4th. Liz, Nick and Andrew discussed writing comedy about the awkward stages of puberty; Hormone Monsters; enthusiastic consent; andhow to be a woke man in the 21st century.
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Carrie Goldberg: Online Harassment, Revenge Porn & the Law
This week’s podcast guest is Carrie Goldberg— victim’s rights attorney and founder of C.A. Goldberg; a cutting edge law firm that helps victims fight pervs, assholes, psychos and trolls. Some of her most prominent legal battles include ongoing cases against the New York Department of Education and Grindr. Carrie details how her own experience with a vengeful ex changed the course of her career; why the internet is outpacing law enforcement; what to do if you are being harassed online and her new book, Nobody’s Victim, which is out now!
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Dr. Linda Mona: Digital Dating With a Disability & Sex Toy Recommendations
Our guest this week is Dr. Linda Mona, a highly honored clinical psychologist specializing in patients with chronic health conditions and disabilities. Dr. Mona works as a consultant to healthcare service providers, in addition to her private practice, where she focuses on the importance of sexual health as a means of improving overall quality of life. Dr. Mona and Liz talk about digital dating with a disability; her favorite sex toy recommends and how a disability can in fact make you MORE creative in the bedroom.
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Dr. Rachael Ross: Age Appropriate Sex Education & How Labels Can Confine Us
This week’s podcast guest is Dr. Rachael Ross, sexologist, family physician, mother and founder of the Dr. Rachael Institute where she certifies other sexologists. Dr. Rachael and Liz chat about the importance of age appropriate sex education, giving kids ownership over their bodies, getting back to the pleasure potential of sex, and how labels can confine us. Dr. Rachael also answered some questions submitted by our Sex Ed community!
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Imani Gandy: Reproductive Justice & Abortion Legislation
This week’s guest is Imani Gandy, lawyer, senior legal analyst for Rewire Dot News and co-host of their Boom! Lawyered podcast. Imani is a self-described recovering attorney who founded and writes the award-winning blog Angry Black Lady Chronicles. Imani and Liz discuss the capitalistic history of abortion laws in the United States going back to the 1850s; the nuances of how our government can and does legislate abortion, and actionable ways we can support others as reproductive justice becomes increasingly restrictive.
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Joey Soloway: Hollywood Power Dynamics & Toppling the Patriarchy
This week’s guest is Jill Soloway: creator, writer and director of the groundbreaking Amazon series TRANSparent, I Love Dick and more. Jill is also the author of the bestselling memoir She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy. Liz and Jill talk about Hollywood power dynamics; the importance of being awkward; how they navigated their own #MeToo moment on set and, of course, toppling the patriarchy!
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Lykke Li: Motherhood, Love & Creating Art from Pain
This week’s podcast guest Lykke Li is a singer, songwriter, mother and co-owner of Yola Mezcal. She has been on tour supporting her record SO SAD SO SEXY and follow-up EP, STILL SAD STILL SEXY, which came out in 2018 and 2019. Lykke and Liz talk about creating art from pain; motherhood in the music business; why she’s over music festivals and how her personal definitions of love have evolved.
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Midori: Japanese Bondage History
This week, our guest is Midori, legendary sex educator, author and artist. Midori wrote the classic rope bible, The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage— the first English-language book on shibari. Liz and Midori cover bondage’s roots in warfare, incarceration and slavery as well as why, when tying up a lover for the first time, it’s important to maintain eye contact.
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Mistress Velvet: Intersection of BDSM, Sex Ed & African American Studies
Our guest this week is Mistress Velvet, Chicago’s premiere African domme Goddess. A practitioner of BDSM, Mistress Velvet often makes her straight, white male clients read and write essays about black feminist theory. Liz talks with Mistress Velvet about the “whorearchy”, her post work self care routine, why sex workers are being excluded from traditional sex ed and how her academic studies have overlapped with her professional life.
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Natasha Lyonne: Sexuality & Women in Hollywood
Our guest this week is Mistress Velvet, Chicago’s premiere African domme Goddess. A practitioner of BDSM, Mistress Velvet often makes her straight, white male clients read and write essays about black feminist theory. Liz talks with Mistress Velvet about the “whorearchy”, her post work self care routine, why sex workers are being excluded from traditional sex ed and how her academic studies have overlapped with her professional life.
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Rabbi Eger: Sex, Spirituality & Evolving Past the Gender Binary
This week, our guest is Rabbi Denise Eger, who leads Congregation Kol Ami in West Hollywood. Rabbi Eger is one of the first lesbian Rabbis to work openly in the United States, and was the first queer President of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which is the largest organization of Rabbis in the world. Rabbi Eger gives a blessing before a conversation about sex and spirituality; the myth of Lilith; ordaining California’s first legal lesbian wedding and how she is leading her congregation to evolve past the gender binary.
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Tony Goldwyn: Male Privilege & Intimacy
Today, our guest is Liz’s brother, Tony Goldwyn. Tony is an actor, director, producer and activist. He played United States President Fitzgerald Grant on ABC’s SCANDAL for 7 seasons, directed feature films, and has appeared on and off Broadway for over 25 years, most recently in Network. Tony and Liz discuss male privilege; their father’s sometimes “tough love” advice; appearing nude onstage and on screen; what it was like to become a sex symbol at 50 and how intimacy evolves with age.
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Rebecca Sugar: Wholesome LGBTQ+ Animation
On the podcast this week is Rebecca Sugar-animator, writer, musician and creator of the groundbreaking animated series Steven Universe. Rebecca is the first non-male in Cartoon Network history to create their own series, which featured the first ever engagement and wedding between same-sex characters. In this episode, Rebecca and Liz discuss the importance of making wholesome LGBTQ+ content; their role in educating children—and their parents—via entertainment; the censorship an internationally syndicated animated kid’s show faces, and the upcoming Steven Universe: The Movie, out September 2.
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Violet Chachki: Drag Race Taboos & Being a Fashion Icon
We’re kicking off Season 2 of The Sex Ed Podcast fabulously with Violet Chachki, — iconic drag queen, aerialist and burlesque performer. Violet is the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 7 and a showgirl who tours the world. On this episode, Violet and Liz discuss Catholic school uniforms, breaking Drag Race taboos, being a fashion icon and so much more.
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Jeremy Scott: Making it, Gender Identity & Fashion Dress Code
This week’s guest is legendary fashion designer Jeremy Scott. Jeremy is the creative force behind his own label, Jeremy Scott; has an ongoing collaboration with Adidas; and is the creative director of Moschino. His designs have been worn by icons such as Madonna, Lady Gaga, Cardi B, and Rihanna. Old friends Liz and Jeremy talk about letting his fashion freak flag fly as a teenager in Missouri; “making it” in Paris as a designer; and how gender identity and dress codes have been revolutionized over the last decade.
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Sahar Prizada: Sex Education & Muslim Faith
Our guest for this episode is Sahar Pirzada, a social worker, organizer and educator. Sahar is the programs and outreach manager for HEART Women & Girls, a nonprofit that provides culturally sensitive sex education to Muslim communities across the United States. Sahar and Liz talk about her own experiences of Islamophobia in the reproductive health care system; how to meet people where they’re at with sex education needs; and why faith and sexuality are not mutually exclusive.
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SEASON FINALE: Sex & Artificial Intelligence
What does sex, love, intimacy and consciousness look like in the digital age? Who’s building the apps that we interact with daily, and what are they doing with our most intimate information? How deep and dark can it get? For the Season 2 finale, Liz talks to three experts about where sex and artificial intelligence intersect, and where we’re going: Gray Scott, a techno-philosopher; Stephanie Dinkins, a visual artist interacting with AI as part of a revolutionary ongoing project; and Bruce Duncan, the managing director of the innovative and mysterious Terasem Movement Foundation.
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