Episodes

  • EP 87: Is your gender identity fixed or flexible? Is it innate, or the product of socialisation, including trauma? …With Avgi Saketopoulou.

    EP 87: Is your gender identity fixed or flexible? Is it innate, or the product of socialisation, including trauma? …With Avgi Saketopoulou.
    Mar 28 2024
    Today, we’re chatting about gender, and how your identity is influenced by the events you experience in your life. The conversation is especially interested in how minority genders such as non-binary and trans identities are formed, and how there’s healthy and less than healthy ways that plays out. My guest is Avgi Saketopoulou, who along […]
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • EP 88: The Death Cult Club, Lomi Lomi, and Integrated Oncology with Alice Peebles

    EP 88: The Death Cult Club, Lomi Lomi, and Integrated Oncology with Alice Peebles
    Mar 28 2024
    Today, we talking about the Death Cult Club, Lomi Lomi, and Integrated Oncology with Alice Peebles. It includes a couple of side-journeys around consent and trauma-informed practice, and touches on Alice’s and Rog’s personal Death Cult Club Goals. Oh, and some tips on how you can start your own Death Cult Club! Links: Alice’s Lomi […]
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    52 mins
  • EP 86 Re 39: When things go wrong, or not as planned

    EP 86 Re 39: When things go wrong, or not as planned
    Nov 10 2023
    Today, answering the question, of what to do when things go wrong – especially when you’re topping. To answer it, I’m back with Seani Love, an award-winning sex-worker and workshop facilitator. The conversation comes across like you’ve walked in on a couple of kinky therapists having a chat, which is precisely what it is – […]
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    23 mins
  • EP 85: Lee Harrington on self-care. Also gender, relationships, community.

    EP 85: Lee Harrington on self-care. Also gender, relationships, community.
    Jul 24 2023
    Lee Harrington, who’s been on the show a couple of times previously, has recently written the book “Becoming Your Own Beloved”. It’s a wild investment in yourself, and a radical piece of activism against some modern dilemmas. Lee and Rog talk self-care, gender, lateral violence in minority gender groups, and some good old life philosophy. […]
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Reaction video to Jordan Peterson on birth control and promiscuous sex (minus video)

    Reaction video to Jordan Peterson on birth control and promiscuous sex (minus video)
    Jun 9 2023
    Today, I’m doing a reaction video to a Jordan Peterson interview, except without the video. So I’m just having a reaction, I guess. In the original interview, which I’ll link to in the shownotes, Jordan is speaking about sex, consent, and sex outside of marriage. On top of that, I want to add another couple […]
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Ep 83: Jealous with Joli

    Ep 83: Jealous with Joli
    May 8 2023
    Today, we’re chatting with Joli about jealousy – how it’s an awesome thing waiting to happen, what to put in place to avoid unnecessary amounts of it, how it pairs with attachment styles, and how to talk about it. Also, a bunch of thoughts on starting poly, navigating poly, and some relationship ideas that are […]
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    57 mins
  • EP 82: An Apology to Religions

    EP 82: An Apology to Religions
    Apr 17 2023
    A revisit of comments Rog made in the last episode, particularly around a criticism of the grass-roots Christian movement. (This is one of those rare times where we strongly recommend you listen to that episode first). Link to two-day workshop ‘Adventurous Touch and Intimacy’: www.curiouscreatures.biz/adventurous-touch-and-intimacy.html Link to the Curious Creatures forum: forum.curiouscreatures.biz/ Link to Consent […]
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    30 mins
  • Ep 81: Exposing Australia’s Biggest Sex Scandal

    Ep 81: Exposing Australia’s Biggest Sex Scandal
    Feb 27 2023
    Today, we’re getting back to our journalistic roots, and exposing one of Australia’s biggest sex scandals. You might be wondering why an otherwise light and accessible sexuality podcast would venture into such territory, however the editorial team here at Curious Conversations About Sex felt that if we’re to explore the positive elements of sex, then […]
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    1 hr and 2 mins