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What Is American Sex?This award-winning podcast is dedicated to changing America’s dysfunctional relationship with sex. Our sex lives are influenced by everything that makes us US--from our mental health to our relationships, politics, identity, and the shame our culture instills in us and relies on for control. Understanding how these things seep into our bedrooms makes all the kinky, pervy, weird stuff we’re secretly into seem not so weird after all. Hosts, Sunny Megatron & Ken Melvoin-Berg, are acclaimed Sex & BDSM Educators. They also co-created the groundbreaking Showtime Original Series, Sex with Sunny Megatron. Equal parts hilarious and informative, Sunny, Ken & their guests serve up real-talk about kink, polyamory, sexual ethics, and LGBTQIA+ subjects. From practical BDSM & sex tips to discussions about systematic repression of pleasure & sexual empowerment, each topic is approached with a lightheartedness that’s second to none. We believe Kink is Cutomizable™, education is the new punk rock, the personal is political, tinkle-your-pants laughter is an anecdote to sexual shame, and that collectively we can subvert this backward-ass system by finding power in our pleasure. Visit americansexpodcast.com & sunnymegatron.com for more. New Episodes every Monday. Stream all episodes below! |
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Oct 23, 2017
Dr. Joycelyn Elders was the 2nd woman and 1st African American person appointed Surgeon General of the United States. She’s also a sexual health revolutionary. In 1994 President Clinton forced Elders to resign after she advised masturbation be recommended in sex ed programs as an alternative to sex to curtail the spread of HIV. Ken & Sunny talk with Dr. Elders about sexual health, pleasure inclusive sex ed in church, transgender children, the legalization of marijuana, Waffle House vs. Denny's, #MeToo & more. Ken & Sunny also celebrate the second season of Netflix’s Stranger Things with their corny parody, Weirder Occurrences.
Guest bio
Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders was
the 16th United States Surgeon General. She was the First African
American & second woman to ever hold the position. Dr. Elders grew
up in rural segregated Arkansas and was the daughter of a
sharecropper. After graduating high school she earned a university
scholarship and found her calling was in medicine. Elders became a
well respected pediatric endocrinologist. This is where her passion
for comprehensive sex education took root. Pregnancy was dangerous
for teenage girls with diabetes and other illnesses and elders
recognized the need to give these young women clear useable
information on pregnancy prevention and sexuality education. She
taught these young women not be ashamed of their sexual feelings
but instead have agency over their own bodies and to approach their
own sexuality with intelligence and responsibility.
In 1986 Elders was named Director of the Arkansas Department of Health. She fought with conservative and religious opponents and opened clinics in schools, she made condoms and comprehensive sex education available to children and teens. In 1993 she was appointed surgeon general of the United States under President Bill Clinton. After 15 months she was forced to resign when she made an unforgettable remark to the press. When asked if the spread of AIDS could be reduced through advocating masturbation as an alternative to sexual intercourse, Dr. Elders answered:
“I think that is something that is a part of
human sexuality and it’s a part of something that perhaps should be
taught.”
Already controversial for speaking up about
comprehensive sex ed, birth control, and supporting the
legalization of marijuana, this was too much. President Clinton
forced her to resign. Elders went back to medicine and teaching and
has since retired. She is still, however, very vocal about the
importance of sexuality education.
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Topics the
importance of healthy sexuality, bad endocrinologist jokes, #MeToo,
comprehensive sex ed, juvenile diabetes, transgender youth, sex ed
in Indiana, Dungeons & Dragons, LGBTQ issues under the Trump
administration, consent violations, cake vs. pie, child abuse in
the church, sex ed for seniors, HIV/AIDS, German shepherds, child
sexual abuse prevention, the power of telling your story, Stranger
Things parody, Harvey Weinstein, the spectrum of gender, harmful
surgery on intersex children, bathroom bills, marijuana
legalization, child abuse in the church
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Links
Special bonus story told by Dr. Elders
available to all Patreon followers (even those that don’t
contribute-- just hit “follow” on our main Patreon profile page for all our free
updates and posts!) https://www.patreon.com/posts/hilarious-bonus-14995929
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