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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! |
About the HostsSuperheroes of sex ed, Ken Melvoin-Berg & Sunny Megatron are partners in every sense of the word. In addition to co-producing Showtime’s “Sex with Sunny Megatron,” they initially gained recognition writing and teaching about everyone’s favorite subject, SEX. In their sell-out workshops, their unique brand of “edutainment” plus combined 30+ years of sexuality teaching experience puts students at ease. They host the AASECT Award winning American Sex Podcast and Sunny’s first book, Customizable Kink: A Strategic Guide to Erotic Play will be released in 2022. A Certified Sex Educator and Relationship Coach, Sunny was also awarded XBIZ 2021 Sexpert of the Year. On a more personal note, this dynamic duo are married, parents, ethically non-monogamous, and lifestyle BDSM enthusiasts. |
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Jul 29, 2019
Episode 96 of American Sex podcast
is all about pubic hair. The societal messages we receive about our
genital hair cause us a great deal of turmoil. Should we trim?
Shave completely? Or let it grow free? What do our grooming
preferences say about us and how do the people we’re intimate with
feel about that? On this episode, we examine your personal stories,
difficulties, and strategies for caring for your garden down below.
We also speak with Lyndsey Craig, an anthropology doctoral
candidate studying cross-cultural pubic hair grooming practices.
They say that our modern preference for genital baldness is
primarily influenced by pornography & the media. Will Lyndsey’s
pubic detective work throughout history tell us otherwise? You may
be surprised at what you’ll learn!
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Episode 96 Links
- Lyndsey Craig Twitter https://twitter.com/lyndseykcraig
- Participate in Lyndsey’s next study: Women's Romantic Strategies in Long-Term Relationships: bit.ly/2Kp8FfQ We are looking for US women aged 25-45 who are in committed, heterosexual relationships to participate in a new research study about women's choice in romance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The only survey will take about 20-30 minutes to complete, and you will have an option to enter for a chance to win one of three $50 Amazon gift cards.
- What Do Women Want book http://danielbergner.com/what-do-women-want
- Playboy Magazine Study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916105
- Folklore & hair https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christian_Bromberger/publication/30441655_On_the_symbolism_of_hair_in_Islamic_societies_An_analysis_of_approaches_Anthropology_of_the_Middle_East_vol_1_n_2_winter_2006_pp_72-88/links/57168ff308ae377f0bd617ee/On-the-symbolism-of-hair-in-Islamic-societies-An-analysis-of-approaches-Anthropology-of-the-Middle-East-vol-1-n-2-winter-2006-pp-72-88.pdf
- Pubic hair removal among Saudi women https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-018-0661-6
- eHRAF World Cultures https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/
- Sugaring article https://www.byrdie.com/sugaring-hair-removal-101-1717097
- Pubic hair feedback on Twitter https://twitter.com/SunnyMegatron/status/1155193610255495168
- Pubic hair feedback on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SunnyMegatron/posts/2521643911214768?
- Pubic hair feedback on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bj4m6hzfW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
- Pubic hair feedback on Instastories highlight https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE4MDA4NjY0MDY0MjI2Mjg3?igshid=1fhl43c9hh18k&story_media_id=2097423461579667355_30660739
- My 2012 blog post about pubic hair http://sunnymegatron.com/pubic-hair-to-shave-or-not-to-shave/
- Sunny Megatron Instagram (please help us get to 10k to unlock more business features! We’re sooooo close!) http://instagram.com/sunnymegatron
- American Sex Podcast subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/americansexpodcast
- p.s. Dear internet/social media police, the hairy background for the cover art is NOT actual pubic hair. It’s actually a man’s chest hair (heaven forbid it’s a woman's chest hair cuz that would never be allowed :roll eyes: ) from this wiki commons photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chest_hair#/media/File:Brusthaare.JPG
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