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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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Jan 25, 2021
If you think the latest round of
internet censorship doesn’t affect you, think again. Social media
TOS changes, Visa/MasterCard halting services on Pornhub, and
Section 230 being wrapped up in our COVID relief bills affect not
only sex censorship but everyone who uses the internet. What
happens when sexual assault survivors can't easily search for
resources because the word “sex” is no longer permitted on social
media? How do LGBTQ+ youth with no one to turn to find support when
activists & educators are being silenced? How do we create change
if we’re not allowed to organize social movements on social media?
Why is the US government attacking legal sex work sites like Only
Fans--the one income source so many marginalized people have turned
to during the pandemic? On ep 151 of American Sex Podcast, you’ll
learn how all these issues are interrelated and have unsuspecting
dark origins.
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Episode 151 Links
- American Sex Podcast Ep 148 http://sunnymegatron.com/sex-censorship-internet/
- American Sex Podcast Ep 36 http://sunnymegatron.com/kitty-stryker-sesta-fosta-consent-juggalos/
- Book - Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Oppression-Search-Engines-Reinforce/dp/1479837245/ref=sr_1_1
- Book - Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code https://www.amazon.com/Race-After-Technology-Abolitionist-Tools/dp/1509526404/ref=sr_1_1
- FSC - Free Speech Coalition (needs your donations!) https://www.freespeechcoalition.com/
- EEF - Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/
- Woodhull Freedom Foundation https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/
- Twitter thread about SISEA https://twitter.com/acvalens/status/1340347550117883907
- Twitter thread about SISEA being reintroduced https://twitter.com/AshleyLatke/status/1347969963135537152
- NYT article “The Children of Porn Hub” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html
- The Family on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/80063867
- Vox - How the Capitol riot revived calls to reform Section 230 https://www.vox.com/recode/22221135/capitol-riot-section-230-twitter-hawley-democrats
- Inside Exodus Cry: The Shady Evangelical Group With Trump Ties Waging War on Pornhub https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-exodus-cry-the-shady-evangelical-group-with-trump-ties-waging-war-on-pornhub
- Wayfair & Human Trafficking Statistics - You're Wrong About Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xgMoffYsLBicu1CnMqqiq?si=TOD_D0srRvOrqT5Vbjw4tw
- Made in Missouri: Senator Hawley's Quest to Revive Obscenity Prosecutions https://www.xbiz.com/news/256564/made-in-missouri-senator-hawleys-quest-to-revive-obscenity-prosecutions
- The New War on Porn: How Moral Crusaders, Mainstream Media and Politicians Are Gunning for XXX https://www.xbiz.com/news/256588/the-new-war-on-porn-how-moral-crusaders-mainstream-media-and-politicians-are-gunning-for-xxx
- New Congress Cleans Slate for Bills Targeting Free Speech, Sex Workers https://www.xbiz.com/news/256616/new-congress-cleans-slate-for-bills-targeting-free-speech-sex-workers
- Senators Propose Far-Reaching New Adult Industry Regulations https://www.xbiz.com/news/256391/senators-propose-far-reaching-new-adult-industry-regulations
- SISEA is “Unworkable” – Not to Mention Likely Unconstitutional https://www.ynot.com/sisea-unworkable-unconstitutional/
- There May Be Casualties, But the War on Porn Will Fail https://www.ynot.com/war-on-porn-will-fail/
- American Women Lost More Than 5 Million Jobs In 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2021/01/12/american-women-lost-more-than-5-million-jobs-in-2020/?sh=2ed73d212857
- The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. All of them were held by women https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/economy/women-job-losses-pandemic/index.html
- Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/business/onlyfans-pandemic-users.html?smid=tw-share
- QAnon’s Creator Made the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/06/qanon-creator-ultimate-conspiracy-theory-q/
- A QAnon ‘Digital Soldier’ Marches On, Undeterred by Theory’s Unraveling https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/technology/qanon-meme-queen.html
- Ken's gaming Twitter handle http://twitter.com/thunderpantsdm
- XBIZ Industry Forum https://www.xbiz.net/index.php?c=home.updates&referrer_id=1410259
- American Sex Podcast Discord Community http://bit.ly/discordasp
- American Sex Podcast subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/americansexpodcast
- American Sex Podcast Patreon http://patreon.com/americansex
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