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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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Aug 30, 2021
Kink trailblazer Midori joins us
for episode 165. Now at the helm of the first Kink Informed
Professionals Certification of its kind, Midori recently partnered
with the Sexual Health Alliance to bridge the gap between BDSM and
mental health/care professions. Once pathologized, kink has
recently become a serious area of professional interest and study.
In this conversation, Midori tells us how myths from popular
culture and those perpetrated by the BDSM community itself have
contributed to bias in care professions. We pinpoint why the mental
health field is beginning to see BDSM as a healthy outlet for
creativity, resilience, and valid erotic expression. We also touch
on the ways abuse hides within kink and how stigma around that
affects our relationships with therapists, doctors, social workers,
attorneys, and other care professionals we come into contact
with.
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Sunny & Ken, xo!
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Episode 164 Links
- Kink Informed Certification - Sexual Health Alliance https://sexualhealthalliance.com/kink-informed-certification-program
- Midori Twitter https://twitter.com/PlanetMidori
- Midori Instagram https://www.instagram.com/planetmidori/
- Midori Newsletter https://www.fhp-inc.com/newsletter
- Midori class/event calendar http://www.FHP-Inc.com/classes
- Midori’s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/PlanetMidori/
- KPACT The Psychological Appeal of BDSM 10/15/2021 https://www.kpact.xyz/product/the-psychological-appeal-of-bdsm/
- Consent Dojo w/Midori & Sunny Megatron (free!) 9/14/21 11am PT https://shibaristudy.com/authors/midori
- Midori History of Shibari (free!) 9/4/21 11am https://shibaristudy.com/programs/histories-and-cultures-of-shibari
- Creative Living Coaching and Private Sexological Consultations: ask@planetmidori.com
- Sex Down South Virtual Conference Fri 9/10-Sun 9/12 https://hopin.com/events/sex-down-south-conference-2021
- Open Deeply Podcast http://opendeeplypodcast.com
- Ken’s charity DnD game Monday’s 4pm-7pm PT https://www.twitch.tv/thunderpantsacademy
- 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
Episode 165 Sponsor, Affiliate & Giveaway Info
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