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Horizontal with Lila is the podcast of intimate conversations about sex, love, and relationships that's entirely recorded while lying down. Many of the episodes are recorded in bed at Hacienda Villa, a sex-positive intentional community in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Others are recorded while horizontal elsewhere.
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Positively Sex! with Lila {an iHeart Podcast Trailer!}

SUBSCRIBE to the new "POSITIVELY SEX! WITH LILA" podcast on APPLE PODCASTS (or wherever you like to get your podcasts) & never miss an episode! Get ready for a 46 episode season of Sex Ed, with Pleasure! Host Lila, Intimacy Specialist & founding member of the premier sex-positive intentional community in New York, explores intimacy of all kinds in this sex-positive talk show on timely, titillating, tender, & taboo topics. Her guests are pro-Dommes, therapists, kink masters, sex coach...

Oct 06, 20224 minSeason 5Ep. 1

129. Introducing "Positively Sex!" Sex Ed, with Pleasure

Hello horizontal lover. This is horizontal with lila, the podcast about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down. Usually, the first part of our conversation is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and the last part is available exclusively to my patrons on Patreon.com/horizontalwithlila . Navigate yourself on over to Patreon for 50+ exclusive horizontal episodes! Season 4, however, is my Season of Experiments. The experiment of this episode... introduces you to my brand-new live s...

Sep 03, 20211 hr 7 minSeason 4Ep. 129

128. sex parties done right: lila x that sex chick

Hello horizontal lover. Intimacy investigator. Horizontalist. Typically, horizontal is the podcast about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down. The first part of our conversation is available wherever you listen to podcasts, and the last part is available exclusively to my patrons on Patreon . But this: is Season 4, my Season of Experiments. And this experiment is an installment of Alexa Martinez's that sex chick podcast , which was, full disclosure, recorded while in bed, but (gasp!)...

Jun 27, 20212 hr 5 minSeason 4Ep. 128

126. you spilled your hot come on my hot girlfriend: horizontal with the king of cuckolding [1 of 2]

Hello my horizontal lovers, my intimacy investigators, my horizontalists! horizontal is the podcast about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down (and usually, while wearing robes). With few exceptions, our conversations are languorous, meandering, and long-form, as though post-coital, or stargazing, or staring out onto the open road in the wee hours of a very long road trip. It's a private conversation made public. It's consensual eavesdropping. Typically on horizontal , each conversat...

Apr 10, 20211 hr 2 minSeason 4Ep. 126

125. like a vagina wrapped around a pole: quickie with a bisexual femme poet ladyboss

Hello my horizontal lovers, my intimacy investigators, my horizontalists! horizontal is the podcast about sex, love, & relationships of all kinds, recorded while lying down, and usually, while wearing robes. If you've listened to either one of my 'between two wizard' episodes, 85. well-hung psychedelic sex wizard / no hookups or 86. you're trying to porn sex me , or my most magical recent horizontal mashup episodes, 123. this ritual is horizontal , or 124. this horizontal is a ritual , you'v...

Mar 13, 202128 minSeason 4Ep. 125

123. this ritual is horizontal: mash-up with a wizard podcast [1 of 2]

Hello horizontal lovers & ritualists, horizontal is the podcast about sex, love, & relationships of all kinds, recorded while lying down. this ritual is horizontal is part of my Season 4, the Season of Experiments. Usually, I have a guest or two reclining next to me, sharing a pillow, but This Season in the Era of Covid, my guest is often lying down across the world from me, as Devin is here... and we have an intimate, vulnerable, long-ranging and long-form conversation that unfolds over...

Feb 14, 20211 hr 19 minSeason 4Ep. 123

121. how to suck tits (properly): horizontal with an oversexed kinkster [1 of 2]

Hello horizontal lover. This is the podcast about sex, love, & relationships of all kinds that's entirely recorded while lying down. Usually, I aim to make every recording more of a long-form conversation and less of an interview, but the world is topsy-turvy, and so is Season 4, my Season of Experiments. This episode is a traditional interview (albeit, an explicit one) mostly presented in the style of NPR. Instead of my usual horizontal conversation, in which I share as openly and vulnerabl...

Dec 28, 20201 hrSeason 4Ep. 121

120. climaxes & denouements: quickie with lila

Hello horizontal lover. horizontal is the podcast about sex, love, & relationships of all kinds, entirely recorded while lying down. Usually, I have a guest or sometimes two (and on one notable occasion, nine!) reclining next to me, or, This Season in the Era of Covid, my guest is sometimes lying down across the world from me ... and we have an intimate, vulnerable, long-form and far-ranging conversation that unfolds over the course of 3 - 5 hours, and gets divided into 2 - 4 episodes. horiz...

Dec 10, 202019 minSeason 4Ep. 120

118. probably the slowest sex i've ever had: horizontal with radical self love (3 of 4)

Hello horizontal lover. horizontal is the podcast about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down. You're listening to Season 4, my Season of Experiments. During this season, I'm playing with form and format, length and structure, context and content. I'll be including mash-ups with other podcasts, themed episodes, crossovers, and shows with segments, among other things. Unlike the first three seasons, most of Season 4 will be recorded remotely, so I'm often horizontal across the world fr...

Oct 23, 20201 hr 25 minSeason 4Ep. 118

116. planet friendship: horizontal with radical self love (1 of 4)

Hello, horizontal lover. horizontal is the podcast about sex, love, and relationships of all kinds, recorded while lying down. This is Season 4, my Season of Experiments. This season marks the first time I've ever recorded remotely. So, many times, I'm no longer in the same bed as my guest— which is already a grand experiment in itself, as every single episode of my first three seasons was recorded in person, lying down, wearing robes, shoulder-to-shoulder, right next to my guest. As though star...

Oct 01, 20201 hr 12 minSeason 4Ep. 116

113. other people's love: horizontal with a global matchmaker (2 of 4)

Hello my horizontal lover. horizontal is the podcast about sex, love, and relationships of all kinds, recorded while lying down. This is Season 4, my Season of Experiments. I'll be playing with form in all sorts of ways: with coaching sessions and mash-ups and crossovers, happenings and themes and advice sessions, horizontality in unexpected places, and other intimate surprises. In the first four episodes of this season, I (virtually) lie down with Lemarc Thomas , global matchmaker, relationship...

Sep 10, 20201 hr 23 minSeason 4Ep. 113

112. broken a few hearts: horizontal with a global matchmaker (1 of 4)

Hello my horizontal lover. horizontal is the podcast about sex, love, and relationships of all kinds, recorded while lying down. This is the kickoff of Season 4, my Season of Experiments. I'll be playing with form in all sorts of ways: with coaching sessions and mash-ups and crossovers, happenings and themes and advice sessions, horizontality in unexpected places, and other intimate surprises. In all my visions for Season 4, I never considered recording virtually as one of the experiments, let a...

Sep 02, 20201 hr 14 minSeason 4Ep. 112

111. Black men can't drive: quickie with an actor / writer / singer / director / educator

Hello horizontal lovers. horizontal is the podcast about sex, love, & relationships of all kinds that's recorded while lying down, wearing robes. A typical recording is long and languorous, and lasts between three and five hours. When I release it, I divide it into two parts (if we recorded for three hours) and four parts (if we recorded for five). The first half of the conversation is available in all the podcast places, and the second is available exclusively to patrons of the horizontal a...

Jul 29, 202037 minSeason 3Ep. 111

109. love who you love: horizontal with indonesia's openly LGBTQ+ singer-songwriter [1 of 2]

Hello horizontal lovers. horizontal is consensual eavesdropping on conversations about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down, wearing robes. In this and the following episode, I lie down with Kai Mata , Indonesia's rainbow-toting, openly LGBTQ+ singer-songwriter. She is a thoughtful rock star, an articulate activist, a love advocate, an outspoken woman with a bamboo guitar living a love life of liberation in a country that expects its women to be neither outspoken nor liberated. I lov...

Jul 01, 20201 hr 33 minSeason 3Ep. 109

108. listening about race: horizontalism with lila

In this episode, I lie down with myself. I share: * the WOC Podcasters solidarity statement * my personal commitment to ongoing anti-racist action * the names of a few of the many Black lives lost to police brutality, and: * the story of that time I didn't talk about race (for 11 years) and how that is a textbook example of white fragility and privilege *** I stand with my sisters from the WOC Podcasters Community , lead by Danielle Des ir and crafted by change-maker Tangia Renee [TAN-gee]. Thes...

Jun 16, 202044 minSeason 3Ep. 108

105. mom-ogomish: horizontal with expat parents (2 of 4)

Hello horizontal lovers. horizontal with lila is Slow Radio. Consensual eavesdropping. Intimate talks about intimate topics recorded while lying down right next to each other, wearing robes. This is part two of my four-episode arc with Eri Kardos Patel and Jaymin Patel, recorded in February 2020. Eri & Jay are world travelers, long-time digital nomads, co-parents of two young children, and American expats in Bali. Eri is the author of the book Relationship Agreements , Jaymin the creator of ...

Apr 23, 202054 minSeason 3Ep. 105

104. good kids gone wild: horizontal with expat parents (1 of 4)

Hello horizontal lovers. horizontal with lila is Slow Radio. Consensual eavesdropping. Intimacies of all kinds. It's us lying down right next to each other, wearing robes, sharing secrets, in your ears. Welcome in, and welcome back! It's been a few months since my last episode — This winter, I got mired in a boggy swamp of depression, stared at the ceiling for a while, binge-watched a lot of dystopian TV, and then journeyed to Bali, Indonesia, to get my juju back. It's back! And... I suppose I l...

Apr 13, 20201 hr 22 minSeason 3Ep. 104

103. her name was elizaida: quickie with a (polyamorous pansexual) kinky Latinx woman

Usually, our conversation is long and languorous, and lasts between three and five hours. When I release it, I divide it into two parts (if we recorded for three hours) and four parts (if we recorded for five). The first half of the conversation is available in all the podcast places, and the second is available exclusively to patrons of the horizontal arts. You can become a patron for access to The Full Horizontal by signing up on patreon.com/horizontalwithlila At the end of each conversation, ...

Dec 17, 201952 minSeason 3Ep. 103

100. the narcissist tried: horizontal with nine (guests, friends, & lovers)

This is THE 100TH EPISODE OF horizontal !!! Naturally, this one is a bit different than the others. In celebration, I am releasing a never-before-heard experimental episode, recorded on May 21st, 2019 — the 2 year anniversary of horizontal . In every other episode, I lie down with one or two people at a time. In this special, I lie down with 9! I gathered as many previous horizontal guests, patrons, and supporters as I could, and asked my boyfriend at the time to join us. We recorded at Hacienda...

Nov 19, 20192 hrSeason 3Ep. 100

99. indiana jones is my father: horizontal with chosen family (2 of 4)

horizontal is Slow Radio about intimacies of all kinds. I think of it as consensual eavesdropping — we're lying down, wearing robes, sharing secrets, in your ears. In this, the second episode of a four-part series with those who consider themselves chosen brother and sister, I lie down with Jillian Richardson , creator of The Joy List and author of Unlonely Planet & her housemate Dennis E. Sarkozy , Lifestyle Designer and co-lead of Personal Development Nerds. Each horizontal conversation is...

Nov 12, 201954 minSeason 3Ep. 99

98. withhelds and unsaids: horizontal with chosen family (1 of 4)

I love snuggling, sleepovers, storytelling, sex, and stargazing, among other things. So I've metaphorically rolled them up in audio form and made you this podcast. Horizontal is Slow Radio. We're lying down (usually late at night) wearing robes, sharing secrets, in your ears. It's like consensual eavesdropping. During Seasons 1 and 2, I got horizontal with one guest at a time. This is Season 3. Season 3 is mostly comprised of threesomes: myself plus two guests in some kind of relationship with o...

Nov 05, 201946 minSeason 3Ep. 98

95. body heat: horizontal with monogamous lovers (2 of 4)

horizontal is a podcast of intimacies recorded while lying down. It's Slow Radio. Consensual eavesdropping. Because I love sleepovers, spooning, secrets, sex, storytelling, and stargazing, I've metaphically rolled them up in audio form and made you this. Each recording is typically between two and three hours long, and divided into two parts — the part ones are available in all the podcast places, and the part twos are available exclusively for my patrons. This conversation, however, was recorde...

Oct 15, 20191 hr 6 minSeason 3Ep. 95

94. i want to make love to my soulmate: horizontal with monogamous lovers (1 of 4)

I love sleepovers, and spooning, secrets, sex, storytelling, and stargazing. I've metaphorically rolled these things up in audio form and made you this podcast. horizontal with lila is Slow Radio. Consensual eavesdropping. Intimacies of all kinds. It's us lying down right next to each other, wearing robes, sharing secrets, in your ears. During Seasons 1 and 2, I got horizontal with one guest at a time, but in Season 3, I intend to record as many threesomes as possible: myself plus two guests, wh...

Oct 08, 20191 hr 26 minSeason 3Ep. 94

93. keep fucking / infinite love party: quickie with the [boundless artist] behind {my lingerie play}

This is a podcast about intimate relationships of all kinds. It's Slow Radio, consensual eavesdropping. It's us lying down, sharing secrets, in your ears. Each full-length recording is between 3 and 5 hours long, divided into two episodes. Part one: available in all the podcast places. Part two: available exclusively to patrons of the horizontal arts . And at the very end of the part twos, I ask my guest to tell me a story... Occasionally, I release a quickie episode. A quickie is just the story...

Sep 24, 201922 minSeason 3Ep. 93

91. loving bravely: horizontal with your marriage 101 professor (1 of 2)

horizontal is Slow Radio about intimacies of all kinds. It is entirely recorded while reclining. I think of it as consensual eavesdropping— we're lying down, wearing robes, sharing secrets, in your ears. In this episode, I lie down with Dr. Alexandra Solomon: clinical psychologist, author of books, Northwestern University Professor, and creator of the internationally-renowned undergrad course "Marriage 101," which I wish was taught to every incoming freshman in college (and ideally, every outgoi...

Aug 30, 20191 hr 9 minSeason 3Ep. 91

89. death, sex, & skirts: horizontal with the co-hosts of skirt club (1 of 2)

Season 3 mostly consists of threesomes, and in this episode I lie down with the founder — as well as the New York City host — of Skirt Club , a private women's club for the curious kind. Skirt Club is also the name of their sex party, an event designed exclusively for women to explore their bicuriosity. Many of these women are primarily in romantic and sexual relationships with men. Just as I was, when I attended the Rocker Chic-themed edition of Skirt Club a couple of months ago in a mansion-li...

Aug 09, 20191 hr 24 minSeason 3Ep. 89

87. poly by nature: horizontal with an evolutionary psychologist (1 of 2)

In this episode, I lie down with Geoffrey Miller, PhD : evolutionary psychology professor, author of books, out polyamorist, lifelong investigator of human nature. I met Geoffrey at a dinner party hosted by a Blue Man and curated by an adventuresome scholar of the brain— expressly for the purpose of discussing the future of intimacy. The sex scientist Dr. Zhana was there, our mutual friend and my horizontal guest of episodes 4 & 5. She and the brain scholar invited Geoffrey. In fact, the din...

Jul 26, 20191 hr 43 minSeason 3Ep. 87

85. well-hung psychedelic sex wizard / no hookups: between two wizards (1 of 2)

Season 3 mostly consists of threesomes. Whereas in Season 1 and 2, I was lying down with a single guest at time, many of my Season 3 episodes will have me lying down with two people at a time — in this case, between two wizards. These humans are in some kind of relationship with one another. Thus far, I've had a manager and his/her trauma specialist client , co-hosts of a sexuality conversation series called the Discerning Dick, primary poly kinky romantic partners , and now, Wizard friends and ...

Jul 12, 20191 hr 26 minSeason 3Ep. 85

84. john cusack ruined a lot of things (for my generation): quickie with an actor

Usually, our conversation is long, sensual, and languorous, lasting between two and three hours, and when I release it as horizontal with lila , I divide it into two parts— the first half is available in all the podcast places, and the second is available exclusively to my patrons of the horizontal arts. You can become a patron for access to the Full Horizontal, plus a monthly video of Intimacy Tips, and an invitation to the secret patrons group: Become a Patron! My part two episodes always conc...

Jul 05, 201932 minSeason 3Ep. 84

82. 200 dating profiles: horizontal with a superconnector (1 of 2)

Welcome to horizontal, the podcast about intimacy of all kinds, recorded while lying down, wearing robes. I know I said that Season 3 would be threesomes all season long, but we will still have the occasional dyad, because, sometimes it just works out best that way. In this episode, I lie down with Steve Dean. Steve Dean is a dating expert, a MmmmEGAConnector, an adventurer, a perpetual nomad, and an event SuperHost. He's the founder of the dating industry consulting firm dateworking (which you ...

Jun 07, 20191 hr 2 minSeason 3Ep. 82
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