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Intellectual Erection

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This podcast is about sex positivity, kink, bdsm, and polyamory. The interviews are with people in these communities and we discuss everything from the fun, to the not so fun, to the politics, and matters of the heart.
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Episodes

Steve Sandford's 21 Polyamory Hacks

On this episode I speak to seasoned polyamorist Steve Sandford about some of the ideas featured in an article he wrote on polyamory hacks. Steve is a radically honest polyamorist and it runs in the family. He grew up around sex work, and sex positivity, and has been in the fetish scene in Toronto for a very long time. When his monogamous marriage ended nearly 15 years ago, he decided to embrace polyamory and has been at it ever since, slowly documenting his experiences over time and coming up wi...

Oct 28, 20191 hr

Yazmin Exposes her Particular Perversions

On this episode I speak with Yazmin—a newish human to the sex-positive communities with a lot of particular interests and a deep desire to explore them mindfully. Yazmin is a fairly fresh face to kink, fetish, bdsm, and polyamory but in the time she has spent around the sex-positive communities she’s contemplated her involvement deeply and shared her experiences along the way on social media. Coming from a background in yoga, Yaz approaches sex-positivity mindfully—assessing, absorbing, premedit...

Oct 20, 20191 hr 6 min

Ryland Babylove and Dahlia Dee: Two Girls one Mic

On this episode I speak with MFC cam models Ryland Babylove and Dahlia Dee. They spill the beans on all the insider info you’ve ever wanted to hear about the life of a cam model. If you want to know how to enter the cam business and what to expect, have a listen to Ryland and Dahlia as they outline the good the bad and the ugly. With experience in camming on various websites, most notably My Free Cams, selling content online, PornHub, and social media, these two have a lot to say when it comes d...

Oct 14, 20191 hr 9 min

Freya McFarlane Bewitches you with Tantric Sexuality

On this episode I speak with Tantra instructor Freya McFarlane. She discusses sacred sexuality, sacred femininity, eco sexuality, menstruation, and tantric heart orgasms. Take a slow and sensual journey into Freya’s tantric life as she seductively enunciates each word in the Queen’s English to arouse your audiophilia. Her ASMR vocals will tease you along as she describes her erotic self-discoveries in nature—bonding with the earth to find her sacred sexuality. Freya’s life experiences have accum...

Oct 07, 201954 min

Dr. Taylor Kohut Researches Porn

On this episode I speak with porn researcher Dr. Taylor Kohut about some of his studies concerning porn use and well-being, relationships, religious affiliation, and misogyny. Have you ever asked yourself: What actually constitutes porn? What does it mean to use porn? What impact might porn have on your well-being, your relationship, and how might it affect your views on women in particular? Dr. Taylor Kohut has asked himself these questions and an array of participants from North America to Cro...

Sep 29, 20191 hr 24 min

Marlon Chaplin Submits to Cuckoldry

On this episode I speak with Marlon Chaplin, the first-ever submissive cuckold on this show. This a unique episode from an often unheard voice because submissive men are rarely open about their experiences…at least publicly. Are you ready to get mindfu#%ed? This is important to hear, especially for men. Have you confronted your notions of masculinity? I challenge you to step into Malron’s mentality—listen to his story as he masterfully teases out details interwoven with suspense and visceral vul...

Sep 20, 20191 hr 3 min

Megan's Rediscovery through Sex Positivity

On this episode I speak with Megan, a human who rediscovered herself in the sex positive communities. She continues to explore uninhibited and with devious curiosity. After ending an engagement with a high school sweetheart Megan embarks on yes weekend into an all-out slutty whirlwind that reignites her joie de vivre. She’s not quite sure where or how she fits into the sex positive communities but she knows it’s where she belongs. Megan may be undecided about the labels but not about how sex pos...

Sep 15, 201947 min

Alisha Fisher Jacks off all Trades

On this episode I speak with the multifaceted Alisha Fisher. She’s an international relationship, intimacy, and flirtation coach here to talk about her plethora of work in the sex positive communities and inspire your curiosity. When Alisha isn’t busy flying around the world talking about porn to squeamish audiences of red-faced adults, she can be found working at sexual assault centers doing workshops for Young Men Leading Change, talking on her radio show, or dealing with clients who need some...

Sep 09, 20191 hr 10 min

Pastel Supernova Blows your Mind

On this episode I speak with burlesque performer extraordinaire, Pastel Supernova. She whispers some intimacies on the behind the scenes Pastel to arouse intrigue while leaving enough mystery to lust for more. This feline woman weaves seduction into every word as she speaks melodiously about her onstage persona. You get to hear the best of both worlds. The soft-spoken Pastel, who endearingly divulges little hints about her offstage self and the explosive Supernova who wants you to remember her p...

Sep 02, 201946 min

Stephie Scarlet Let'er be your Fantasy

On this episode I speak with Stephie Scarlet, a triple threat—cam model, porn star and producer, and a full-service sex-worker. She’s here to fill you in…on everything to do with her work and how it will fulfill your fantasies. Stephie got into sex-work because she wanted to explore her kinks, fetishes, and desires with people that were interested in playing with her. As a trans woman, finding ethical play partners isn’t always easy, but for Stephie, sex-work helped her take control and manage t...

Jul 29, 201956 min

Ashley the Curious Puppy Boy

On this episode I speak with Ashley, the curious puppy boy. She’s gender-bending your expectations while living her most authentic life navigating the sex positive communities with the love of her life. Coming out is only the beginning of her story. Since high school, Ashley has pushed the envelope to allow herself the liberty to be who she wants to be. She was the first person in her high school to come out and took on an onslaught of homophobia, but paved the way for others to feel safe coming...

Jul 22, 201952 min

Chantelle Ivanski: Sex Reseacher studies Sex Positivity

On this episode I speak with sex researcher Chantelle Ivanski, author of the article Exploring definitions of sex positivity through thematic analysis. Her research aims to define and understand sex positivity. Have you actually thought at length about what sex positivity means? How do you define it? Chantelle has been researching sex positivity in order to get a working definition for psychological studies on the topic. Her aim is to create a sex positivity scale for research. One particular ar...

Jul 15, 20191 hr 7 min

Solay the Sun Radiates Big Stripper Energy

On this episode I speak with artist, musician, and stripper extraordinaire Solay the Sun. She’s here to peel away the layers on stripping in Toronto, answer some spicy fan questions, and talk about her art. She’s just a small town girl, livin’ in a stripper’s world. Solay left Saskatoon at the age of 19 to make some money stripping in Toronto and follow her dreams of becoming an artist. She’s young, soft-spoken, but fierce on the pole. An artistic and creative human with a lot of heart, who will...

Jul 08, 201948 min

Lady Henry: Inside a Dominatrix

On this episode I speak with Dominatrix Lady Henry, and we get the inside scoop on what it’s like to domme for a living. We also discuss how to book a session, guest etiquette, and some very naughty stories. If you could do anything you want in life, would it be? For Lady Henry that dream was to become a Dominatrix! After spending many years in the kink/BDSM community and building a resume of sorts, she decided to marry business and pleasure. Enter Lady Henry, a bubbly and theatrical seductress ...

Jul 01, 201945 min

Boon Ong: Intimacies of Nude Photography

On this episode I speak with Boon Ong of Boon Ong Figuratif Photography, an intimate lifestyle photographer seeking to liberate himself and his subjects by highlighting the vulnerabilities and intimacies that reside at the core of taboo. Boon came to Canada to pursue his parent’s dreams of becoming an engineer. Along his journey he fell in love with photographing nude art, and soon nude subjects. When he began publishing his work, he got a call from his mother in Malaysia, calling him a disgrace...

Jun 24, 201953 min

Laura Desiree: Edging on the Erotic

On this episode I speak with Laura Desiree, your local Naked News Anchor. She talks about interviewing porn starts, creating performance art, recording her orgasms, her love of edging, and her deep desire to mount an Oscar. Laura Desiree is a full-blown perv raised on cinematic moments. She’s got the starlight shine of a diva with the soul of a siren—luring you in with erotic aesthetics and edging you to oblivion. From a teen finding her way through the art scene in New York city to a producer o...

Jun 17, 201959 min

Isla & Ruby: Sex-Work is a Matriarchy

On this episode I speak with Isla and Ruby, your friendly neighbourhood full-service sex-workers. They’re here to tell you how they found liberation through sex-work—from toxic relationships and environments to an empowered sisterhood. Isla is young, away from home, and about to get married, when she realizes there must be more to life than this. She’s already been making some money doing online sex-work, when, enter Ruby, she’s introduced to the possibilities available through full-service sex-...

Jun 09, 20191 hr

Remedy Moore: Confessions of a Sex-Positive Mother

On this episode I speak with Remedy Moore, a sex-positive mom navigating polyamory, burlesque, and parenthood. Have you ever felt fragmented, like you live separate lives? Imagine being a burlesque performer with a day job while trying to navigate your sexuality and be a good parent. Remedy Moore has embraced ethical sluthood since high school, realizing early on that monogamy wasn’t going to cut it for her. Since, she’s explored her sexuality, kinks, and tried various kinds of relationships, be...

Jun 02, 201958 min

Ms Vivi Vex on Navigating Sex-Positivity with Invisible Disabilities

On this episode I speak with Ms Vivi Vex, an up-and-coming icon of fashion at the intersections of sex work and mental health. She navigates the sex-positive communities, full-service sex work, modeling, and fashion with invisible disabilities that she’s not shy to make explicit and visible. What’s it like to navigate sex and sexuality with invisible disabilities? How can the sex-positive communities provide space for people with invisible disabilities to explore and embrace their identity? What...

May 26, 201955 min

Miss Lotus Cheeks the Sex Machine

On this episode I speak with Miss Lotus Cheeks, an aquaflirt at Oasis Aqualounge and amateur porn star. Perk up your ears to hear the ol’ ins and outs of the amateur porn industry from the horse’s mouth, or how a small town girl came to the big city to explore her sexuality! Miss Lotus Cheeks grew up in a small town where spanking was considered taboo, and she ain’t talking about spanking your kids. Her desire to feel a heavy hand against her bum drew her into the big city where she discovered h...

May 19, 201948 min

Niki Davis-Fainbloom Schools us on Consent

On this episode I speak with Niki Daivs-Fainbloom…yes, again! We covered so many interesting topics on the last episode there was no time to cover her expertise in sex-ed and consent, so we made another episode to give you that good dose of what the education system is missing—sex-ed and consent, as part of the ongoing sex-ed series on Intellectual Erection. Niki is back. Well she never really left. You heard her bubbly and charismatic voice on last week’s episode talking all sorts of sexy fun, ...

May 12, 201948 min

Niki Davis-Fainbloom: Sex-Educator and Writer

On this episode I speak with Niki Davis-Fainbloom, original Torontonian visiting us all the way from Brooklyn New York to school us on some much needed sex-ed and consent, and talk about her writing on erotica, fart kinks, Hasidic polyamorous Jews, and world records of squirting, as part of the ongoing sex-ed series on Intellectual Erection. Niki gently eases us into her personal life before going full-throttle on her sex-ed work with young students and adults, and the numerous stories she’s cov...

May 05, 201956 min

Geordie the Alpha Princess Tops your Kink List

On this episode I speak with self-proclaimed super freak and Alpha Princess, Geordie, who dives deep into his more than 15 years of experience engaging in and teaching a variety of BDSM practices. We discuss kink, kink etiquette, workshops, intimacy, learning, responsibility, and consent, as part of an ongoing sex-ed series on intellectual erection. Geordie starts us off with a dive into his childhood where this all began, with a sex-positive family, early exposure to kink, and first sexual expe...

Apr 28, 20191 hr

Fatima Mechtab: Oasis Co-Owner and Porn Producer

On this episode I speak with Oasis Aqualounge Co-Owner Fatima Mechtab about the sex club, the events she runs and markets there, and the porn she’s begun to produce out of the club. We get into the details about sex club events, the Projekt Panties (as seen on Instagram), and how the Oasis porn is different from mainstream pornography. Fatima takes us through some of the history of Oasis Aqualounge, the only water-based (I’d call it a spa) sex club in Toronto, and in fact, really the only sex cl...

Apr 20, 201958 min

Lewis Stimulates the Intellectual in our Erection

On this episode, I speak with Professor Lewis…again! We pick up where we left off last time, discussing the intricacies of polyamorous relationships and now diving deeper into the meanings of love, sex, passion, commitment, novelty, excitement, and how these interplay with one’s identity. Lewis is back at it again with the same professorial charm and wit that you enjoyed on his first episode, this time candidly sharing his deepest experiences of sex and pleasure, and how these are informed by hi...

Apr 14, 201952 min

Zoey Belle Escorts us Through Sex Work

On this episode I speak with escort extraordinaire Zoey Belle—your full-service, full-throttle, and full-of-knowledge sex worker! From masturbating since 3 years old, to Masters Graduate, Zoey takes us through the wringer with facts about escorting, its intersections with neoliberalism, and how sex work subverts capitalism. Ms. Belle is handcrafted for sex work, with a passion for sensuality, human touch, and a mastery of squirting—she truly loves her line of work. Having experimented with her b...

Apr 06, 20191 hr 17 min

Anima Mea Drills Patric

Ok, this episode is different…because I surrender my seat as host and am interviewed by Anima Mea—a new podcaster to the scene about to launch her very own show…Call me Sentimental—a podcast about modern dating, relationships, love, and taboo subjects. So, I’m her guinea pig and you get to know more about me, your host on Intellectual Erection. Anima uses her interrogation skills to drill me gently on polyamory, consent, love, kinks and fetishes, and sex clubs, all while sprinkling in the magic ...

Mar 31, 20191 hr 3 min

Kingpin Sexorcises Edith's Uterus Demons

On this episode I speak with Kingpin—local Toronto staple, vintage men’s shop owner, ordained priest and exorcist, and overall lovable weirdo here on the show to test out his collection of anti-hysteria devices on our very special returning guest Edith—in hopes of sexorcising her uterus demons. First thing’s first! We get to know a little bit about this mysterious Toronto local, who’s probably been to your party and you didn’t even know it—Kingpin. He’s been running and curating Kingpin’s Hideaw...

Mar 24, 20191 hr

Misty not your Mistress

On this episode, I speak Misty, a queer poly unicorn who sprinkles magic from every orifice while navigating around the sex-positive communities, dreaming of horse wangs—not attached to horses—and wanting to be thrown against the walls with hands firmly around her throat (say that 3 times). Misty didn’t have the typical early sexual awakening with odd kinky nuances before puberty that might indicate the future she was about to have. No, Misty didn’t see it coming, but come it did, and she’s been...

Mar 18, 20191 hr

Andrea Werhun: Inside a Modern Whore (pt. 2 of 2)

This is part 2 of the interview with Modern Whore extraordinaire Andrea Werhun (or Verhoon if you nasty!) where we pick up where we left off last time, talking about sex work and the law, decriminalization, personal safety, stripping, and then getting into the stories in her sexy book. Andrea’s been through it all, working with the good the bad and the ugly—facing assault, catcallers, breaches of consent, and having to personally deal with these issues that the law refuses to get involved with. ...

Mar 10, 201949 min
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