This week Nicoletta welcomes one of her favorite authors and sex scholars Emily Nagoski, PhD. Emily is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller, Come As You Are: the surprising new science that will transform your sex life . They talk about how to create sex worth having. Resources: Emily: https://www.emilynagoski.com Peggy Kleinplatz: https://med.uottawa.ca/epidemiology/people/kleinplatz-peggy-j FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Facebook Send questions, comments, stories, rants to: S...
Jun 11, 2020•49 min
This episode is a crucial resource. A resource about beauty standards and creativity, about gender non-conformity, and about survival and gender-based violence. This episode is about human rights. Want to help? Donate to ALOK’s book drive for LGBTQ youth by June 9th: https://www.alokvmenon.com/store/ally If you would like to make a major gift or donation for this campaign contact info@alokvmenon.com FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Facebook Send questions, comments, stories, rants to: SlutsAndScholar...
Jun 04, 2020•54 min
What are strip clubs and dancers doing during this time?! Creating an online platform of course. Join Nicoletta and Hippea for a conversation about the first sex worker owned and operated Strip Club Co-Op - The Virtual Strip Club (TVSC). Learn about how you can help support and join in on the fun! TVSC: Hippea: https://www.instagram.com/hippeahustle/ FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Facebook Send questions, comments, stories, rants to: SlutsAndScholars@gmail.com Sluts And Scholars is a production of ...
May 28, 2020•34 min
This week Nicoletta welcomes back the fabulous Mistress Justine Cross. They talk about how to be kinky in quarantine, ProDom work during COVID, and how to use creativity in your partnership. Also, do you need help cleaning your bathroom? Mistress Justine is here to hold you accountable… Mistress Justine Cross: https://www.losangelesdominatrix.com/ FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Facebook Send questions, comments, stories, rants to: SlutsAndScholars@gmail.com Sluts And Scholars is a production of slu...
May 21, 2020•46 min
Nicoletta is joined by her best friend of 20 years (be prepared-Nicoletta will say "like" a lot due to her valley girl roots) to talk about how a real long term couple is turning this quarantine into a time to get weird with themselves and each other. While she is not an accredited sex expert, Erica talks about how not to be sexually "boring" after five years with the same person, solo sex, talking dirty to herself, and masturbating in relationships. Erica's socials: https://twitter.com/sendarav...
May 14, 2020•48 min
This week comedian, model, and actor Syd Wilder joins Nicoletta for a roller coaster of a conversation. Somehow Syd manages to include important suicide awareness information along with humor as she leads listeners on a journey from dominating Daniel Tosh to surviving a suicide attempt. Also included: are many comedians dealing with trauma? Syd: https://www.girlinstarupted.com/ Crisis hotlines: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ https://didihirsch.org/chat/ FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Facebo...
May 07, 2020•45 min
Afrosexology's mission is to educate, explore, and reclaim Black sexuality and to promote Black self empowerment through sexual liberation. Rafaella and Dalychia share their insights on embodiment, our capacities for pleasure, solo-sexuality, and respectability politics. Tune in for ways to claim and use your pleasure as liberation. Afrosexology: http://www.afrosexology.com/ Remember to use those discount codes from: Uberlube: SandS Dipsea: Dipseastories.com/sands and MyGirlFund: mygirlfund.com/...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Kate Loree, LMFT is a sex positive licensed marriage and family therapist with a specialty in non-monogamous, kink, LGBTQ and sex worker communities. Kate and Nicoletta talk about attachment styles and how to navigate different types of non-monogamy. Also included: relationship hierarchies, grounding and resiliency tools, and how to ask for a break during heated arguments. Kate Loree http://kateloree.com/ Remember to use those discount codes from: Uberlube SandS Dipsea Dipseastories.com/sands an...
Apr 23, 2020•47 min
This episode features Tanya Bass- speaker, trainer, facilitator, teacher, sexologist, and former president for the North Carolina Society for Public Health Education (NCSOPHE). Nicoletta and Tanya talk disease intervention strategies (mostly for STIs, but this is applicable to COVID too!), dimensions of health and wellness, and what is pornea?! Tanya: https://www.tanyambass.com/ Sponsored by MyGirlFund: To support people who are trying to make ends meet from home right now, MGF is giving a $50 b...
Apr 16, 2020•47 min
This week’s episode talks about how to help your partnerships (even with yourself!) survive and thrive during COVID. What are some ways to stay sexy and connected? How do you deal with your partner when tensions are high? Therapist, coach, and writer Vanessa offers some tips for daily check-ins and takeaway tools for better communication in navigating these uncertain times. Vanessa Marin: https://vmtherapy.com/ Interpersonal violence hotlines: https://www.thehotline.org/help/ https://www.rainn.o...
Apr 09, 2020•43 min
Dr. Nan Wise, neuroscientist and sex therapist, joins Nicoletta to discuss COVID-19 stress impacts on our neurology and pleasure systems. They chat about the importance of pleasure, managing emotions and our emotional brain, as well as how to use sex and pleasure to calm the nervous system. Sponsor: You can join mygirlfund.com for free , and for a limited time you can become a lifetime premium member for less than $5 when you visit mygirlfund.com/sands Dr. Nan: https://askdoctornan.com/ FOLLOW U...
Apr 02, 2020•39 min
Nicoletta is joined by Adriana Alejandre- a Latina, Social Impact Entrepreneur and EMDR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). They talk about mental health and sexuality in Latinx communities, resource and resiliency building, being a teen mom, as well as different types of trauma therapy. Also: how to support someone who has just been through a traumatic event. Sponsored by Uberlube. Use discount code SandS at uberlube.com for 10% off and free shipping! Latinx Therapy and Podcast: http...
Mar 26, 2020•50 min
Nicoletta is joined by Joy Hoover of The Cupcake Girls, an organization dedicated to holistic health for sex workers and trafficking victims and survivors. They talk about the differences between helping and proselytizing, cancel culture, pushback and barriers the organization has faced, as well as health care in sex related industries. The Cupcake Girls: https://thecupcakegirls.org Joy’s podcast: https://humanswhogiveashit.podbean.com/ This episode is sponsored in part by Dipsea! Go to Dipseast...
Mar 19, 2020•42 min
This week Nicoletta is joined by founder and director of GayTherapyLA Ken Howard, LCSW. Ken explains why gay men need a therapy specialization, living through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, survivor guilt, minority stress, and appearance privilege. Also featured: when should you tell someone your STI status, Broadway, and PrEP. Ken Howard: https://gaytherapyla.com/ Ken’s Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gay-therapy-la-with-ken-howard-lcsw/id1450860786 Info on PREP: https://prepfacts.org/pr...
Mar 12, 2020•51 min
Can religion and sex positivity coexist? Nicoletta is joined by Christian Sexologist Brittany Broaddus-Smith LSW, MEd to debunk sex myths from the Bible. They cover everything from what it means to be "saved," to scriptures about sexuality, masturbation, shame, abstinence, and the experience of being a Deacon's wife teaching sex ed in a predominantly Black church. Contact Brittany and the Intimacy Firm: https://www.theintimacyfirm.com/ Sponsor Uberlube! Remember the more you support sponsors the...
Mar 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Sex therapist and researcher Dr. Sabitha Pillai-Friedman joins Nicoletta to talk about sexual losses, namely sexuality and cancer. Sexuality and sexual side effects are often overlooked for folks with chronic illnesses. This episode busts misconceptions and goes over everything from self compassion to sexual functioning during chemo. Sponsor: For listeners of the show, Dipsea is offering a 30 day free trial when you go to DipseaStories.com/SANDS Resources: Dr. Pillai: https://rittenhouserelation...
Feb 27, 2020•48 min
Big thanks to our guest this week Norma Buster, the client relations manager at the C.A. Goldberg Victims' Rights Law Firm. This is a serious conversation about stalking, legal reform, non-consensual and revenge porn, victimhood, and survivorship. This episode is for my friend and colleague Dr. Amie Harwick; we all miss and love you and will continue to fight for change. Norma: https://www.cagoldberglaw.com/about/norma-buster/ https://twitter.com/normabuster Sponsors and discounts: MyGirlFund: Y...
Feb 20, 2020•1 hr 4 min
This week's episode features award winning adult filmmaker Bree Mills. Bree shares her opinions on the next era of socially conscious porn and the shifting state and gaze of porn today. Bree also gives insight into her creative process and how to balance sex and story as a female filmmaker. This episode is sponsored in part by We-Vibe and UberLube We-Vibe: This Valentine’s Day, WeVibe is offering our listeners a special 5% discount on any product at we-vibe.com . Just use promo code SandS https:...
Feb 13, 2020•53 min
Welcome back slutty scholars to another season! For all newcomers, this episode reflects a real example of the whole reason this podcast was started. It features Mistress Snow, PhD- a professor and scholar who also happens to be a dominatrix. Tune in to hear a tale of slut shaming. Don’t worry, it also ends with a fun little twist about ball busting. The original article, which may require a subscription: I Told My Mentor I Was a Dominatrix - The Chronicle of Higher Education https://www.chronic...
Feb 06, 2020•56 min
This month we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite and most meaningful episodes with you! Please enjoy and share liberally. Dr. Laurie Mintz, a scholar of sex, joins the women to expose the major reasons for the orgasm gap between men and women. They DESTROY the myth of penetration, address the orgasm “hierarchy” and talk about how there are a MILLION ways to masturbate and come -- and they’ll give you tips for how to figure out what yours are. Don’t worry, men, cliteracy is good for you ...
Dec 26, 2019•55 min
This month we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite and most meaningful episodes with you! Please enjoy and share liberally. The scholars interview the glamour and beauty burlesque queen, Dita Von Teese. Tune in for a rare opportunity to hear from Dita about how she got into Burlesque, her glamour evangelism, and her views on fetishism, ageism, and feminism. Also, cervical orgasms. It’s the Renaissance woman behind the martini glass! FOLLOW DITA http://www.dita.net/ https://twitter.com/dit...
Dec 19, 2019•42 min
Stephanie Lumsden and Cutcha Risling Baldy joined us last year to talk to us about Hoopa Valley tribe coming of age menarche ceremonies and flower dances, what menstrual huts really are, settler colonialism, period taboos, gender, and more. We are so grateful to be able to share this with you again. This month we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite and most meaningful episodes with you! Please enjoy and share liberally. To contact our guests: https://www.stephanielumsden.com/ https://www...
Dec 12, 2019•1 hr 2 min
Dec. 1st is World AIDS Day, so learn your serostatus! Today is an opportunity to raise awareness about what it means to live with HIV, destigmatize folks who are seropositive and increase testing. We’re highlighting our conversation with Kelly Gluckman, an HIV-AIDS activist and recent UCLA grad (with a degree in arts-activism), who sat down with us in 2018 to chat about living and dating with HIV. This month we’re going to be sharing our favorite and most meaningful episodes with you! Please enj...
Dec 01, 2019•1 hr 9 min
You may have heard Simone beaming in a few episodes about her amazing experience with the Lioness at an event called Mothership (where she proudly won “Vag of Steel”). Now, Sluts and Scholars proudly welcomes creator of the Lioness: Liz Klinger. They talk about women in sex tech, measuring orgasms and pleasure, and different types of pelvic contractions. Random fact: neon bending is just what it sounds like. Lioness: https://lioness.io This episode is sponsored by Dipsea. Tune in for a discount ...
Nov 21, 2019•56 min
This is a teaser for part two with Robin Wilson Beattie. The full episode will be available to our patrons only on patreon.com/slutsandscholars . We will be back next week with a regular episode for all! If you can't financially join us on Patreon, a free rate and review wherever you listen to your podcasts is always helpful! FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Facebook...
Nov 14, 2019•8 min
Listen to all episodes of Artemis, free! Simply enter promo code ARTEMIS at checkout www.himalaya.com/artemis FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Facebook Send questions, comments, stories, rants to: SlutsAndScholars@gmail.com...
Nov 08, 2019•6 min
This week Nicoletta and Simone welcome disability and sexuality health educator Robin Wilson-Beattie. Do you know what a devotee is? Neither did we. Tune in to hear about fetishes (including amputees), spinal cord injuries, sex as a quadriplegic, and reproductive rights at intersection of fatness, blackness, and disability. To find Robin https://www.sexabledwithrobinwb.com/v1/ This episode is sponsored by Native Deodorant; tune in for 20% off! nativedeodorant.com FOLLOW US Twitter Instagram Face...
Nov 07, 2019•44 min
This week Simone chats with former sex worker, mother, activist, and professor Juniper Fitzgerald. Get ready for a conversation that is scarier than Halloween about real life sex work stigma. Also included: balancing identities and how to talk to your kids about sex work and gender expansion. Juniper’s TED talk: https://youtu.be/-Lk4G1dna7s Juniper’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/How-Mamas-Love-Their-Babies/dp/1936932008 SWOP: Sex Workers Outreach Project | Sex Workers Outreach Project FOLLOW US ...
Oct 31, 2019•52 min
This week we are joined by sex therapist Dr. Amie Harwick to talk all things spooky just in time for Halloween. While October is not the only time to experiment, why not start now with a conversation about blood play, the fear response, haunted houses, burying someone alive, and clowns in black lipstick. Also covered: Pineapple Support - the mental health resource for the adult industry. Amie; https://instagram.com/dramieharwick?igshid=1olxcwq9d5b70 Pineapple Support: https://pineapplesupport.or...
Oct 24, 2019•1 hr 6 min
This is a 15 minute teaser of our episode with Dirty Lola. Simone and Lola talk about nerdy smut, erotica, power play, free labor, and divorce. The full episode can be found for Patrons only at patreon.com/slutsandscholars . Remember that this podcast is a labor of love and we want to sustain this show! Please consider supporting us today; if you can’t afford it, leaving a review, especially on iTunes, is helpful and free! We'll be back with a regular episode for everyone next week. FOLLOW US Tw...
Oct 17, 2019•15 min
