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Can a single woman in the Black Church get some and also get to Heaven? That's the question Dr. Brittney Cooper set out to answer for herself a few years ago. What she found -- and what she wrote about it -- has sparked a national conversation at the intersection of sex, shame and Sunday sermons. (Originally aired 5/24/16) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jaclyn peeps back in from hiatus for a quickiesode to help out some listeners with questions about cross dressing, coming out inside a marriage, and how to build a better orgasm. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pleasure isn't optional - it's a key ingredient in both our humanity and our political resistance. Let historian Hanne Blank explain as she talks with Jaclyn about what she learned during the 80s AIDS crisis, the importance of marshmallows when the world is on fire, and why an old slogan from a 1960s French Art movement should be our mantra right now. (Encore) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Listener advice for a woman who feels unfuckable, a call to action to save health care, the most optimistic take you've heard yet about the 2016 US election, and OMG JACLYN'S NEW BOOK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What would the United States be like if our policies, laws and institutions were built to encourage women's happiness? That's the provocative premise of Jill Filipovic's new book, The H-Spot, and she joins Jaclyn to talk about remaking marriage, embracing sexual risks, and how women's pleasure can change the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A quickiesode on Mayim Bialik's bad advice, making fun of cis white guys, and the resurgence of abstinence-only ed under a shiny new name. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We've talked a lot recently about the politics of porn -- now Jaclyn catches up with producer/director Shine Louise Houston to hear what it's like to make it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What's the difference between making fun of Trump's hands and mocking his hair? Could a casual hookup be healing after trauma? How do you talk with your partner about body hair expectations? Jaclyn tackles a trifecta of listener questions on this week's quickiesode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ever have a conversation that you think is one thing, but turns out to be another? That's this week's episode. What started out as an exploration on masculinity in the age of Trump became a meditation on gender dynamics in Black Lives Matter, emotional labor in service of change, and the nature of movements. Come along for the ride. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An urgent call to action, a porn recommendation, and a listener advice question about partnered sex that's secretly about masturbation: it's all here in this week's quickiesode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What's all the fuss lately about Hot Girls Wanted? What's a greater threat to women: sex work, or other women who want to rescue sex workers? What does (and doesn't) make porn feminist? We get into all this and more with Siouxsie Q, host of The Whorecast and Director of Policy & Industry Relations for the Free Speech Coalition. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this quickiesode Jaclyn answers listener questions about "stealthing" (SPOILER IT'S SEXUAL ASSAULT) and about how to tell a new partner you need them to step it up in bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Can erotica save lives? It can in the hands of Tobi Hill-Meyer, editor of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, who joins Jaclyn to get us wayyyy past bathroom bills and Trans 101. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this quickiesode, we talk adoption myths, victim blaming and why "awareness" should never be a goal. Then a listener asks YOU a question about your sex life, and we help out a listener who wants to know if she should be ashamed of her ladygarden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
After learning about Mike Pence's rules for (not) eating with women, Jaclyn called up journalist and author Kathryn Joyce to ask what other ways might the Christian Right's radical sexual agenda be quietly constraining the lives of even nonbelievers. And trust us: you really won't believe it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Survival sex, senior friskiness, Tom Hiddleston, and some surprising advice about how to lose your virginity, all in under 13 minutes. Go! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Let's talk virginity, Unscrewed Nation! Jaclyn is joined by Therese Shechter, whose film How To Lose Your Virginity explores the Big V from every angle, to talk about what the word even means, what it could mean, and what to do if you're uncomfortable with your relationship to it is uncomfortable or worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this quickiesode, the rundown on the man who was denied entry to the US for being gay, how you can refuse to abandon trans students the way Trump has, and why it's important to remember Canada isn't perfect. Plus, Tatiana Maslany gives one listener a loving reality check. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tatiana Maslany is getting Unscrewed! Come for a tease about the fifth season of Orphan Black, stay for a vulnerable and revealing conversation about internalized femmephobia, clones in pussy hats, on-set sexism, rape plotlines, bell hooks, following your fear, and the liberatory power of a queer 90s dance party. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We celebrate VDay with a quickiesode covering resistance-themed sci fi erotica, why 50 Shades is anti-kink, and the gender politics of the philosophy of love. Oh, and Jaclyn threatens to punch a dead man in the face. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
With Valentine's Day breathing down our necks, Jaclyn takes some time to dig deep into the meaning and implications of romantic love with philosopher Carrie Jenkins. Does talking about love kill the magic? Can a pill make you stay in love, or fall out of it? What do queer people teach us about the biology of love? Can one person's love change the world? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A quickiesode in which we discuss whiteness & feminism, warn you about a potential new law that threatens queers, sluts, and people of color, and give you solid advice about when to keep your mouth shut about assholes in your dating apps. All in 15 minutes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Let's get it ON. Smut peddler and embodiment activist Elle Chase joins Jaclyn to talk about sex positions for curvy girls and people of different abilities, the joys of farting in bed, and what to do when you just can't find a way to love your body but want to have great sex anyhow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is urine really sterile? Do men have the upper-hand on Tinder? How "traditional" is monogamous dating, anyhow? These questions and more answered in this week's Spare Parts quickiesode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
All the moral panic about "hookup culture" on college campuses does a lot more harm than good. But that doesn't mean hookup culture isn't doing some damage of its own. Sociologist Lisa Wade joins Jaclyn to break down what she's found about sex, holding hands, being tough, catching feelings, and why colleges benefit from the screwed up status quo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Some of the best Unscrewed moments of 2016. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Book deadlines are real. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pleasure isn't optional - it's a key ingredient in both our humanity and our political resistance. Let historian Hanne Blank explain as she talks with Jaclyn about what she learned during the 80s AIDS crisis, the importance of marshmallows when the world is on fire, and why an old slogan from a 1960s French Art movement should be our mantra right now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We lick our wounds. We tend to each other. We figure out how to move forward. We fight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
WE NEED TO PROCESS THIS ELECTION. Jaclyn is joined by writer and activist Soraya Chemaly to talk about our collective trauma, how to take on the institutions that made Trump possible, talking rape at the dinner table, the five stages of post-election grief, and how we think about healing from here. Whatever happens at the polls today, we'll get through it together, Unscrewed Nation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
