Unscrewed

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)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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)  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.