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Podcast Interviews:

  • This is (Not) About Your Body - on sex education for folks leaving highly controlling religious scenarios. This episode deals with purity culture and its impact.

  • Kids or Child Free - how conservative religious values influence and enforce broader societal ideas about gender, sexuality, and the importance of having children. The episode also talks about Erica's choice to be childfree and the joyful life she has built without kids. 

  • Your Therapist Needs Therapy - about how growing up in purity culture is harmful, how the religious right is hypocritical, and why comprehensive sex ed is so important.

  • The Divorcing Religion Podcast - sharing some of the experiences that helped me see the need for programs tailored to those recovering from Christianity and purity culture indoctrination.

  • Thereafter - on sex education and The Purity Culture Dropout.

  • Nights at the Round Table Part 1 and Nights at the Round Table Part 2 - on the negative effects that purity culture has on our sexual liberation. In the name of religion and what we've been taught by societal norms, have we lost the beauty and innocence of the Godly sexual experience?

  • Sunday School Dropouts - about sex, comprehensive sex education and resources if you’re needing some remedial sex education after abstinence only or purity culture “sex education”.

  • Good Girls Get Divorced - on purity culture and sex education (the sex education you never got!).

  • Men, Sex & Pleasure with Cam Fraser - on purity culture and sex education, religious beliefs and anti-pornography, SWERFs and Christian extremists, and porn literacy

  • The Bible for Normal People - on the harmful effects of purity culture and empowering adults who want to create a new sexual ethic for themselves.

  • The Divorcing Religion Podcast - on the need for programs tailored to those recovering from Christianity and purity culture indoctrination.

  • IT’S FINE. with Rachel Varkey - on the common blockers to having healthy sex and debunking common misconceptions from purity culture.

  • Let It Matter - on defining sexual values and ethics for ourselves and the Five Circles of Sexuality.

  • Appodlachia - on sex and purity culture.

  • Cults, Magic & Misinformation - purity culture and "hysteria" as a sexist disease.

  • Cult of Christianity - on sex and purity culture within the Christian faith.

  • Sexy Biz Babe - on sex education or lack thereof, sex education for kids, purity culture, masturbation and sex addiction, abortion and women’s empowerment.

  • Where Do We Go From Here? - on why sex education is more than preventing negative health outcomes, masturbation, sex toys and sex shops.

  • Pastor With No Answers - on female sexuality, sexual behavior, casual sex and hook-ups, porn, sado masochism and much more.

  • Cheers to Leaving! - on porn and porn addiction.

  • The Manwhore Podcast: Sex-Positive Conversations - on slut-positive feminism.

  • The Unity Project - on feminism, queerness, being a riot girl, and proper sex education.

  • Sex Party with Dustin - the dangers of purity culture, what it feels to free people from it, changing Penn State University with the Sex Fair, and how racism changed abortion views.

  • Mary’s Cup of Tea - on abortion, purity culture, and how to talk to people about sex.

  • Birth Story - on sex, sexuality, sex in pregnancy and postpartum, initiating after babies, and how to talk to your kids about sex.

  • Asking For Myself - on purity culture, religion, and sexuality.

  • Pastor With No Answers - on human sexuality, the benefits of regular masturbation and the conundrum between valuing feminine freedom and power, while hating their objectification.

  • Honeydew Me - on what purity culture is, how it impacts our sex lives, and concrete steps for quitting.

  • Bad in Bed - on the adverse effects of growing up with purity culture, how it specifically effects queer people, as well as advice on how to identify and unlearn its harmful messaging.

  • Profane Faith - on sex and sex education

  • Happily Together - on why we’re so afraid to talk about sex, the purity movement and purity culture, porn and sexual education.

  • Sex Ed with Tim - on disrupting what you believe sex should and shouldn't be, and purity culture.

  • Health: It’s Personal - on sexual health, sexuality and how purity culture impacts all of us every day.

  • Woman Being - on porn and purity culture

  • A Tiny Revolution - on purity culture and how we can all heal from our sexual shame shit.

  • Waking Parent - on choosing or not choosing parenthood

  • ShrinkChicks - on reecovering from the effects of purity culture, dress codes in schools, abstinence only sex education and how abortion became a central part of American politics.

  • Deconstruct - on rewriting your Purity Culture History

  • Unchurchable Podcast- Navigating sex and reclaiming sexuality post purity culture

  • After Adult- on purity culture, navigating sexual health, sexual shame, porn as sex ed, and the state of sex education in schools.

  • Thanks, It’s the Trauma- on masturbation, sex after 40, purity culture, "sex addiction," sex education, pornography, fatphobia, gender and sexuality.

  • Conjuring up Courage (formerly Redefining Health and Wellness) with Shohreh Davoodi - on sexuality myths, purity culture, and healing

  • Conjuring Up Courage with Shohreh Davoodi- Pride Panel 2020

  • She Thrives Radio - on healing from purity culture and how it relates to diet culture

  • God is Grey- on the five circles of sexuality, and abortion among Christians

  • Parenting Forward with Cindy Wang Brandt- on parenting after purity culture

  • For Your TMI- on queer sex education and having a hysterectomy

  • Queer Ambition- answering sex questions

  • Self Love Beauty- on the importance of pleasure in self-care

Other:

Interview with Dr. Carol Bernstein on Sirius XM’s Doctor Radio (no link or download available) 

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