Bawdy Storytelling

(CW: this episode discusses underage sexual exploration)   Have you ever done something really naughty on the internet? Delightfully unhinged Seattle Storyteller Claire Webber shares a stream of consciousness story about how her parents dealt with their daughter's precocious obsession with questionable websites and animals mating on the Discovery Channel (spoiler alert: it was her gateway drug to...

Where do Nerds end and Perverts begin - and are you down for a little Hard Justice while bent over the hood of a Batmobile? When Bruce Wang's long lost lover returns from Australia, she needs Bruce's help to get her mojo back. He wants to help - and where better than ComicCon?! Brace yourselves, dear listener, cause there's a lot of Cameos in this episode: Wolverine, Catwoman, Doctor Who, Superman...

Feeling defeated by last week's overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court? As an antidote to the bad news, we share this origin story from Author, Psychotherapist, Kinkster, Sex Radical and Ethical Slut, Dossie Easton. This story was told at Dossie's Story Toast in 2019, where we celebrated both her 75th birthday and the 50th Anniversary of *this*, Dossie's life-changing trip to a new sexual...

How do you give and receive pleasure while detaching from gender expectations? Storyteller and writer Matthew Beld has spent the Pandemic isolating and reflecting on who they really are, so a first time road trip celebration with new sluts feels daunting. Should they join the ass buffet? Can they be part of the orgy in the hot tub? As this proud slut embraces a more expansive non-binary identity,...

Have you ever had first time anal with your best friend/ex-fiancee in a jacuzzi room at Disneyland? Comedian/Writer/Producer April Kidwell and her butt buddy Scott are having a hard time in their relationship, going from broken limbs to life tragedy to a sports injury that breaks *another* leg. So they escape by going on holiday and pushing each other's wheelchairs from Space Mountain to Star Wars...

Do you suffering from Witzelsucht (an obsession with groan-worthy puns and jokes)? Preschool teacher Mosa Maxwell-Smith tingles with glee when people roll their eyes at her puns, wondering how she might extend that thrill to the bedroom. Driven by loneliness, she bravely attends a live /Augmented reality sex party and meets Van, a thoughtful, compassionate person who helps her explore new territor...

Do you ever wonder if Black people go to Burning Man? Pansexual Polyamorous Poet & Woman of Color Sylvia Blalock is looking for love - but how can she be with someone who won't let her fist them? After getting stood up for the Black and White ball due to her date's baby mama drama, she sells his ticket and buys herself one for Burning Man - and quickly meets Mr Sparkleteeth and Sheldon from Big Ba...

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he's focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip's to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train....

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he's focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip's to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train....

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he's focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip's to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train....

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he's focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip's to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train....

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he's focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip's to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train....

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he's focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip's to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train....

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he's focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip's to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train....

Have you ever used an under-inflated rubber doll to jumpstart your reunion-slash-sex party? Sex educator Reid Mihalko spends more than a year hunkered down with his partner during the pandemic, which sets a personal record: the longest time he's ever gone without a threesome. No more! Reid hatches a plan to host a writer's retreat in a Northern California yurt with many of his sex-positive friends...

Would you be nervous about meeting someone if you'd already had sex with the person, yet you'd never actually seen them? After boffing someone at a pitch dark sex party, Dixie De La Tour gets a call from this mystery man, asking her for a date - and it makes her so nervous. Is she expected to have sex with him, since it's already happened? And what if her date doesn't like how she looks, since the...

Do you ever wonder if maybe your Mom was right? As a 15 year old 'sexually ignorant Midwest teenager', Ryan Vermouth's weeping mother confronts him. She knows he's gay… he doesn't think so, yet he fears she might know him better than he knows himself. So when Ryan attends his college's annual drag ball with Bisexual/Bicoastal Jenny-cum-Johnny, he learns some empowering adult lessons about lube, bo...

Has opportunity ever knocked on your back door? Travel Junkie & Stoner Kimberly Anne gets off a plane in Sydney and immediately encounters bike messenger Sam smoking a joint in the park, & that's a great way to make friends in a new country. And when he announces he's bisexual and really into being pegged, she realizes that this might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Her journey Down Under is...

Hey, wanna try out a Gloryhole while the Dragon Lady naps? LGBTQIA sexual health specialist & speaker Frank Strona discovers 1970s-era adult bookstores at age 17 during his first visit to the Sir Francis Drake - and quickly figures out how to get laid multiple times a day, even when traveling with Grandma! This week, we learn about pornographic video arcades, buddy screens, anonymous gay sex, and...

Are you ready to show all the Masters & Maestros & Big Bros what you've got? Told live onstage at Bawdy's 15 year Anniversary event, Educator, Artist and Rope Dojo founder Midori takes us on a bifurcated journey from flying warriors in a Shaolin Temple to an all-Male Shibari gathering in a Tokyo Swinger's Club. Should you hide who you are so that male-dominated society isn't threatened - or is it...

Wanna know the secret to great - and sex-positive - parenting? Comedian, writer, and performer Wonder Dave tells us how his parents got it right by slipping him quality learning materials early on, and how he shared his newfound knowledge with his best friend Nate. 2 teenage boys on a sleepover, what could go wrong? Well for starters, they could establish good ground rules like no slut-shaming, di...

Did you think that you'd have time to accept that invite to play, only to learn your opportunity is gone forever? Friendly Misanthrope and Sex Educator / Author Allison Moon met carpenter & seminary student Hans in college and wonders: Do they really make men who invite you to have sex like this, without ego and expectation? They do, and when you lose them you celebrate their life in the most appr...

Isn't BDSM just the Addams Family filmed in a dark 24 hour Fitness, but with sex equipment? Suspended with rope from a vaulted ceiling on Folsom Street Fair Eve, scientist and storyteller Lesley Jones yawns and fears she's gotten too jaded for kink. Yet as she hangs there, she remembers the body issues she encountered at her first Leather event, and all the personal growth she's gained from her ye...

Is it true that you can get dick delivered on your phone? Storyteller Jeffrey Allen Hayes works at his local LGBT Senior Center, and when his clients discover hookup apps, they have so many questions. Hired to create programs to help the seniors feel less isolated, he teaches them about Grindr - & his boss promptly reprimands him. What started out as a fireable offense has now turned into a 5 clas...

Can you give someone a Blowjob and still be a Feminist?   Nationally recognized playwright, actor and comedian Marga Gomez is a Lesbian icon whose girlfriend wHortensia has moved away for grad school - but after 7 years of monogamous love, laughter, great sex and 2 expensive Uniqlo coats, Marga is unexpectedly ghosted. Preparing to go onstage in Boston on her birthday 6 months later, Marga gets a...