Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World

For the 53rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome JoAnn Schinderle, a Los Angeles-based comedian, actress & writer originally from Minnesota.  JoAnn wrote & performed a one-woman show on National Text Your Ex Day this past October 30th (via Zoom) & thanks to the text she sent at the beginning of her performance, her ex is now her boyfriend again. S...

For the 52nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 9th episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring Los Angeles-based comedian, writer & OnlyFans creator Alison Stevenson. Her VICE article "Why I Don't Give Blowjobs" went viral in 2015 & more recently, she co-created & hosted Thicc Strip!, a body-positive live strip show. Out-of-work co...

For the 51st episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome Marika Leila Roux, a Berlin-based Shibari practitioner & the co-founder of Shibari Study, the leader in online rope education. Shibari is Japanese rope bondage, a form of BDSM. The word broadly means "binding" or "tying." It originated from Hojo-jutsu, a torturous method of restraining captives, bef...

For the 50th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 8th episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring comedian, stripper & OnlyFans creator Rara Imler, who was born & raised in Guam & now lives in Atlanta. She specializes in financial domination, erotic hypnosis, foot worship & ass worship. Out-of-work comedians have been flocking to Only...

For the 49th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome Brooklyn-based couple Charley & Shelley Wininger, the epitome of #OlderCoupleGoals. They do MDMA together & it's like romantic superglue for their relationship (& sex life). This episode flies in the face of everything you thought you knew about sex, drugs & aging. Charley wrote the new book Listeni...

For the 48th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome Chris Riquinha, managing member/owner of the New Jersey-based sexbot company eMateDolls. Chris is also a producer & actor in the film 2050, a sci-fi drama featuring two robot characters — Sophia & Quin — who the sexbots were based on. eMateDolls has carefully customized these characters into human-l...

For the 47th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome their dear friends, going by the alias "Ted & Alice," for the 411 on swinging during a pandemic. Ted & Alice are a happily married couple in an open relationship who live in the Los Angeles area. They dish about sex parties, the evolution of their now non-monogamous relationship, sharing a girlfrien...

For the 46th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome Winslow Dumaine, a Chicago-based comedian who created The Tarot Restless as a means to cope with the aftermath of an abusive relationship, betrayal & heartbreak. This is a mystical breakup healing story, with a bonus meditation on what it means to be a former fan of Marilyn Manson in the wake of abu...

For the 45th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 7th episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring Los Angeles-based standup comedian, writer & podcaster Teresa Lee, who uses her OnlyFans to share the most shameful thing of all — poetry. Out-of-work comedians have been flocking to OnlyFans to help pay their bills during the coronavirus...

For the 44th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 6th episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring comedian, influencer & MILF Meredith Jacqueline, who splits her time between Los Angeles & Texas. Out-of-work comedians have been flocking to OnlyFans to help pay their bills during the coronavirus pandemic. This series explores the inter...

For the 43rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome standup comedian, cartoonist & @sex_is_weird creator Katy Fishell, who makes deeply personal cartoons about sex & body image. She shares how academia can stifle creativity, how a boring day job was a blessing in disguise, what inspired her to make comics out of radical honesty, how overcoming a fear...

For the 42nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 5th episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring Atlanta-based comedian, photographer & OnlyFans creator Cherith Fuller.  Out-of-work comedians have been flocking to OnlyFans to help pay their bills during the coronavirus pandemic. This series explores the intersection of comedy, sex wo...

For the 41st episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 4th episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring comedian & podcaster Nika Lomazzo. She's a self-confessed former political candidate with a coke problem from Rhode Island, now based in NYC & she's so fucking funny. She also brings the trans perspective. Out-of-work comedians have been...

For the 40th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 3rd episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring NYC-based comedian, podcaster & nonbinary bad bitch (pronouns: she/her/her highness). And hail to the queen because she's currently in the top 1.3% of OnlyFans creators. Out-of-work comedians have been flocking to OnlyFans to help pay the...

For the 39th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 2nd episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring Los Angeles-based comedian, cannabis pro & linguistics expert Adrienne Airhart, who happens to be crushing it in the top 1% of OnlyFans creators! Out-of-work comedians have been flocking to OnlyFans to help pay their bills during the coro...

For the 38th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra drop the 1st episode of our "Comedians of OnlyFans" series, featuring Atlanta-based comedian & musician Samm Severin (aka Janet Television). Out-of-work comedians have been flocking to OnlyFans to help pay their bills during the coronavirus pandemic. This series explores the intersection of comedy, sex work...

For the 37th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra take you back to Helsinki for a previously unreleased episode about being out & proud in Finland. We explore how American & Finnish romance differ, Cristal's experience dating in NYC (aka the original Carrie Bradshaw), the linguistic connotations of dating vs. coffee in Helsinki, the lack of Finnish gay ico...

For the 36th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra take you back to Helsinki for a previously unreleased episode about the legalization of gay marriage in Finland & how that's impacted the lives of queer residents. We cover the overwhelming response to the initial petition, the recent history of how the law passed, a classically Finnish wedding proposal, co...

For the 35th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra share our favorite sex toys & pleasure products for this holiday season to either get yourself off, give the gift of pleasure, OR BOTH!  Curvy 1+, Curvy 2+, Curvy 3+, Double Joy, Love Triangle, and Royal One: Satisyfer is offering our lucky listeners 40% off (THEY INCREASED THE DISCOUNT!) & free shipping fo...

For the 34th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome comedy writer Georgia Shenk for a special COVID-19 breakup story. Georgia shares her experience consciously uncoupling with her ex-boyfriend while living together during the 'rona lockdown... plus, reconnecting with someone from her past. This touching & hilarious pandemic tale has it all! For more...

For the 33rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra speak to an Ashley Madison member going by the alias of "Nikki" & do a deep dive into why women cheat. We also chat with Ashley Madison's Chief Strategy Officer Paul Keable, as well as their Communications Director Isabella Mise, who coauthored "The Good Wife Study" on female infidelity. You're gonna want t...

For the 32nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome standup comedian & artist Greg Edwards for an interesting look at his redline art series. We dig into the inspiration for his series & the conversations that have come from it, the reality of racist lending practices, if you eat pussy you're on the right side of history, interracial dating & how you...

For the 31st episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome writer/podcaster/activist/sex worker extraordinaire Selena the Stripper for a primer on how racism operates at your local strip club. We explore the nuances of discrimination within sex work (i.e. how racism works at strip clubs vs. racism in escorting), the complexities of labor organizing within t...

For the 30th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome podcaster Miles Gray for a funny & empowering conversation about how you can participate in the anti-racist movement of liberation in small ways that actually have a big impact. We dig into the power of language & word choice, if you see or hear something racist, say something, leveraging your privi...

For the 29th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak & Sofiya Alexandra welcome actor, comedian & podcaster Jacquis Neal for a briefing on the way racism works at your favorite improv theater, probably. We explore the systemic racism built into even well-intentioned institutions like UCB, the extra hurdles you have to clear as a Black improviser, the reality that a good artist...