Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World

This week, we're taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to share a preview of another great podcast from the Pleasure Podcasts network. It's called American Sex, and on a mission to change our dysfunctional relationship with shame & pleasure, hosts Sunny Megatron & Ken Melvoin-Berg tackle taboo topics with lighthearted humor & down-to-earth relatability. This clip is from episode...

For the 123rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer and sex worker advocate Antonia Crane. Antonia is the founder of Strippers United (formerly Soldiers of Pole), the author of the sex work memoir Spent, and a current Ph. D. candidate at USC. We've covered sex worker labor rights a lot on this podcast, and today, I'm sharing a pivotal interview with Antonia Crane fr...

Today I'm sharing a preview of another great podcast from the Pleasure Podcasts network that I think you’ll enjoy. On Sluts and Scholars, therapist and sexologist Nicoletta Heidegger talks with diverse professionals about all things pleasure and sexuality. In this preview, strap in for some strap-on information with sex and pleasure educator Luna Matatas. Nicoletta and Luna talk about pegging, ana...

For the 122nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Allison Moon, sex educator and author of "Girl Sex 101" and "Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups and Shame-Free Sex." In this "Quickie" episode, Allison shares tips for dating and sleeping around without being a (non-gendered) dick about it. This is your non-shady guide to sexual sex and stepping into your ethical...

For the 121st episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer and kinkster Amanda McNeil, who gives us a tour through Wisconsin sex clubs, a nude farm, and a hotel swinger takeover... and shares the hilarious story of meeting her best friend as a gang bang. For more from today's guest, Amanda McNeil: Follow Amanda on Twitter @GingerMidwest Follow Amanda on Instagram @texasama...

For some special holiday weekend listening, enjoy this preview of the Double Teamed Podcast, hosted by twins Cami and Niki, who are on a mission to bring awareness to non-monogamy and kink. In this clip, Cami and Niki talk about their recent journeys with kink and power exchanges. Check out the rest of the episode to hear them answering some listener questions centered around prioritizing partners...

For the 120th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes the long-time co-hosts of the Multiamory podcast, Jase Lindgren, Emily Sotelo Matlack, and Dedeker Winston, to celebrate the publication of their new book, Multiamory: Essential Tools for Modern Relationships. Today we’re talking about non-monogamy with a triad of podcasting OGs. Jase, Emily, and Dedeker have been podcast...

For the 119th episode of Private Parts Unknown, first, host Courtney Kocak shares an update on Hot Pod Summer; then, you'll hear the story Courtney reported on Charlie Matula and his husband, Hunter Fox, entitled "Happily leather after at The Eagle in Silver Lake" for KCRW, the local NPR affiliate based in Santa Monica, California. The story originally aired in June 2019 for Pride. Psst, Courtney...

For the 118th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Gigi Engle, sex educator, soon-to-be sex therapist, and author of All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life. Today we’re doing a listener-requested episode. I got requests to cover praise kink and breeding kink, and I've been hearing a lot about both of them lately, so I invited Gigi Engle on the show to gi...

For the 117th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes another history-maker to the podcast: Maebe A. Girl, the first drag queen elected to public office in the U.S. She is currently a member of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, while also running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to represent California's 30th Congressional District. Maebe uses she/they pro...

The 15-month effort to gain union recognition by dancers employed at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood, California, ended in victory this week. For the 116th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Velveeta, one of Star Garden's newly unionized strippers, to explain how this historic milestone came to be. On Monday, May 15th, lawyers representing the owners...

For the 115th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes lawyer turned OnlyFans model Jazmen Jafar. Jazmen’s story has gone viral lately and is unique in that she comes from a strict Middle Eastern, Iranian-American household, and after law school, she abandoned the legal profession to become a full-time adult content creator. But it’s paid off because she now earns three times...

For the 114th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes happily married swingers Dave and Victoria Arena for an episode all about non-monogamy — swinging, in specific. And I have the perfect guests because they’ve been happily married and active in the lifestyle for decades. I met Dave and Victoria through a screenwriting workshop. They actually wrote a pilot for a TV series i...

For the 113th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Allison Moon, sex educator and author of "Girl Sex 101" and "Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups and Shame-Free Sex." In this "Quickie" episode, we’re going to help you unlock how to pleasure vulva owners with simple hand and oral sex techniques. We discuss the importance of communication, understanding anatomy, a...

Are you a fan of adult entertainment? Then you've got to listen to one of my favorite podcasts: Holly Randall Unfiltered. In this sample from Holly's show, the iconic performer Adriana Chechick joins Holly for an interview that shows Adriana's MANY sides! You’ll hear about her upbringing in foster care, her honest reflections on career regrets, and why she finds gangbangs empowering. Adriana will...

For the 112th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Zachary Zane, sex columnist for Men's Health and Cosmo and author of the upcoming Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto. Speaking of which, Zach is back on the podcast with an exciting announcement: His debut memoir is out in May, and you can preorder it now! On today's podcast, we get into polyamory and kink, assessing your se...

For the 111th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Myisha Battle, certified sex and dating coach and author of "This is Supposed to be Fun: How to Find Joy in Hooking Up, Settling Down, and Everything in Between." Myisha is passionate about helping people find pleasure and fulfillment in their intimate relationships, and today, we'll be discussing her new book and some of...

For the 110th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Dr. Greg, aka Dr. Gregory Paczkowski, co-founder of Mona Health, for a sexual health checkup. We discuss the embarrassing teenage experience that inspired Dr. Greg to start Mona Health, his online sexual healthcare platform. Dr. Greg also gives us a condom primer and offers best practices for emergency contraception, the...

For the 109th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes the co-editors of the new anthology Gray Love: Stories About Dating and New Relationships After 60, Nan Bauer-Maglin & Daniel E. Hood—and spoiler alert: they don’t just “work well together,” they’re an IRL couple! Often the dating stories we hear are from younger people, but the quest for love and sex doesn’t have an expi...

For the 108th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak shares the story of a happy ending massage that completely changed her perspective on sex and pleasure.  In October, Courtney wrote all about it for Cosmo and then included it as an audio essay in episode 103 with more from our Tokyo, Japan series. But in honor of Galentine's Day and Valentine's Day, we're dropping this audio essa...

For the 107th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes historian and former Lusty Jayne Swift. Swift specializes in the history of sexuality, gender, and labor in the U.S., and she’s writing a book about the history of sex worker social movements in which the Lusty Lady features prominently. Currently, a strip club in North Hollywood called Star Garden is trying to unionize....

For the 106th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak interrupts the regularly scheduled sex programming for a special presentation of our Mind Trip series. For this 5th episode on psychedelics, we're revisiting the series with some updates. First, a refresher of the Mind Trip series thus far, then the director’s cut of a radio story Courtney reported for KCRW about ayahuasca in Sout...

For the 105th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak got the Cliovana orgasm-enhancing treatment, and I’m going to tell you all about it! We’re going to get into what this treatment is, how it works, how much it costs (full disclosure: my service was comped), and whether or not it’s worth it. First, Dr. Christopher Asandra talks me through my first treatment. Then I speak with a cou...

For the 104th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Samantha Cole — senior editor of Motherboard, Vice's tech outlet — for a super nostalgic conversation about her new book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History. Samantha’s the senior editor of Motherboard, Vice’s tech outlet, and her journalism in the sex/gender/tech space defini...

For the 103rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak revisits the Tokyo series, which culminated in a happy ending massage that completely changed her perspective on sex and pleasure.  Courtney shares the full details of that experience — an audio version of her essay published in Cosmo last month — which will probably give you some yoni fever of your own. But first, she's going to...