Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World

For the 102nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes three women who not only harnessed the opportunity in their breakups but turned it into their life's work: Amy Chan of Breakup Bootcamp, Kendra Allen of Break Up Bestie, and Gabrielle Stone of Eat, Pray, #FML. If you've recently been dumped or are struggling to get over a past relationship, this episode is for you! This i...

Private Parts Unknown is a podcast exploring sex, love, relationships, gender, and seductive subcultures around the world. Join host Courtney Kocak and expert guests for hilarious, sex-positive conversations — destigmatizing everything from abortion to Ashley Madison, polyamory to PMDD, sex work to Shibari, and more. Travel series include Helsinki, Finland; Mexico City, Mexico; and Tokyo, Japan. L...

For the 101st episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Alexander Cheves — sex writer, sex worker, sex educator, and author of My Love is a Beast: Confessions — for a primer on fisting. In addition to fisting 101 tips, Alex shares his experiences coming out, living with HIV in a post-PrEP world (vs. in the 80s or even ten years ago), becoming a sex worker, becoming a sex write...

For the 100th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Lola Jean, sex educator, headmistress of 7 Days of Domination (for aspiring pro doms/dommes), and world record holder for volume squirting! We discuss Lola's sexual revolutions, her experience working at a dungeon, going independent as a dominatrix and fetish wrestler, tips for exploring kink, how she discovered she could...

For the 99th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak shares how the abortion debate has become a truly national issue as its begun popping up at Southern California City Council meetings. This first happened over the summer in San Clemente, and more recently in Temecula. Courtney takes you inside a recent Temecula City Council to show you how it all went down. ***BUY A PRO-ABORTION S...

For the 98th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Orna Donath, an Israeli sociologist, author, and feminist activist who wrote the book Regretting Motherhood based on her research. We talk about ambivalence vs. regret, the difference in how the genders are socialized around parenthood, the external pressures women face to become mothers, how she conducted her study, and m...

For the 97th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Hallie Lieberman, author of Buzz: The Stimulating History of the Sex Toy, to talk us through the highlight reel of sex toy history. Hallie literally has a Ph. D. in sex toys, so she's the perfect guide. We discuss how sex toys were illegal in Texas until 2008 (and scary indicators that sex-related laws are regressing!), th...

For the 96th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Jaclyn Friedman, founder and executive director of EducateUS: SIECUS In Action, to talk about sex ed in the U.S. — and why it's vital that we do better.  Jaclyn is a long-time feminist activist. She's also the author of Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power, and How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All and What You Really Really...

For the 95th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Zachary Zane, Men's Health Magazine sex advice columnist, Boyslut author (now available for preorder!) & host of the biannual BISLUT sex party for bisexual people and their admirers. Zachary's been dubbed a “Bisexual Mega Influencer” by the NY Daily News. We dive into Zachary's sexual awakening, coming to terms with his bi...

For the 94th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Dr. Diana Greene Foster, who's responsible for some fascinating and groundbreaking research on abortion and contraceptives. Dr. Foster is a professor at the University of California-San Fransisco, the director of research at ANSIRH, and the author of The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of...

For the 93rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes body paint artist Paul Roustan for a conversation about how he got started, the importance of separating sex from nudity, what his wife and kids think about his work, how he used his body paint art as a launch pad to becoming an NTF creator, what it's like to have groupies in the metaverse, and more. For more Roustan: Chec...

For the 92nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes research psychologist, psychotherapist, and media commentator Dr. Frieda Birnbaum, Ph. D., for a primer on toxic relationships, how to avoid them, and how to rewire abusive patterns that might be lurking around from your upbringing. But first, we talk about what it's like to be an older parent because, notably, Dr. Frieda...

Unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in a devastating rollback of rights. So for the 91st episode of Private Parts Unknown, we are countering a common misconception that people who are already moms don't get abortions or aren't pro-abortion. But that's not true: According to 2019 CDC statistics, 60% of people who get abortions are already mothers. So t...

In a very grim turn of events, Roe v. Wade was overturned by SCOTUS last week. For the 90th episode of Private Parts Unknown, we're going to hold space for that grieving process — and also hear directly from the people litigating the case and an organization at the forefront of the pro-choice movement about what this means, how we got here, and what's to come. Host Courtney Kocak gives her reactio...

For the 89th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak introduces you to her OTHER podcast, The Bleeders, a new show about book writing and publishing. BUT DON'T WORRY, today's episode still manages to be very queer! The first guest for The Bleeders was the second ever guest for Private Parts Unknown — Samantha Allen, author of Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States and the u...

For the 88th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Dr. Amir Marashi, aka "The Vagina Whisperer" (@nycgyno on Instagram), for a fun and informative episode that spans from orgasms to endometriosis and Freud to Fear of Flying. We also discuss misconceptions about the clitoris and how that even affects doctors, different treatment options for post-menopausal women and others...

For the 87th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts, Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra, welcome Nova Scotia-based married couple and co-hosts of the Turn Me On podcast — Jeremie Saunders and Bryde MacLean — for a fascinating episode about their journey opening up their relationship and becoming polyamorous. We dig into how living with a life-shortening illness has impacted their trajectory...

For the 86th episode of Private Parts Unknown, your hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra revisit one of our most popular episodes: a deep dive into why women cheat. First, we speak to an Ashley Madison member going by the alias of “Nikki,” then Ashley Madison’s Chief Strategy Officer, Paul Keable, and finally, their Communications Director, Isabella Mise, who co-authored "The Good Wife Study"...

For the 85th episode of Private Parts Unknown, hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra welcome author Chloe Caldwell for a deep dive into her latest book, The Red Zone, about her experience with PMDD and how that impacted her relationships. The Red Zone: A Love Story is a searching, galvanizing memoir about blood and love: how learning more about her period, PMS, PMDD, and the effects of hormone...

For the 84th episode of Private Parts Unknown, hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra welcome Original Boner Gel founder Manuel Deran to bust some Dick Myths! Sofiya is the host, and Courtney and Manuel go head to head to see who’s more of a penis expert in this fun and informative game. Primary sources for this episode: 10 things you don’t know about the penis by Tim Newman for MedicalNewsToda...

For the 83rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra welcome sex educator extraordinaire Samia Burton to take us to school with Dicking Riding 101 and Intro to Squirting. Samia gives tips for getting out of a sex rut, how to talk to your partner about what’s NOT working in the bedroom, why weight is a non-issue when it comes to dick riding (big girls can grind t...

For the 82nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra welcome actor, writer, and advocate Emmy Olea to discuss her new podcast, Crumbs. Emmy shares how her childhood — having teenage parents who struggled with addiction and being raised by an awesome grandma who was her paragon of strength and love — affected her dating life, what it’s like to navigate the elemen...

For the 81st episode of Private Parts Unknown, hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra welcome Ghanaian feminist writer and blogger Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah to discuss her new book: The Sex Lives of African Women. She also co-founded the award-winning blog Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women. Nana interviewed over 30 women from the continent of Africa and the diaspora for the book, and th...

For the 80th episode of Private Parts Unknown, hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra are joined by Ukrainian journalist and radio host turned civilian soldier Yuriy Matsarsky (Юрій Мацарський), currently fighting in a Territorial Defense Unit in Kyiv. He touches on why he left his life in Moscow, what the daily life of a newly minted civilian soldier’s like, propaganda’s effect on his former j...

For the 79th episode of Private Parts Unknown, sex and art collide as host Courtney Kocak highlights a tremendous unsung hero: the dick artist. Specifically, Anjani Siddhartha, a designer for Doc Johnson and the artist behind many of their popular sex toys. We discuss her journey to becoming a sex toy artist, where she gets her inspiration, her favorite designs, how her work and life changed durin...