Sex Talks With Emma-Louise Boynton

In this episode, Emma-Louise is joined by evolutionary anthropologist, Dr Anna Machin, to discuss the topic of love - why we love, how we love, what's happening in our brains and in our bodies when we fall in love.... If you've ever felt like you're going a little crazy when in the early stages of romance, Dr Machin explains why. In a similar vein, she also breaks down some of the most enduring cu...

Paul Brunson is one of the world's most influential matchmakers, according to the Matchmaking Institute. He is also the co-host of Married At First UK and Celebs Go Dating UK, and author of 'It’s Complicated (But It Doesn’t Have to Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love. In this episode, Paul answers the Sex Talk's community's sex, love and dating questions live at The London Edition. Whe...

Recognised as one of the “world’s most influential matchmakers” by the Matchmaking Institute and described as "much more than a matchmaker" by Oprah Winfrey, Paul Brunson is the person to whom you wish you could turn for advice on all things sex, love and dating. Lucky for us, while Paul has of late been busy flexing his relationship expertise as co-host of the latest season of Married at First Si...

In 2015, bestselling author and podcaster, Jon Ronson, published 'You've Been Publicly Shamed', a book exploring how social media changed the way we shame people publicly, while fostering a culture of 'casual cruelty' in which we were all too happy to participate. In this episode, Emma sits down with Jon to discuss how this phenomenon of public shaming has evolved in the 8 years that have passed s...

The fourth and final season of Sex Education is out now, and while we’re already mourning the fact that Otis and Eric won’t be returning to our tv screens (at least not together), the show’s finale gave us all the feels.  In the most recent live recording of the Sex Talks podcast, Emma was joined by Sex Education’s creator, Laurie Nunn, to discuss the making of our fave tv show (listen to part 1 f...

The fourth and final season of Sex Education is out now, and while we’re already mourning the fact that Otis and Eric won’t be returning to our tv screens (at least not together), the show’s finale gave us all the feels.  In the most recent live recording of the Sex Talks podcast, Emma was joined by Sex Education’s creator, Laurie Nunn, to discuss the making of our fave tv show: how the idea for t...

Ruby Rare is a sex educator, writer, author and now tv presenter having recently made her TV debut as Rylan Clark’s “sexy sidekick” on E4’s brand new show, Sex Rated.  Here she joins Emma-Louise to discuss the sex advice she’s been offering up on screen, how porn formed the foundation-stone of her sex education and why she’s moving away from a focus on orgasms to a focus on sensuality during sex i...

Am I normal? That is the question sex therapist, Kate Moyle, says she gets asked most frequently in the therapy room. That and, ‘am I broken?’. In her debut book, “The Science Of Sex” Kate sets out to answer all of our most pressing sex and relationship questions and to reassure us that yes we are normal and no we are not broken. By reframing commonly held assumptions about sex and confronting the...

This episode was sponsored by dating app, Feeld . Download Feeld using the exclusive download code: feeld.co/sextalks . The economy may be f*cked, the cost-of-living-crisis all too real, the current state of politics cause for despair... but that doesn't mean we can't laugh through our tears and find humour in the madness of it all. And what better way to do just that than with a frank discussion...

In this episode we're putting a quick pause on agony aunting your questions and instead turning to sex tech founder, Anna Lee, for a deep dive into how she's deepening our understanding of female orgasms with the world's first smart vibrator, the Lioness, which allows users to track their orgasms using biofeedback data. 'Why would I want to track my orgasms?' you may be wondering. Well, for far to...

In this episode, Emma sits down with the Internet's reigning sex and relationships agony aunt, Oloni. She's a writer, a podcaster, the originator of the 'Girls lets have some fun' Twitter thread and, most recently, the author of 'The Big O'. Here they chat through how to overcome sexual shame; learning to embrace your sexuality in whatever way works for you; the importance of sexual pleasure and a...

In this episode, Emma sits down with Caggie Dunlop, host of the Saturn Returns podcast and author of Saturn Returns: Your Cosmic Coming Of Age, to chat bad dates, good dates, and shaking off all the societal pressures surrounding finding the ‘perfect’ person, the ‘perfect’ job, the ‘perfect’ life…  Together they tackle your agony aunt questions regarding: How to avoid losing yourself in love How y...

In this first episode of the new iteration of the Sex Talks podcast, host Emma-Louise sits down with the duo behind the sex-positive platform, Come Curious, and podcast F*cks Given, Reed Amber and Florence Given. Here to answer your agony aunt questions about all things sex, love, life and relationships, Florence, Reed and Emma discuss everything from improving your masturbation to overcoming body...

*This episode is a live recording of a previous Sex Talks event.* Natasha Lunn is the features editor at Red Magazine and the creator of the widely acclaimed email newsletter, Conversations on Love, which she recently turned into one of my favourite books of the same name.  In it she explores three fundamental questions: how do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose...

*This episode is a live recording of a previous Sex Talks event.* The 5th installment of Sex Talks focused on challenging the cultural script around sex and relationships (you’ve got to find ‘the one’; you need an ‘other half’ to be fulfilled; sex is all about that P in V… you get the picture) and exploring the myriad factors that shape sexuality, including shitty sex ed and reductive gender norms...

*This episode is a live recording of a previous Sex Talks event.* This International Women's Day Sex Talks explored what women around the world really think about when they're having sex, what this tells us about the enduring taboos that still surround sex and female pleasure, and why respect for female pleasure equates to respect for gender equality. Joining Sex Talks host and creator, Emma-Louis...

S3x Talks is the new series exploring issues around s3x, desire and the female pleasure taboo and for the first session of the year, I thought I'd bring a little bit of comedy to our sex chats. Following the publication of her new book, My Broken Vagina, author and comedian Fran Bushe joins me on the Sex Talks stage to discuss all she learned at Sex Camp - the two-week “conscious sexuality festiva...

*This episode is a live recording of a previous Sex Talks event.* Clinical Psychologist, Psychosexologist and Couples Therapist, Dr. Karen Gurney, aka The S3x Doctor, joins host Emma-Louise Boynton to discuss the myriad myths and misconceptions that surround the way we think about desire, why she never uses the word f0replay and how we can begin to bridge the 0rgasm gap.

*This episode is a live recording of a previous Sex Talks event.* “Respect for female pleasure is respect for women. It is respect for gender equality, and for the fact that women's feelings and emotions are as important as anybody else’s.” So why is female pleasure still taboo? This month, host Emma-Louise Boynton is joined by Lucy Litwack, CEO of Coco De Mer, the luxury lingerie and erotica comp...