What Is Sex?

For the final episode of Season 6, Isy and Rebecca are joined by Zack Mackey from Lutheran Settlement House ! The discussion covers messaging around gender, relationships with parents, what it means to never fight, and so much more. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by making a cont...

Rebecca and Isy talk about sucking toes and other kinds of nongenital sexuality! They share how they each feel about feet and about putting things in their mouths, shoe preferences, and their dream of hosting a live dating show in the park. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by makin...

Content warning: discussion of the HBO documentary Quiet on Set, which references childhood sexual abuse. There will be a warning in the podcast before the discussion starts, and it is over at 11:17. Rebecca and Isy discuss their relationships to masturbation as young people and now. The conversation covers masturbation myths, gendered expectations, their feelings about the word masturbate, and so...

Rebecca and Isy are joined by asexuality educator Aubri Lancaster (@acesexeducation) to explore what asexuality means, the difference between attraction and desire, the difference between romantic and platonic love, the socially constructed nature of language, and whether we are attracted to ourselves! (And so much more...) Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Face...

Rebecca and Isy discuss diet culture and how we learn to feel guilty about what we eat. Along the way they also cover shame, black-and-white thinking, breaking generational cycles, and stale Oreos. We also mention Substantia Jones's Adipositivity Project - check it out! Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yes...

Rebecca and Isy are joined by 14-year-old Indu and 11-year-old Leela to talk about having relationships at a young age! They discuss what the point of a relationship is, as well as romantic vs. sexual orientations, different preferences for physical touch, and playing The Period Game. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at c...

Rebecca and Isy are here to talk about deflated breasts! They also cover vagina smells, growing single hairs in surprising new places, all the different ways breasts can feel, and the fact that Isy doesn't know what memes are. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by making a contr...

Happy Valentine's Day! Rebecca and Isy are here to discuss whether it is OK to fall in love! They touch on camp boyfriends, elementary school musicals, fear of rejection, and the difference between "love" and "in love." Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by m...

Rebecca and Isy feel sad.  After a long discussion of the Philadelphia Phillies, Rebecca and Isy share what they're feeling sad about, their first memories of loss, grief playlists, and the healing benefits of a shower. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by making a contribution...

It's Season 6!!! Rebecca and Isy are back to explore "healthy" relationships, friends getting married, the overuse of the words "toxic" and "gaslighting," and middle school fiber arts class. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by making a contributio...

We need your help! Each year, Your Empowered Sexuality (YES!) partners with Puentes de Salud to serve South Philadelphia students from Latinx immigrant families, primarily with roots in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. The programs seek to address deep educational inequities such as systemic school underfunding, unequal language access, lack of relevant, engaging curricula, and other unmet needs. ...

For the final episode of Season 5, Rebecca and Isy revisited the first ever episode and added some new thoughts and reflections on how the podcast has changed over the past five seasons! Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, edi...

Rebecca and Isy are giggly in this episode! They discuss the different words we use for this sex act including anilingus, rimming, eating ass, tossing salad. Isy sings more than usual. And they talk about the importance of debunking myths that are designed to scare kids away from pleasure. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or...

Rebecca and Isy were joined by future sex therapist Andy Pham to talk about Spencer's Gifts, fleshlights, handcuffs, teddy bears, and what to do if your kid likes putting stuff in their butt. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, g...

Rebecca and Isy talk about porn, fantasy, imagination, history, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. They also improvise a lullaby for you. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

Isy and Rebecca are joined by podcast host Kyle Marshall to discuss his childhood question. Their conversation covers bisexuality, growing up without internet access, musical theater, craving touch, breaking out of categories, how pink became a "girl color," the changeability of our desires, and so much more! Check out Kyle's podcasts here !' Any thoughts on this episode? We wa...

Rebecca and Isy discuss all the different feelings people have about their number of sexual partners, whether they are worried it's too many or too few (and how other people often really enforce those fears). Isy wonders about the origins of the expression "notches on the bedpost" and Rebecca questions the practice of referring to people as "bodies." Halfway through season...

What does long mean to you? Isy and Rebecca had a lot of different interpretations of this question. They discuss penis-centric conceptions of sex, pressure to orgasm quickly or slowly, and really good pickles. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting...

Isy and Rebecca started out this episode with what they want to say goodbye to in 2023, and then dove right into what it means to be "turned on." They talk about fantasy, the biology behind arousal,  and how they are both going to start writing erotica. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.or...

Isy and Rebecca are joined by return guest Cori Maskart: standardized patient, gifted performer, parent extraordinaire, and former pregnant boy! They discuss uterine transplants, immaculate conception, and breaking down binary understandings of gender. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support W...

Isy and Rebecca are back with Season 5!!! And wow did they have a lot to talk about... Masturbation, sex toys, osteoporosis, the meaning of past/present/future, memories of science class, Chanukah, period cramps, Adam Sandler, and so much more.  Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , our website , or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support What is...

Wow, everyone was a little loopy for this one! Isy had Covid, people had some internet lags, some background noise, but they got through it and appreciate your patience! Isy and Rebecca were joined by their wonderful friends Carly and Yema to play a game of unbridgeable gaps in which they identified which qualities in a person would be dealbreakers, red flags, or green flags for them. Contact us c...

Rebecca and Isy discuss porn, faking orgasms, and whether moaning is a natural response to pleasure or an intentional way of communicating how we feel (or both!). Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts! We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , or at contact@yestoconsent.org 

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Rebecca and Isy discuss Isy's experience with non-stop uterus bleeding, trying to get answers from doctors, and being Jewish. Let us know if you have any uterus stories! Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts! We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook , Instagram , or at contact@yestoconsent.org