Beyond Patriarchal S*x

Dave Kramer is a Behavioral Scientist and Violence Prevention Specialist. Here, I and Dave discuss the critical and complex issue of coercive control and domestic violence. Dave shares the personal and profound impact of the tragic loss of Hannah Clarke and her three children. We explore the subtle, yet dangerous patterns of behavior that define coercive control and the urgent need for community e...

Therapeutic support within a relationship, as a form of self-care and shared evolution, is still relatively new across many cultures. Yet without conscious communication and relational skills, conflict can leave lasting impacts on everyone - including children and how they experience intimacy later in life. In this episode with Relationship Counsellor Barbra (Barbi) Joffe, we explore developing re...

In this episode, I speak with a pioneer of Conscious Sexuality Education, Dr. Steve Bodansky. For over 50 years, Steve has been immersed in the lived practice and teaching of pleasure as a relational art. His specialty is female pleasure. This is especially for sexuality educators, embodied practitioners, and the pleasure connoisseurs. It's also for those who want to experience connected pleas...

This grounded conversation with a radiant wise woman is essential if you want partnership, marriage, or to start a family. It can also help men better understand the female experience. Helen speaks of a woman living close to the hearth of her inner fire in a long-term relationship. Our conversation covers finances, feminine value, generating magnetic intimacy, fertility, and more. Helen affirms ho...

Tyson has deeply explored pornography and how it affects men's psyches. Now he assists other men to cleanse and move beyond what I call normalized violence against women. For men it's also a normalized form of self abuse, or self inflicted violence. Through personal experiences, Tyson learned how to overcome porn use and addiction, turning it into a physical dearmouring adventure toward he...

The courage to go beyond the comfortability of what we know, is the price of admission to living beyond the patriarchal s*x paradigm. This episode highlights, the way we are in life, is how we are in 'the bedroom'. This lively conversation traverses female hormones, the necessity and permission for pleasure + more. We really connected on how women's way of being is so underrepresented...

Dévashi Shakti is a leading pioneer of women's somatic nervous system wisdom, female embodiment, and is the Empathic Provocateur behind the Beyond P.S. Project. In her role as an Intimacy Confidante, she has been the keeper of secrets both women and men have shared with her, for the past 25+ years. This long immersion guiding both women and men, gives her teaching a unique edge, all about unit...

In this episode we explore humanity's relational future beyond both patriarchy and matriarchy, into what Nuno names as Beloved Partnership - which implies maturity in how we relate with ourselves, with eros, and with sexuality. He describes how women have adapted to unnatural patriarchal religions for so long as a survival response, that they moved away from their own nature. Rewilding of the...

Here with Mythologist Gabriela Gutierrez, we venture into herstory, the pre-patriarchal world. She speaks of the times when female divinity was an animistic cosmology, where we exist in a greater soul than our own. There was indeed a time when women's religious authority was centred and officially seen as sacred. And it needs to return, for the benefit of all living things. When religious ideo...

“I don’t know what you’re doing, but your body is changing me” - these honest words are from a man partnered with a woman who did the Living Beyond Patriarchal Sex immersion. The results provide evidence of how beneficial this approach is, for finding new ways forward together. This episode explores real words from women who agreed to anonymously share some of their private experiences with you. T...

We're ending the year 2025 with a reflective episode on the impact this podcast has had so far. It's become clear that although millions of women have invested in courses to improve their sex lives, the struggle remains, while the patriarchal sex paradigm remains invisible. This episode previews the results women in the Living Beyond Patriarchal Sex immersion have achieved in the past six...

When meditating regularly and living with the awareness that everything is Shakti, there is still a need to attend to the daily human experience - such as what do we do with anger, how to be with emotion, and how to navigate intensity. In this episode, David is back with this follow-up about living in the temple of magic in everyday life. It's recommended to hear our first conversation on the...

Let's take this conversation to a new level with the perspectives of a trance channel, who brings awareness from beyond the usual human connection dialogues. Hear about the higher purpose of the patriarchal sex paradigm, the consciousness of love, igniting your inner flame, sacred teachings of wholeness, and lust as an artificial distortion. Inside this episode, Polina and I explore themes tha...

Today's guest is passionate about changing how the world makes love. It's quite an achievement to have solved the orgasm gap! His focus is creating mutual pleasure in penetrative s*x, but he also has a comprehensive philosophy. Aaron has a way of making intimacy simple, educating people in how sexual wellness was meant to be. With a background in academics and martial arts, Aaron is a ways...

In this episode, Mandy brings her honest experience as a young woman whose life was dramatically affected by her partner's use of pornography. She was blindsided by discovering the man she lived with had a second secret life filled with porn and sex addiction. Mandy left that relationship to focus on her healing journey and is now on a mission to help raise awareness about porn’s harms and help em...

Inside this episode, David Bedrick - who is an expert in unraveling shame - gives a window into hidden places of the male psyche that are not often spoken about. With courageous vulnerability, he voices some reasons why men can feel too ashamed to enter the Beyond Patriarchal S*x conversation. Everyone’s pain needs to be acknowledged for humanity to evolve. BIO Over the past 30+ years, David Bedri...

In this conversation with the cross cultural, multi disciplinary legend Dr Riane Eisler, we explore both the personal and collective systems relevant to the paradigm of patriarchal sex. As a true elder of our times, she speaks on how matriarchy is in fact not the opposite to patriarchy, the eroticization of domination, the current regression and more. Riane says the goal is not to go back in time,...

A woman's conditioning to want what she wants rather than to actually have it, is behind the typical scenario Eli Block describes as 'trying to eat the menu'. The way this contributes to the overcompensatory behaviours that both women and men play out, is part of the individual journey to liberation from collective suffering. Women do hold the power to collapse the patriarchal sex paradigm, and th...

The inner work of restoring the Madonna/ Whore complex in women, is what we explore in the flowing conversation of this episode. The developing standards for women after the free love phase of growth, and the evolutionary possibility of sacred union that exists beyond it; describes where many spiritual women are currently. We discuss how sometimes there is misunderstanding on the learning/ remembe...

Dévashi Shakti is a leading pioneer of Deep Feminine Somatics, and the Empathic Provocateur behind the Beyond P.S. Project. In her role as an Intimacy Confidante, she has been the keeper of secrets both women and men have shared with her, for the past 25+ years. This long immersion guiding both women and men, gives her teaching a unique edge, all about united evolution for personal & planetary...

Today's guest Arivind Abraham openly shares inside this episode, his own realizations of unlearning patriarchy in relationships, offering a beautiful reorientation for men to connect with their own higher aspirations that are not often reflected in the culture. Ari's Bio Ari Arivind always felt a deep connection to the dead from a young age. Decades later, through the endings of two profound relat...

'The Inbodied Woman', Suzannah Ananda supports women to alchemize their pain, and have a healthy relationship with themselves. She has lived through the struggles of domestic violence, and courageously shares about it here in this episode. Suzannah as a mother, was challenged to free herself from karmic entanglements with male violence, into a new life where she now enjoys her empowerment in a sac...

David James Sherban specializes in Men's Coaching, supporting them with confidence, healing and strength. He is known for being the coach who helps women feel seen, by helping men finally see. With a diverse background, there is more dimension to David than it may first appear. And as a man of faith, he offers a perspective on relationships that helps men co-create with women through presence over...

Diana Richardson has been teaching making love retreats in Europe with her partner for 30 years. As an accomplished Author and Tantric Teacher, she talks about the male orientated approach to s*x people typically experience, which isn't about creating actual connection between men and women's bodies. And the 'pleasing' response in women, which is about the need to get love and the fear of losing l...

Stepping into men's work can be a big process for men, when he is ready for it. In this episode Ian MacKenzie shares about his entry into men’s work, as well as how he guides men from a mytho-poetic perspective. The psychological shift is real - so are the world view changes, and the renewed way to meet women as a result. Leaning into the stories mythology has to offer, especially masculine archet...