Secular Sexuality

All good things must come to a pause and so as we make space for our staff to refresh their minds and heal their chafing we say a short bon voyage to one another. In this SecX Sign-Off Spectacular featuring hosts old and new our time together comes to a definitive middle while we look back on our many jollies and follies and prepare for the adventure ahead. Please enjoy this final episode before our hiatus and of course, through all the sweat and tears, save some fluids for the instructions you know are coming at the end.

Mindfulness is one of those wibbly wobbly timey wimey words that seems to mean everything and nothing all at once which… honestly is a little on brand for the American idea of Buddhist psychology. But like, what actually is any of this? And what, if anything at all, can 2,500 years of what we can only charitably call ‘research' have to say about our modern life and times? Licensed Therapist David Teachout joins Kara and Christy for a discussion on the east-meets-west rumble between Buddha and Freud. Your calls and questions, buddhist psychology and of course what's turning us on on this penultimate episode of SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Kinda telling that we only have one or two nicknames for noses, objectively the most hilarious looking of all body parts, and about 10,000 for vulvas. Besides the obvious purity culture madness, why are we so uncomfortable talking about our vajayjay-kitty-vagines? Bring your body positivity all the way downtown and join Kara, Phoebe and Erin in a conversation about beans, bits and bajingos of all shapes, sizes and scents. Discharge your vaginal shame and call the show with your stories and questions plus what's turning us on this week on SecX!Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

The gender revolution is here, and since we can't go over and can't go under it, we're going on a bear hunt. There are nearly eight billion people on this planet and whether that means there are eight billion different genders or not SecX is proud to introduce to you Ms. World Bear 2022. Daddie Danger, philanthropist and bad ass, joins Christy and Miss O Kissed in a conversation about gender coding, bear culture and community. Call us live and let us know what's too hot, too cold or just right for your gender, plus what's turning us on this week on SecX!

American equality has always been a little more equal for some and nowhere is that more clear than the recent Respect for Marriage Act which failed to fully codify rights granted by the courts in Obergefell v Hodges and Loving v Virginia. Even as those important precedents stand, marriage equality eludes many with financial and medical hardships and its protections exist only for the monogamous. Long-time friend of the show Lily Bacon returns to share her life experiences and day to day realities made less safe in a post Dobbs world. Politicalized polyamory, your calls and questions and what's turning us on this week on SecX!

Reality Dating may not be the most accurate mirror to hold up to society but it does shine a light on where we're at as a culture- a biphobic, mate guarding, co-dependent culture. Is there more to trashy tv than meets the eye or is the toxicity catching? Kara Griffin corrals a conversation with our panel of pop-corn throwing reality tv star super-stans Phoebe Rose, Miss O Kissed and Licensed Professional Counselor Ashley Hogan to find out once and for all who is here to make friends and who is here to win. Catch the four person round table discussion, be sure to call in with your takes, learn what's turning us on this week and find out who wins the final rose on this week's SecX!► Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/realitydating Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

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The Midshow Promo clips. You like them! You love them! You want more of them! Well, consider your prayers answered, because we present some of the best moments from our past season. The video elves have been working overtime to bring you this collection of some of the funniest, most intense, and overall best segments.We'll be back to live production in the new year, but for now the hosts, crew and volunteers of Secular Sexuality and The Atheist Community of Austin wish you all the best for this holiday season and in the new year to come. We'll see you next year!

Welcome back all you sexy mother addition know, shut my mouth. We're taking some time out of the holidays to reflect on the year that has been 2022. We look at the good, the bad and the ugly, and even look forward a bit to 2023. Christy Powell is joined by the always thoughtful Kara Griffin, the irrepressible Pheobe Rose, and SexEx's newest addtion to the hosting role, Miss O Kissed. It's going to be a good episode, so sit back, relax, and give yourself a big ol'....on second thought watch the show first.

SecX has been graced with some true experts, M.D.s, J.D.s and more LPCS and Ph.D.s then you can shake a stick at, and has had the opportunity to pose some of the weirdest questions to some of the most incredible minds around. And diversity being the spice of life, this week we invited back Jamie Boone. Friend of the show and Average Joe, Jaime brings his personal experiences, failures and successes to a conversation about day to day life as an out atheist and openly gay millennial. For every question you've been too afraid to ask or embarrassed you didn't already know Jamie joins Christy in a dialogue full of candor and verve about the strange life and times of the modern man. Catch the conversation live at 7p CT and share your concerns and questions as check-in on what's turning us on and more on SecX!

It's generally true that yeah, size doesn't matter, at least not for that thing that matters most. And, quite frankly, it's never a good look to get into some sort of measuring contest in a misguided effort to prove your masculinity. But standing next to the rest of the animal kingdom, what can it tell us about our humanity? This week renegade science teacher and bioanthropologist Forrest Valkai returns to talk about our human form and function, about monkey dicks and human hearts, your calls and questions and of course what's turning us on this week!Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Middle ground is in short supply these days- bipartisan legislation, mid budget movies and peaceful protests all seem to have gone the way of the easy listening radio station. As ‘nones' take the majority and organized religion finds itself in retreat, how much space is there for tolerance? How does a tolerant society tolerate a book that offers no peace but proposes “to turn a man against his father” and ”a daughter against her mother?” In these vitriolic times activist and high priestess Shannon Q returns to SecX to offer her insight, her compassion and quite possibly her sword in the ongoing culture wars. Catch the conversation plus your calls and questions and what's turning us on this week on SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Should you ever have the chance to join us here at the Atheist Community of Austin's Free Thought Library in Central Texas you'll likely hear one of our favorite bits of local slang- ya'll know the one I mean. And, as we like to say, ya'll means all ya'll. Joining Christy this week live IN STUDIO is LPC Associate JP Cardenas, health at every size therapist and fat liberation activist, eager to set the record straight on body positivity, BMI and possibly a little TMI on bodies of all sorts and sizes. Join us by phone, internet or in person with your calls and questions and find out what's turning us on this week on SecX!

The internet can be dark, and full of terrors, but many of us rely on it to learn not just about the world but each other and ourselves. It's no surprise then that the same tools that have endangered our health and threatened our elections in recent years are being used to divide us, not just into arbitrary gender boxes but into the sexed and unsexed, the hunter and the gatekeeper or the alpha and the beta. What's a lonely ex-vangelical to do? Emma Thorne brings her specific blend of little duck energy and British snark from her channel to ours to help us understand what the hell an alpha male really is and what we can do to avoid the pitfalls and pseudoscience on our way to the love we want and need. Catch the conversation with all of your calls and questions plus what's turning Emma Thorne on this week on SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

You remember recess at school- dressing up like a firefighter or cops and robbers, playing house, pulling hair… maybe not all that different from playtime for adults. Turns out, play and imagination weren't exactly things we meant to outgrow and 10,000 ads about how to ‘spice up our relationship' aren't exactly solving the problem. This week play therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor Ashley Hogan joins Christy in a conversation about play, toys and the magical kingdom of adult make-believe. Join us with your questions and comments or let us know whats turning you on this week by sending an email to sex@atheist-community.org or call us live at 1-512-991-9242! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time.

It's been two and a half years, most of the life of the show in fact, since we've been able to lay bare the intersection of sex and religion (and ourselves) here in person at the Freethought Library in Austin! Join Christy and special guest dominatrix Chloe Manson live in the studio as we dive deeper into the world of professional pain and pleasure. Call in with your questions and comments or just come on down for this very special LIVE! episode of SecX! Doms, Dommes and Domination plus what's turning us on this week in person from the Atheist Community of Austin, TX!

How exactly does one “love the sinner” and “hate the sin” when the sin in question is fundamental to who we are as people? We've come to see religion as one of the most powerfully dividing forces of the modern world so it begs the question- does it matter if our families see themselves as loving people following a loving god rather than the political pawns duped by charlatans that we imagine them as? If Christ came to divide families and put a sword to the wicked, is there community between those inside and outside the body of Christ? Catch this special Halloween month conversation between Christy and ExXtian Erin about why they burned witches and how we can feel about it. Burning philosophical quandaries, your calls and questions and what's turning us on this week on SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central TimeIf you'd like to be on the show, use your phone ☎ and call 1-512-991-9242 or use a computer

Westworld, Spencer Gifts and possibly even the secret ‘robot brothel' down the street all evidence the same thing- humans are lowkey obsessed with putting their dicks into things. Plastic, silicone and rubber may be some of our favorites for obvious reasons, but why does it need a face? While psychologists, evolutionary biologists and pearl clutching Karen's may never find the answer Doll Master Ricky Adames is here to shed some light on the soft silicone world of sex dolls. Catch the conversation and find out what's turning on the Doll Master plus your calls and questions on this week's SecX! ► Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/dolls

There's a lot of literature in the world about how to come out to your parents, but what about your barista? Is it important that your bus driver truly understand your gender identity or that the coat check recognize that you're not husband and wife but owner and pet? How do we know how, when or especially how often we're meant to ‘come out?' Kara and Sinn join Christy in a roundtable discussion on the micro-interactions, disclosures and aggressions that come with being out and proud in an increasingly complex world. All that, your calls and questions and of course what's turning us on this week on SecX!Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/tag/Secular+Sexuality Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Whether you're a thinking atheist or a wayward christian daring to doubt you've unquestionably been impacted by purity culture. Even if you managed to never wear a promise ring or join the moral majority your rights and relationships have no doubt been damaged by the rule of the religious right. Seth Andrews and Alice Greczyn are no strangers to a secular sexuality or skeptical worldview and invite Christy and us to imagine a freer world. All that plus what's turning us on this week with Seth, Alice and Christy on SecX!Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/tag/Secular+Sexuality Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time.

Do you remember that summer, at least a couple of years, maybe even decades ago, when your body was full of hormones and you couldn't help but want to fall in love with, kiss or even just rub up against every beautiful person and/or inanimate object you came upon? Just me? How about more recently, when all of the religious lies started to fall apart or the call towards the wild side got loud enough to drown out the priests, and suddenly a whole new world of options came available? Well Jason Friedman remembers and returns to the show for a conversation with Nate and Christy about what's turning us on. then and now. Second puberty and post-deconstruction re-awakenings, your calls and questions and a whole lot more on SecX! ► Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/tag/Secular+Sexuality Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time.

If you're anything like us you've probably been avoiding learning about monkeypox as best you can, I mean who needs another potential pandemic? In this economy? But, as we've all learned the hard way these past few years, global health crises aren't the type of thing you should let fester. Luckily Student Doctor Ben joins Nate and Christy this week to help the unwanted information go down, to get us up to speed on what we know and need to do and to clue us in what's turning him on this week. Some inconvenient truth and a quality conversation plus your calls and questions on this week's SecX!Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/monkeypox Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

After so much discussion on bodily autonomy, personal liberty and social responsibility drowning out our political discourse we thought it might be time to ask a simple question- what do we owe one another? And more close to home, what do we owe to the people we love, or them to us? Take a lifetime of sex work, a career and education in relationship counseling and the ACA's patented philosophyphilic programing (patent pending) and hopefully you'll find a nuanced conversation on what exactly married people are and aren't allowed to do with their junk. Sinn Sage, Christy Powell, love and duty and what's turning us on this week on SecX!► Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/autonomy Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Sex education seems like one of those fields where it's all fun and games until you have to explain to someone why their favorite TV show is actually sexist AF. And yes, we like to have a good time, I swear we don't do this on purpose, but unfortunately, a lot of things in life really are secretly sexist. So we invited a sanity saving social media siren to our secular podcast on sexuality to suss out the shameful and the silly in our unsceptically scrupulous society and hopefully to make a slightly better world. Catch the conversation between Christy and Eve Was Framed as we explore the day to day patriarchy of ‘Man Cave's and more, plus what's turning us on this week on SecX!Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/ughpatriacrhy Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time If you'd like to be on the show, use your phone ☎ and call 1-512-991-9242 or use a computer

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For more than 500,000 years homosapiens lived, loved and f**ked their way across Africa among pansexual chimps, sex changing frogs and three gendered bees, all without a single pink hammer or blue balloon to let them know who was who. People say that we've gone and made things a little too complicated these days with our transmasc this and enby-femme that but turns out, this stuff has always been weird. This week science educator Forrest Valkai joins Christy for a conversation about the natural, unnatural and supremely weird world of virgin birth giving sharks, sex swapping fish and other challenges to our supposedly two box system. A bioanthropological look at gender, some news of the weird and a healthy dose of what's turning us on this week on SecX! ► Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/xxxy Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

So, you've been curious. You haven't quite felt comfortable asking. These are probably good instincts but why did Al Gore invent the internet if it wasn't to have a better understanding of other people's genitals, am I right? Phoebe Rose returns to the show for a bit of show and tell and a concerted effort to help the world recognize and understand trans women, or atleast their underpants. Catch the not-so-delicate conversation plus your calls and questions and what's turning us on this week on SecX! ► Learn more and find what's turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/gfs

If the best things in life are free then talking about the birds and bees with the hosts of SecX is what we all want. And since SecX gives you such a thrill, why not join us on a mission (away) from god? As new host Kara Griffin joins the show they meet Nate and Christy for a conversation about atheist activism and the importance of sex positivity during these trying times. Catch our conversation about atheism, activism and the inevitability of awkward moments as sex positive people in an increasingly dont-say-gay world. All that plus your calls and questions and what's turning us on this week on SecX!

Oh, the masks we wear. Sometimes because we want to, sometimes for safety from the Governor of Florida, and occasionally because we're attending a Victorian-era ball. Tonight, these three Muskequeers will be talking about our experiences as queer folk who don't present as such, our journey to being honest with ourselves, and how much fun butt stuff can be. Join Nate, Helen and Jason this Thursday, call in with your questions and stories, and don't miss this episode of Secular Sexuality! Dive deeper into the episode and find what's turning us on this week at https://www.vcatx.com/media/mpaa Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Each and every week we encourage people to take a quiet moment for themselves and… well you've seen it. You know we've talked about everything from porn addiction (myth) to gooning (surprisingly real) and still somehow forgot to talk about the benefits of masturbation- turns out the perks of self-love aren't always self-evident. Enter then writer and Sex Coach Shannon Burton who walks Kara and Christy through a long list of best practices and special treats for your favorite special someone- YOU! The low down on going down low, what's turning us on this week and all the best euphemisms on tonight's SecX!Dive deeper into the episode and find what's turning us on this week at https://www.vcatx.com/media/masturbation

Zombies rising from the dead, whole armies of injured peasants and well dressed super assassins all have plenty of screen time in our culture- but what about female pleasure? How is it that John Wick can kill 84 people in a little over two hours, usually without breaking his stride, but Blue Is The Warmest Color receives the cinematic death penalty for showing two women enjoying each other's love? If you've ever wondered why you can make fun of queer people in a movie but can't have them kiss Josh Entner of The Bloody Good Film Podcast joins Christy and Laura in a conversation about sex, cinema and violence. Bloody good films, pretty women and your calls and questions plus what's turning us on this week on SecX! Dive deeper into the episode and find what's turning us on this week at https://www.vcatx.com/media/mpaa Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

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A painted fingernail, a tattered pair of overalls or a genderswaping nickname- we all participate in a little gender f**kery from time to time. And a little role play, gender play or just play with gender roles might be exactly what we need to unleash, unlock or understand ourselves. But can we go too far, or make a mess of things as we play? Veteran performers and sex-worker advocates Sinn Sage and Summer Hart join Christy in a conversation about the silliness and sissyness of it all and the roles and genders we play. Two incredible porn producers, what's turning us on and of course your calls, questions and curiosities on this week's SecX! Dive deeper into the episode and find what's turning us on this week at https://www.vcatx.com/media/genderroleplay Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

When you sincerely believe that god has a perfect plan for your life and a Proverbs 31 wife all lined up for you, the dating scene can be a little bit different. When you lose all of that through divorce and the deconstruction of your faith, night clubs can suddenly seem irrationally intimidating, to say nothing of one night stands. Author and speaker Drew Bekius joins Christy in an intimate conversation about dating and deconstructing and what it really feels like to save your first date until after marriage. Purity culture problems abound, your stories and questions and of course what's turning us on this week on SecX! Dive deeper into the episode and find what's turning us on this week at https://www.vcatx.com/media/datingdeconstruction

Porn, huh? What is it good for? This supposedly “new drug” arguably dates back to prehistory and yet our access to and relationship with it have dramatically shifted in the last decade, and not always for the better. Join us as Christy, Laura and Sinn explore the messy and often sticky world of erotic audio, dime store paperbacks and good ole fashioned internet porn. Catch the episode live and add your thoughts and questions or tune in just to find out what's turning us on this week as we explore the height, breadth and um, girth of all things naked or nasty on this week's SecX!