Spectra

Listen to the audio version of Pleasure, an erotica that explores sex, sensuality and desire. Host Isabella Gutiérrez and filmmaker Annelise Jeske asked womxn how they like to be pleasured, and this is what they had to say…   Watch the film at www.spectrapodcast.com. Also available on Vimeo at vimeo.com/spectrapodcast  Music by: Vin D’Amato, Matt Leibowitz, Rocko Walker, John Evans   Do you love Spectra? Write us a review and subscribe! Follow us: @spectrapodcast Email us: spectrapodcast@gmail.com

We talk with Mal Harrison, director of the Institute for Erotic Intelligence, who gives us a brief history of the clitoris and talks about the importance of eroticism. The clitoris has a long history of discovery and rediscovery-dating back to the 16th century, with notable discoveries in the 1700s and 1840s with Georg Ludwig Kobelt. In more recent history, scientific research was published showing the full size of the clitoris’s internal structure. In 1998, urologist Dr. Helen O’Connell concluded that “current anatomical descriptions of female human urethral and genital anatomy are inaccurate.” In 2003, Dr. Claire C. Yang published the first MRI imagery of the clitoris and then in 2008, researchers  Dr. Odile Buisson and Dr. Pierre Foldès provided the first 3-D sonogram of the internal clitoris. Even to this day, most anatomy texts don’t show the full scope of the clitoris and only compare it to male anatomy. In 2011, Mal wrote about the internal structure of the clitoris in her column for the Museum of Sex. You can sign her petition to redefine the clitoris in the US National Medical Library & the MeSH at change.org, visit: https://www.change.org/p/should-the-clitoris-be-defined-as-a-female-penis   Do you love Spectra? Write us a review and subscribe! Follow Mal @eroticintelligence and at www.centerforeroticintelligence.org. Follow us: @spectrapodcast Email us: spectrapodcast@gmail.com  

We visit artist and photographer May Lin Le Goff. May was born in France and raised in Singapore before moving to NY to pursue her career. We talk about her colorful art, the male gaze and menstruation.   Follow May @legoof and at www.maylinlegoff.com Follow us: @spectrapodcast Email us: spectrapodcast@gmail.com

We talk to Sarah Marshall about her essay for BuzzFeed, “Why America Will Never Stop Trying to Solve JonBenét Ramsey’s Murder." We discuss our obsession with crime stories and how the media portrays women in these narratives.   Follow Sarah @Remember_Sarah and at www.sarahmarshallwriter.com Follow us: @spectrapodcast Email us: spectrapodcast@gmail.com

We meet up with freelance photographer Tatum Mangus to talk about creative work and the good that can come out of breaking up. Tatum fell in love with her partner Terry 10 years ago while they were studying at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Now in New York, we talk about her relationship, and leaving her job to travel the globe to shoot photos for her self-published books “Blessing Flow” and “Everything Was the Same.”   See more of Tatum’s photos @cfortyone and at www.tatummangus.com Follow us: @spectrapodcast Email us: spectrapodcast@gmail.com

Isabella visits partners in love and fashion Brandon and Collin in their live-in studio. We talk love letters and hooking up in a car. Collin and Brandon met in Oakland, California in 2009, then lived on opposite coasts before founding their curated clothing shop James Veloria Studio together here in Brooklyn.   Check out James Veloria @jamesveloria and at jamesveloria.com Follow us: @spectrapodcast Email us: spectrapodcast@gmail.com

Isabella catches up with Alex Fine before the launch of her company's second sex toy. On Spectra's premier episode, they talk about sexual pleasure and working in the business of sex. Alex Fine and Janet Lieberman are the women behind Dame Products and Eva, a hands-free clitoral vibrator which launched on Indiegogo in 2014, and raised over $846,142.   Follow Dame @dameproducts and check out the Eva vibrator at dameproducts.com Follow us: @spectrapodcast  Email us: spectrapodcast@gmail.com    

Spectra is a new interview series exploring the human condition through conversations about sex and love. Join host Isabella Gutierrez as she talks with guests about relationships and sexual pleasure.