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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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 much more.Follow Charm School Looks - @charmschoollooksAny thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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 Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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 contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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. As common for many Pennsylvania students, one particular unmet need is access to comprehensive, intersectional, and accurate sexuality education. YES! offers weekly programming for 150+ students to meet this need, with consent and boundary workshops for 1st-3rd grade students; workshops to 4th-8th grade students spanning topics such as consent, identity, sexuality, puberty, race, and gender; and monthly parent workshops.Funding in recent years for this work has allowed YES! and Puentes to reach more participants, support additional age groups, hire more bilingual Latinx facilitators, and further community leadership. However, due to tightening grantor budgets, this year's grant funding will be cut by at least $10,000 - about a third of the total funding for this program. Help YES! close this funding gap and continue serving South Philadelphia students by donating today to support these efforts!Your Empowered Sexuality (YES!) and Puentes de Salud are both 501(c)3 organizations. For other ways to get involved: become a monthly YES! donor, join our mailing list, and sign up to hear about future YES! events. Testimonials:“These workshops are so important for my child because sometimes, as parents we don't know how to talk about certain topics.” -Parent of a 5th grader"Thank you for making us feel SO comfortable in the classes. Thank you for understanding us and listening to us." -5th Grade Student "Thank you Isy for taking the time from your day to teach us about our body and how we should respect others" -7th Grade Student"I used to get scared but now I know more and I won't get that scared." -High School StudentDonate here!

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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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 at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport 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 want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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 5! Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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 Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!

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 contact@yestoconsent.org to tell us your unbridgeable gaps and red flags!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 

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 

Announcement! What is Sex? is being sponsored by Tracy's Dog! Check them out at https://www.tracysdog.com/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 

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 

Rebecca and Isy are joined by burlesque performer and sexuality enthusiast Sundae Addams to discuss the juiciness of stripping clubs! They talk about Hooters, burlesque history, and how we learned about sex work. 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 

Rebecca and Isy are joined once again by the fantastic Yema who shares gem after gem about how to deal with jealousy! Listen for reflections on our favorite 90s movies, divorce, sibling rivalries, and internal vs. external validation.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 

This episode is all about lube! Isy and Rebecca compare different lube brands and discuss their memories of KY Jelly,  misconceptions about lube from porn, and lots of fun lube facts.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 

Rebecca and Isy were joined by Isy's mom Susan to discuss the question, "How does an abortion work?" They explored their first memories of learning about abortion, why it felt like a shameful topic, and why it's important to talk about the details of an actual abortion procedure. Susan also shared her stories of getting abortions. Find your local abortion fund!Check out Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods, the book a bunch of YES! folks are reading to learn more about self managed abortion care. 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 

Isy and Rebecca were joined by Dr. Aimee Ando to explore how to talk to young people about Covid. They discuss their initial reactions to the virus in 2020, how Covid impacts bodily autonomy and boundaries, and why different people do or do not trust "science."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 

Isy and Rebecca are joined by Dr. Lexx (@Lexxsexdoc) to talk about pregnancy, gender, and sex assigned at birth. They discuss gender reveals, raising children who feel free to explore the universe of gender, and how to respond to strangers who inquire about your baby's genitals.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

What is Sex? is back!!! Isy and Rebecca reflect on how they are really doing. They talk about "Nice Guys,"  the ways the pandemic taught them how to set more boundaries, and the fact that other podcast hosts seem to get mail! Send Isy and Rebecca mail!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 

Isy and Rebecca were joined by partners Beck and Faye to discuss communication (in monogamous and nonmonogamous relationships), self-advocacy, and more bad habits Isy learned on Gilmore Girls.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 

Rebecca and Isy discuss love languages, toxic monogamy culture, and naps.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 

Rebecca and Isy discuss their period similarities and differences and remember being little girls envying the freedom of the boys around them.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 

Rebecca and Isy are joined by preschool teacher Tamika to discuss our favorite sex toys, internal vs. external stimulation, and how to put things in your butt.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 

Isy lets listeners know why we're off our regular schedule, has some feelings about funding, and shares a recent conversation she had with kids about consent.

Rebecca and Isy list all the times they felt embarrassed about sex, try to sing a harmony, and offer some antidotes to shame.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 

Rebecca and Isy are joined by the incredible Sonalee Rashatwar (@thefatsextherapist) to talk about fat liberation, the trauma of calculating BMI in middle school gym class, and how bodies never stop changing.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 

Isy and Rebecca discuss patriarchy, hymens, and where all the lost virginities are...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 

Rebecca and Isy are joined by 11-year-old Indu and 8-year-old Leela to discuss puberty, voting age, and why people feel uncomfortable talking about sex. 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 

Rebecca and Isy had more to say about body image struggles and talking to kids about bodies and fatness! 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 

Rebecca and Isy reflect on their early memories of stretch marks, as well as tattoo ideas, quarantine body image struggles, and our culture's contempt for aging women.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 

Rebecca and Isy are joined by fellow YES! co-founder Eve to talk about school dances, the friend zone, and saying no.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 

For the Season 2 finale, Rebecca and Isy asked their friends about their sexuality questions from when they were young and explored them on this lightning round episode! They discuss kink, puberty, fantasy, tantra, crushes, and finding naked pictures on your dad's computer.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 

Rebecca and Isy are joined by Daryl to talk about having kids, definitely NOT having kids, and the racist undertones of teen pregnancy narratives.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 

Did your body ever do something new and you wondered if you were the only one? Rebecca and Isy share their questions about their own bodies, past and present, and discuss bumpy skin, vaginal discharge, and Jenny Slate.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 

Rebecca and Isy discuss oral sex, vagina smell, and what to do with semen in your mouth.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 

While Rebecca worked hard on the presidential election, Isy and guest Elena Faverio discuss bras, corsets, and making your own decisions about your body.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 

Isy and Rebecca are joined by three guests with penises to discuss circumcision, ear piercing, and Hebrew school memories.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 

Isy and Rebecca explore a question Rebecca had when she was young, remember games of Truth or Dare, and discuss bisexuality.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