Unscrewed

What's all the fuss lately about Hot Girls Wanted? What's a greater threat to women: sex work, or other women who want to rescue sex workers? What does (and doesn't) make porn feminist? We get into all this and more with Siouxsie Q, host of The Whorecast and Director of Policy & Industry Relations for the Free Speech Coalition.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this quickiesode Jaclyn answers listener questions about "stealthing" (SPOILER IT'S SEXUAL ASSAULT) and about how to tell a new partner you need them to step it up in bed.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Can erotica save lives? It can in the hands of Tobi Hill-Meyer, editor of Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, who joins Jaclyn to get us wayyyy past bathroom bills and Trans 101.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this quickiesode, we talk adoption myths, victim blaming and why "awareness" should never be a goal. Then a listener asks YOU a question about your sex life, and we help out a listener who wants to know if she should be ashamed of her ladygarden.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After learning about Mike Pence's rules for (not) eating with women, Jaclyn called up journalist and author Kathryn Joyce to ask what other ways might the Christian Right's radical sexual agenda be quietly constraining the lives of even nonbelievers. And trust us: you really won't believe it.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Survival sex, senior friskiness, Tom Hiddleston, and some surprising advice about how to lose your virginity, all in under 13 minutes. Go!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Let's talk virginity, Unscrewed Nation! Jaclyn is joined by Therese Shechter, whose film How To Lose Your Virginity explores the Big V from every angle, to talk about what the word even means, what it could mean, and what to do if you're uncomfortable with your relationship to it is uncomfortable or worse.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this quickiesode, the rundown on the man who was denied entry to the US for being gay, how you can refuse to abandon trans students the way Trump has, and why it's important to remember Canada isn't perfect. Plus, Tatiana Maslany gives one listener a loving reality check.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tatiana Maslany is getting Unscrewed! Come for a tease about the fifth season of Orphan Black, stay for a vulnerable and revealing conversation about internalized femmephobia, clones in pussy hats, on-set sexism, rape plotlines, bell hooks, following your fear, and the liberatory power of a queer 90s dance party.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We celebrate VDay with a quickiesode covering resistance-themed sci fi erotica, why 50 Shades is anti-kink, and the gender politics of the philosophy of love. Oh, and Jaclyn threatens to punch a dead man in the face.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With Valentine's Day breathing down our necks, Jaclyn takes some time to dig deep into the meaning and implications of romantic love with philosopher Carrie Jenkins. Does talking about love kill the magic? Can a pill make you stay in love, or fall out of it? What do queer people teach us about the biology of love? Can one person's love change the world?  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A quickiesode in which we discuss whiteness & feminism, warn you about a potential new law that threatens queers, sluts, and people of color, and give you solid advice about when to keep your mouth shut about assholes in your dating apps. All in 15 minutes!  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Let's get it ON. Smut peddler and embodiment activist Elle Chase joins Jaclyn to talk about sex positions for curvy girls and people of different abilities, the joys of farting in bed, and what to do when you just can't find a way to love your body but want to have great sex anyhow.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is urine really sterile? Do men have the upper-hand on Tinder? How "traditional" is monogamous dating, anyhow? These questions and more answered in this week's Spare Parts quickiesode.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

All the moral panic about "hookup culture" on college campuses does a lot more harm than good. But that doesn't mean hookup culture isn't doing some damage of its own. Sociologist Lisa Wade joins Jaclyn to break down what she's found about sex, holding hands, being tough, catching feelings, and why colleges benefit from the screwed up status quo.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some of the best Unscrewed moments of 2016.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Book deadlines are real.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pleasure isn't optional - it's a key ingredient in both our humanity and our political resistance. Let historian Hanne Blank explain as she talks with Jaclyn about what she learned during the 80s AIDS crisis, the importance of marshmallows when the world is on fire, and why an old slogan from a 1960s French Art movement should be our mantra right now.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We lick our wounds. We tend to each other. We figure out how to move forward. We fight.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WE NEED TO PROCESS THIS ELECTION. Jaclyn is joined by writer and activist Soraya Chemaly to talk about our collective trauma, how to take on the institutions that made Trump possible, talking rape at the dinner table, the five stages of post-election grief, and how we think about healing from here. Whatever happens at the polls today, we'll get through it together, Unscrewed Nation.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.