Today, we’re chatting about gender, and how your identity is influenced by the events you experience in your life. The conversation is especially interested in how minority genders such as non-binary and trans identities are formed, and how there’s healthy and less than healthy ways that plays out.

My guest is Avgi Saketopoulou, who along with Ann Pellegrini, has recently written a book called “Gender without Identity”.

Gender Without Identity on Amazon: www.amazon.com.au/GENDER-WITHOUT-IDENTITY-Avgi-Saketopoulou/dp/1942254199

Curious Creatures: www.curiouscreatures.biz/

Curious Creatures forum: forum.curiouscreatures.biz/

Consent Cards: www.curiouscreatures.biz/consentcards.html.

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Today, we talking about the Death Cult Club, Lomi Lomi, and Integrated Oncology with Alice Peebles. It includes a couple of side-journeys around consent and trauma-informed practice, and touches on Alice’s and Rog’s personal Death Cult Club Goals.

Oh, and some tips on how you can start your own Death Cult Club!

Links:

Alice’s Lomi Lomi practice (Upwey, Melbourne, Australia): www.blisstitute.com/vic-practitioners-lomilomi-massage

Melbourne Integrative Oncology Group: www.miog.com.au/meet-the-miog-team.html

Curious Creatures / Curious Conversations About Sex: www.curiouscreatures.biz/

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Today, answering the question, of what to do when things go wrong – especially when you’re topping.

To answer it, I’m back with Seani Love, an award-winning sex-worker and workshop facilitator. The conversation comes across like you’ve walked in on a couple of kinky therapists having a chat, which is precisely what it is – a nuanced deep-dive into exactly what emotional safety looks like in practice, from a couple of folks that have made mistakes and learned from them.

You can find Seani at www.seanilove.com.
Curious Creatures: www.curiouscreatures.biz
Curious Creatures forum: forum.curiouscreatures.biz
Consent Cards: www.curiouscreatures.biz/consentcards.html.

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Lee Harrington, who’s been on the show a couple of times previously, has recently written the book “Becoming Your Own Beloved”. It’s a wild investment in yourself, and a radical piece of activism against some modern dilemmas.

Lee and Rog talk self-care, gender, lateral violence in minority gender groups, and some good old life philosophy.

 

Lee’s book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Become-Your-Own-Beloved-Self-Connection/dp/1637589034

Curious Creatures: https://www.curiouscreatures.biz/

Curious Creatures forum: https://forum.curiouscreatures.biz/

Consent Cards: https://www.curiouscreatures.biz/consentcards.html

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Today, I’m doing a reaction video to a Jordan Peterson interview, except without the video. So I’m just having a reaction, I guess.

In the original interview, which I’ll link to in the shownotes, Jordan is speaking about sex, consent, and sex outside of marriage. On top of that, I want to add another couple of thoughts on things Jordan at the end.

Heads up, this is mostly just me disagreeing with Jordan, but not all of it. He raises some good points, and honestly, it’d be interesting to get his take on a few things without the intensity of the polarised social media landscape he exists in; so much of what he says is a polarised response to a polarised attack, and it can be hard to actually get a sense of a person with all that noise.

 

Link to original interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6spdAstl34A&t=1s&ab_channel=JohnAnderson

Link to the Curious Creatures forum: forum.curiouscreatures.biz/

Link to Consent Cards: www.curiouscreatures.biz/consentcards.html

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Today, we’re chatting with Joli about jealousy – how it’s an awesome thing waiting to happen, what to put in place to avoid unnecessary amounts of it, how it pairs with attachment styles, and how to talk about it. Also, a bunch of thoughts on starting poly, navigating poly, and some relationship ideas that are good for mono and poly styles. Joli Hamilton can be found at https://www.jolihamilton.com/ Link to two-day workshop ‘Adventurous Touch and Intimacy’: https://www.curiouscreatures.biz/adventurous-touch-and-intimacy.html Link to the Curious Creatures forum: https://forum.curiouscreatures.biz/ Link to Consent Cards: https://www.curiouscreatures.biz/consentcards.html http://conversationsaboutsex.curiouscreatures.biz/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CCAS-Ep-83-Joli-Jealousy.mp3

A revisit of comments Rog made in the last episode, particularly around a criticism of the grass-roots Christian movement. (This is one of those rare times where we strongly recommend you listen to that episode first).

Link to two-day workshop ‘Adventurous Touch and Intimacy’: www.curiouscreatures.biz/adventurous-touch-and-intimacy.html

Link to the Curious Creatures forum: forum.curiouscreatures.biz/

Link to Consent Cards: www.curiouscreatures.biz/consentcards.html

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Today, we’re getting back to our journalistic roots, and exposing one of Australia’s biggest sex scandals. You might be wondering why an otherwise light and accessible sexuality podcast would venture into such territory, however the editorial team here at Curious Conversations About Sex felt that if we’re to explore the positive elements of sex, then perhaps it’s important that we provide a contextual reference point regarding what you might regard as the dark underbelly of the movement.
The most wild thing about the sex scandal that we’re delving into today, is that it’s been happening in plain sight, right under your nose… for decades. By exploiting a legal grey area and posing as something that it clearly isn’t, it’s managed to somehow avoid the attention of regulators, law enforcement, and a largely unsuspecting public… Until now.

Link to Two-Day Immersion Version of Adventurous Touch And Intimacy: https://www.curiouscreatures.biz/adventurous-touch-and-intimacy-2-day.html

 

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Today, I’ve hand-selected a bonus episode for you.

It’s from the podcast ‘Come As You Are’, and it’s about your hardware – by which I mean, your genitals, junk, hoo-har, your funky fandangle, whatever it is you call it.

More specifically, it’s about how all of our genitals have things in common, and how we all get formed from the same stock. I love that stuff, how it breaks down a lot of the idea that we’re like completely separate and incomparable creatures, based on our genitals, with no experiences or problems in common.

The episode starts with a listener calling in to ask about their partner’s bent dick, but it quickly expands out to include other genital configurations in a nice and body-positive way.

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Today, I’m having a fast and exciting conversation with Fiona Patten, who leads the Australian Reason Party. We get into politics, sex, gender equality, and collaboration as an alternative to the adversarial political system. Oh, and we touch on assisted dying, drug legalisation, and a bunch of other stuff.

What stands out for me about this conversation is how *real* it is. That wouldn’t normally stand out, but it’s quite an impressive quality in a politician. I found it refreshing.

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I’ve been going on a lot lately about the way porn winds up being sex education if there’s no other sex education available, and how that’s sometimes a good thing and sometimes maybe not such a good thing.

So I thought it would be great to go back and listen to this episode from 2019 with Jessica Blake, who’s a porn performer wrestling with just that problem. Take it away, historical Rog and Jessica…

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