Best David Teachout Podcasts (2025)

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Secular Sexuality 10.08 02-23-2023 with Christy Powell and the rest of the hosts of SecX 1:14:20

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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 adventu…

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Secular Sexuality 10.07 02-16-2023 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin, and David Teachout 1:26:07

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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 ou…

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Secular Sexuality 10.06 2-9-2023 with Christy Powell and Chris the Girl 1:11:54

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Secular Sexuality 10.05 02-02-2023 with Kara Griffin, ExXtian Erin, and Phoebe Rose 1:23:35

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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 c…

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Secular Sexuality 10.04 1-26-2023 with Christy Powell, Miss O Kissed and Daddie Danger 1:28:49

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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 …

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Secular Sexuality 10.03 1-19-2023 with Christy Powell, Phoebe Rose, and Lily Bacon 1:14:21

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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 an…

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Secular Sexuality 10.02 01-12-2023 with Christy Powell, Phoebe Rose, Miss O Kissed, and Ashley Hogan 1:28:41

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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-s…

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Secular Sexuality 10.01 01-05-2023 with Christy Powell, ExXtian Erin, and Kara Griffin 1:42:31

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Show notes will be posted upon receipt.By Atheist Community of Austin

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The Secular Sexuality 2022 Midshow Megaclip Episode 25:26

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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 producti…

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Secular Sexuality 09.51 12_22_2022 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin, Phoebe Rose and Miss O Kissed 58:11

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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…

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Secular Sexuality 09.50 12-15-2022 with Christy Powell and Jamie Boone 1:25:34

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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 brin…

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Secular Sexuality 09.49 12-08-2022 with Christy Powell and Forrest Valkai 1:25:50

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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 scie…

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Secular Sexuality 09.48 12-01-2022 with Christy Powell and Shannon Q 1:17:03

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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…

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Secular Sexuality 09-47 Mailbag Episode with Christy Powell and Kara Griffin 1:19:22

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Secular Sexuality 09.46 11-17-2022 with Christy Powell and JP Cardenas 1:27:25

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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 t…

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Secular Sexuality 09.45 11-10-2022 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin, and Emma Thorne 1:20:54

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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 unsex…

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Secular Sexuality 09.44 11-03-2022 with Christy Powell and Ashley Hogan 1:16:53

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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 t…

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Secular Sexuality 09.43 10-27-2022 with Christy Powell and Chloe Manson 1:06:47

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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…

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Secular Sexuality 09.42 10-20-2022 with Laura Magee, Sinn Sage, and Courtney Trouble 1:21:52

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Secular Sexuality 09.41 10-13-2022 with Christy Powell and ExXtian Erin 1:23:26

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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 politic…

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Secular Sexuality 10-06-2022 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin, and Adam Elmasri 1:24:47

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Secular Sexuality 09.39 09-29-2022 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin, and Ricky Adames 1:36:07

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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 clutchi…

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Secular Sexuality 09.38 09-22-2022 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin, and Sinn Sage 1:25:13

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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 …

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Secular Sexuality 09.37 09-15-2022 with Christy Powell, Alice Greczyn, and Seth Andrews 1:28:34

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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 …

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Secular Sexuality 09.36 09-08-2022 with Christy Powell, Nate Smith, and Jason Friedman 1:36:28

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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 apar…

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Secular Sexuality 09.35 09-01-2022 with Christy Powell, Nate Smith, and Student Doctor Ben 1:08:00

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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…

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Secular Sexuality 09.34 08-25-2022 with Christy Powell and Sinn Sage 1:27:57

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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 relationshi…

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Secular Sexuality 09.33 08-18-2022 with Christy Powell and Eve Was Framed 1:20:27

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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 …

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Secular Sexuality 09.32 08-11-2022 with Kara Griffin, Nate Smith, and Janice Selbie 1:29:26

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Show notes will be posted upon receipt.By Atheist Community of Austin

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Secular Sexuality 09.31 08-04-2022 with Christy Powell and Forrest Valkai 1:21:58

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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-fem…

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Secular Sexuality 09.30 07-28-2022 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin and Phoebe Rose 1:18:49

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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…

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Secular Sexuality 09.29 07-21-2022 with Christy Powell, Laura Magee, Kara Griffin 1:25:36

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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 …

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Secular Sexuality 09.28 07-14-2022 with Nate Smith, Helen Greene, and Jason Friedman 1:24:35

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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…

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Secular Sexuality 09.27 07-07-2022 with Christy Powell, Kara Griffin, and Shannon Burton 1:10:45

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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 a…

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Secular Sexuality 09.26 06-30-2022 with Christy Powell, Nate Smith, and Josh Entner 1:25:40

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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…

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Secular Sexuality 09.25 06-23-2022 with Christy Powell, Nate Smith and ExXtian Erin 1:19:55

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Show notes will be posted when available.By Atheist Community of Austin

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Secular Sexuality 09.24 06-16-2022 with Christy Powell, Sinn Sage, and Summer Hart 1:16:59

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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? Veter…

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45: Removing the Link Between Diagnosis and Behavior 32:01

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Diagnoses are a frame of reference for looking at behavior, and therefore often limit us to understanding one another and ourselves. When it comes to gun control, the focus on mental health by both sides is accurate, but not for the reason either thinks. If we want to effect change, then we need to step away from limiting stories about our behavior…

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Secular Sexuality 09.23 06-09-2022 with Christy Powell, Nate Smith, and ObjectivelyDan 1:23:01

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Peanut butter and jelly, apples and bananas, condoms and non-oil based lube; some things feel like they're just built to go together. If you’re a fan of Secular Sexuality however you may not like PB&J- we suspect there are more peanut butter and banana people out there then Kinsey’s classical survey data may indicate. So what happens when 3 bananas…

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Secular Sexuality 09.22 06-02-2022 with Christy Powell and Drew Bekius 1:25:40

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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 spea…

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Secular Sexuality 09.21 05.26.2022 Caley Lawrence and Christy Powell 1:13:49

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Secular Sexuality 09.20 05-19-2022 with Christy Powell, Laura Magee and Sinn Sage 1:30:24

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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 fashi…

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Secular Sexuality 09.19 05-12-2022 with Christy Powell and Nell Gaither 1:23:52

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Secular Sexuality 09.18 05-05-2022 with Christy Powell and Marie LePage 1:23:02

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Perhaps as many as a third of us are neurodiverse- equipped out of the box with a brain that doesn’t neatly fit into our world because of ADHD, ASC, dyslexia, sensory processing and a handful of other considerations. Marie LePage, everyone’s favorite deconstructive and spiritual atheist, friend of the show, tells us their story of masking, loving a…

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Secular Sexuality 09.17 04-28-2022 with Christy Powell and Sinn Sage 1:19:33

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We know you’ve been wondering. We know you’ve been working up the courage. So just go ahead and ask already, we don’t bite. For free. Whether you’re brave enough to call or just calling for a friend, join Christy and our audience of voyeurs as our favorite sinner and adult performer Sinn Sage rejoins the show to answer all your silliest, sexiest an…

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Secular Sexuality 09.16 04-21-2022 with Christy Powell and Kenneth Leonard 1:32:55

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If modern media is to be believed our forefathers were serious people with simple demands- the freedom to bear arms, buy cheap gas and believe in whatever alternative facts they choose. In a post Truth/ post Trump world it’s starting to feel like the message has gotten a little messy. The ACA’s own Kenneth Leonard joins Christy in a conversation ab…

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Secular Sexuality 09.15 04-14-2022 with Christy Powell and Dr Renee 1:17:00

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The old joke goes something like this- A man and a woman sit down with a therapist complaining about their sex life. “He wants it all the time, we never stop having sex/ she’s never in the mood, we practically never make love” they explain. “How often do you actually have sex?” the therapist asks. “Once or twice a week” they agree in unison. As old…

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Secular Sexuality 09.14 04-07-2022 with Christy Powell and MD Aware 1:18:54

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For the optimist, half full; the pessimist, half empty. To MD Aware it’s just another urine sample but whether you are a doctor, or a lawyer or a business executive how we think about trans bodies matters. Whether we understand gender as a social construct, a biological imperative or an economic opportunity to sell two of everything the way we vote…

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Secular Sexuality 09.13 03-31-2022 with Christy Powell and Chrissy Stroop 1:28:59

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When you don’t believe in god or hell or eternal damnation and think that sex and body positivity are important values, it can be really hard to find exactly the right words to describe what is going on in state legislatures all across the country. If these queer targeted and religiously minded policies really do reflect the prevailing culture of t…

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Secular Sexuality 09.12 03-24-2022 with Christy Powell and Shannon Q 1:27:07

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For months now we’ve made a very special point of telling you just exactly what is turning us on but never quite got around to defining what that actually means. Turns out, a lot of people have a lot of assumptions about arousal, desire…tumescence, so it may be time to set the record straight. High Priestess Shannon Q joins Christy in an engorging …

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