Responsible non-monogamy from a kink-friendly, pansexual point of view
A vintage rebroadcast on why “okay” and “fine” should be banned from your relationship vocabulary, since they fail to convey any actual information. Plus a review of Violet Blue's Total Flirt iPhone app, advice on metamours meeting new partners, and listener feedback on bisexuality and poly reaching critical mass.
Living as and loving introverts. The care and feeding of introverts and what it means to be one or have one as a partner or metamour. Includes a poly movie review of the 1995 film Carrington by reviewer Joreth.
Listener W writes in to ask: am I jealous, or is this situation actually unfair? Minx works through how to tell the difference between an emotional response that's about you and a structural problem that needs renegotiation.
How kinky are we, really? What's mainstream and what's sexually deviant? It turns out there's no such thing as sexual deviance: just a bell curve of consensual practice. A reassuring episode for anyone worried they're “too much.”
Did you ever wonder about all the things the poly-identified must deal with that the monogamous don't? Cory and Kate did. And Cory made a list. A foundational episode for anyone newly out as poly to family, work, or healthcare.
From listener Amy: how do you deal with being a secondary when you long for primary benefits? Minx breaks down the structural mismatch and offers strategies for naming what you actually want.
The state of poly in the media in 2011. A chat with Alan, content curator extraordinaire of the Poly in the Media blog, on how mainstream coverage was shifting and what that meant for community visibility.
What's up with the young modern poly movement? Interview with Jessica Karels of Young Metro Poly on generational shifts in how poly people organize, find each other, and define themselves.
Special guests Dane Ballard and Danah Abarr of Sinplex Weekend share facts, myths and info about HSV, HPV and the stigma attached to both. The conclusion of the show's two-part STI education series.
The annual holiday user-generated tradition, this year as a vidcast. Listener-submitted decorated chest photos judged on Christmas Day at Arkyncrest. Lighter fare from the show's tradition of community-built episodes.
Part one of the two-part STI special. Special guests Dane Ballard and Danah Abarr of Sinplex Weekend cover the basics of HSV and HPV transmission, testing, and the disproportionate stigma both viruses carry.
Special guest cohost Steve Eley chats about replacing the term “primary” and gives advice to new poly kinksters. An early-2010s episode in the long debate over hierarchy language in poly relationships.
Mollena Williams, monogamous-identified kinktastic chick, talks about entering a poly BDSM arrangement. A perspective on being the mono partner inside an otherwise-poly D/s structure.
Princess Kali of Kink Academy talks about the intersection of kink and poly online: how the early FetLife era was changing how kinky poly people met, learned, and built community.
Is the dark secret of polyamory that sometimes it really is about the sex with multiple partners? Minx pushes back on the “poly is about love, not sex” respectability framing.
Mistress Matisse shares her sexy life with Max and Monk. How D/s works in those poly relationships, being present in the moment, “running the fuck,” and what “non-sexual BDSM” means in practice. One of the show's most-cited crossover episodes for the poly + kink overlap.
Part one of the Mistress Matisse two-parter. Conversation on poly structure, partner selection, and the practical mechanics of running multiple D/s relationships at once.
The re-cut and corrected version of #104. Being poly while not currently partnered: identity, dating, and the awkwardness of explaining yourself on first dates.
First take on the poly-and-single experience. Listener mail and host commentary on whether your relationship orientation is a thing you do or a thing you are.
A discussion of the relationship dynamic that exists separately from the people inside it. Wikipedia describes something similar as “collective effervescence”: the emergent texture a particular triad or polycule has that no single person creates alone.
A foundational episode on chosen family, blood family, and how poly people redraw the lines. Listener mail from NaughtyScout on poly families taking vacations together, and from WaterDusk on poly family / network distinctions.
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