We launch Season 3 with Mark Grayson, author of Getting Naked: A Field Guide for Men. Mark spent years as an entrepreneur before becoming a columnist for The Good Men Project and writing Getting Naked. He is also the founding director of Trinity Spiritual Center in Southport, CT. In this interview, we discuss Mark’s life as well as key elements of his…
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Podcast Season 2, Episode 4: Brian Melanson
This week we are joined by Massachusetts-based sex educator Brian Melanson, who serves intellectually and developmentally disabled adolescents within the Whole Selves framework. Our discussion focuses on intellectual disability as a construct; triumphs and challenges with sex and relationships education with this cohort; social stigma and exploitation (and resiliency!); how to balance educational and therapeutic considerations; person-first versus identity-first language; defining “normal”; and finally, being…
Podcast Season 2, Episode 2: Charlie Glickman
I have been trying to get Charlie Glickman on the podcast since I started this project, and he finally said yes! Our conversation, ranging from how to navigate sexual consent to the importance of being connected with one’s own body and the importance of shame resiliency, is not to be missed. Talk Like a Man is the podcast of the Men’s Center for Growth and…
Podcast Episode 5
In this episode, I talk to Al Vernacchio, Sexuality Education Coordinator for Friends Central School in Wynnewood, PA. We discuss the pitfalls and joys of adolescent masculinity, educating about consent, and the relationship between spirituality and sexuality, among other things. If you’d like to support the show at Patreon, here is the link.
Radio Hour 4/18/2019: The Perils of Purity Culture
Every month or two, I am lucky enough to appear for an hour on John Fugelsang’s “Tell Me Everything” on Sirius XM Insight, along with sex therapists Rachel Klechevsky and Eric Scheider. We choose a sex/gender theme of the day and talk it over, take calls, and generally do what radio guests do. Here is…
Expressway to Your Heart: The Express Model of Sexual Consent
Chapter 1: It Leaves You Guessing I would be completely turned off by that. But I’m one of those girls that there’d be no question I was into you if I was. -Reddit user thehalflingcooks A classic scene in heterosexual romance movies and television shows (and actually, in “reality” shows as well: I’m looking at…
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