Monthly Archives: February 2018

Sex Gets Real 202: Training doctors & moving on after harming someone with Bianca Palmisano

This week, I am joined by the incredible Bianca Palmisano from Intimate Health Consulting. Bianca specializes in training medical doctors, nurses, and staff to be more inclusive when treating marginalized folks, especially around sexuality and gender. So, we go there. We talk about all the ways doctors fail us and the emotional labor we often […]

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  • Dawn
  • February 25, 2018

Sex Gets Real 201: Painful sex, feeling lonely in love, & fearing STIs

So what’s up for this episode? Mary wrote in because she’s have pain during sex. Her doctor didn’t help and she’s seeing a physical therapist for pelvic floor work, but what can she do? I’m not a doctor, but I can share a few resources about painful sex, which is often called dyspareunia for folks who […]

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  • Dawn
  • February 18, 2018

Sex Gets Real 200: Unconventional sex, betrayal, & looking for signs of an orgasm

HAPPY EPISODE 200! So what’s up for this episode? You all have been sending me some TERRIFIC questions lately, and I was eager to dive in. Aussie Gal wrote in from Australia with some love and delight. Satisfied Slippery Slut went to She Bop in Portland after hearing it mentioned on a previous episode and […]

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  • Dawn
  • February 11, 2018

Sex Gets Real 199: Being a survivor & the ethics of sex toys with Sarah Holliday

Formidable Femme, aka Sarah B Holliday, is here this week talking about sex toy companies, the ethics of selling sex toys, rejecting the perfect survivor narrative, healing from trauma, plus we field a listener question about abuse. Sarah is deeply committed to changing the way the sex toy industry operates, and she has loads of […]

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  • Dawn
  • February 4, 2018