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Every teacher hits a low point. Many recover. Some don't. Dear Teacher, Don't Give Up! is a show that brings you stories of how some of today's best teachers have gone from surviving to thriving in one of the toughest jobs there is. Jeffery E. Frieden is on a mission to connect teachers so that we can increase our impact and WIN in the classroom! Join us as we draw encouragement from great teachers who have pushed past the lowest points in their career and found that teaching really can be t ...
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MC Jenni works with young people professionally but she's great with humans of all ages. As someone who supported me when I became a mother of teens myself, I was curious what she thought about talking to young people about sexuality. SEXtra Credit: Consider the impact sexually explicit material has on the development of children and their understa…
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Mandela is an incredible person. She's a river guide, surfer, musician, storyteller, housesitter, adventurer, explorer, and absolute delight. Maybe the most interesting person I know. I asked her to talk with me about bad sex ed because when I was teaching and she was my student, Mandela was the only person I remember correcting something I'd taugh…
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Doctor Doe has an inspiring conversation with a great fellow named Henry. Some of the topics covered include clothing choices at school and through different age groups. How fast does sexual intimacy occur within a new relationship. How familial relationships impact peoples future relationships. SEXtra credit: Ask your parents and/or longtime frien…
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Sexplanations Episode 84: Finding our way to similar things with cousin KatelynHow do you talk to sex with your parents? Thoughts on sex addiction and penis size? How do two women raised in sex negative cultures find their own ways to sex positive lives. Lindsey and her cousin Katelyn revisit the Sexplanations video episode Ask Lindsey #15 and answ…
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Dr Doe is sick with a head cold, podcasting solo in quarantine from the RV in Sunnyvale, California. In this episode she answers questions from the Sexplanations’ video Period Pregnancy?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPqLENNFnGg and catches us up on work-life. Lots of updates like moving to Mexico for a while, putting down Lena the brindle pit c…
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Lindsey and Prairie (https://www.somaticconnections.org/) podcast with dogs and puppies in the background. Discussing Prairie's job as a Sexological Body Worker, somatic connections, engaging feminism, and postpartum care. Book mentioned: “Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body” by Tami Lynn Kent.Prairie guides Lindsey and th…
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Episode 81 Ask Lindsey with Tim Nortonhttp://www.timnortontherapy.comhttp://www.timnortontherapy.com/hardconversationspodcastDr. Doe and Tim Norton (timnortontherapy.com) talk erectile issues, peter tingle, sex therapy and the mind/body relationship of erections. Tim's favorite sex tip: Lube, use it, it’s great.Book mentioned: “The Courage to Heal”…
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Dear Teacher, Ugh. If you’re like me, the middle of the fall semester is the most difficult time of the year. And it was my plan to release this episode last month, but October. Just before we entered the month of November, I learned of a new acronym (Just what Education needs, right?). It’s DEVELSON. That’s D-E-V-E-L-S-O-N. It stands for Dark Evil…
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Dr. Doe and her guest Angie discuss menstruation, dance, communities, nursing school, and their latest research questions. What was your first period like? How might people feel who don't experience menstruation? What role can communities play in enhancing our sex lives? What correlations are there to bleeding? What are we still curious about? To s…
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First, Science Mom quizzes Dr. Doe with some amazing biology trivia. Talk turns to intimacy and first times within the Mormon faith and later to leaving the faith. SEXtra credit: Buy some feminine hygiene products (if you don't already have them) and use them to educate your family/friends about their intended purpose, and other uses. Also keep som…
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Dr. Lindsey Doe Interviews Dr. Jallen Rix (http://doctorrix.com).Lindsey and Jallen cover the Kinsey College test, and go on to talk about masturbation, Ex Gay No Way, sex work, surrogacy, therapy, cock summit, bateworld.com. Towards the end there are some really great guided kegel's. SEXtra Credit: Answer Dr. Rix's 2 question survey about your fir…
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Dr. Doe and Brendon Marotta (the director of American Circumcision) discuss how to stay kind within hard conversations and how to end routine infant circumcisions. Brendon is the director of the film: American Circumcision. https://circumcisionmovie.com The film is available on most streaming platforms including Neflix, Prime, & Itunes.…
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If you're a teacher with ideas and you are looking to connect with your principal about getting them in motion, this is the episode for you. Back in February of 2019, I posed a question on Twitter that got a lot of attention. It sparked an ongoing conversation with on of the administrators initially tagged in that Tweet. that conversation has broug…
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Dear Teacher,When putting our best teacher foot forward, we will inevitably hit snags, set backs, or difficulties of some kind. At times, those set backs are small bumps in the road. And sometimes the problems we run into are deep, serious, and abiding. Whatever the case may be, all of us need support. But lots of teachers leave the profession beca…
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Dear Teacher, If you’re like me, you struggle with knowing how much time, effort, and energy you should give to the job. My lessons are never good enough. I worry that I have not given enough to assessing my students’ progress. And I am constantly tinkering with my craft to make it just a little bit better. When I give so much of myself to the job,…
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Dear Teacher, When I was in my ninth year of teaching, out of the 180 I was contracted to spend in front of my students, I was out of the classroom for 33 of them. For thirty of those days, I was out of the classroom for one of the three district committees I was participating in. I'm ashamed to admit, that the other three were due to illness and t…
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Dear Teacher, Tell me if this sounds familiar. You have a roster full of students who are at differing levels of ability. And it’s your job to get ALL of them to an acceptable level of proficiency. As the year unfolds, to do this, you realize that you need to stay at work a little later, take home a few more assignments to grade, get up just a litt…
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Dear teacher, when it comes to the challenging work of classroom instruction, have you ever felt overwhelmed? Maybe boxed in? How about exhausted? If you have, guess what? . . . That's completely normal! Teaching is a joy, at least it should be, right? My name is Jeffery E. Frieden, and I am here to help CONNECT teachers so that we can intensify ou…
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Dear Teacher, When you got your first job, did you get the most undesirable position in your department or grade level? What about passed up for a position because the other applicant had more seniority? Have you presented ideas at meeting only to get shot down? If this sounds like you, I’ll wager that you have looked at your situation and wondered…
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My first introduction to Dixie De La Tour was at a sex conference. Her storytelling production Bawdy Storytelling was hosting a show one evening and this fantastically dressed, vivacious woman took the stage to introduce storytellers and fluff the audience. She was kind and funny and very versed sexually. So years later at another conference I said…
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Dear Teacher, "Don't you trust me to make good decisions in my classroom?" I don't know about you, but there was a time when I both wanted and didn't want to know the answer to that question. This was especially true when it came to a particular principal I was working under. In my case, I never had to face an interrogation of my practice. Instead,…
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Sexplanations is on the road travelling from city to town sharing sex education. When we stopped in San Francisco we were able to do a very special episode with Amp from the YouTube channel WattsTheSafeword in a dungeon. Amp is a designer for Mr. S Leather -- a BDSM retailer, he's a kink educator, and a very clever man so I asked him about his life…
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Dear teacher, "Are You Enough?" Has that question ever crossed your mind? Seven years into my career, during the fall semester, this question was continually before me. Something had to change. My name is Jeffery E. Frieden, host of Dear Teacher, Don't Give Up! I am on a mission to connect teachers so that together we can intensify our impact and W…
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Kallie studies ancient life and has a curious personality so I invited her to have fun with me on the podcast and to answer some of your questions about asexuality, dating, hooking up, age restrictions, etc. We also wondered if dinosaurs had penises. Were they external fertilizers or cloacal kissers? We also discussed how I need to go to the Natura…
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Tracy visibly loves multiple people. She identifies as polyamorous and knows a great deal about relationship dynamics. I have a lot of questions for her and we talk it all out. Love, family, language, and sexuality. SEXtra Credit: Try mobile Kegels. Tracy tries to clench while walking but hasn't figured it out. Do you have a strategy or technique f…
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When I thought about the task of reviewing 22 different sex topics in one setting, I knew I needed to talk to an expert. Who would have a sex positive, well-researched, and open-minded perspective of such a broad range of topics? Allison Moon! I met Allison in San Francisco. She and her partner Reid (episode 11) invited me to stay when I was in tow…
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Dave and Hank Green created a syndicated pub trivia game hosted YouTube style with hosts from the internet asking and answering questions on the TV screen of your favorite bar or college hangout. There are similar models but this one is done brilliantly to account for different learning styles, abilities, and people's love for cyber-personalities. …
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Rachel Grant coaches survivors of abuse on boundaries and trust and how to find joy in surviving. We talk about her upbringing in Oklahoma and our shared fondness for San Francisco as a locality for really comprehensive sex education. To learn more about her program, sign up for help, and or access some of her online resources for free check out: h…
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Over the years I've taught thousands of students. Emily is one of a small number who impressed me with how much she learned and grew. In this episode Emily shares part of that journey and how it continues to in her conversations and career pursuits. I share what is new in my world and we end up doing Kegels to her operatic voice. SEXtra Credit: Thi…
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Let's talk about gender and biosex and sex assigned at birth and anatomy and surgery and language. In this episode Blake, FTM, and I a ciswoman pull apart what we experience on a day to day basis to develop a better world for the future. For part of the episode I go through the criteria of gender dysphoria as outlined in the DSM 5. Here there are i…
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Join me and Amanda for a conversation full of gender speculation, personal observations, and sitting spread legged. We go through some of the tactics used throughout history to determine one's sex. How do we look at our fingernails? How do we take off our shirts? How do we sit on the couch? Can we lift a chair with our lower legs against a wall? Am…
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In this episode my past self (Lindsey from September) gives my future self a pep talk. I check-in on how the podcast is going and review our latest big project, the Sexplanations Road Tour. Why am I going to live in an RV for the next five or so months and travel the country sex educating whoever shows up to learn? SEXtra Credit: check out Sexplana…
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Four years ago I made a video about using less harmful language, avoiding words that were exclusionary, offensive, or inaccurate. Soon after this Seththinksthoughts, a vlog-style YouTube channel posted a video adding the list of harmful words and suggesting alternatives. I loved it and reached out to Seth. Over these years we've kept in touch and t…
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Why are some people heterosexual? What informs this identity? What was it like to come out to your family? Have you ever been treated differently because of your attraction to men, as a woman? Have you ever seen Hysterical Literature? How do you imagine attraction to a woman to be? What narratives and representation do you have in media? How did at…
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Logan is a gregarious, handsome, young hipster with a lot of ambition. He just finished building out a high-end touring van with the ability to play concerts out the back and he's traversing the country now to learn from others about life. I know him in a few ways but mostly that he's a well-connected friendly face. So I asked him to talk with me a…
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Stella and I first met on the set of Sexplanations How to Touch a Boob episode. As a model and a burlesque dancer she was comfortable working with me to demonstrate breast healthcare and pleasure. What I didn't know is that she's made a career out of removing pubic hair for people and this brings up many opportunities to help clients embrace their …
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Sexplanations Podcast is not intended to titillate but it may lead to physiological changes. I would prepare yourself on this one. Jonathan and I hooked up when I when we were 20 and now, over a decade later, we're checking in on what that was like. We discuss oral sex, simultaneous orgasms, height differences, power dynamics, communication, raking…
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Anal sex video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9MT1di9as&tBefore this conversation I hadn't talked with Sam about anal sex. I invited her to be on the Sexplanations Podcast and gave her the topic but we didn't say anything else. When we sat down to record it was really fun to hear how much she had to share about her own experiences, her int…
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Jessi runs an animal rescue and care center in Montana. She also has an educational YouTube channel called AnimalWondersMontana. Who better to talk about anal prep then someone who works daily with many many species including the care of their anuses? We discuss prolapsed rectums (aka trunk butt), lube, irritable bowel syndrome, taking temperature …
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Troy or Kujmous as you may know him from social media is what I like to call the 12th man of the Internet. He cheers on creators like the fans of a football team and on regular basis positively impacts my emotional health. This is why I asked him to talk with me about cognitive dissonance, a psychological conflict brought on when one's behaviors ar…
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Reese has entertained me for years. He has a great stage presence and a hilarious bit about the ridiculousness of the phrase 'gold star gays.' I appreciate how comfortable he is talking about sexuality to new audiences and that there is a component of education built into the laughs. In this episode of the Sexplanations Podcast, it's no different. …
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I went on a date with Amy in 2017. She tells the story of how we met and how it went. Then I do. I basically didn't know how to flirt with her beyond the scientifically prescribed steps and she points out that yeah, she didn't know I was trying to make advances. Is it because I'm heterosexual? Am I baby gay? How much of it is fear? What can I do to…
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