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A podcast peering into all the nooks and crannies of sex, gender, and relationships-- and their connections to the natural world around us. Join us for real, juicy conversations covering gender, sexual hygiene, relationships, practical aspects of having sex in the outdoors, and much more. Join us as we get a little dirty in the name of opening up conversations many of us want to have but so few are willing to utter out loud.
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Overlooked Tools: Preventing Sexual Assault & Harassment in the Outdoors
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Being prepared is a very common concept for outdoor professionals and enthusiasts, but it’s not something that often gets applied to sexual violence and harassment intervention. And the skills we need to keep each other safer from sexual harassment and violence-- surprise!-- aren't ones we've been taught or encouraged to exercise. When it comes to …
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What’s the deal with our collective embarrassment around hygiene? How is sex and gender tied up into all of this? What happens when we don’t talk about hygiene openly? And-- just as importantly-- what happens when we do? Anastasia Allison, founder of Kula Cloth, joins the show to dive into this, and we lean on our own personal outdoor hygiene stori…
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In this special bonus content, hear a custom-made poem written and read by Anastasia Allison, founder of Kula Cloth, all about the unexpected adventures that can take place when you decide to get intimate outdoors. We teamed up with Kula Cloth to produce a special edition Kula that you'll definitely want post sex (be it solo or partnered) featuring…
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We're coming back next month, and we’ll be dropping most of our updates two ways: through our email newsletter and via the Sex Outside Text Hotline. When you sign up for either, you’ll be eligible to grab some amazing deals in our totally updated Sex Outside shop, have the opportunity to win special prizes, and be the very first to know about all t…
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Nature Quickie: Environmentalism & The Single-Use Condom
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Condoms are single use, which might give some environmentally-minded folks reason to pause and wonder if they should use them or not. However, condoms are also incredibly accessible and effective when it comes to unplanned pregnancy and STI prevention. So today we’re taking a journey together following the general lifecycle of a condom to better un…
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Rey Arrastia, a kink educator, naturalist, and online content creator, joins us for our first-ever full episode covering kink. Because we’ve been told that our kinks aren’t normal-- but in reality, they’re not only completely natural-- but most of us have them. And if we would do more to learn about them, there would be more to embrace, and less to…
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When it comes to gender binaries, there’s a lot of digging to do to get to the root of our problems. And while there are a lot of ways to uproot a plant-- it really depends on how much it’s grown, how tightly its roots are wound, how far its system has spread and embedded its tendrils into the ground-- that determines how challenging it is to get i…
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Nature Quickie: Exploring Through Children’s Sexuality Books
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features Alessandra Hurt-- a mother, wife, book reviewer, and outdoor-lover-- who shares her top 3 children’s sexuality books and offers some perspective on how important it is to be intentional when it comes to navigating these …
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Even though sex may never be a completely comfortable topic for many folks to discuss, there are ways to make it easier to talk about. We explore with writer, traveler, and sexuality specialist Natasha Buffo when it comes to healthy communication, gender roles and expectations, and learning about our own bodies through outdoor recreation metaphors.…
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Nature Quickie: Sex Is Natural-- Just Ask The Animals
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features Kelly Simmons, whose background studying animals and plants opened her eyes to the wide world of sex happening all around us outdoors. And we agree! Because the more we started to look into “what animals are ha…
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Syanne Centeno-Bloom is an artist, model, outdoor-lover, advocate, student, and piano player. She is also someone with 2 rare conditions who uses a wheelchair. The fact is that in so many ways, the systems and culture we live in seems to simultaneously erase disabled people and make them inhuman. From online harassment to navigating ableism in the …
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features kink enthusiast and naturalist Rey Arrastia, who helps answer some questions about bondage for folks who are curious to try it and dispels some common assumptions that athletes and recreationalists might have w…
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Mermaids: Hooked on the Lore, or the Allure?
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With all of the romance, lust, mystery, and occasional danger folded into nearly every mermaid tale, it’s somewhat easy to explain our fixation on these characters. But where the stories ensnare us all is in how one-dimensional they can be, especially when it comes to surface level mermaid archetypes, which are often full of hyper-sexualization, bo…
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Nature Quickie: Plunging Into River Sex & Hygiene
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features professional river guide Tess McEnroe, who knows firsthand just how important it is to take care of your reproductive health while navigating a multi-day river trip. From taking a pee break to navigating privac…
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Any of us who love going outdoors are comfortable with being prepared in the face of the unexpected. Alexandra Gabrielle, an entrepreneur and outdoorswoman, is certainly no exception. And when something unexpected happened this past winter-- an unplanned pregnancy-- Alex was put to the test in navigating unknowns to determine what was going to be b…
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features tip after tip from bike rider and outdoor rec educator Beckie Irvin, who has some pretty helpful insights when it comes to taking care of your crotch on longer distance or more frequent rides. Because, like it …
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Polyamory is something that-- like many topics within sexuality-- can carry a lot of misconceptions, judgement, and shame. But it’s also one of many types of relationship structures that we as humans have access to, so it’s not as far removed from your sexuality as you might have thought up until now. If polyamory feels unfamiliar or uncomfortable …
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features a conversation with sexual and reproductive health specialist Dr. Justin Houman about why so many of us are focused on sexual “performance” when it comes to erections, how we don’t talk about erectile dysfuncti…
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We need to open up more discussion about what we find pleasurable in our lives, whether it’s outside, in the bedroom, or both. Because when we untangle harmful assumptions about pleasure, we also begin to fray away at some of the things tying us in knots when it comes to discomfort around sex. Which is why Janette Casolary, a queer artist from Seat…
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features a conversation about something that is totally natural but many folks cringe to talk about: vaginal discharge. Entrepreneur and outdoorswoman Alexandra Gabrielle joins us to share information and tips around va…
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Our First Time: The Premiere of Sex Outside
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It’s precisely because sex can be uncomfortable to talk about that we wanted to break the ice together as a community. That’s why a couple months back, we asked you all to send in voice memos answering a couple questions to practice talking about sex more openly and show that when it comes to feeling hesitant about these topics-- that you’re not al…
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features a “trail meet-cute” story written and told by Alina Drufovka (a Colombian-American illustrator and painter currently based in Philly) detailing how she and her partner came to meet while thru-hiking the Appalac…
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Nature Quickie: Intimate Outdoor Portraits 101
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features boudoir and intimate portrait photographer Janette Casolary as she provides tips for becoming more comfortable-- even confident-- in an outdoor portrait session where little to no clothing is required. From pra…
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Nature Quickie: The Roots of Fulfilling Sex? Exploration and Communication.
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features writer, traveler, and outdoor enthusiast Natasha Buffo who brings her background in human sexuality to the conversation to share why getting to know your body and practicing how to talk about it is essential to…
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Nature Quickie: Orgasms as Backcountry Cramp Relief?
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Sex Outside Nature Quickies are short, 5-minute dives into a specific, practical topic about our bodies and the outdoors. This one features nurse and bike tourist Mary Ann Thomas as we explore if and how orgasms can help alleviate menstrual cramping and other period symptoms, and how to manage the potential mess of period sex in the outdoors. Menti…
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We think your voice would sound *so good* on the premiere episode of Sex Outside. For a lot of us, talking about sex isn’t easy. In fact, sometimes it’s just plain awkward. That’s why open dialogue about sex, gender, sensuality, relationships, and our bodies doesn’t happen often enough… and that’s also why we’re starting this series by breaking the…
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Sex Outside is a podcast peering into all the nooks and crannies of sex, gender, and love-- and their connections to the natural world around us. Talking about sex doesn’t come naturally to a lot of people. But thinking about the ways it intersects with the outdoors just might be a good place to start. Host Laura Borichevsky provides a setting for …
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