Stay ConnectedA 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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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. And once again, we find that when the outdoors are involved, sex becomes a little easier to approach in a dialogue.
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Natasha Buffo
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Hosted and produced by Laura Borichevsky.
Cover artwork by Hailey Hirst.
Music by The Wild Wild, UTAH, and wavcrush, licensed via MusicBed.
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 having interesting sex?” we quickly learned that the answer is all of them. Tune in to hear just a handful from Kelly as she uncovers fact after fact about how quirky all of our sex lives actually are, and how natural that truly is.
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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 modeling industry, hear from Syanne about how she’s reclaiming her sexuality and showing the world that the disabled community is sexy, too.
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Syanne Centeno-Bloom
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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 when it comes to applying outdoor knot tying skills to bondage practice. Spoiler: you’ll need to learn some different knots… oh, and skip the paracord.
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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, body image expectations, and heteronormative gender roles. Dive in with us past the surface level narratives we’ve learned about merfolk, and explore deeper waters.
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Gabriel Rivera / Nymphia the Nautilus Mermaid
Benjamin Radford
Oak Honey
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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 privacy (plus-- how to make river sex time a cleaner, more lovely experience), Tess drops tip after tip for how to keep vaginas healthy on the river.
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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 best for her and her body. Not once-- but many times throughout the process.
Alex wanted to have this conversation because, frankly, we don’t talk about preparedness enough with it comes to sex. Not the way we do when it comes to safety outdoors. And the reality is that you can be completely prepared and still encounter times when things just don’t go to plan. But knowing the potential risks and options well in advance can always help you to make better, less-stressful, more informed decisions.
We know these lessons from being out in nature-- but we rarely apply this logic to our bodies.
Alex is sharing her story with the hope that we all begin to seek out more information from our bodies when possible, and ask our medical systems to do the same.. so that no matter where we are-- the backcountry, the couch, or somewhere in between-- that we show up feeling more ready for whatever comes our way.
A note that this episode covers discussion of unplanned pregnancy and abortion.
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Alexandra Gabrielle
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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 or not, sitting on a bike seat, day in and day out-- it can take a toll on a lot more than your muscles and joints.
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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 to you, tune into this episode to dip a toe in the water. You’ll hear not only some tips and insights from whole-person life and relationship coach Alyssa Keegan, but also explore some of the ways polyamory intersects with the outdoors through the eyes of thru hiker and artist Alina Drufkova.
This insight-dense episode is the first of many conversations we’ll have on the show about polyamory, so join us and let’s learn together.
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Alyssa Keegan
Alina Drufovka
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Hosted and produced by Laura Borichevsky.
Cover artwork by Hailey Hirst.
Music by The Wild Wild, UTAH, and LWFI, licensed via MusicBed.
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 dysfunction often enough, and some of the ways biological processes, mental health, and pressure from sexual partners can contribute to anxiety around getting hard.
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