Secular Sexuality

All good things must come to a pause and so as we make space for our staff to refresh their minds and heal their chafing we say a short bon voyage to one another. In this SecX Sign-Off Spectacular featuring hosts old and new our time together comes to a definitive middle while we look back on our many jollies and follies and prepare for the adventure ahead. Please enjoy this final episode before our hiatus and of course, through all the sweat and tears, save some fluids for the instructions you know are coming at the end.

Mindfulness is one of those wibbly wobbly timey wimey words that seems to mean everything and nothing all at once which… honestly is a little on brand for the American idea of Buddhist psychology. But like, what actually is any of this? And what, if anything at all, can 2,500 years of what we can only charitably call ‘research’ have to say about our modern life and times? Licensed Therapist David Teachout joins Kara and Christy for a discussion on the east-meets-west rumble between Buddha and Freud. Your calls and questions, buddhist psychology and of course what’s turning us on on this penultimate episode of SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Kinda telling that we only have one or two nicknames for noses, objectively the most hilarious looking of all body parts, and about 10,000 for vulvas. Besides the obvious purity culture madness, why are we so uncomfortable talking about our vajayjay-kitty-vagines? Bring your body positivity all the way downtown and join Kara, Phoebe and Erin in a conversation about beans, bits and bajingos of all shapes, sizes and scents. Discharge your vaginal shame and call the show with your stories and questions plus what’s turning us on this week on SecX!Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

The gender revolution is here, and since we can’t go over and can’t go under it, we’re going on a bear hunt. There are nearly eight billion people on this planet and whether that means there are eight billion different genders or not SecX is proud to introduce to you Ms. World Bear 2022. Daddie Danger, philanthropist and bad ass, joins Christy and Miss O Kissed in a conversation about gender coding, bear culture and community. Call us live and let us know what’s too hot, too cold or just right for your gender, plus what’s turning us on this week on SecX!

American equality has always been a little more equal for some and nowhere is that more clear than the recent Respect for Marriage Act which failed to fully codify rights granted by the courts in Obergefell v Hodges and Loving v Virginia. Even as those important precedents stand, marriage equality eludes many with financial and medical hardships and its protections exist only for the monogamous. Long-time friend of the show Lily Bacon returns to share her life experiences and day to day realities made less safe in a post Dobbs world. Politicalized polyamory, your calls and questions and what’s turning us on this week on SecX!

Reality Dating may not be the most accurate mirror to hold up to society but it does shine a light on where we’re at as a culture- a biphobic, mate guarding, co-dependent culture. Is there more to trashy tv than meets the eye or is the toxicity catching? Kara Griffin corrals a conversation with our panel of pop-corn throwing reality tv star super-stans Phoebe Rose, Miss O Kissed and Licensed Professional Counselor Ashley Hogan to find out once and for all who is here to make friends and who is here to win. Catch the four person round table discussion, be sure to call in with your takes, learn what’s turning us on this week and find out who wins the final rose on this week’s SecX!► Learn more and find what’s turning us on at https://www.vcatx.com/media/realitydating Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

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The Midshow Promo clips. You like them! You love them! You want more of them! Well, consider your prayers answered, because we present some of the best moments from our past season. The video elves have been working overtime to bring you this collection of some of the funniest, most intense, and overall best segments.We’ll be back to live production in the new year, but for now the hosts, crew and volunteers of Secular Sexuality and The Atheist Community of Austin wish you all the best for this holiday season and in the new year to come. We’ll see you next year!

Welcome back all you sexy mother addition know, shut my mouth. We're taking some time out of the holidays to reflect on the year that has been 2022. We look at the good, the bad and the ugly, and even look forward a bit to 2023. Christy Powell is joined by the always thoughtful Kara Griffin, the irrepressible Pheobe Rose, and SexEx's newest addtion to the hosting role, Miss O Kissed. It's going to be a good episode, so sit back, relax, and give yourself a big ol'....on second thought watch the show first.

SecX has been graced with some true experts, M.D.s, J.D.s and more LPCS and Ph.D.s then you can shake a stick at, and has had the opportunity to pose some of the weirdest questions to some of the most incredible minds around. And diversity being the spice of life, this week we invited back Jamie Boone. Friend of the show and Average Joe, Jaime brings his personal experiences, failures and successes to a conversation about day to day life as an out atheist and openly gay millennial. For every question you’ve been too afraid to ask or embarrassed you didn’t already know Jamie joins Christy in a dialogue full of candor and verve about the strange life and times of the modern man. Catch the conversation live at 7p CT and share your concerns and questions as check-in on what’s turning us on and more on SecX!

It’s generally true that yeah, size doesn’t matter, at least not for that thing that matters most. And, quite frankly, it’s never a good look to get into some sort of measuring contest in a misguided effort to prove your masculinity. But standing next to the rest of the animal kingdom, what can it tell us about our humanity? This week renegade science teacher and bioanthropologist Forrest Valkai returns to talk about our human form and function, about monkey dicks and human hearts, your calls and questions and of course what’s turning us on this week!Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Middle ground is in short supply these days- bipartisan legislation, mid budget movies and peaceful protests all seem to have gone the way of the easy listening radio station. As ‘nones’ take the majority and organized religion finds itself in retreat, how much space is there for tolerance? How does a tolerant society tolerate a book that offers no peace but proposes “to turn a man against his father” and ”a daughter against her mother?” In these vitriolic times activist and high priestess Shannon Q returns to SecX to offer her insight, her compassion and quite possibly her sword in the ongoing culture wars. Catch the conversation plus your calls and questions and what’s turning us on this week on SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

Should you ever have the chance to join us here at the Atheist Community of Austin’s Free Thought Library in Central Texas you’ll likely hear one of our favorite bits of local slang- ya’ll know the one I mean. And, as we like to say, ya’ll means all ya’ll. Joining Christy this week live IN STUDIO is LPC Associate JP Cardenas, health at every size therapist and fat liberation activist, eager to set the record straight on body positivity, BMI and possibly a little TMI on bodies of all sorts and sizes. Join us by phone, internet or in person with your calls and questions and find out what’s turning us on this week on SecX!

The internet can be dark, and full of terrors, but many of us rely on it to learn not just about the world but each other and ourselves. It’s no surprise then that the same tools that have endangered our health and threatened our elections in recent years are being used to divide us, not just into arbitrary gender boxes but into the sexed and unsexed, the hunter and the gatekeeper or the alpha and the beta. What’s a lonely ex-vangelical to do? Emma Thorne brings her specific blend of little duck energy and British snark from her channel to ours to help us understand what the hell an alpha male really is and what we can do to avoid the pitfalls and pseudoscience on our way to the love we want and need. Catch the conversation with all of your calls and questions plus what’s turning Emma Thorne on this week on SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time

You remember recess at school- dressing up like a firefighter or cops and robbers, playing house, pulling hair… maybe not all that different from playtime for adults. Turns out, play and imagination weren’t exactly things we meant to outgrow and 10,000 ads about how to ‘spice up our relationship’ aren’t exactly solving the problem. This week play therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor Ashley Hogan joins Christy in a conversation about play, toys and the magical kingdom of adult make-believe. Join us with your questions and comments or let us know whats turning you on this week by sending an email to sex@atheist-community.org or call us live at 1-512-991-9242! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central Time.

It’s been two and a half years, most of the life of the show in fact, since we’ve been able to lay bare the intersection of sex and religion (and ourselves) here in person at the Freethought Library in Austin! Join Christy and special guest dominatrix Chloe Manson live in the studio as we dive deeper into the world of professional pain and pleasure. Call in with your questions and comments or just come on down for this very special LIVE! episode of SecX! Doms, Dommes and Domination plus what’s turning us on this week in person from the Atheist Community of Austin, TX!

How exactly does one “love the sinner” and “hate the sin” when the sin in question is fundamental to who we are as people? We’ve come to see religion as one of the most powerfully dividing forces of the modern world so it begs the question- does it matter if our families see themselves as loving people following a loving god rather than the political pawns duped by charlatans that we imagine them as? If Christ came to divide families and put a sword to the wicked, is there community between those inside and outside the body of Christ? Catch this special Halloween month conversation between Christy and ExXtian Erin about why they burned witches and how we can feel about it. Burning philosophical quandaries, your calls and questions and what’s turning us on this week on SecX! Secular Sexuality show is LIVE every Thursday from 7:00 to 8:30pm Central TimeIf you'd like to be on the show, use your phone ☎ and call 1-512-991-9242 or use a computer