"I have a Queery about...Kinks" ft. Josh Lamon

"What are kinks?" "Why is kink culture so taboo?" "Is it bad if I’m just ‘vanilla’?” "How do I feel safe when exploring kinkier sex?"

This episode contains content for mature audiences.

On this week's episode I interview, Broadway actor, funny man, and host of my favorite podcast, Josh Swallows Broadway, Josh Lamon (he/him). This week we discuss "kinks:" the exploration of, the taboos, types, and so much more. Kink culture has always been a very integral part of Queer history. However, there has been a taboo attitude that surrounded it largely due to our culture's discomfort with talking about sex and sexuality. 'It [was also] especially seen as taboo for queer people, who have been ostracized and outcast for not falling into heteronormative expectations of how we should love and form relationships (Slate.com)." Largely because of this, many Queer people, myself included, hold such shame around the exploration of sexuality, those who do participate in kink culture, and exploring their own kinky side. What people have failed to recognize is that kink was often one of the first was Queer people could find safe spaces to express themselves sexually outside of a norm that was set for our culture. "It is built on the foundation of embracing what can otherwise be shunned and misunderstood."

On this episode, Josh and I trade our own stories of early days of exploring our sexuality and our "kinky" side as well as discuss:

Allowing yourself to explore the kinkier side of youThe importance of planning kinkier sexual situationsExploring fetishes v.s. being the fetishAccepting the way all people choose to express their sexuality as well as your own

...and so many more Queeries.

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Resources for further learning:
"Kink and BDSM are a part of radical queer history"
"QUEER KINK"
"Why Kink, BDSM, and Leather Should Be Included at Pride"

Show Produced by Nick Eibler

Edited by Addison McKissack

Theme Song written by Matt Gregory, Colin Egan, and Mike Hubbard 
Produced by Colin Egan and Mike Hubbard

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