Sidenote: What's up with censorship?

Starch your shirts and polish your boots, we’re off to the police academy. This episode Abby and Sam are looking at police and power plays. Listen to two abolitionists try to work out what makes a man in a uniform sexy and decide it might just all come down to the suspenders.  Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for a journey into the Christian blogosphere where the Song of Solomon is sexy, God might be listening to your thoughts and we’re all touching each other through our jeans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just in case you needed a sexier threesome than Abby, Sam, and a microphone, we’re bringing you some questionable threesome erotica. Sam reads two short stories and we discuss threesome logistics, ponder the sexual politics of acronyms and consider the physical possibility of fitting someone’s entire boob in a mouth.References for nerdy sluts:Scoats, Ryan. "‘If there is no homo, there is no trio’: women’s experiences and expectations of MMF threesomes." Psychology & Sexuality 10, no. 1 (2019): 45-55.Scoats, Ryan, Lauren J. Joseph, and Eric Anderson. "‘I don’t mind watching him cum’: Heterosexual men, threesomes, and the erosion of the one-time rule of homosexuality." Sexualities 21, no. 1-2 (2018): 30-48.Thompson, Ashley E., and E. Sandra Byers. "Heterosexual young adults’ interest, attitudes, and experiences related to mixed-gender, multi-person sex." Archives of sexual behavior 46, no. 3 (2017): 813-822. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join Sam and Abby for an intergalactic sex journey! We’re looking at alien tropes and galaxy sluts and wondering if this book is actually good or have our standards just dropped? *episode correction - war of the worlds was published 1897, Abby is just bad at reading numbers.Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back Booksluts, we Choo-choo-choose you all for another year! In our first episode back we have our sights set on the big V. Warning, this podcast contains: Valentine's Day cards, a sexy clutz, bad trope bingo, a jizz pen, and Sam purring like a kitty cat. Tune in to hear us ask (but not answer) if celebrating love is always a good thing or has capitalism ruined this too?Genuine content warning: this episode includes some references to rape.Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your two favourite Ho’s are wrapping up the year with a Christmas special! Abby has read a sexy Christmas tale about a young, naive seductive elf who is sent out to the world of men and so of course the conversation centres around unionising elves and Grinch porn. To thank you all for listening we are sliding down your chimneys with the greatest Christmas gift of all; many useless factsOriginal artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuriesOther intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re riding the crimson wave right into this fortnight’s episode with a menstruation-themed erotic short story read by Abby. We discuss the way periods affect our lives in ways we hadn’t even thought about and how we feel about a threesome with Aunt Flo. This one’s for all the menstruators and bloodhounds out there who like to get down and dirty.References for nerdy slutsWatch "The Period Poem" by Dominique Christina hereFor more information about the DSM and the PMDD debate, see Offman, Alia, and Peggy J. Kleinplatz. "Does PMDD belong in the DSM? Challenging the medicalization of women's bodies." Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 13, no. 1 (2004).The book Abby references multiple times is: Bobel, Chris, Inga T. Winkler, Breanne Fahs, Katie Ann Hasson, Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, and Tomi-Ann Roberts. "The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies." (2020): 1037.Studies:Fahs, Breanne. "Sex during menstruation: Race, sexual identity, and women’s accounts of pleasure and disgust." Feminism & Psychology 21, no. 2 (2011): 155-178.Rempel, John K., and Barbara Baumgartner. "The relationship between attitudes towards menstruation and sexual attitudes, desires, and behavior in women." Archives of Sexual Behavior 32, no. 2 (2003): 155-163.Lete, Iñaki, Paloma Lobo, Rossella E. Nappi, Axelle Pintiaux, Christian Fiala, Günther Häusler, and Nathalie Chabbert-Buffet. "Male perception about the inconveniences associated with monthly bleeding for their partner–an international survey." The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care 23, no. 1 (2018): 1-11.Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuriesOther intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Because who doesn’t love a sequel? Abby spends two weeks of quarantine updating her research on sex in the time of COVID-19 while Sam reads viral erotica ‘Kissing the Coronavirus.’ Together we slowly come to terms with potentially disappointing podcast favourite Chuck Tingle as we ask, can coronavirus ever be sexy? Is it ever okay to poke fun at something that has caused such harm, even as satire? And how many ferrets is too many?Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuriesOther intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trick or treat it’s a spooky halloween special! Abby brings two sexy ghost tales while we cross over to ask the big questions; Is there life after death? Do departed spirits walk among us? And if so, can we have sex with them? The answers may surprise you. Not the last one, it’s definitely yes.Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuriesOther intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a perfect meeting of interests Abby and Sam get to nerd out about the effects of legal and digital censorship on erotic material. We trace the history of book banning in Australia up to the chilling effects of the current American SESTA/FOSTA laws on internet content. Turns out when the people making censorship decisions are overwhelmingly pale, male and stale, it isn’t just about sexy books but also ongoing censorship of minority groups. Who’d have guessed? Resources and further reading for nerdy slutsOn the history and ongoing impact of obscenity laws and censorship, where it comes from and who makes the decisions:Introducing Australia's Bibliography of Banned Books by Marita Bullock and Nicole MooreSex Censorship: The Assumptions of Anti-Obscenity Laws and the Empirical Evidence, by Robert B Cairns, James CN Paul, and Julius WishnerMinnesota Law Review (1962).If not a fist, then what about a stump? Ableism and heteronormativity within Australia's porn regulations, by Ryan Thorneycroft, Porn Studies (2020), 7:2, p 152-1.On modern censorship, sesta/fosta, sex work vs sex trafficking and algorithmic bias:Listen to the 'You're Wrong About' podcast episode on Human Trafficking, moral panic, and it's conflation with sex work here.Learn more about SESTA/FOSTA and it's impact on internet freedoms and modern censorship with this Electronic Frontiers Foundation ArticleMake sure you check out and support Salty, especially their report into algorithmic bias here.Check out the panel Sam organised on censorship and expression online- full of amazing badass speakers: Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Claire Fitzsimmons (founder of Salty), Lola Hunt (Sex Worker and cofounder of Assembly Four), and Celeste Carnegie (of Indigitek), watch it here.Original artwork by Brady King and original music by Ankle Injuries ft. the sexy voice of Tace Kelly. https://soundcloud.com/ankleinjuriesOther intro music from: Yesterday's Secret by texasradiofish (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.