Bawdy Storytelling

My friend, has life gotten you so down that you’ve forgotten that you have Superpowers? Bay Area-based writer, performer, and educator Tatyana Brown is battling break-ups, job loss and the Sads; so should she really given up on sex at this young age? Hoping to jumpstart her libido, she heads to a play party and when a beautiful woman says “I could go for some strap-on sex,” Tatyana’s lightbulb moment happens. Before you can say Polyamorous Clown Car, she’s instigating a tournament where dozens of sexy badasses are competing in multiple heats for a naked audience. Sometimes...

When you’re incapable of an emotional connection, can hookups fill the gap? When Nonbinary Polyamorous Storyteller Nurse Comedian Ex-Nun Kelli Dunham loses multiple partners to cancer, she looks for community in a Brooklyn LGBT Grief Support Group, and ends up loafer-deep in anonymous sex among the scrubby pines of Fire Island. Plus, Dixie talks Sex Geek Summer Camp, Bawdy in Portland and her new How to Be Bawdy virtual workshop. #GriefSex

“We must make love in between the bombs” - Paul Monette

Song: ‘F*ck the Pain Away’ (Peaches)

Has a bad breakup ever made you think ‘the only way to get over someone is to get under someone else’? Author and Ethical NonMonogamist Kevin A Patterson is feeling a bit lost and confused, so he grabs his Bang bag and orchestrates his own gender non-specific traveling hand orgy. For one entire day, he schedules tag team handjob deliveries, because making people feel good, feels good. So much driving, so many g-spots and vaginas…and as the clock counts down, the competition is getting fierce. Who will rank #1 in orgasms on the dry erase board?

Have you ever cried because you hate the body you’re in? Netflix celebrity Dirty Lola gets onstage at Bawdy in Baltimore to tell the story of Sir, a kind Texan with a Southern Drawl who slides into her DMs to propose an arrangement. A fan of her Titty Tuesday posts, Sir suggests a year of virtual service, and quickly becomes Lola’s online Dom. Soon her submissive assignments begin to battle the negative self-talk imprinted on her by magazines, bullies, social media and family. What a difference a year - and being showered with love - can make to y...

My God, that Leatherman is so hot - but why is he limping? In this vintage 70’s story, Leather & Kink Legend Race Bannon take you on a private tour of his first Gay Bathhouse, and this story is a doozy! Join us as we venture into Man’s Country, a private membership gay men’s club featuring 3 stories of wild adventure, including a theater, gym, restaurant, dance hall, sex shop, an orgy room, lockers, private suites for on-premises sex, and of course, its famous whirlpool and baths. In this story, 19 year old Race meets an muscular, smooth older man in lea...

Did you know that there’s an enclave of Bawdy SuperFans in Nashville, Tennessee? This episode is a Behind-The-Scenes story, the story behind the stories, if you will. For those who love the Dixie Ramble, get ready for a Puppet and Clown and Music Video filled birthday party (spoiler alert: wemay have broken the Birthday curse). Plus, the story of 2 talented Nashville musicians who were inspired to write sex-positive songs after listening to Every.Single.Episode of the Bawdy Storytelling podcast. Nashville was definitely a highlight of my recent Cross Country to East Coast Tour, and finally, you too ca...

Can you guess the best makeup remover? Sister of Perpetual Indulgence Flora Goodthyme grew up feeling the pressure of her family’s heteronormative expectations, and struggled with what commitment could look like (some family members were on their sixth marriage, and many cheated). So she moved her single gay ass to San Francisco, discovered the sex-positive, polyamorous world of open relationships and was hooking up happily - until she fell in love. Can Flora commit to just one man? Does a loving home and white picket fence have to preclude sex with multiple partners? I bet you know the an...

Is that a Magic Wand in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Cuddle Party Facilitator and Intimacy Coach Scoby Goo feels like an outsider until she stumbles upon our little storytelling show, and its inclusive atmosphere changes everything for her. Obsessed, Scoby follows Bawdy from city to city, and becomes captivated with a Seattle magician and their tantalizing true tale of an orgy at a Magician’s Conference. And Before you can say ‘Fortune favors the Brave’, Scoby volunteers for their own kind of Hocus Pocus - and Abracadabra, Bawdy Gets You Laid!

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Have you ever desperately craved ‘grown-up time’? Sex Educator Phoenix Mandel is working as a Travel Nanny with a rare night off in Canada, so when they are Invited to what they assume is a casual house party, they’re determined to make the most of this child-free time. But when Phoenix arrives, they discover it's actually a lively kink and sex-themed gathering - uh oh, that could mean breaking their Master’s BDSM agreements! Never one to back down, Phoenix creatively doles out lube, fear, orgasms and dirty talk, and walks away satisfied, proud and better yet, with a deeper...

Holy Baby Bump, talk about the best sex of your life! In this week’s story, journalist, essayist, and author Tracy Clark-Flory is eight months pregnant and the bigger her belly grows, the more distant she feels from her usual spank bank cravings. Should impending motherhood change her fantasies? In search of answers, Tracy interviews a whip wielding/childbearing dominatrix, a lactating cam model, and others who find being with child a powerful proposition. Her research - and a permanently plugged in Magic Wand - provide a new perspective on raging hormones, body image, and desire. #KnockedUp