Project Pleasure

In this episode Anouszka and Frankie talk to sex worker and educator Eve Adler about the practical tips that help her navigate sex with disabilities, and youtuber Hannah Witton explores how sex has – and hasn’t – changed since having a stoma bag. Plus, The Sway bring you their final Sex Hacks of the series …their beginners guide to talking dirty! Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure!

In this episode Anouszka and Frankie talk to Laura Dodsworth about what she learnt about body image from photographing 100 penises and 100 vulvas, and Africa Brooke explores the shame and disgust she used to feel towards her genitals. We’re also joined by The Pink Protest’s Honey Kinny and Grace Campbell, who explain why we so desperately need their ‘Girls Wank Too’ movement. Plus, The Sway bring you a beginner’s guide to sex toys! Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure!

In this episode Anouszka and Frankie explore the pleasure that can come from that time of the month – including glorious period sex – as well as the pain. Stand up comedian Karen Hobbs talks about how she uses comedy (and a large poster of her vulva!) to discuss her cervical cancer diagnosis, and blogger Jessica Duffin opens up about painful sex as a result of endometriosis. Plus, The Sway give us their top tips for orgasm denial! Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure!

In this episode Anouszka and Frankie explore the idea of sex being a biopsychosocial phenomenon with Dr Karen Gurney – that is, that sex happens physically, in our minds, and in relation to society around us. We hear about the emotional and physical impact of living with herpes from sex-positive speaker Rukiat, and we chat to bisexual activist Lewis Oaks about the dangers of grouping all LGBTQ experiences when it comes to sexual health. Plus, The Sway give us their top tips for touching the penis! Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure!

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes some quite difficult and complex conversations around consent and sexual assault, so if that’s something you don’t feel comfortable hearing right now, we totally understand if you want to skip over this episode – we’ll still be here if and when you do feel ready. In this episode Anouszka and Frankie think about their changing relationships with the concept of consent in the 18 months since the #MeToo movement gained momentum. We talk to writer and performer Louise Orwin about how her show Oh Yes Oh No explores the differences between fantasy and reality when it comes to dominance and submission, and Catriona Morton explains how she’s reclaiming her body and sex after sexual trauma …and The Sway are back with their top tips for sensual massage! If you’ve been affected by any of the discussions in this episode, please know there are people who are there to help you. Rape Crisis, Women’s Aid, and My Body Back Project are all wonderful organisations. Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse is a socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

DATING & CASUAL SEX: In this episode Anouszka and Frankie explore the different ways people approach casual sex, dating and relationships, proving there are no right or wrong rules as long as you’re comfortable with what you’re doing. Non-binary editor of Fruitcake magazine Jamie Windust talks us through the ridiculous stereotypes they have to deal with on dates and in the bedroom, and Sistren’s DJ and Michelle spill all their dating and casual sex secrets. Plus, as always, The Sway are back with their beginners guide to tease in Sex Hacks! Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse is a socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

In this episode Anouszka and Frankie discuss their completely opposing views on sexting and sending nudes, and are joined by Eva from YouTube channel What’s My Body Doin’ to learn how women might be able to write themselves back into their own sex lives by sexting. Sex positive duo Come Curious extoll the virtues – and highlight the pitfalls – of webcamming in Pillow Talk, as well as explaining how governments and internet giants are cracking down on all online sex content. Plus, sex box subscription service The Sway give us their top tips for rough love in Sex Hacks! Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse is a socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

In this episode Anouszka and Frankie are joined by Alicia Walker, the academic whose research into the connection between perceived penis size and self-esteem went viral for all the wrong reasons. Meanwhile in Pillow Talk, author of Be A Man Chris Hemmings reflects on his laddish past, detailing the ways he and other young men would ritually humiliate women in a bid to prove their masculinity, and discussing the effect porn is having on the sex lives of young people. With suicide being the biggest killer of men under 45, he explains what we can all do to make the world a kinder and safer place for people of all genders. Plus, sex box subscription service The Sway give us their top tips for anal play in Sex Hacks! Since recording this episode something brilliant has happened… the sex acts that we talked about as being illegal in the UK (including fisting, menstrual blood, urination and spanking) are no longer illegal as of January 31 2019. Instead of a list of forbidden acts, new guidance makes it clear that this type of pornographic material is unlikely to be prosecuted if it’s clearly between consenting adults. You can read more here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47069414 Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure!

SEXUALITY AND FLUID SPECTRUMS: In this episode Anouszka and Frankie get a Good Debriefing from the professor currently teaching the course Anouszka did at university – history of sexuality expert Dr Sarah Jones schools us in where our modern understanding of sexuality comes from. Sex writer and podcaster Franki Cookney scrutinises her bisexual identity, and why she sometimes doesn’t feel queer enough, and Genevieve LeJeune, founder of Skirt Club, helps us understand why women often feel more able to explore their sensuality with other women. Plus, sex box subscription service The Sway give us their top tips for touching the clitoris in Sex Hacks! Continue the conversation with us on twitter and instagram @pro_pleasure!

Anouszka and Frankie are back with series two of Project Pleasure! In this episode we question the medicalisation of libido with The Femedic’s editor Monica Karpinski, learn about the (mind-blowing!) differences between responsive and spontaneous desire with Emily Nagoski, author of Come As You Are, and hear about one woman’s quest to find her lost libido in our new feature, Pillow Talk. Plus, sex box subscription service The Sway give us their top tips for using lube in Sex Hacks! Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

BODY PARTS AND BODY IMAGE: In this episode, Anouszka and Frankie are making science sexy, getting schooled in human biology! We talk to Florence Schechter from the Vagina Museum and Justin Hancock from Bish sex ed resources about vulvas, vaginas, clitorises, pubes, penises and prostates! We also chat to body confidence coach Michelle Elman about why she’s #ScarredNotScared and how we can learn to appreciate our bodies away from the male gaze. First broadcast April 2018 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

CONSENT: Recent months have shown a lot of people still don't understand the concept of consent. In the wake of Weinstein, Anouszka and Frankie are showcasing a spoken word piece about a harrowing sexual assault, hearing from three young women about when they feel their choice to consent has been taken away, and asking how we can teach consent with Sexpression:UK's Jenny Dhingra. First broadcast November 2017 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

CONTRACEPTION: Anouszka and Frankie get a Good Debriefing from a gynaecologist who schools us on everything from choosing the right contraception method for your body and lifestyle, to whether withdrawal is a legit method of contraception (spoiler: it’s not!) We investigate the potential links between mental health and the pill, as well as hearing a moving real life story from a young woman who fell pregnant after having sex just once without contraception. First broadcast March 2018 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

MASTURBATION: Anouszka and Frankie get masturbation tips and tricks from superstar sex educator Alix Fox, as well as exploring sex toys for everyone regardless of their gender or physical ability with inclusive sex toy shop The Pleasure Garden. We also ask – and get the answers to – all those embarrassing masturbation related questions that you secretly want to know the answers to with our very own agony aunt, Zoe Ligon. Plus, with a little help from our guests we try to come up with a new word for ‘masturbation’… First broadcast February 2018 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

ORGASMS: In this episode Anouszka and Frankie explore the orgasm gap – the issue that sees 95% of straight men orgasming every time they’re sexually intimate, compared to only 65% of straight women. We speak to a sexological body worker and an investigative sex writer to explore how society has made women believe they simply have faulty bodies that are unable to experience pleasure …when in fact it’s society’s focus on penis in vagina intercourse that has erased the primary female sex organ – the clitoris. Plus, we hear from a self-confessed Olympian squirter about what it’s like to ejaculate as a woman! First broadcast July 2018 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

PERIODS: It’s that time of the month again …and it’s THAT time of the month as Anouszka and Frankie are talking periods! In this episode Project Pleasure explores why there’s so much shame and secrecy in imagery, arts and advertising of menstruation, as well as hearing from different women about their relationship with their own period. First broadcast December 2017 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

PORN: In this episode Anouszka and Frankie unpick the pitfalls and celebrate the pleasures of pornography. We get a Good Debriefing from Brook sex educator Ruby Stevenson, teaching us how to consume porn with a critical eye, hear a moving real life story from a former sex and porn addict, and learn about the electric world of ethical erotica from feminist pornographer Anna Richards! First broadcast May 2018 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

SEX EDUCATION: In the first ever episode of Project Pleasure, Anouszka and Frankie reflect on their own sex education, explore its (not particularly varied!) history, and chat to Bish sex educator Justin Hancock about what changes need to be made in the future. Plus, what are we really learning about what sex is if movies and music are taken at face value…? First broadcast October 2017 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

SEXUALITY: In this episode Project Pleasure explores sexuality by hearing from a number of people who all identify differently in terms of their race, gender, and sexuality. They open up in Switching Positions to explain their relationships with their own bodies and sexuality, as well as with the world around them. We also chat to Milly Evans, a youth campaigner with Stonewall, about why it’s so vital that the new sex and relationships education curriculum is inclusive of LGBT relationships. First broadcast January 2018 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh

STIs: In this episode Anouszka and Frankie try to figure out if people are more afraid of the social stigma of STIs than the physical symptoms, and if so how we can remove the shame. We get a Good Debriefing from the founders of condom brand HANX, designed to empower women to take control of their sexual health, hear from you about your experiences with herpes and chlamydia, and take a trip to the clinic to get tested ourselves. Plus in Switching Positions we hear from a young man living with HIV about the incredible treatment that now exists. First broadcast June 2018 Anouszka and Frankie are putting the pleasure back in to safe sex and healthy relationships. Tackling subjects you should have been – but probably weren’t – taught at school, in season one you’ll get a Good Debriefing from industry experts, hear moving real-life stories in Switching Positions, and cringe at each their pursuits of pleasure in Real Talk. Come and continue the conversation on Twitter and Instagram @Pro_Pleasure! Transmission Roundhouse socially engaged audio platform featuring radical chat and specialist tunes, broadcasting right from the heart of the Roundhouse. Live - www.roundhouse.org.uk/transmission Twitter - www.twitter.com/transmissionrh Instagram - @transmission_rh