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Author: Isy Abraham-Raveson and Rebecca Klein

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What is Sex? is a new podcast hosted by YES! co-founders Rebecca Klein and Isy Abraham-Raveson. Each episode features one anonymous question submitted by a kid in our sex ed classes. With the help of special guests, Rebecca and Isy discuss their own experiences with these questions and explore how to address these topics with the young people in your lives. YES! is a nonprofit that provides intersectional, sex-positive sexuality education to people of all ages. Learn more about YES! at our website: https://yourempoweredsexuality.org/ Contact us with questions you've been asked by kids about sexuality and bodies at contact@yestoconsent.org! SUPPORT OUR WORK HERE: https://www.patreon.com/yestoconsent
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Rebecca and Isy discuss diet culture and how we learn to feel guilty about what we eat. Along the way they also cover shame, black-and-white thinking, breaking generational cycles, and stale Oreos.We also mention Substantia Jones's Adipositivity Project - check it out!Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Rebecca and Isy are joined by 14-year-old Indu and 11-year-old Leela to talk about having relationships at a young age! They discuss what the point of a relationship is, as well as romantic vs. sexual orientations, different preferences for physical touch, and playing The Period Game.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Rebecca and Isy are here to talk about deflated breasts! They also cover vagina smells, growing single hairs in surprising new places, all the different ways breasts can feel, and the fact that Isy doesn't know what memes are.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Happy Valentine's Day! Rebecca and Isy are here to discuss whether it is OK to fall in love! They touch on camp boyfriends, elementary school musicals, fear of rejection, and the difference between "love" and "in love."Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Rebecca and Isy feel sad.  After a long discussion of the Philadelphia Phillies, Rebecca and Isy share what they're feeling sad about, their first memories of loss, grief playlists, and the healing benefits of a shower.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
It's Season 6!!! Rebecca and Isy are back to explore "healthy" relationships, friends getting married, the overuse of the words "toxic" and "gaslighting," and middle school fiber arts class. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
For the final episode of Season 5, Rebecca and Isy revisited the first ever episode and added some new thoughts and reflections on how the podcast has changed over the past five seasons!Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Rebecca and Isy are giggly in this episode! They discuss the different words we use for this sex act including anilingus, rimming, eating ass, tossing salad. Isy sings more than usual. And they talk about the importance of debunking myths that are designed to scare kids away from pleasure.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Rebecca and Isy were joined by future sex therapist Andy Pham to talk about Spencer's Gifts, fleshlights, handcuffs, teddy bears, and what to do if your kid likes putting stuff in their butt.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Rebecca and Isy talk about porn, fantasy, imagination, history, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. They also improvise a lullaby for you.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Isy and Rebecca are joined by podcast host Kyle Marshall to discuss his childhood question. Their conversation covers bisexuality, growing up without internet access, musical theater, craving touch, breaking out of categories, how pink became a "girl color," the changeability of our desires, and so much more!Check out Kyle's podcasts here!'Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport YES! by making a contribution to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Rebecca and Isy discuss all the different feelings people have about their number of sexual partners, whether they are worried it's too many or too few (and how other people often really enforce those fears). Isy wonders about the origins of the expression "notches on the bedpost" and Rebecca questions the practice of referring to people as "bodies." Halfway through season 5! Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
What does long mean to you? Isy and Rebecca had a lot of different interpretations of this question. They discuss penis-centric conceptions of sex, pressure to orgasm quickly or slowly, and really good pickles.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Isy and Rebecca started out this episode with what they want to say goodbye to in 2023, and then dove right into what it means to be "turned on." They talk about fantasy, the biology behind arousal,  and how they are both going to start writing erotica.Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Isy and Rebecca are joined by return guest Cori Maskart: standardized patient, gifted performer, parent extraordinaire, and former pregnant boy! They discuss uterine transplants, immaculate conception, and breaking down binary understandings of gender. Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.orgSupport What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Isy and Rebecca are back with Season 5!!! And wow did they have a lot to talk about... Masturbation, sex toys, osteoporosis, the meaning of past/present/future, memories of science class, Chanukah, period cramps, Adam Sandler, and so much more.  Any thoughts on this episode? We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, our website, or at contact@yestoconsent.org Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!
Wow, everyone was a little loopy for this one! Isy had Covid, people had some internet lags, some background noise, but they got through it and appreciate your patience!Isy and Rebecca were joined by their wonderful friends Carly and Yema to play a game of unbridgeable gaps in which they identified which qualities in a person would be dealbreakers, red flags, or green flags for them.Contact us contact@yestoconsent.org to tell us your unbridgeable gaps and red flags!Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, or at contact@yestoconsent.org 
Rebecca and Isy discuss porn, faking orgasms, and whether moaning is a natural response to pleasure or an intentional way of communicating how we feel (or both!).Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, or at contact@yestoconsent.org 
Rebecca and Isy discuss Isy's experience with non-stop uterus bleeding, trying to get answers from doctors, and being Jewish. Let us know if you have any uterus stories!Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, or at contact@yestoconsent.org 
Rebecca and Isy are joined by burlesque performer and sexuality enthusiast Sundae Addams to discuss the juiciness of stripping clubs! They talk about Hooters, burlesque history, and how we learned about sex work. Support What is Sex? on Patreon to help pay hosting fees, guests, editors, and hosts!We want to hear from you! Contact us on Facebook, Instagram, or at contact@yestoconsent.org 
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