All Posts by Dawn

Sex Gets Real 210: Jen Cross on healing trauma, dissociation, & the erotic

SIGN UP NOW! Explore More Summit 2018 starts in just a few hours and runs for the next 10 days. It’s free and online. Grab your ticket now at exploremoresummit.com. What if we could not only write ourselves whole after trauma, but write our way into the erotic and desire? This week, Jen Cross, author […]

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  • April 22, 2018

Sex Gets Real 209: Sexual pain & dissociation, virginity, & sex apps

Eager to sign-up for this year’s Explore More Summit? It kicks off April 23rd, 2018 and you can enroll for free at exploremoresummit.com. It’s your questions this week, folks, and there are so many amazing ones to get to. KiltmanFL wrote in about AC’s question in episode 203 wanting kink classes in Florida. Kiltman has some […]

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  • Dawn
  • April 15, 2018

Sex Gets Real 208: Sexual liberation & intersectional sex ed with Roan Coughtry

Eager to sign-up for this year’s Explore More Summit? It kicks off April 23rd, 2018 and you can enroll for free at exploremoresummit.com. What is intersectional sex ed? What does sexual liberation look like? This week, I’m joined by Roan Coughtry, a super rad sex educator who believes in having big conversations about how our […]

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  • April 8, 2018

Sex Gets Real 207: Sobriety, changing a partner, & fetishizing male virgins

Are you joining us for the 3rd annual Explore More Summit? It kicks off April 23, 2018 and it’s free and online. Grab your spot now at exploremoresummit.com. We did it. We did a live recording of the show with about a dozen of you joining in the fun. So, this is your chance to […]

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  • Dawn
  • April 1, 2018

Sex Gets Real 206: Witches, sluts, and feminists with Kristen Sollée

Are you a witch, a slut, or a feminist? Then this episode is for you because Slutist founder Kristen J. Sollée is here to chat with me, Dawn Serra, about her new book by ThreeL Media, “Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive.” I’m not sure how much I’ve talked about it on the show, […]

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  • March 25, 2018

Sex Gets Real 205: The first kid’s book featuring sex work, How Mamas Love Their Babies

This week Dawn Serra is chatting with author Juniper Fitzgerald and artist Elise Peterson who created the book, “How Mamas Love Their Babies” – published by Feminist Press. The book is the first children’s book to feature a sex worker and it’s brilliant. So, Juniper, Elise, and Dawn talk about sex working mothers, the realities […]

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  • March 18, 2018

Sex Gets Real 204: Joanna Angel on erotic fantasies, nostalgia, & staying creative in porn

Joanna Angel is joining the show this week and she’s excited to talk about her new book, “Night Shift: A Choose Your Own Erotic Fantasy.” We discuss how she came up with the story, the nostalgia of times past, feeling awkward and sexually inexperienced, and how some of Joanna’s favorite memories of sex shop tours […]

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  • March 11, 2018

Sex Gets Real 203: Married & poly, no guilt after an affair, & fear of sex

So what’s up for this episode? AC wants to know where to find a kink expert that might teach at a private party about bondage and flogging. I recommend Fetlife to get started. Drowning in Relationship Theory is so stressed. Her and her husband decided to open their marriage so she could explore her bisexuality. […]

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  • March 4, 2018

Sex Gets Real 202: Training doctors & moving on after harming someone with Bianca Palmisano

This week, I am joined by the incredible Bianca Palmisano from Intimate Health Consulting. Bianca specializes in training medical doctors, nurses, and staff to be more inclusive when treating marginalized folks, especially around sexuality and gender. So, we go there. We talk about all the ways doctors fail us and the emotional labor we often […]

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  • February 25, 2018

Sex Gets Real 201: Painful sex, feeling lonely in love, & fearing STIs

So what’s up for this episode? Mary wrote in because she’s have pain during sex. Her doctor didn’t help and she’s seeing a physical therapist for pelvic floor work, but what can she do? I’m not a doctor, but I can share a few resources about painful sex, which is often called dyspareunia for folks who […]

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  • February 18, 2018

Sex Gets Real 200: Unconventional sex, betrayal, & looking for signs of an orgasm

HAPPY EPISODE 200! So what’s up for this episode? You all have been sending me some TERRIFIC questions lately, and I was eager to dive in. Aussie Gal wrote in from Australia with some love and delight. Satisfied Slippery Slut went to She Bop in Portland after hearing it mentioned on a previous episode and […]

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  • February 11, 2018

Sex Gets Real 199: Being a survivor & the ethics of sex toys with Sarah Holliday

Formidable Femme, aka Sarah B Holliday, is here this week talking about sex toy companies, the ethics of selling sex toys, rejecting the perfect survivor narrative, healing from trauma, plus we field a listener question about abuse. Sarah is deeply committed to changing the way the sex toy industry operates, and she has loads of […]

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  • February 4, 2018

Sex Gets Real 198: Long distance BDSM, porn addiction, & abuse in love

Welcome to this week’s episode of listener questions!  First up, Love All of Him sent an update. Find out what happened after they followed my advice and what lead to them having PIV sex for the first time. Leo from Scotland wrote in. He’s had digestive issues for a few years and now his butthole is […]

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  • January 28, 2018

Sex Gets Real 197: Cavanaugh Quick dives into awkwardness, body language, being a switch, & consent

Talking to other sex educators, researchers, and experts is one of my favorite things in life, especially when the conversations are rich, personal, nuanced, and challenging. I met Cavanaugh Quick through O.School (where we both live stream sex ed for free), and the first time I saw Cavanaugh talk about feminist porn, I knew I […]

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  • January 21, 2018

Sex Gets Real 196: Luna Matatas on seducing the anus, strap-ons, & sex clubs

What do butt play, pegging the patriarchy, non-sexual Dominance & submission, strap-ons, and sex clubs have in common? Why, Luna Matatas, of course. She is joining me this week to talk about all the delicious, yumminess that is kink and pleasure. As a fellow O.School Pleasure Professional (check out her Fuck Like a Goddess weekly […]

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  • Dawn
  • January 14, 2018
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