HeyJaredThe Good Sex Project
A podcast about good sex, good relationships and how to have them. Follow creator and host Melody Thomas as she meets everyday New Zealanders, who speak with striking openness and vulnerability about real issues in their sex and love lives.
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Phone A Friend (opens the original)
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We're wrapping up Season 3 by checking back in with some of the people who've stayed with us longest. Porte, the radio announcer who lost his legs in a train accident in his twenties and was last heard from in his seventies, deep in a spicy love triangle. Chloe, who had a running list of "fuckeries" on her phone - a catalogue of truly terrible sexual encounters that had her convinced she might be asexual. Simon, in his mid-sixties, grappling with the fact that he wasn’t his boyfriend’s sexual ‘t
Naked Honesty (opens the original)
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Shame thrives in silence, and nowhere more than in the territory of sex and sexuality. This final episode makes the case for why talking about the taboo isn't just cathartic but quietly radical: a way of dissolving isolation, dismantling shame, and discovering you were never as alone as you thought. We reflect on what happens when people finally say the thing out loud: in therapy, to a friend, on a podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dr Peggy Kleinplatz - What Makes Sex Magnificent (opens the original)
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Twenty years ago, Dr. Peggy Kleinplatz had a seven-and-a-half-month waiting list of couples stuck in the same story: one partner wants sex, the other doesn't, and both feel broken. So she stopped studying what goes wrong and started studying what goes right - interviewing people having the best sex of their lives to find out what it's actually made of. The answer breaks down into eight components, and technique isn't one of them. In this bonus episode, Dr. Kleinplatz - Professor at the Universit
The Real Sealed Section (opens the original)
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What separates good sex from sex that’s genuinely transformative? This episode starts with a challenge: one couple's New Year’s resolution to pursue 365 orgasms (for her) in a year, and what that commitment unlocked for them about pleasure, communication, and each other. Then we go deeper with Dr. Peggy Kleinplatz, whose landmark research into "magnificent sex" found that the best lovers aren't who you'd expect - and that what makes sex extraordinary has almost nothing to do with technique. An e
Letting Go of the Fairytale: Brynley Stent on Singles Club Season 2 (opens the original)
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Comedian and actress Brynley Stent (Shortland Street, Taskmaster, 7 Days) joins Melody Thomas for a candid, funny chat about love, singledom, and why finding "the one" doesn't magically fix everything. They talk about the vulnerability of putting a relationship on camera, the pressure of visas and biological clocks, and why friendship might matter just as much as romance. Content note: frank discussion of sex and dating, some swearing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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