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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. Meet internationally renowned experts with practical advice that you can use in your own life. The Good Sex Project is an internationally-award winning sexual revolution in podcast form. Get listening now! 
The Good Sex Project is made with the support of New Zealand on Air. If you want to get in touch with Melody or the team, please send us a message on Instagram - @goodsexproject - or email goodsexproject@gmail.com. 
WARNING: This podcast contains frank conversations about sex and relationships, and includes some swearing. Some episodes also deal with themes around toxic relationships. 
WHERE TO GET HELP:
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Need to talk? Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a trained counsellor.
Youthline – 0800 376 633, free text 234, email: talk@youthline.co.nz or online chat.
Rape Crisis – 0800 88 33 00 (will direct you to a nearby centre).

The Good Sex Project

Welcome to The Good Sex Project. Hosted by Melody Thomas, this is a podcast about good sex, good relationships, and how to have them. Out Now!
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Trailer: The Good Sex Project

New Zealanders have a lot of sex, but a lot of it is average. We meet three people who’ve had a lot of pretty average sex and not-so-healthy relationships.
Also feat. Australian feminist writer and broadcaster Clementine Ford, and Emily Nagoski, the award-winning author of Come as You Are.
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1: Doin' It For The Yarns

In this episode, we explore how feelings about our own bodies can get in the way of our love lives. We follow three people on their journeys to self-love, self-acceptance and self-worth.
Also feat. expert advice from psycho-sexologist Chantelle Otten
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2: The Glass Closet

In this bonus episode, we meet the two Alices who share their later-in-life coming out stories. There's Alice Soper, one of New Zealand’s foremost voices on women’s rugby. She’d always told herself she was super straight - that is, until her OE to London changed everything she thought she knew. And comedian and writer Alice Snedden, funny, irreverent and in denial about her love life - until she wasn’t.
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BONUS: Who The F**k Is Alice?

What's the point in sex positivity if the sex we're having is bad? We speak with South Auckland musician Pati AF, who grew up a "holy girl" in the church before kicking off her "hoe phase" - by claiming her own body and sexuality back with explicit Instagram posts and random dating app hook-ups. She was empowered. So why wasn’t she having a great time? 
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3: Are You Empowered?

What does good, healthy & happy casual sex look and feel like in the age of dating apps? We speak to people who’ve negotiated their way into some pretty sexy situations using their open and honest communication skills. We also look at how mainstream porn has infiltrated our sex practices, and at what we can learn from the world of kink and BDSM. 
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4: What Are You Into?

We delve into the biochemistry of those first tingly feelings for someone, and how all those raging chemicals can cloud our better judgment and lead to some toxic relationships. 
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5: Love Bomb

Long term love can be hard. We speak to couples who’ve got insight into how they make it through the tougher periods of their relationships, including having young children. We also get some guidance from experts including Dan Savage and somatic sexologist Sonia Waters.
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6: Lovegasms Ever After

Extra listening for the extra interested! In this bonus episode, Melody speaks with Wanaka-based somatic sexologist Sonia Waters about topics ranging from desire and libido in long term relationships, to recovering from trauma, to managing jealousy and watching pornography. Sonia is certified with the Somatic Sex Educators Association of Australasia and is doing her Masters degree in psychology with Massey University - her thesis is about embodied self pleasure. 
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BONUS: Somatic Sexologist Sonia Waters

Extra listening for the extra interested! In this bonus episode, Melody speaks with renowned American sex educator and researcher Emily Nagoski, who's mission in life is to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies.
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BONUS: Emily Nagoski

What happens when sex education falls short? From finger-blasting to pick-up artists, this episode follows three people who took learning into their own hands, including return guest and disability advocate Etta Bollinger's experience with sex workers and a young man's near-miss with incel culture. There's plenty of trial and error, as well as joyful discoveries and pleasure. We're also joined by Yumi Stynes, podcaster (Ladies, We Need to Talk) and co-author (Welcome to Sex) as we discuss the critical need for comprehensive sex education. This episode is a deep dive into what we learn, what we miss, and how to fill in the blanks.
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