What Is Sex?

Rebecca and Isy talk about sucking toes and other kinds of nongenital sexuality! They share how they each feel about feet and about putting things in their mouths, shoe preferences, and their dream of hosting a live dating show in the park.

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Content warning: discussion of the HBO documentary Quiet on Set, which references childhood sexual abuse. There will be a warning in the podcast before the discussion starts, and it is over at 11:17.

Rebecca and Isy discuss their relationships to masturbation as young people and now. The conversation covers masturbation myths, gendered expectations, their feelings about the word masturbate, and so much more.

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Rebecca and Isy are joined by asexuality educator Aubri Lancaster (@acesexeducation) to explore what asexuality means, the difference between attraction and desire, the difference between romantic and platonic love, the socially constructed nature of language, and whether we are attracted to ourselves! (And so much more...)

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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We need your help!

Each year, Your Empowered Sexuality (YES!) partners with Puentes de Salud to serve South Philadelphia students from Latinx immigrant families, primarily with roots in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala. The programs seek to address deep educational inequities such as systemic school underfunding, unequal language access, lack of relevant, engaging curricula, and other unmet needs. 

As common for many Pennsylvania students, one particular unmet need is access to comprehensive, intersectional, and accurate sexuality education. YES! offers weekly programming for 150+ students to meet this need, with consent and boundary workshops for 1st-3rd grade students; workshops to 4th-8th grade students spanning topics such as consent, identity, sexuality, puberty, race, and gender; and monthly parent workshops.

Funding in recent years for this work has allowed YES! and Puentes to reach more participants, support additional age groups, hire more bilingual Latinx facilitators, and further community leadership. However, due to tightening grantor budgets, this year’s grant funding will be cut by at least $10,000 - about a third of the total funding for this program. Help YES! close this funding gap and continue serving South Philadelphia students by donating today to support these efforts!

Your Empowered Sexuality (YES!) and Puentes de Salud are both 501(c)3 organizations. For other ways to get involved: become a monthly YES! donor, join our mailing list, and sign up to hear about future YES! events. 

Testimonials:

• “These workshops are so important for my child because sometimes, as parents we don’t know how to talk about certain topics.” -Parent of a 5th grader
• "Thank you for making us feel SO comfortable in the classes. Thank you for understanding us and listening to us." -5th Grade Student 
• "Thank you Isy for taking the time from your day to teach us about our body and how we should respect others" -7th Grade Student
• "I used to get scared but now I know more and I won’t get that scared." -High School Student

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