I am passionate about providing resources that help individuals and couples enhance their sexual well-being and deepen their understanding of intimacy. In this post, I’m excited to share a curated selection of sexually educational podcasts and audiobooks. These resources offer professional insights, practical advice, and engaging stories to support your journey toward a more fulfilling and informed sexual life. Whether you want to improve communication with your partner, explore new dimensions of pleasure, or simply learn more about sexuality, these podcasts and audiobooks are invaluable tools for personal growth and relationship enhancement.
My Favorite Sexy Podcasts
These podcasts cover a range of topics related to sex, relationships, and pleasure, offering both educational insights and erotic content. These are a few of my personal favorites!
Sex and Psychology Podcast
The Sex and Psychology Podcast is the sex ed you never got in school. Kinsey Institute researcher Dr. Justin Lehmiller takes you on a journey through the psychology of sex and relationships, offering practical tips along the way that can help you take your intimate life to the next level. With 300 episodes and counting, you can be sure that all of the most titillating topics have been covered.
Sex with Emily
Doctor of Human Sexuality Emily Morse, is on a mission to liberate the conversation about sex and pleasure. For 15 years, the Sex With Emily podcast has been liberating sex, pleasure, and you. With new episodes every Tuesday and Friday, Sex With Emily is one of the top sexuality podcasts on iTunes. Emily’s website boasts an audio section, a robust blog, and a storefront featuring some of her favorite products.
The Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage is a sex advice columnist, podcaster, and author who has appeared on numerous television shows. In 2006, Dan launched the Savage Lovecast, a weekly call-in sex advice podcast. It has 600,000 unique monthly downloads and 20,000 paying subscribers for premium “Magnum” content. It ranks consistently in the top ten Sexuality podcasts on Apple Podcasts.
Sex Out Loud
Join award-winning author, speaker, sex educator, and media maker Tristan Taormino as she explores the world of sexuality from every angle. Tristan interviews leading authors, educators, artists, and icons about sexual pleasure, sexual wellness, identity, relationships, community, and social justice. Get an inside look at alternative sexual practices, communities, and relationships—like LGBTQIA folx, BDSM, polyamory, sex work, and disability—from both leading and underrepresented voices. Tristan also shares her twenty years of experience with honest, sex-positive sex advice for listeners.
The Sex Ed
Explore sex, health, and consciousness with host Liz Goldwyn, founder of TheSexEd.com. The Sex Ed is a digital platform dedicated to sex, health, and consciousness. Liz and her featured (s)experts aim to educate, inform, and inspire new discussions around sexual wellness.
Each (s)expert has over 10,000 hours of experience in their respective fields. From clinical sexology and kink to mindful meditation and sexual medicine, the goal is to help cultivate a deeper understanding, openness, and acceptance of sex, health, and consciousness.
Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy
Foreplay Radio features sex therapist Laurie Watson, PhD, LMFT, and George Faller, LMFT, a global leader in couples therapy. This insightful podcast dives into the topics of sexuality, marriage, eroticism, and committed partnership. With decades of counseling experience for each of them, these two internationally-known therapists bring you concrete tools for your relationship.
Erotic Awakening
The Erotic Awakening Podcast is an informative and entertaining exploration of all things erotic. Hosts Dan and Dawn have been an alternative lifestyle couple since 2001 and have presented at over 100 events around North America. The podcast covers everything from sacred sexuality to fetishes, power exchange and polyamory, BDSM to erotic spirituality, non-standard relationships to alternative love styles, as well as simply fun kink.
My Favorite Sexy Audiobooks
These audiobooks cover a range of topics, from sexual education and relationship advice to erotic literature, providing both informative and pleasurable listening experiences.
Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are uses groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual well-being; they are central to it—and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself.
The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
Experienced ethical sluts Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths and cover all the skills necessary to maintain a successful and responsible polyamorous lifestyle—from self-reflection and honest communication to practicing safe sex and raising a family. Individuals and their partners will learn how to discuss and honor boundaries, resolve conflicts, and define relationships on their own terms.
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters – and How to Get It
In Becoming Cliterate, psychology professor and human sexuality expert Dr. Laurie Mintz exposes the broader cultural problem that’s perpetuating this gap and what we can do about it. By dispelling the lies, misunderstandings, and myths that have been holding us back, Becoming Cliterate tackles both personal and political problems and replaces them with updated outlooks and practical skills needed to change our collective perspective on sex.
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel, offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home.
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
While debunking almost everything we “know” about sex, Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá offer a bold alternative explanation in this provocative and brilliant book. With intelligence, humor, and wonder, Ryan and Jethå show how our promiscuous past haunts our struggles over monogamy, sexual orientation, and family dynamics.
The Multi-Orgasmic Couple: Sexual Secrets Every Couple Should Know
Co-written by Mantak Chia, the foremost expert in the field of Taoist sexuality, and Rachel Carlton Abrams, M.D., a family practice physician specializing in holistic health and sexuality, The Multi-Orgasmic Couple combines ancient Eastern wisdom with Western knowledge to provide the sexual secrets that every couple needs to know.
Delta of Venus
In Delta of Venus, Anaïs Nin penned a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women and then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.
Dipsea Stories
Dipsea is a universe of spicy audiobooks and romantic fiction in which the female gaze is always front and center. Professional writers and top-tier narrators bring romantic fiction to life.
I hope you find this collection of sexually educational podcasts and audiobooks as enriching and enlightening as I do. Each of these resources offers unique perspectives and valuable information to support your journey toward a more informed and satisfying sex life. Remember, education and open communication are key components in fostering intimate connections and personal growth.
As you explore these recommendations, I encourage you to reach out with any questions or insights you might have. Together, we can continue to break down barriers, embrace our sexuality, and build stronger, more fulfilling relationships. Thank you for joining me on this journey, and I look forward to sharing more with you in the future.