Meg-john And Justin

We discuss how we might feel better about our bodies. So we touch on the social messages we get about bodies and this includes us talking about fatphobia, diets, 'health', disablism, but we don't go into much detail. It's a long one -- sorry about that.

In this podcast we decided to unpack romance… and kind of put it back together in a different form. By the end of the podcast we realised we’d followed a similar line to the line we follow with sex in our book Enjoy Sex (How, When and IF You Want To).

This week we answered a question about trauma and hookups on the podcast. A content note up front is that this episode does cover issues of sexual abuse/assault and trauma responses/PTSD. So if those things are live for you right now you might want to think about whether you want to listen or not. FYI we don’t go into any description of abuse or assault, we do have a bit more detail about possible trauma responses (fight, flight, and freeze) and what those can look like.

In this episode we explore how to go about having a hookup consensually, given that this has been in the headlines recently with the story about Aziz Ansari.

For this one we decided to take a leaf out awesome sex & relationships podcaster Dan Savage’s book and answer a few questions from listeners together on one show. Content warning: this episode begins with us singing our version of the Savage Lovecast theme song in an *ahem* beautiful homage to Dan Savage!

The podcast this time is all about how to make the festive season as consensual and self-caring as possible. http://megjohnandjustin.com/you/the-christmas-special

In this podcast we discuss the short story ‘Cat Person’ by Kristen Roupenian which appeared in The New Yorker last week and has been shared all over social media, partly due to its resonances with the recent #metoo campaign. We’d recommend reading the story - or listening to the audio - before listening to the podcast. But we’d also like to give content notes (for both the story and for our discussion) that there are themes of non-consensual sex, fear of sexual violence, gender shaming and stereotypes, fatphobia, and whorephobia. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person http://megjohnandjustin.com/cat-person

A quick companion piece to the latest podcast 'Sex Under The Weather' where we answer a listener's question about sex after injury.

This week on the podcast we focused on how to navigate sex when you’re feeling physically or emotionally under the weather or low, as many people do over the Winter period.

In this episode we chat about our work together in the light of really disappointing sales of our book. We reflect on our discussions we've been having lately about whether we should continue working together.

Post #MeToo we chatted some more about consent. Rather than making someone do something that we want them to do, what if our aim was consent? #consent #MJandJ

Recorded before #MeToo started trending again, we talk about power and consent in light of the recent Harvey Weinstein allegations. We don't talk about specifics but generally about power and consent and how this stuff is actually relevant to pretty much all relationships.

In this week’s podcast we answer the following question: "I'm an older queer guy who's just started dating a really lovely trans man. Apart from talking to him, which we are doing, where can I get helpful advice and insight into my own "stuff"? I came out late in life - and I am not really used to a lot of the gay scene - which is probably an advantage! Any advice or comments gratefully received :)"

Today we’re talking about having crushes on people when you can’t do anything about it. For example: if you work together; or they (or you) are in a monogamous relationship; or where there is a power dynamic for either of you which would make it impossible for it to be consensual; or if one of you is a dead hologram on a TV series and you are a school kid.

Content note: There’s brief mention of biphobic stereotypes, domestic abuse, and sexual assault in this post and podcast. For Bi visibility week we talk about some of the issues that may come up for Bi folk in sex/relationships. The last 7 minutes are a total shambles but made us laugh.

It's Sexual Health Week this week and the focus here in the UK is on porn and how we can teach young people about it. Listen to us chat about whether porn is actually the sexual health issue that people often say it is and what the alternatives are.

We have a lovely chat with Alex Iantaffi about gender and about Alex and MJ's new book 'How to Understand Your Gender' which is really brilliant. http://www.jkp.com/uk/how-to-understand-your-gender-2.html

This week we have a question "If people do decide that that they want to learn to be "better" at sex... How would you advise a woman who has enjoyable sex with her(female) partners but would better like to learn how to have more reliable/reproducible orgasms. Solo and with a partner."

So we don't describe ourselves as 'sex positive'. This might sounds pretty strange to you cos we've written a book called ‘Enjoy Sex’ which sounds pretty positive right? And surely we’re not negative about sex, which is the alternative to being positive? In this podcast and blog post we thought we’d explain what we understand by sex positivity - and sex negativity - and why we prefer something beyond either of these options, called being sex critical.

We chat about hierarchies of different kinds of relationships and why they might be bad for other relationships but also can be bad for that one at the top. You can read a blog/transcript of what we talked about here. http://www.megjohnandjustin.com/relationships/hierarchies-meg-john-justin-podcast