Full Disclosure: Sex, Culture, And Comedy

It may not be as exciting, sexy, or funny as the original show, but new episodes of Full Disclosure can be found by searching for "Full Disclosure with Eric Barry" in iTunes, or at fulldisclosurepodcast.com

Hey folks! I'm launching,  featuring short stories, poetry, general musings, and more called Eric Barry Writes. It should be available in iTunes next week, but go to www.ericbarrywrites.com for updates, or follow me on twitter @ericbarry. Have a great weekend!

Hey gang! The much anticipated (nearly 11 months in the making) podcast is out!  It's called Eric Does A Thing, available in iTunes and everywhere else. Please subscribe and write a review for the show! It helps us get discovered by more people. Essentially the show is about me exploring new experiences, events, and culture, all while giving my own perspective on life and politics. If you love Radiolab and me blathering, you'll love this show! To stay up to date on new podcast episodes, reviews, and events, be sure to subscribe in iTunes, and follow the show on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

Well guys, I hate to say it, but this may be the last episode of Full Disclosure. Or close to it. After almost 4 years, amazing guests, amazing demos, amazing personal growth, and amazing times, it's just not panning out with the listenership we need. Like, truthfully, the listenership is abysmal. And that's kind of the one reward that's supposed to come with having a podcast, is a community of engaged listeners. So to those of you who have listened, my sincere thanks. I'm going to try and start another podcast or venture using different social media profiles (I truthfully think there might be some bad behind the scene profile karma working against me in terms of SEO, etc.), so do follow me on twitter and Facebook and join the mailing list to the right of this posting to stay updated.  Anyway, on to today's show! Chris Pent is back! Joining us for a brief Skype session is sexologist, sex educator, and second-EVER Full Disclosure guest Charlie Glickman. Charlie will be visiting Chicago to teach some awesome an

Hello folks. Coming at you listening to Bowie's Blackstar. Found out the news about 2 hours after we finished recording this, so forgive the lack of mention. Man. What a fucking ... being. On the show this week is Chris Pent, Jessamyn Fitzpatrick, and via Skype Caroline Allen. We start things off talking about some rough sex elements, including spitting and one's proclivity toward the taste of semen. Next up: New Year's resolutions. I finish out my story mentioned a couple weeks ago about the vigorously unhealthy bender I went on in San Francisco, and how it culminated. This transpiring honestly went from one I thought would be fun to tell to one that was pretty raw for me to tell, so fair warning. Finally we get into the nitty gritty of Making a Murderer. SPOILER ALERTS to follow. Without going into the entire 10 episode series and our discussion, we basically talk about how fucked up the justice system is, from cops to judges, politicians to lawyers. It's disgusting, and this series is a thorough examinatio

When many people think of what they want their food to taste like, last on that list is genitals. But that's not the case for Nicky Dyal and Richie Rhombus (I'm guessing these are their burner names but I can neither confirm nor deny this). They're the authors of the new book Eat Me: Recipes for Transcendental Women's Anatomy Tasting (there's a fun acronym buried in the title as well). The book is part recipe guide, part poetic memoir. Richie believes that people need to expand their palettes when it comes to the notion of what female genitals taste like, and this book was an attempt to do that while also bring body-positivity to counter much of the shame impressed upon women about their genitals. In the book, Richie and Nicky recall specific sexual experiences of theirs as told through poetic food metaphors. These accounts are then followed by similarly-toned recipes that are designed to capture the taste experience Richie and Nicky had at that time. I chat with them about these inspirations, how they met, t

This week I sit down to chat with Bawdy Storytelling host and creator Dixie De La Tour. Bawdy is a fantastic sex-positive variety show based in San Francisco that now has legs in Chicago, Seattle, and L.A. Before my interview with Dixie, I talk about my time in San Francisco and how something as simple as getting a hotel room can change your entire demeanor (and not necessarily for the better). Dixie and I start off by talking about her upbringing, and the conservative nature of the south that pushed her to San Francisco. She began her career working in printing, and eventually made her way into selling personal ads in the back of SF Weekly. While dealing with clients over the phone, she realized she had a knack for coaching people on how to get laid, and eventually took out her own personal ad. This led her to the alternative sex and dating scene in San Francisco, where events like Kinky Salon opened up the door to not only sexual experiences for Dixie, but coaching others on how to fulfill their own desires

HO HO HO! We have a very merry show for you this week. Coming into your ears from San Francisco's kinkiest cafe, Wicked Grounds, is Craig Gaspian, Nick Palm, and yours truly. The show is short and fun. We talk about the new Star Wars, the return of Nick, Steve Harvey's massive Miss Universe flop, a little dip back into sex news, and of course, perhaps the BEST segment of Buttplug Theater EVER? Have a wonderful Holiday folks! Please follow me on Twitter @ericbarry, like our Facebook page, throw some bucks at the show on Patreon, and SUBSCRIBE in iTunes!  

You guys, we have a NEW RSS feed. Which means if you've subscribed to this podcast in the past, you're probably not reading this! But you can get the new RSS feed here or go by way of iTunes. We have a terrific show this week you guys but I'm editing this in bed at 2:57am on a work night, and have given up on writing an elaborate episode description, but only after I gave up on showering for two days. So here's what you need to know about the episode! Christ Pent, Kristen Rau, and Amanda Wiciek are on it!  We talk about pizza. We talk about AND experience virtual reality porn compliments of Chris. We talk about age preferences and gaps in dating. We talk about women in comedy without having successfully booked any female standups on the show. Promise to come back to this one another time. Till then! Please follow me on Twitter @ericbarry, like our Facebook page, throw some bucks at the show on Patreon, and SUBSCRIBE in iTunes!

This week we welcome back my roommate Amanda, as well as performer and consent educator Jessamyn Fitzpatrick. Jessamyn performs in an awesome show called Sex Signals for an awesome theater company called Catharsis Productions. They tour around helping to educate college students about consent and navigating what they want with their sexual partners. We talk about Jessamyn's background and how she got involved with the company, as well as some of the behind the scenes of the production, how it's received, etc. From there we engage in a larger discussion about consent, relating many topics covered in last week's episode about the James Deen rape allegations. Coming back from our break we get into an argument about the merits of Beyonce and the marketing of feminism. Then it's off to discuss a recent article Jessamyn read from a dude who said he no longer wanted to turn that cherry out. We talk about this in relation to the article posted earlier this year from Alison Stevenson where she insisted that she won't

We have a tough one today. Helping me tackle this episode we have the return of Kristen Rau and Caroline Allen, plus for the first time on the show, my roommate Amanda. We start things off by talking about porn and the general consumption of it amongst us, why we use it to masturbate, whether it's necessary, and why Kristen doesn't watch it period. Then we dig into the recent rape accusations surrounding porn star and until now BDSM and porn-done-right poster boy James Deen. Deen was accused by fellow porn star and former girlfriend Stoya of raping her Saturday evening. Stoya returned to twitter after a brief hiatus to make the allegations on Twitter, stating, "James Deen held me down and fucked me while I said no, stop, used my safeword. I just can't nod and smile when people bring him up anymore." We go into a bit of Deen's background, why he had been lauded for his work by so many women (and men), and why this was particularly disheartening to here. Then we get into a very complicated and nuanced discuss

This week we welcome back sex educator, host of Showtime's Sex with Sunny Megatron, and my own Chicago emotional comfort blanket Sunny Megatron! Plus for the first time on the bedroom show we have comedian and storyteller Angela Vela. PLUS for the first on any version of the show EVER, we have sex educator Kelly Connell. We start things off by digging back into Sunny's story she recently told at Bawdy Storytelling. This leads to a discussion on ATM, other fecal related practices, and the role of porn in sex education. Angela then talks about the recent #ShoutYourAbortion movement, which initially started as an effort to raise money for Planned Parenthood but has evolved into movement to end the stigma surrounding pregnant women and their decision to terminate their pregnancy. From there we cover a whole smattering of sex ed topics from sex ed to condom usage, male birth control to other things I can't remember. I'm at work, and frankly exhausted. Woo! Please follow me on Twitter @ericbarry, like our Facebook

We've got a jam-packed episode this week, as Chriss Pent and Dan Cummings return to the show. We begin things by discussing the Bawdy Storytelling event Eric was on, and how to "lie appropriately" for a storytelling show. Then we dig into all sorts of fun topics surrounding the horrible attack in Paris. From slacktivism to excuses for us to bomb other countries and back, this is one sex podcast that's not afraid to talk about things its host knows nothing about. Then some other stuff happens I can't remember. Next up we get improviser Caroline Allen on the show to talk about the new w/ Bob and David series, which is basically a Mr. Show reboot from Bob Odenkirk and David Cross.Which of course means we end up talking about blackface? Please follow me on Twitter @ericbarry, like our Facebook page, throw some bucks at the show on Patreon, and SUBSCRIBE in iTunes!

  Last week Houston voters overwhelmingly defeated an ordinance designed to prevent discrimination against protected classes, including the right for transgender individuals to use the bathroom with which they identify. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, was defeated by a margin of 2-1. This week we discuss the issue with trans female and Chicago performer Kelly Lauren, as well as LGBT activist, owner of FTM Essentials (NSWF-ish), and proud mother of a trans girl Searah Deysach.   Much of the anti-HERO rhetoric focused on the (false) notion that transgender individuals are likely to attack you in a bathroom, specifically trans women attacking small girls. You can checkout one of their campaign videos below:       We talk about the unquestionable statistics which completely refute this notion, as well as the fact that most people who are transgender want to present very much like the gender with which they identify. This is what led Kelly to work with a photographer in order to depict just how

This week improvisers Kristen Rau and Dan Cummings return to the show. Things gets heavy quickly as we dive right into Kristen's love for sandwiches. We debate the merits of making them yourself, and weather or not a sandwich can ever truly be satisfying as a meal. This leads to a discussion of a recent date I had with a young trans woman, who I didn't realize was trans prior to meeting. We talk about trans disclosure, and when the best time to disclose is, and if it's even necessary in certain circumstances. From there we talk about flakey dates, particularly being ghosted by individuals instead of being told directly that they're not interested. Then we talk about sandwiches. ---Please follow me on Twitter @ericbarry, like our Facebook page, throw some bucks at the show onPatreon, and SUBSCRIBE in iTunes!  

We've got a full house this week as we welcome back to the show Dan Cummings, Kristen Rau, Sarah Zwinklis, and sex educator, hacker, and first-timer Chris Pent. Chris is a professional hacker, hired by companies to intentionally find security breeches in their websites and other ostensibly secure data. Chris details some of the more newsworthy hacks as of late, including the Adult Friend Finder, iCloud photo, FetLife, and Ashley Madison hacks. We discuss how exactly the hacks happened, as well as the mentality of those behind the breeches. This leads to a discussion about the victims of these hacks, particularly those who are perhaps cheating on their partners, and those who choose to spy on their partners' activity. As most things do, this prompts us to a larger discussion about non-monogamy.  Rounding things out we talk about the practical steps that users can take in order to better protect themselves against hacks and the hackers that hack them. Please follow me on Twitter @ericbarry, like our Facebook pa

Hey folks! It's just me this week. Booking the podcast has become exceptionally difficult this last year, and this is another week where unfortunately I couldn't get anyone on. BUT! I wanted to say hello, give you a few brief updates, and also sell some sweet, sweet Base Camp project management software. Hopefully we'll be back next week. In the meantime! Please follow me on Twitter @ericbarry, like our Facebook page, throw some bucks at the show on Patreon, and SUBSCRIBE in iTunes!

This week we welcome the Executive Director of Folsom Street Events Demetris Moshoyannis to the show. Demetris is tasked with organizing and running the ins and outs of the infamous Folsom Street Fair, the world's largest kink event. I chat with him about the history of the fair, its cultural place within the rapidly-gentrifying San Francisco, and more. Plus, I rant about the misreported "Kanye Western" party that took place at UCLA last week that sparked online outrage and think pieces, in particular this one. The piece has since removed an unattributed picture of a girl dressed in brown makeup on her face, leading me to believe (given the way the rest of the article was written and its omission of many sources), that they just found an offensive picture unrelated to the actual party and decided to use it. Social justice is great. Internet-shaming through intentionally molding someone into the bad guy you want them to be is not. Please follow me on twitter @ericbarry, subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, like

And then God said to His people: Subscribe to this podcast. This week we have the creators of Guilty the webseries on to discuss the inspiration for their new show, mainly religious guilt and what's that's meant as women navigating sexuality in their 20's. Here from the team we have Katie Novotny, Emma Smith, and Erin Conroy! We start things off by talking about how the three all met, and then dive into how religion was part of their upbringing. We dig into some specifics of Catholicism and how sex and female bodies were deemed shameful by the church. The women talk about the eventual evolution out of their strict religious beliefs and finding their own sexually. Next up we dig into the improv scene a bit and the dating and matings that seem prevalent in any insular community. Then we talk about the inception of Guilty, the making of the series, and what the team hopes comes from it's creation. Finally, we end things with the best video on the internet this past week:    Please follow me on twitter @ericb

Hello from 36,00 miles up! I'm currently in the air, returning from San Francisco and celebrating my 30th birthday and Folsom Street Fair. Joining me from Haight Street this week is our old friend and co-host Jess Kuno, as well as improviser and show favorite Craig Gaspian! It's a loose and fun one. We talk about everything from the evolving prices of San Francisco ($16 for a goddamn food truck lobster roll?) to the anxieties of turning 30. And maybe, just maybe, we sneak in the greatest segment of Buttplug Theatre in the show's history. Please follow me on twitter @ericbarry, subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, like our Facebook page, and leave us a voicemail at (415) 779-6855 or email eric@fdpod.com. Thanks, BYEEEEEEE!