Podcasts by touchpoint

Love, Sex,&Dating During Covid-19: Part Six from 2020-05-20T02:04:30

On this week's episode of the Touchpoint Town Hall, we heard from two couples who were navigating unique challenges in quarantine.

First, Brandi and Kat shared about negotiating personal ...

Love, Sex,&Dating During Covid-19: Part Five from 2020-05-14T00:49:29

Ida, a 76-year-old widow logs in from Jerusalem (at 2:30am her time) to share with us her epic love story, and also to do a vibrant recitation of her new quarantine digital dating profile––which sh...

Love, Sex,&Dating During Covid-19: Part Four from 2020-05-06T20:38:58

In this week's episode of Touchpoint, we have three very different stories about what it means to fully be ourselves.

First Taty opens up about being polyamorous and redefining love for h...

Love, Sex,&Dating During Covid-19: Part Three from 2020-05-01T13:44:22

This episode was a total emotional rollercoaster, from Brooke's recitation of her sexts with an ex...

...to Punam's incredible story of a socially distanced child birth...

Love, Sex,&Dating During Covid-19: Part Two from 2020-04-17T00:28:14

In our second virtual episode, nearly 500 people from around the world logged in live to witness Jared chat with people about the things they’re experiencing in bed and in love during...

Love, Sex,&Dating During Covid-19 from 2020-04-03T12:04:58

In this episode, Jared hosts 250+ people from 26 countries for a conversation about love, sex, and dating during Covid-19.  Below are some of the highlights.

👩‍❤️‍👨 A story fro...

The Touchpoint Check-In from 2020-03-21T16:56:23

It's March of 2020, and we are all in the midst of a real crisis of connection right now. We have been told to socially distance ourselves; to steer clear of each other.  To hunker down in our h...

The Most Courageous Love Story Ever Told from 2019-05-22T19:32:09

On today’s episode of Touchpoint, I sit down with two of the bravest people I’ve ever met. Their life stories both individually and collectively stand as prismatic examples of the messes we crea...

Danger, Touch,&Transformation In Bed from 2019-04-23T13:51:06

On this episode, you’ll hear stories of sexual exploration, gender transformation, and what one poet calls, “skin starvation.” Plus, Dr. Zhana offers some surprising insights into what consent m...

What Does It Mean To Be A Man? from 2019-03-26T19:39:44

Andrew Horn wants men to get more vulnerable.  He’s the founder of a new organization called Junto, a not-so-secret club for men to explore emotional mastery where he curates workshops and weeke...

BDSM Is Not Shorthand for Buddhism...But It Is from 2019-03-11T23:11:17

Sex, much like life, is best when we feel self-expressed. But that’s why, for many of us, sex just isn’t as good as it could be.  Often, we may feel constricted or afraid, ashamed of what we thi...

How To Talk About Money When You're In Love from 2019-02-26T14:27:48

Mae West once said, “Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”  Because while love is the energy that makes life meaningful, money is the tool that make life livable. And at the in...

How Meditation Makes Us Better In Bed w/ Emily Fletcher from 2019-02-19T00:56:08

Someone once said, “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

I only say “someone” because the quotation has been attributed to at least th...

She Said Yes! from 2019-02-10T18:42:02

Sierra had a crush on Cassandra in 9th grade.  But Cassandra didn't think she was into women at that point so it was a no go.  Fast forward to adulthood when they find each other again and fall ...

Hookups, Happiness,& Heartbreak from 2019-02-05T15:52:09

On this episode, I play a round of the Touchpoint sex tarot with Amy Chan, the founder of Renew Breakup Boot Camp—a shmancy retreat for women to heal after a breakup.

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Speaking Your Truth In Bed, In Love,& In Life w/ Miki Agrawal from 2019-01-28T23:57:10

Too often, we accept things the way they are; leaving ourselves and others without what we really need to self-actualize and grow.  Too many desires go unmet.  Too many dreams go unfu...

Sex, Love,& Spirituality from 2019-01-22T23:34:55

Alright. Let's get spiritual.  This week on the podcast, we have Master Kundalini Teacher, Hari Kaur.  So now you're possibly asking yourself, "WTF is Kundalini?" I totally feel you.  About eig...

Squirting, Consent,& Cosmic Love from 2019-01-14T20:52:23

From squirting to consent, journaling to coming out, cosmic love to sexy spreadsheets, the storytellers from this last town hall stirred our souls, opened our minds, and made us laugh...

WTF is Tantra? from 2019-01-07T17:58:03

Many of us crave deeper connections with our partners--both in bed and in life, and tantra is the art and science of making that connection as deep as possible.

In t...

The Magic of Talking Sex With A Long-Term Partner from 2018-12-17T19:43:20

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from talking to thousands of people about their sex lives it’s that we do not need to talk about sex to have sex—but we do need to talk about sex to ...

Becoming A Man In Bed, In Love,& In Life from 2018-12-10T20:12:33

Some of you may know Quddus Philippe from his early years as a VJ on MTV’s TRL.  These days, he and his partner in life and love, Carmina, are cofounders of a pers...

Parenting, Partnership, and Porn with Erika Lust& Pablo Dobner from 2018-12-02T18:54:38

With artistic vision and feminist values, Erika Lust is at the forefront of today’s sexual revolution, confronting the mainstream porn industry with a sex-positive, erotic and cinematic alternat...

A Town Hall About Identity, Virginity,& Group Sex from 2018-11-22T12:31:11

The first time she experienced oral sex, she was fourteen years old and her lover didn’t speak a lick of english; he wasn’t ready to fully acknowledge that he was gay until he had his first gay ...

Getting In Touch With Your Fantasies from 2018-11-04T21:49:14

Alan Alda once said, “Your assumptions are your windows to the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.”

With that in mind, I have one question: what do you...

A Chat With Lindsey Metselaar from We Met At Acme from 2018-10-21T07:30

In between town halls, we’ve decided to start releasing episodes where Jared chats one-one with inspiring people about the things they’ve experienced in bed and in love.

In this first one...

Watching Porn: Inspiring for Couples, Sometimes Healing for Survivors, and Better When Produced by Feminists? from 2018-10-14T07:00

Watching gay male porn helped her heal from sexual trauma;her boyfriend brought her to a porn cinema in Montreal and they were directed to the upstairs balcony where couples can practice what th...

Sex Under the Influence: Escape, Exploration,& the Search for Connection from 2018-09-16T20:31:51

She never knew she was only a few puffs away from finally enjoying oral sex; the first time he had sober sex, everything was illuminated; a few years into their relationship, they discovered eat...

Great Sex: Sometimes With Toys, Sometimes In Groups, Sometimes With Love, but Always With Emotional Intimacy from 2018-08-08T08:00

She found herself tied to a wall in a basement having the best sex of her life; he met a hot guy at a party, brought him back to his place, got undressed, and quickly realized that some signific...

Open Relationships: A Way to Discover Yourself, Other People,& Possibly A Unicorn from 2018-06-10T12:01:50

She joined a couple in bed as their “unicorn” and realized that polyamory could be fun--for two weeks, his wife had sex with a man with a “much much bigger penis” and they had to talk through it...

Oral Sex: Giving, Receiving,& Believing We're Worthy from 2018-05-06T10:08:55

She responded to a text at 4am and discovered that her body was capable of magical things, he always was the giver until he realized that he too was worthy of love, unlearning shame from a catho...

From Porn To Tantra from 2018-04-17T10:30

A woman finds a sex toy in her husband's travel bag, unlocks the secret to their sexless and "disastrous" 25-year marriage, and then begins a powerful journey to most profound intimacy of her li...

The Intimacy Practice from 2018-04-10T10:39:05

A man calls up an old friend and asks if they can be "intimacy partners."  In the process they redefine what it means to define a relationship--specifically friends with benefits.

This st...

Casual Sex: Visceral, Spiritual,& Not Just for Single People? from 2018-03-22T12:11:11

A young woman has a passionate encounter with a nameless stranger in a parking lot, an agender person has a spiritual awakening in the arms of a police officer, and a couple explores a playful e...