In 2023, podcasts remained some of the best entertainment material while doing chores around the house or on your drive to work. Mashable has picked the best podcasts of 2023, but we also have specific selections for sex and relationship listens. Because who doesn't want a comedian or sexpert in your ears? Here are 11 shows to learn more about sexuality and/or laugh while doing it.
1. It's My Pleasure
Sex coach Danielle Savory dives into how the brain impacts our sex lives in her podcast It's My Pleasure. Your brain is an important sex organ, which you may have picked up on if you've ever tried to have sex while your mind is elsewhere (the sex isn't the hottest). Savory discusses how we can use neuroscience and psychology to induce more pleasure and thus have better sex.
How to listen: It's My Pleasure is available on Apple Podcasts.
2. Sex Ed with DB
Sex education in the United States is less than stellar, but teachers like Sex Ed with DB host Danielle Bezalel are here to help us bridge the gap. A repeat expert source here at Mashable (check out our article on TikTok removing sex ed videos), Bezalel is a sex-positive educator who takes an accessible, inclusive approach in her podcast. The conversations between Bezalel and her expert sources (many of them LGBTQ and BIPOC) provide an entertaining and informative resource for learning more about sex and our bodies.
How to listen: Sex Ed with DB is available on Apple Podcasts.
3. Seggs Talk Radio
If you're looking for conversations about sex and kink directly in your ears, look no further than Seggs Talk Radio. Host Thea Rose brings on guests like sex workers, activists, sex tech founders, and others in the sex industry to share candid insights about modern love and human sexuality.
How to listen: Seggs Talk Radio is available on Apple Podcasts.
4. Sluts & Scholars
Sluts & Scholars host and marriage and family therapist Nicoletta Heidegger has been a source for Mashable stories about non-monogamy. She's also an expert on other aspects of sexuality, like kink, and digs deep into them on her show. Heidegger invites fellow sexperts to discuss topics like desires, sexual stigma, and more. If you live a queer or kinky life in particular, Sluts & Scholars is for you.
How to listen: Sluts & Scholars is available on Apple Podcasts.
5. Shan Boodram's Lovers and Friends
Bumble's sex and relationship expert and sexologist Shan Boodram doesn't hold anything back in her podcast Lovers and Friends. Join Boodram, who also has a YouTube channel with nearly 700,000 subscribers, as she and guests talk about sex and intimacy weekly. Recent episodes include regrets about dating older men, the orgasm gap, and being childfree — so there's truly something for everyone.
How to listen: Shan Boodram's Lovers and Friends is available on Apple Podcasts.
6. The Queer Social
"Queer Mommy and Zaddy," aka married couple Jess and Andie Vanacore, started The Queer Social in March, and already have developed an audience 18,000 strong on Instagram. On The Queer Social, the two discuss love, relationships, and parenting through their perspectives. Come for the queerness, stay for the cute married banter.
How to listen: The Queer Social is available on Apple Podcasts.
7. Dates & Mates with Damona Hoffman
I might be biased, because I was once a guest on Dates & Mates, but this podcast is great for dating advice. Host and OkCupid dating coach Damona Hoffman has helped people find partners for over a decade, so she knows her stuff. Not only do episodes feature her advice but you often hear from experts as well, like Couples Therapy psychologist Dr. Orna Guralnik and matchmaker Rachel Russo (and yours truly, I suppose).
How to listen: Dates & Mates is available on Apple Podcasts.
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8. Seeing Other People
Seeing Other People host Ilana Dunn started the podcast after she lost her job as lead content creator at Hinge. Now, the podcast has been going strong for several years, and Dunn is a bonafide dating expert. Seeing Other People is all about navigating modern dating — which is the perfect subject for a former Hinge employee. Dunn invites on fellow experts on as well as anonymous daters, like those who are single for the first time in years or are having dating struggles.
How to listen: Seeing Other People is available on Apple Podcasts.
9. WHOREible Decisions
As former Mashable reporter Jess Joho wrote in a previous roundup of sexy podcasts, "We could listen to hosts Mandii B & WeezyWTF shoot the shit about literally anything. But in Whoreible Decisions, they grace us with all the very explicit details of their enviably adventurous sex and love lives." Whoreible Decisions is full of frank and funny yet thoughtful conversations about sex, either between themselves or with guests in the mix. It's like listening to your friends who are the "Samanthas" of the group.
How to listen: WHOREible Decisions is available on Apple Podcasts.
10. Two Dykes and a Mic
Two Dykes and a Mic may first be categorized as a comedy podcast, but what makes it so funny is hosts McKenzie Goodwin and Rachel Scanlon chatting about queer life and relationships. In between talking about pop culture — like Taylor Swift and The Bachelorette — the duo dish out relationship advice and reactions to dating horror stories. If that doesn't convince you, come for queer guests like actors E.R. Fightmaster and Mae Martin.
How to listen: Two Dykes and a Mic is available on Apple Podcasts.
11. She Wants More
While it only lasted a few months, She Wants More is worth binge-listening. Writer Jo Piazza, also host of the Committed podcast, speaks with women who cheat on their spouses and relationship experts to give more insight into why. Inspired by a statistic from the National Opinion Research Center that wives were 40 percent more likely to be cheating in 2010 than in 1990, Piazza and her guests discuss what led them to cheat, how they did it, and what came of it.
How to listen: She Wants More is available on Apple Podcasts.
