Midnight Sex Talk – Kids

After football stories and debates about licensing hours, the next most popular subject in today’s news seems to be children; and it’s usually yet another crime, either committed by them, or done to them. Anecdotally, if you sit down with a group of people and talk about the worst thing about living in their area, the answer is very likely going to be the children – drugs, vandalism, stealing and violence.

On the other hand, plenty of people are still having children and then subjecting them to awful lives, whether intentionally or not. It’s heartbreaking. (Despite all this, anti-abortionists are gaining ground. If they get their way, are they going to commit to looking after all those extra unwanted children?)

So where does this leave sex? If it’s not teenage pregnancies (in the UK the highest in Europe), it’s the spread of STIs, and, god help us, rapes – of each other, and adults too.

So what’s going wrong? Because something is. Something’s blocking the flow of information (and understanding about self-respect) between adults and children. Despite all the programmes, articles, books, leaflets and clinics, nothing’s changing.

In the studio we’ve got artist and mother Tracey Moberly, and we spoke to Dr Petra Boynton over the phone.

This show was first broadcast on Sunday 30th January 2005. Midnight Sex Talk is resting for a while, but if you want to drop us a line, or tell us what you’d like to hear more of, you can email us any time at midnightsextalk at gmail dot com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Sex Magick

Ever riffled through a book, or googled late into the night, to find the perfect spell to catch the person you really, really fancy? And then, after your shopping trip for ingredients, hurried home hunched over a plastic bag containing four candles, a sachet of cloves and a dead mackerel?

Ever wondered if there really could be a way to control others people’s desires though magic, and whether Satan is involved?

And have we, in the 21st century west, lost our sense of ritual? How many of you, for example, would admit to having made a voodoo doll?

Our guests in the studio were Christine Moon, adventurous priestess-in-training, who just happened to be in town and agreed to come on at the last minute; Marco Lovestar, the hero of the night; and Mystery Borealis, artist, stripper and all round party girl.

During the show, you will hear me make the mistake of saying the moon ‘wasn’t doing anything very interesting at the moment.’ I was rapidly corrected – and I was also wrong. A lot of very strange things happened around this show, before, during, and after, some of which cannot be related here…

This show was first broadcast on Sunday 13th February 2005. Midnight Sex Talk is taking a rest from the studio for a while, but if you want to drop us a line, or tell us what you’d like to hear more of, you can email us any time at midnightsextalk at gmail dot com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Sex in the Movies

And we don’t mean porn, for once!

The history of sex in mainstream film is a parellel history of our world, whether pushing boundaries or simply reflecting what’s been going on behind closed doors for years, from Some Like It Hot to Secretary, via <9 1/2 Weeks and Basic Instinct, and more recent releases like Kinsey and 9 Songs.

Guests: our regular film critic Alex Fitch, of Backprojection.com, and film-maker and TV producer Havana Marking.

Go here and check out my first ever celebrity photocall….

This show was first broadcast on Sunday 27th February 2005. Midnight Sex Talk is taking a rest from the studio for a while, but if you want to drop us a line, or tell us what you’d like to hear more of, you can email us any time at midnightsextalk at gmail dot com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Sex Toys – Are They Really Necessary?

Thought that might get you reading! Here at Chateau Midnight Sex Talk, we love sex toys; it would be positively heretical not to. But sometimes you have to stop and think: as they morph inexorably from ‘plaything’ to ‘absolute necessity’, have they evolved too far? (Ditto lube.)

Joining us in the studio is Angel from Sh! Womenstore, the first and still the best of the women-friendly, (hell, people-friendly), sex shops, and we’ve got an interview with Bertie from Mantric, who sell pretty nice stuff too, over the internet. We’re taking a look at the most popular toys, casting a curious eye over the more interesting, excessive, and expensive, offerings currently on the market, and dropping a few hints and health warnings into the mix.

This one was first broadcast on Sunday 13th March 2005. Midnight Sex Talk is taking a rest from the studio for a while, but if you want to drop us a line, or tell us what you’d like to hear more of, you can email us any time at midnightsextalk at gmail dot com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Easter Anal Sex Special

Ahh, what better way to celebrate the start of British Summertime than with a thorough exploration of anal sex. From men to women and back again, via pegging, figging and fisting – God knows how we’ve managed to fit it all in!

In the studio we’ve got Tim Fountain, whose seriously interactive one-man show ‘Sex Addict’ was a big hit at Edinburgh and the Royal Court Theatre, and the inimitable Al Needham joins us by phone. Check it out – this is one of our funniest shows ever.

This one was first broadcast on Sunday 27th March 2005. Midnight Sex Talk is taking a rest from the studio for a while, but if you want to drop us a line, or tell us what you’d like to hear more of, you can email us any time at midnightsextalk at gmail dot com.

More info here: MidnightSexTalk.com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Mother’s Day Psycho Special!

Especially for Mother’s Day, we’re pondering the cult of the serial killer, and looking at why these ultimate transgressors, who are on the extreme sexual margins of society, get quite so much attention, sometimes to the point of apparent canonisation.

Al Needham tells us what it was like growing up in the seventies in the shadow of the Yorkshire Ripper, and Alex Fitch talks up the daddy of the modern day psychos, Ed Gein. Jeffrey Dahmer, Dennis Nielsen and Ted Bundy get a look-in, and no show like this would be complete without the Wests.

Sadly, our guest couldn’t make it at the last minute, but rest assured he was a celebrity – his ex-boyfriend was Denis Nielsen’s unemployment officer!

NEWS!
This is our last live show of the current season. Kim is very busy in a new job, and I’m writing my book. But don’t go away – we’ve got lots more shows still to podcast, and there’ll be some new ones as well. We’ll be back in the studio in the summer. Meanwhile, we hope you’ve enjoyed all our shows, and thanks for listening.

Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us at
MidnightSexTalk.com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Decline of the Gay Bar?

Back in the 1990s, gay bars and clubs were the places to be. Everyone there seemed to be partying faster and harder, and more attractively, than anyone else. But everything’s changed a bit since then. What we’re asking this week is: have hook-up sites like Gaydar taken the emphasis away from the bar scene, and levelled the playing field a bit? And as the scene becomes more mainstream, how have the bars evolved in order to keep their identity?

We’ve got interviews with Pete, a long-term scene-goer, Russell from Halfway to Heaven, and Wendy, manager of the Retro Bar in Charing Cross.

What do you think? Do you hate bars, and find the whole thing a massive, pretentious bore? Or do you love them? Do you think that trying to meet someone on the internet is just for losers? Or has Gaydar changed your life?

Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us at
MidnightSexTalk.com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Porn Versus Erotica

Vintage Midnight Sex Talk! This is your second chance to hear one of our earliest shows, Porn versus Erotica.

With guests Robert Posner and Lou Errington, we tease out the similarities between these two supposedly dissimilar concepts. And watch out for the hand-selected worst porn movie titles ever. Here I must namecheck the dude who sat down and sourced all this stuff. Brad Yung, we salute you.

Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us at
MidnightSexTalk.com.

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Midnight Sex Talk – Addiction

Everyone’s an addict now, apparently. This week’s Midnight Sex Talk looks at sex addiction (does it really exist?) and also what addiction can do to a relationship. If you’re with someone who’s an addict, (and that could be drink, drugs, gambling etc, or, of course, sex), there are three (or more) of you in that relationship, whether you like it or not. Love itself is an addiction, and can mimic a lot of the same behaviours. Either way, you end up doing things you’d never imagine.

Suzanne Noble who, among other things, makes the excellent Modern Loving series of sex guides, joins us to help unravel it all.

Midnight Sex Talk is broadcast on alternate Sunday nights, from 11.30pm-12.30am, on Resonance 104.4 FM. More info about us at
MidnightSexTalk.com.

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