The Good Sex Project
af Popsock Media
Phone A Friend
Om denne podcast
A podcast about good sex, good relationships and how to have them. Follow creator and host Melody Thomas as she meets everyday New Zealanders, who speak with striking openness and vulnerability about real issues in their sex and love lives. Meet internationally renowned experts with practical advice that you can use in your own life. The Good Sex Project is an internationally-award winning sexual revolution in podcast form. Get listening now!
The Good Sex Project is made with the support of New Zealand on Air.
If you want to get in touch with Melody or the team, please send us a message on Instagram - @goodsexproject - or email [email protected].
WARNING: This podcast contains frank conversations about sex and relationships, and includes some swearing. Some episodes also deal with themes around toxic relationships. WHERE TO GET HELP: Victim Support – 0800 842 846 (24-hour service). Need to talk? Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a trained counsellor. Youthline – 0800 376 633, free text 234, email: [email protected] or online chat. Rape Crisis – 0800 88 33 00 (will direct you to a nearby centre).
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Episoder
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- Phone A Friend · 1 t. 3 min. · Sæson 3We're wrapping up Season 3 by checking back in with some of the people who've stayed with us longest. Porte, the radio announcer who lost his legs in a train accident in his…
- Naked Honesty · 47 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 8Shame thrives in silence, and nowhere more than in the territory of sex and sexuality. This final episode makes the case for why talking about the taboo isn't just cathartic but…
- Dr Peggy Kleinplatz - What Makes Sex Magnificent · 55 min. · Sæson 3Twenty years ago, Dr. Peggy Kleinplatz had a seven-and-a-half-month waiting list of couples stuck in the same story: one partner wants sex, the other doesn't, and both feel…
- The Real Sealed Section · 42 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 7What separates good sex from sex that’s genuinely transformative? This episode starts with a challenge: one couple's New Year’s resolution to pursue 365 orgasms (for her) in a…
- Letting Go of the Fairytale: Brynley Stent on Singles Club Season 2 · 41 min. · Sæson 3Comedian and actress Brynley Stent (Shortland Street, Taskmaster, 7 Days) joins Melody Thomas for a candid, funny chat about love, singledom, and why finding "the one" doesn't…
- Letter To My Libido · 36 min. · Sæson 3Five writers. Five letters to their libido. Equal parts filthy, funny, and unexpectedly profound - a bonus episode to balance out this week's heavier one. This is a bonus…
- Tender Ground · 48 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 6Sexual trauma doesn't end when the event does. Its effects ripple forward - into how we see ourselves, how we move through intimacy, how we flinch or freeze or dissociate in…
- Gender Attitudes in Aotearoa with Dr Rebecca Stringer · 43 min. · Sæson 3New Zealand's Gender Attitudes Survey shows a sharp rise, particularly among young men, in adherence to rape myths and the belief that gender equality has gone too far. Rebecca…
- Gap Year · 45 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 5Divide your age by two and add seven. It's the rule nobody made up officially, yet somehow everyone knows it. But where did it come from - and does it actually mean anything?…
- The Angel in the Algorithm - Madelaine Thomas on protecting your intimate images · 23 min. · Sæson 3Madelaine Thomas had her intimate images leaked without consent while working as a dominatrix - and couldn't find any technology that would have helped her identify the culprit…
- Skin In The Game · 42 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 4Sex work is often called the world's oldest profession. It’s survived moral panics, technological leaps, a global pandemic, and endless political debate. This episode looks at…
- Bella DePaulo - Single at Heart · 36 min. · Sæson 3Social Psychologist and author Bella DePaulo is 72, single by choice, and has spent decades proving that single life isn't a consolation prize. In this conversation she shares…
- The Waiting Room · 45 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 3From Bridget Jones to #SoloGlowUp, the story of singleness has had a rebrand. But is it liberation - or just a better-looking waiting room? Melody Thomas meets two people…
- Tom Scott on navigating heartbreak and growth through music · 36 min. · Sæson 3Tom Scott - musician, father, and one of Aotearoa's most compelling voices - joins Melody for a wide-ranging conversation about love, loss, and what it actually takes to change…
- Things Fell Apart · 47 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 2What makes some relationships survive betrayal while others collapse over something small? John and Anna built a life over fifteen years together - then nearly lost it all. Not…
- Digital Dangers - The New Rules, with Netsafe's Sean Lyons · 27 min. · Sæson 3You don't have to do anything to become a victim of image-based sexual abuse. AI can now fabricate intimate images from a single photo - and the shame, fear, and coercion that…
- Sex Bots & Data Dilemmas with Dr Rebecca Saunders · 38 min. · Sæson 3Your data knows who you're attracted to. Your apps are learning how you love. And somewhere, an AI is waiting to be your perfect partner. Dr Rebecca Saunders talks to Melody…
- Artificial Intimacy · 43 min. · Sæson 3 Episode 1AI is no longer just for the workplace - it's reshaping how we flirt, date, fantasise, and experience intimacy. In the Season 3 opener, host Melody Thomas meets two people using…
- TRAILER: The Good Sex Project is back for Season 3! · 2 min.Eight episodes diving into the tricky topics - age gaps and AI, betrayal and repair, singleness and shame, sex work and saying things out loud, and the question of what it takes…
- LOVE BITE: Charlie · 29 min. · Episode 4We meet Charlie, who charts a course through a restrictive childhood, people pleasing, mirroring, and an abusive relationship to thriving as a solo non-monogamous person living…
