Midnight Sex Talk

CURRENT PODCAST - KIDS

I am really late on this one, as it's been out for several weeks! I am the World's Worst Blogger. Ah well...

Actually, I couldn't get into the site for a while back there, as there was some weirdness with Barclays online payments, and my subscription got held up.

Blurb:

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.

NEXT PODCAST - 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.

Previous blog posts: here and here.

COME ON ITUNES!

Guess what? We're STILL not in iTunes. Last year's apparent period of anti-sex censorship must have been very short-lived, because countless new sex podcasts have appeared since then. The 'report a concern' button hasn't worked for ages. No idea what's going on, but it ain't right. Requests from Resonance to put us in have met with no replies.

However, we are in fact present. Sort of. Go here and you can find a giant podcast of everything Resonance does, and we're tucked away in there.

Great. Good news for other people though - Piers Gibbon's current excellent Resonance show, Mind The Gap, a round up of the week in news, with lots of tasty guests, got in immediately!

MORE MST PODCASTS, AND ALEX FITCH ON RESONANCE...

Slack or what! Call this a blog! My excuse - I've been on holiday, and am now buried deep, deep in my book.

Anyway, just to update you, we've got two more podcasts up since I last posted: Sex Toys, with Angel from Sh!, and Sex in the Movies with Alex Fitch and Havana Marking.

Go here for our Resonance archive.

There's more. Alex is doing a Resonance show about film, imreadyformycloseup. Last night's show was about this year's 20th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which is now on tour nationally. Go to his site, backprojection.com for reviews. Note: the show will be repeated this coming Monday, 15th May, 8.00am BST.

NEXT PODCAST - EASTER ANAL SEX SPECIAL

One of our funniest shows ever is finally podcast, and 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! [Note: You'll spot that this is a digested version of what I wrote last time, but hell, nothing wrong with a bit of recycling.]

In the studio we had Tim Fountain, whose seriously interactive one-man show ‘Sex Addict’ was a big hit at Edinburgh and the Royal Court Theatre, and the inimitable Mr Needham joined us by phone.

This one was first broadcast on Sunday 27th March 2005. Read the original blog post here, and the follow-up here. Note: you will find a picture of Al - almost naked!






OTHER RESONANCE SHOWS
Check out the Resonance FM podcast blog for more Resonance shows. There's a new season on right now, including (in near-total contrast to Midnight Sex Talk) Life Before Vinyl, a unique musical odyssey:

When the unbreakable vinyl record hit the market in the 1950s, millions of fragile scratchy 78s were consigned to the dustbin or the junk pile - and with them went three generations of recorded music.

Although these records still turn up in specialist shops and at record fairs, the means of playing them has also been consigned to the dustbin and even those players which still still survive in working order do not get the best out of them.

With the aid of specially built playing equipment, Adrian Tuddenham quides you through the junk piles to reveal a forgotten genre of music; and pieces-together the lost art of making gramophone records.

GMAIL PROBLEM
Apologies if you've tried to email us recently and have had deadly silence - for some reason the Gmail home page hasn't been loading in any of my browsers, on and off for the last few weeks. Bugger knows what that's about.