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.
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.
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.
This one was first broadcast on Sunday 27th March 2005. Read the original blog post
