No Holes Barred w/ Whoreible Decisions NSFW

·1 hr 39 min·5 clips

Mandy recounts how a lost condom inside her vagina became the first episode of their podcast eight years ago.

The host starts by bracing the room. Mandy and Wheezy come in with their book treated like a manifesto about sexual exploration and power, and nobody softens it for easier listening. Complaints get rejected before they can even land. The host keeps telling anyone bothered by the subject matter to pick another episode, and after a while the warning becomes part of the joke. It is a boundary, but it is also the bit. From there, the guests dig into the book's frankness, especially around sexuality, intimacy, and the things people are taught to fear or judge. The room keeps checking itself out loud. One guest talks about a chapter that starts with unlearning homophobia, then ties that to early church life and being half Jamaican. It is messy in the way a real conversation gets messy, but it has a point. The episode is not trying to make everybody comfortable. It is trying to keep the honesty loose without pretending it is neat. Every serious turn gets chased by a joke, a correction, or somebody reacting like the topic just burst through the door. Mandy and Wheezy promote the book, but they also show why it fits their podcast voice: direct, personal, playful, and blunt. The episode knows it is a lot, so the host keeps returning to the warning until it feels like comic punctuation and an audience contract. Stay or go. By the end, the room slides into plugs, Patreon talk, summer schedule notes, vacation, work travel, school, a birthday, and the familiar goodbye sprawl. The chaos has rails. It starts with a warning, runs through sex and baggage, then lands back in regular show business.

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A candid conversation about sexual pleasure, inherited shame, and the difficult work of changing one's mind.

Sexuality turns into an active debate as Mandy and Wheezy discuss No Host Bar and its interest in sexual exploration, pleasure, and power. The conversation moves through shifting ideas about anal sex with heterosexual people, including the difference between receiving it and…

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You want candid sex talk where a book chapter about pleasure turns the room loose fast.

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