Pleasure, communication and the tech creeping into bed.
Host Bryony Cole talks with guests in practical terms about fantasies, aftercare, masturbation, dating apps and which sex toys are actually body safe. Technology keeps coming into these conversations, most pointedly when people describe taking their relationship arguments to ChatGPT.
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Future of Sex is host Bryony Cole's show about sex and intimacy, and about the technology that keeps turning up inside both. It leans practical. A run of titles reads almost like a syllabus: 'How To Talk About Sexual Fantasies Feat. Dr. Justin Lehmiller and Sara Tang', 'How to Turn Yourself On: Masturbation Tips Feat. Mary Jelkovsky and Tatyannah King' and 'How To Choose a Sex Toy Feat. Ashley Cobb and Lovehoney's Paul Jaques'. The advice inside them is specific. On toys, the conversation explains why palm-size vibrators need little maneuvering and warns against bargain toys made from porous, jelly-type material that is not body safe. On fantasies, a discussion of aphantasia suggests that people who cannot picture images may experience a fantasy as a story they tell themselves, or as a feeling rather than a scene. 'Aftercare - The Post-Sex Process Feat. Allison Moon and Kee Simone' stretches aftercare to cover the aftermath of a big fight or a run of deep conversations. It also leaves room to disagree about whether everyone wants to be held. The same episode offers one of the show's most useful ideas: the quiet moment after sex can be the easiest time to ask for something that felt too awkward to raise during it. Dating gets its turn. In 'How to Have a Hot Vax Summer Feat. Tiff Baira', apps are treated as tools, and the advice is to be the bouncer of your own club, with the same standards for a partner for life or for the night. Not everything is breezy. In the masturbation episode, a guest describes a period when fitness consumed everything and sex became a way to chase validation as a teenager, a history tied up with body image and shame. What links these subjects is less a topic than a difficulty: telling a partner what you want. It shows up in a scenario where someone exploring dominance and submission cannot find a way to ask a rough partner to back off, and it is right there in the title of the fantasies episode. The technology thread is where the show's name earns its keep. In 'Can AI Save Your Relationship? I Asked the Experts - And a Real Couple', people describe taking their arguments to ChatGPT, and a guest explains an AI product that learns a couple's needs and puts content in a partner's feed instead of passing complaints along directly. A closing plug in another episode points to a separate installment about sex in space. Several episodes open on a quick montage of voices, and Chad Michael Snavely and the team at Sound On, Sound Off are credited with editing and sound design. Host-read spots for pleasure brands such as Womanizer and WeVibe appear, and Cole points people to the show's Instagram, and to Sextech School for anyone drawn to the business side. The aftercare episode is a good first stop, since it holds a personal story and a practical takeaway in the same conversation.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants plain, practical talk about pleasure and communication, from choosing a body-safe toy to asking a partner for something new. It also fits someone curious about how AI and dating apps are changing intimacy.
What sets it apart: It looks at everyday intimacy through a sextech lens, putting an AI relationship tool and ChatGPT-mediated arguments next to hands-on advice about aftercare, fantasies and toy materials. Guests bring candid first-person stories, so the tips come attached to real experience.
Future of Sex podcast takes you inside the world of sextech, the emerging industry at the intersection of sexuality, technology, and what it means to be human in the middle of it all. Join host Bryony Cole as she talks to sextech’s leaders and experts, from sex therapists researching skin hunger, to entrepreneurs who are finding ways to bring psychedelics and sex together, to astrosexologists asking the tough questions like, are we allowed to have sex in space?
R2-D2 enters a conversation about sex robots, and your questions about attachment get unexpectedly specific.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear-eyed look at AI as a third voice in arguments, sex, and the small logistics of staying together.
Future of Sex looks at ChatGPT as an unlikely relationship mediator, following people who upload arguments, call a pause for "ChatGPT time," and ask the system to help plan dates or offer another point of view.
A candid, curious look at how fantasy works across scenes, stories, feelings, and minds that picture very little.
Future of Sex looks at sexual fantasy as something worth understanding, starting with a Star Wars scenario involving Princess Leia in the gold bikini before widening into how people imagine in the first place.
Aftercare becomes practical language for curiosity, clarification, and the conversation that follows sex.
Aftercare is framed as the part of sex that begins once sex itself is over: a pause for holding, dignity, conversation, and small discoveries that can shape what comes next.
Dating apps become tools for self-directed standards, with sustainability making an unexpectedly memorable opening.
Future of Sex starts with the Womanizer Premium Eco, a biodegradable and recyclable pleasure toy made from bioline, described as a bioplastic with 70% natural materials, then moves into dating apps and hookup culture.
A candid, practical conversation about masturbation, body image, and the communication self-knowledge can support.
A vibrator purchase opens a candid conversation about masturbation, clitoral stimulation, body image, shame, and the pressure some people can feel around solo pleasure while they are in a relationship.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Future of Sex Season 3 centers on whether AI can mediate arguments, plan dates, and help couples say things more clearly.
Justin Lehmiller says his survey of almost 4,200 people across all 50 states found that 80% wanted to act on a favorite fantasy, but only about 20% had ever done so.
Future of Sex turns a question about aftercare into a detailed conversation about what happens after sex, with Bryony recording from a hotel wardrobe in quarantine in Australia.
Future of Sex's "How to Have a Hot Vax Summer Feat.
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Bryony hosts Ashley Cobb and Lovehoney technical manager Paul Jakes on choosing sex toys, covering beginner preferences, body-safe materials, reviews, and new product engineering.
Future of Sex host Briony examines why male sex toys remain associated with shame, limited masculinity, and assumptions about sexual orientation.
Future of Sex follows Davecat, who has lived with four dolls for more than two decades, and examines how sex dolls could develop into sex robots.
Host Bryony Cole interviews Davecat, a man who has lived with synthetic dolls for over 20 years, exploring the subculture of idolaters and the intersection of sex, technology, and human connection.
Future of Sex examines mismatched sex drives with Dr.
Future of Sex host Bryony gives practical advice on entering sex tech, including handling stigma, building relationships, testing ideas, and treating the work as a business.
Future of Sex examines mindful masturbation, pleasure wiring, slow pleasure, and the question of what sex means beyond orgasm-focused goals.
Future of Sex revisits Cindy Gallop's 2009 TED talk and her Make Love Not Porn venture, which she says treats better sex as part of the market of human happiness.
A live panel discussion on the future of sex and technology, covering topics like porn, masturbation, and sex work.
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