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Frank stories about pleasure, bodies, and healing.
Girl Boner Radio treats sex as part of a whole life: body, faith, stress, shame, longing, and connection. Its conversations move through personal turning points with warmth, curiosity, and enough frankness to make complicated experiences feel speakable.
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Girl Boner Radio is a sex-positive interview show built around intimate stories, body knowledge, and the emotional terrain of desire. It is candid from the start. The show’s recent conversations do not treat pleasure as a simple technique or a glossy promise, but as something shaped by pain, faith, stress, identity, communication, and memory. Guests speak about chronic pain, menstruation, pelvic sensation, orgasmic experiences, purity culture, queer awakening, ethical non-monogamy, mismatched libido, and the difficulty of asking for what they need. The pacing is measured. Stories are allowed to breathe before they become lessons. One episode follows Susanna Weiss through the idea of finding pleasure behind female pain. Another hears Dr. Nicole connect psychedelic-assisted healing, evangelical Christian upbringing, queerness, and embodied change. Blair Glazer brings a complicated account of devotion, spirituality, longing, and a near-cult experience. Courtney Boyer describes marriage, unmet needs, and the question of whether ethical non-monogamy could create room for honesty. Replay episodes revisit orgasmic surprises, erotic embodiment, relationship toxicity, and the need for emotional safety around intense pleasure. The show can be playful, but it is not glib. It makes space for people who are embarrassed, curious, hurt, turned on, confused, or starting over. Its strongest episodes turn private sexual detail into broader reflection without losing the human voice inside the story. For listeners who want discussions of sex that include bodies and biography, Girl Boner Radio offers a generous, frank, and emotionally present place to listen.
Made for: For listeners who want sex-positive, emotionally intelligent conversations about desire, relationships, identity, and the body. It especially suits people drawn to personal stories with room for vulnerability, humor, and hard-earned insight.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by treating sexual pleasure as connected to a whole life, not as an isolated bedroom topic. Its guests bring lived experience, therapeutic language, spiritual complexity, and candid storytelling into the same conversation.
A spicy blend of personal stories, in-depth reporting and inspiration! Journalist August McLaughlin explores sexual empowerment and pleasure, featuring a range of voices.Girl Boner Radio is LGBTQIA+ friendly and all genders are welcome! girlboner.org
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Girl Boner Radio connects intimate testimony to practical questions about desire, safety, identity, and change.
Girl Boner Radio turns conversations about sex and relationships into close studies of how people revise the stories they inherited. August McLaughlin gives guests room to trace desire through religious upbringing, marriage, queer identity, illness, pain, and spiritual…
A purity ring gets reclaimed for pleasure; your old rules about desire may need another look.
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Susanna Weiss connects sexual pain, inherited ideas about women's bodies, and the body awareness that can make pleasure feel possible.
Girl Boner Radio's conversation with Susanna Weiss frames pain as a possible doorway into pleasure, without flattening how much history sits behind that idea.
A shame-to-pleasure story grounded in faith, queerness, and embodied change.
Girl Boner Radio spends this hour with Dr. Nicole, a sex and relationship therapist who also does psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and the conversation follows her path from a fundamentalist Christian upbringing into a more expansive sense of embodiment.
A candid look at desire, devotion, and belonging.
Girl Boner Radio follows Blair Glazer's memoir with a close look at devotion, discernment, and a complicated spiritual community, and it also traces how that experience shaped her relationships, sexuality, body, and sense of self.
A thoughtful account of suppressed desire, purity culture, marriage, and the need to feel seen.
An anniversary dinner in a 21-story restaurant in Germany opens onto a more difficult question: whether a marriage can make room for desires that purity culture trained someone to hide.
A frank replay ties orgasmic pleasure to the trust, vulnerability, and self-connection that can make intimacy feel safer.
Sexual pleasure lands here as a question of desire, safety, and intimacy in a replay of Girl Boner Radio. August McLaughlin brings together two personal angles on whether mind-blowing climax can belong inside a healthier relationship: Emi recalls smoldering sex with Santiago,…
A family crisis turns a secure life into a candid conversation about stress, pleasure, and choosing what feels real.
A family illness pushes stress physiologist Dr. Rebecca Heiss to look again at the life she had carefully assembled: secure work, a home of her own, and a marriage that was not miserable so much as quietly settled.
A candid episode connects sexual pleasure with bodily pain, cultural shame, and small practices for returning to sensation.
Pleasure becomes a way to understand pain in Girl Boner Radio's conversation with Susanna Weiss. Weiss, a writer, sexologist, psychotherapist, and author of Eve's Blessing, follows a personal path through puberty, menstruation, painful sex, and biblical language that ties female…
Candid disability sexuality support, handled humanely.
Pregnancy and postpartum support without dismissal.
Host August McLaughlin interviews stress physiologist Dr.
Host August McLaughlin interviews sexologist Susanna Weiss about her book 'Eve's Blessing,' which explores finding pleasure behind female pain.
Susan Morgan Taylor shares her journey from a sexless marriage and childhood shame about sexuality to experiencing profound pleasure and connection through personal epiphanies.
Girl Boner Radio host August McLaughlin pairs a new interview with Saturday Box founder Emma Volitsky and an archived story from erotica author Erin Shell, both about kink with a partner.
Girl Boner Radio: True Sex and Relationship Stories features August McLaughlin speaking with Susanna Weiss, a writer, sexologist, psychotherapist, and author of Eve's Blessing, Uncovering the Lost Pleasure Behind Female Pain.
August McLaughlin opens by asking what it would take to arouse your life, then keeps the conversation grounded in connection, pleasure, and honesty.
Girl Boner Radio sits down with Blair Glazer to talk about her memoir This Incredible Longing, Finding Myself in a Near-Cult Experience.
The episode opens with a question about bringing more connection, pleasure, and realness into life.
This episode explores personal orgasmic experiences and body discoveries, featuring insights from a writer and a sex educator on sexual surprises and pleasure.
On Girl Boner Radio, August McLaughlin interviews Maddie Murphy about integrating sexuality, spirituality, intuition, and long-term partnership.
August McLaughlin opens with a note about unexpected home repairs and introduces this replay from March 2023.
This episode explores how to transform stress into connection and pleasure through personal stories and expert insights from stress physiologist Dr.
This episode features sex and relationship therapist Cyndi Darnell discussing normal variations in sexual desire, mismatched libido, and rediscovering pleasure through personal experiences and professional insights.
This episode explores libido issues and sexual challenges through a listener's story and an interview with intimacy professional Jean Franzblau, emphasizing how experts also face struggles and how this can foster connection and advocacy.
This episode features a Q&A with Dr.