Curious sex talk with brains and timing.
Turn Me On is a conversational sex-and-relationships show built around candid host episodes, historical oddities, pop-culture examples, and research-adjacent explainers. It can move from medieval penance rules to attraction psychology to the default mode network without losing its loose, teasing rhythm.
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Turn Me On is a sex-positive show about desire, relationships, bodies, and the cultural stories that make all of those things confusing. It does not treat intimacy like a tidy self-help worksheet. The recent host-led episodes are loose, funny, and fast, with one person bringing a topic to the table and the conversation widening from there. Sometimes the entry point is charming, like a matchmaking tree where strangers wrote letters and two people separated by a wall found each other. Sometimes it is uncomfortable on purpose. An episode on incest as a storytelling device looks at The White Lotus, Game of Thrones, genetic risk, taboo, and why fiction returns to forbidden family dynamics. Another episode tracks “the ick” through attraction, revulsion, Sex and the City, Ally McBeal, Love Island, and Love Is Blind. The show likes pop culture because pop culture gives messy feelings a visible shape. It also likes history. The medieval episode turns church rules, penitential manuals, sexual positions, fasting, confession, and gender hierarchy into a brisk lesson on how institutions tried to regulate desire. The show can get nerdy, too. Its default mode network discussion connects daydreaming, rumination, attention, creativity, adolescence, and mental health without pretending the brain is simple. Guest episodes broaden the scope, including demi’s conversation about Puberry, a gamified and verified health education platform covering puberty, mental health, sex ed, menstrual health, men’s health, and personal safety. The Carnal Knowledge material brings in literature review as a way to talk about disability and sexual expression. The show’s best trick is tonal balance. It can be blunt and silly, then suddenly useful. It can talk about taboo without turning cruel or clinical. It suits listeners who like their relationship education conversational, a little chaotic, and still grounded in actual questions about how people live, want, learn, and change.
Made for: For adults who want candid relationship and sexuality conversations that can handle taboo, history, psychology, and pop culture without getting stiff or preachy. It especially suits listeners who like fast banter with a real takeaway.
What sets it apart: Turn Me On stands out by treating explanation as part of the entertainment: a topic gets joked through, detoured, questioned, and then clarified. It is less advice-column polish, more smart conversation that trusts awkwardness to lead somewhere useful.
Turn Me On features conversations about love, sex, and relationships hosted by a recently divorced, formerly polyamorous, couple of best friends. Thoughtful, intelligent, and funny, Turn Me On is a homegrown education in sex and relational literacy brought to you via curious and adventurous hosts, Jeremie and Bryde. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid host chemistry makes sex, attraction and relational habits easier to examine without draining them of humor or complexity.
Turn Me On treats sex and relationships as questions that can lead almost anywhere, from medieval rules about intimacy to attraction, self-image and the stories television tells about taboo.
Medieval penance meets dating icks, and somehow your own romantic logic ends up on trial.
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A matchmaking oak, a divided Germany and two hosts testing how much romance one knot-hole can hold.
A forbidden courtship in 1890 starts with two young lovers passing letters through a knot in an old oak tree. The episode follows the tree's long life as an unlikely matchmaking service, including the story of a 19-year-old East German girl whose letter reaches a West German…
A candid look at how fictional incest can repel viewers, draw their sympathy and signal a collapsing worldview.
Incest is the episode's route into a sharper question: how can a taboo relationship signal a collapsing worldview while still pulling viewers toward the people involved?
A clear, candid look at rumination, habit, and the brain network linked to an active inner life.
Turn Me On uses the default mode network to frame what the mind does when attention turns inward. The hosts connect the idea to reflection, habit, creativity, imagination, and rumination, especially the sense of getting stuck in a private script about the past or future.
A lively pop-culture trail through the ick, from TikTok confusion to dating-show drama.
Turn Me On frames the ick as a relationship question with a pop-culture paper trail: that sudden pull-away when attraction shifts. The host and Bridie move from TikTok, mewing, and whether men get the ick into Sex and the City's "The Ick Factor," Ally McBeal, Olivia Atwood on…
A funny, unsettling tour of church rules for regulating sex.
Turn Me On returns from hiatus with a host-led episode on church rules around sex, using penitential manuals to trace how specific acts were matched with fasting or penance.
A candid look at why praise can feel good, distract the mind, and leave one bad review looming larger than 500 kind ones.
Turn Me On gives compliments a more uneasy hearing than the subject first suggests. The hosts start from the simple warmth of being thanked, then follow praise into murkier territory: how one bad review can crowd out 500 kind ones, or how appearance-based praise may leave…
A warm, tactile look at Debra's solid Pleasure Pod and the lube problem it set out to solve.
Turn Me On frames lubricant as something more physical than a bottle on the nightstand: a design problem solved through touch. The episode centers on Debra, founder of Pleasure Pods and a self-described pleasure seeker, whose frustration with conventional lube led her to create…
Pathfinder chaos with a crooked grin.
Raw sermons on dating, money, and trust.
Loose tech talk from the social-audio era.
Jeremie and Bryde host Debra, founder of Pleasure Pods, a Canadian lubricant made from natural butters.
Hosts Jeremie and Bryde explore the complexities of receiving compliments, drawing from a BBC article and personal experiences.
Hosts discuss non-monogamy and relationship literacy with an alternative relationships guide.
The hosts of Turn Me On discuss the history of the Bridegroom's Oak (Bräutigamseiche) in Üterecht, Germany, a 500-year-old tree that has been facilitating matchmaking since the 1890s.
Turn Me On podcast hosts examine incest as a recurring storytelling device across literature and media — from Sophocles's Oedipus Rex (400s BC) to Game of Thrones, Psycho, and the Korean film Oldboy — arguing that fictional incest is almost never about the act itself but functions as a symbol for power, fate, entrapment, or the collapse of self-containment.
Turn Me On focuses on the default mode network, starting from the question of why a brain topic belongs on a show about sex, love, and relationships.
Turn Me On’s “The Ick: When Attraction Turns to Instant Repulsion” defines the ick as a sudden aversion after mutual attraction, then contrasts it with obvious turnoffs like racism or bad hygiene.
Turn Me On’s “Sex, Sin, and the Wandering Womb: A Medieval Love Story” centers on medieval ideas about sex, sin, and the body, starting with the claim that John de Gaunt likely died from “putrefaction” after frequent sex.
Hosts Jeremie and Bryde discuss love, sex, and relationships in a candid, educational style.
The hosts interview the creator of Pewberry, a gamified health education platform for ages 8-18 covering puberty and related topics.
Hosts discuss a literature review on sexuality and disability, exploring barriers and expression.
The hosts discuss a study on the psychology of kink, exploring the relationship between trauma, attachment style, and BDSM interests.
Hosts interview Dr.
The hosts discuss a research paper on women's experiences with genital touching and orgasm, analyzing survey data.
The hosts discuss the guest's unique name and its origins, setting a lighthearted tone for a conversation about relationships.