My interview with the lovely Fiona Patten, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council in Melbourne, Australia. Author of Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Role. Fiona talks about her achievements in parliament and we discuss the importance of healthy attitudes to sex for people with disabilities, including the abuse Fiona received for helping a disabled woman find sexual fulfilment. (https://fionapatten.com.au/)In Parliament, her achievements were many including the * Medically Super...

Interview with Michael BarbezatOh dear! Those religious medievals were quite obsessed with SEX. In this conversation, David Ayliffe interviews Michael Barbezat, a research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at the Australian Catholic University. They discuss the intersection of religion and sexuality, particularly in relation to sex shame and conservative religious beliefs. They explore topics such as biblical interpretation, the views of theologian (Saint) Augustine on...

Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli has gained national and international recognition as a writer, researcher, lecturer and consultant in the issues of cultural diversity, gender diversity, sexual diversity, family diversity, HIV/AIDS, and social diversity in health and education, with a specific focus on adolescence and young people.She understands the horror that can come when a group within society is marginalised and hated just because of who they are. The fight for respect and freedom for LGBTIQ...

Republic candidate 2024 Presidential Primaries, Wilbur Wankenschtrop, Founder of the Purity in Culture Movement - announced he plans to introduce legislation to ban Mrs Doubtfire and all films that feature cross dressing of any kind if elected President of the United States of America. The The following is a transcript of an interview between Wanke, as his friends call him, and Lisa from American Public Broadcasting.Oh, and it is a bit of fun really but why wouldn't the ultra cons...

Robert Kasozi arrived in Melbourne on 29th March 2023. He has been a refugee escaping homophobic and cultural hatred of his LGBTIQ community for over 6 years. Every day in Kenya was a day wondering who would be attacked, imprisoned, raped or murdered of his friends. If it wasn't violent attacks it was simply starvation. These people cannot survive without the generous support of others who pay for safe house rents, food and medical care. Robert is keen to start studying for a new c...

If you are a good conservative Christian in America there are probably lots of people you’d like God to kill, but if he doesn’t, what do you do? Hire a hitman? That tale wags shortly.Well, I ain’t a conservative Christian but I can tell you I wish more Christians today were as compassionate and loving as many of my atheist friends. This week, a 21 year old Congolese refugee died in Nairobi. We struggle to raise funds to keep refugees alive and didn’t know about this boy. He had kidney disease...

Purity Culture was just another religious aberration in regards to sex introduced to protect, (read, ‘control’), Christian teenagers. Not only was sex before marriage a sin it was a quick and easy pathway to unforgivable slutdom for women. In a good old misogynist salute to patriarchy it was a bit more forgivable but a forever shaming sin for boys. So, best practice, don’t ask, don’t tell.Clare Heath McIvor had her own battle with purity culture but she is an amazing woman. Her story told on ...

Closest I've come to swearing on my podcast. This a disturbing piece with claims of abuse of two young gay boys through hazing (initiation) at St John's College, Sydney University in 1985. I first came across this in 2018 when I found https://www.facebook.com/SilentiumMitre, the page the artist put together to tell the story and celebrate the Archbishop's Mitre (funny hat) he laboriously created to tell the story. A real "up you" to the religious hypocrits who know power but not love.I have t...

The New Evangelicals podcast founder Tim Whitaker talks to Cath and David about his work and passion, and confesses rising from the death of his fundamentalism. As for purity culture with such high and unreasonale demands upon young church goers, he says that led him to vomit after experiencing his first kiss! Not a welcome response for the kiss recipient we're sure!Yet another reason why "No Sex Please - I'm religious!" exists.What a privilege to have Tim join us. With over 500,000 dow...

Guess who forgot to check his microphone. Checked everyone else, but me!Interview with @IWATF (WTF I hear you say?) "I was a teenage fundamentalist" is an award winning podcast. (We give them our top "Fiery Restitution award).Hosts Troy Waller and Brian McDowell former Mega Church leaders in Pentup-costalot churches.Visit their site https://www.iwasateenagefundamentalist.com/My co-host Cath and I were delighted to connect with these guys and the great work they are doing.It's time ...

Please subscribe and if you like the podcast support us on www.patreon.com/nosexpleaseI begin with mention of some articles worth reading about the bad behaviour of people who say they believe in God, but who wants to know a God like they believe!!! Kenya's President William Ruto and fear of LGBTIQ people: theshorturl.at/ahUVYAnd blogger Jonathan Poletti's (93,000 followers on Medium) article on mega pastor TV evangelist"A child rape scandal at John MacArthur’s church has Evangelicals br...

Sex Shame is alive and well in Africa. In Uganda, as in no doubt many countries mother's can't give their daughters the "sex talk" - they are too ashamed. So it is the task of the aunts. Boys don't receive "the talk" at all. Not from men in the family, not from school, and not from their religious leaders. They learn from older boys."IF IT'S NOT DISCUSSED - IT'S DISGUSTING!"So when girls become pregnant outside of marriage it's shameful.When boys father children outside of marriage it's shame...

Christmas should celebrate love amongst families and friends. But it's not always a happy time, especially for Queer refugees in Africa and around the globe. Good parents normally love their children no matter what. What happens when this fails?One of the worst episodes in my friend Onics Bukenya Yusuf's life occurred when he was discovered with his boyfriend at school in Uganda. His late father's biggest regret was that he didn't bring his machete to the school to finish him off.&...

Our small panel today, Humanity in Need board members Brian Coogan, Dr Cath Connelly and me, David Ayliffe. Being grateful for the interview with Dr Tina Schermer Sellers and her experience growing up in a progressive Swedish household where sex shame did not exist, we contrast that with other experiences and the impact on the LGBTIQ communities in Africa where it is not only a sin, but a crime to be anything other than missionary positioned heterosexuals.Support the show

My first published interview for the podcast is with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, a licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher, emeriti professor, and media personality whose expertise spans sex therapy, spiritual intimacy, parenting, and social justice. Her revolutionary perspectives have been expressed on platforms such as Spirituality & Health, Refinery 29, Vocal, Medium and Bust Magazines, along with many podcast, radio, news, and TV interview...