Explore every episode of the podcast Can We Discuss? With Cosmopolitan

We meet Alex Light - @alexlight_ldn - the body confidence and anti-diet advocate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re joined by Funmi Lijadu, whose relationships were impacted by what’s known as the ‘good girl complex’. After feeling emotionally drained from constantly pleasing both her friends, family and partner, Funmi realised that as a woman she had been socialised to please others. We discuss how these social constructs are placed on women and more importantly, how to break them without breaking your relationships. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Reed Amber, an online sex worker who makes money through her loyal subscribers on OnlyFans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Sunni Joy, a tantric sex expert who describes herself as a tantric energy healer and sacred sex goddess. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Lola Jean, who is a squirting expert and world record holder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Ita O'Brien, an intimacy coordinator, who coordinates sex scenes for TV shows like Normal People, I May Destroy You and Sex Education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Tara* who has been having a virtual affair with a married man since last year. *Name has been changed Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're joined by Marianne, who shares her experiences of navigating relationships as an autistic person and explains why shows like Netflix's Love on The Spectrum are damaging. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by couples therapist Kate Moyle, who answers all our questions about cheating - why people do it, how to move on and whether it has to spell the end of a relationship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet author Eleanor Wood, who after splitting up with her partner of more than a decade, embarked upon a string of rebound relationships. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Portia Brown - @froeticsexology on Instagram - who is a sex educator and orgasm expert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Madame Li Ying, a dominatrix who specialises in medical fetishes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Genevieve Gresset, Married at First Sight's resident matchmaker and dating expert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Jamie Otis-Hehner, who appeared on Married at First Sight in 2014. Despite not finding her husband attractive at the start, six years later, she's happily married with two children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Master Dominic, a sex educator, dungeon master and blow job expert. As well as tips on techniques, Dominic answers our listeners' questions and reveals that communication is key to everything. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Duchess Iphie, an intimacy coach who teaches couples and individuals to improve their relationships and dating lives by increasing sexual intimacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Love Island star and bisexual icon Megan Barton Hanson, who tells us all about her dating and sex life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Kali Sudhra, a queer porn performer, webcammer, dominatrix and sex work activist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by relationship therapist Simone Bose, who explains everything you need to know about the five love languages. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Kate* who befriended the woman her boyfriend kept referring to as his "crazy ex". And sure enough, it turned out she wasn't "crazy" at all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Yasmin Benoit, who has identified as asexual and aromantic since she was in school. She's often told she "doesn't look" asexual, and is here to explain why that is problematic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Amir Levine, co-author of the best-selling relationship self help book, Attached. He tells us all about attachment styles and why you need to know them to find out who you're truly romantically compatible with. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Rose, who just like Marianne in Sally Rooney's Normal People, was in a secret relationship with someone who wouldn't acknowledge her publicly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Carolina, whose "bad boy" ex boyfriend became abusive. Content warning: this episode contains discussions involving violent behaviour and rape. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Colin Richards, an orgasmic masseuse who gets paid to massage people to orgasm - and who we heard all about from Cee Cee* in episode one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Neelam, who overcame a porn addiction after watching porn every day from the age of 12. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Hollie-Anne Brooks, who shares what her sex life is like as a disabled woman and wheelchair user. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Franki, who is in a polyamorous, open marriage - meaning she dates and sleeps with people other than her husband (and he does, too). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Carla*, who just attended her first ever sex party.... on Zoom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Karen Gurney, a sex therapist aka a real life Sex Education's Dr Jean Milburn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Fran Bushe, who went to sex camp after years of painful and unenjoyable sex. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Lauren, who speaks about what effect going through multiple rounds of IVF can have on your relationship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet fashion influencer Danielle Vanier, who dated men until she came out in her Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Sarah, who had an arranged marriage and met her husband just three times before the wedding. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Dr Kalanit Ben-Ari, a relationship therapist and expert in romantic compatibility. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Becky, who was diagnosed with HIV five years ago and has been navigating dating apps ever since. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Julia Zelg, who is married to woman 36 years older than her. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Amy Hart, who gets real about her dating experiences before and after Love Island. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Madison James, an escort and "sexual development companion" who has many wealthy female clients. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet YouTuber Katie Snooks, who broke up with her fiancé and cancelled her wedding a few months before the date. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Cathy, who is in a throuple (a three-way relationship, to you and I) with her husband Thomas and their girlfriend Nicole. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Chloe, a sugar baby who gets paid hundreds of pounds by sugar daddies for 'cash point meets'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Cee Cee*, a woman who gets orgasmic massages because she wants to build up her confidence and gain more sexual experience. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Cosmopolitan's All The Way With... each week we'll delve into the sexual and romantic experiences of our remarkable guests. Whether chatting to a high-class male escort about getting paid to have sex with rich women, getting all the details from a woman who pays a stranger to massage her to orgasm, or discussing dealing with divorce in your twenties, we’re here to prove that when it comes to love and sex, there is no ‘normal’. We’ll even have some celebrity guests along the way! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet Nikole Mitchell - a pastor who realised she was queer, left the church and now makes a living stripping on OnlyFans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We meet James* who has a 3.5 inch penis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Catherine, who got married - and divorced - in her 20s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Dr Kate Devlin, the go-to expert on sex robots. She explains how sex robots work, who uses them and what we can expect to see in the future... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by Vivienne, who is in a female-led relationship. This means she has (consensual) control of every aspect of her partner's life: from his finances to his penis, which is locked in a chastity cage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices