The Undressing Disability Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

On the final episode of this series, Jennie and Zoe chat to ETUK's brand new Quest range ambassador, disability activist, Roxy Murray. 

They chat about her Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, dating, her podcast and her campaign work.

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On this episode, hosts Jennie and Zoe chat to campaigner and alopecia advocate Laura Mathias. They talk about learning to love yourself, dating and life without wigs. 

In this episode, Damian talks to Matilda Lawrence-Jubb and Anna Alexander who are the co founders of Sex Education company Split Banana.
 
Anna and Matilda tell Damian why they set up the company and how they help young people to have healthy relationships with their minds, their bodies and each other.
They then discuss the topics of sex education and pleasure, pornography and how Sex Education can be improved in S.E.N schools.

In this episode Damian talks to Cindy Gallop who is the self-proclaimed Michael Bay of business as she “likes to blow shit up”.

Cindy was born in the UK, lived much of her childhood in Brunei, Borneo, and returned to the UK for university education in Oxford. She has lived in New York for the last 23 years and here we talk to her about one of her ventures, Make Love Not Porn, of which she is the founder and CEO. 

Make Love Not Porn is the world's first user-generated, human-curated social sex platform. It is real world sex, and definitely not porn. However, they are Pro Sex, Pro Porn and Pro knowing the difference!

Damian's chat includes talking about how this platform is different to porn, the restrictions of promoting a business in this sector and the benefits of having a platform like this in society. This then leads to talking about representation of disabled people in porn and how videos of real world sex can rectify that.

We hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we do!

In this episode, host Damian talks to Sensual Masseuse Jo Silby and this time the tables are turned as our very own Jennie Williams becomes a guest!

Jo talks a little about herself and explains to the listeners what a Sensual (sexual) Massage in comparison to an ordinary massage.
Jennie shares her personal experience of suffering with Vulva pain due to having Lichen Sclerosus and how she went to Jo for a massage and the positive impact it had.
Jo also talks about how sensual massage can help people, singles and those in relationships, and what the therapy can look like.

In this episode Jennie and Damian talk to Eleanor Hancock who works as a Sex Tech researcher for Kiiroo.

They discuss Sex tech including some of the products that Kiiroo make, and how technology can be used to make sex toys more accessible for disabled people.
Eleanor gives us some insight into how she thinks Sex Tech will progress in the future including the emergence of Sex robots.

**This episode contains explicit content of a sexual nature. There is also a lot of swearing so you may not want to play this where young ears could be listening. **

In this episode Jennie and Damian talk to Reed Amber who is a sex-positive mental health advocate, nudity, kinks and fetishes anti-shamer.

Reed tells us about herself and the sex positive work she does and how her aim is to talk about subjects that some people may feel uncomfortable discussing.  She talks about the positives and negatives that there are when being so open on social media.

Reed also gives a very open look in to her life including mental health issues and drug addiction.

This week, our hosts Jennie and Damian chat with Kelly Gordon about loneliness and dating as a disabled person.  

Kelly Gordon is a 32 year old entrepreneur and consultant based in the West Midlands, UK. She has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3 which is a genetic disability meaning for her, that she uses an electric wheelchair to get around. Kelly's condition is progressive and has meant that she has faced losing her ability throughout her life especially when her body faced big changes and challenges such as pregnancy. 

Kelly has always been feisty and outspoken so you wouldn't assume she would find dating with a disability difficult but we learn that this wasn't always the case via a funny story about the lengths she went to on a date, hiding that she was a wheelchair user!

This podcast looks at society's perception of disability and how this can impact disabled people in their disclosure of impairments.  This could be in the dating arena or in the workplace, which can ultimately lead to loneliness. 

This week we are joined by Tina Rycroft whose son, Charlie,  has Microtia meaning he is deaf in one ear as it is underdeveloped.  She talks about Charlie's attitude and confidence amongst his peers and how his differs from the medical model of disability.

Tina works for the charity Microtia UK, heading up the fundraising and communication initiatives.  She had the great idea of creating a children's book where a character has Microtia.  This is where our next guest comes in - Adam Rood took up the challenge to write this book and in this podcast he gives us a glimpse of what it is about and how schools can enter a competition to win a personal reading by him. 

The book echoes our own values here at Enhance the UK - creating positive awareness about diversity and inclusion.

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Damian welcomes Jamie Finch from the podcast' Let's Talk About Sex, Jamie'.  This episode is a frank, open chat which challenges many people's perceptions of the use of sex toys for men.

They discuss:

• sex education
• sex addiction
• sex toys and disability
• the progress of sex toys and Virtual Reality and 
• the difference in perception of sex toys between all genders.