Slut PhD
Episodes
Farewell for Now...
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast has been such an interesting and fun journey! Thank you to everyone who has joined me on this adventure!I'm taking an indefinite hiatus t...
Smut as a Feminist Project: A Conversation with Allison Whaley of Bothered Stories
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie talks with Allison Whaley, the founder of a new website for curated "smut," Bothered Stories. Allison talks about how enjoying ...
The Porn Industry Then and Now, Part 2: An Interview with Jasmine Sherni
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger warnings: vague discussion of sexual assault and sexual harassmentHaving gotten therapy from Jasmine in Part 1, in Part 2 Julie interviews Jas...
The Porn Industry Then and Now, Part 1--with Jasmine Sherni
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger warnings: discussion of sexual assault, sexual harassment, suicide and mental healthIn this episode, Julie talks with the amazing rising adult...
How to Manage Your Energy at Conventions
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most common questions people ask me is "how do you go to so many kink conventions without getting completely exhausted?" And my answer is a...
Keeping It Hot in Long-Term Poly Cohabiting Relationships, Part 2--with ElsieXO and Jordan
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Picking up the conversation from where we left off in Part 1, Part 2 examines certain challenges in cohabiting poly, kinky life, and then concludes by...
Keeping It Hot in Long-Term Poly Cohabiting Relationships, Part 1--with ElsieXO and Jordan
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
TO BE CONTINUED (this episode cuts off in the middle of a conversation)In Part 1 of this two-part episode, Julie chats with her peeps ElsieXO and Jord...
Where's the Line Between BDSM and Self-Harm?--with Cait and Siren
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger warnings: mental health, eating disordersIn this episode, Julie tackles a subject few have been brave enough to ask: what's the real differenc...
Dominance/submission in Fantasy versus Reality--with Artifiction
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie and her sub Artifiction discuss some of the challenges of moving from Dominant/submissive desires to actually translating those...
On Co-Topping, with SugarAndPoison
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie and her co-top SugarAndPoison break down some the pleasures and cautionary tales of co-topping. While recounting some of their ...
Bi + Poly Figures From History
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode provides a very brief survey of some interesting and occasionally significant figures from bisexual and polyamorous history, primarily ta...
Part 2: Violated: Chatting about Our Book with Remy Green
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a continuation of the previous one where Julie and Remy discuss their book, Violated: Sexual Consent and Assault in the 21st Century (...
Violated: Chatting about Our Book with Remy Green, Part 1
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Picking up from an earlier episode where Julie read the first chapter of Violated, Julie (a sociologist) and Remy (a lawyer) discuss their book, Viola...
Musings about Gender and Sexuality with SugarAndPoison
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building on a previous episode about sexuality and gender (with Doug Robinson), this episode explores more ideas and themes around this weird and comp...
Violated: Sexual Consent and Assault in the 21st Century, Chapter 1
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie reads the first chapter of her book, Violated: Sexual Consent and Assault in the 21st Century. Next month, she will have two ep...
Group Sex!--with Doug Robinson
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie and her friend Doug Robinson chat about some of the things they love about group sex (threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes). Wh...
The BDSM/Polyamory and Neurodivergence Overlap
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie speculates about some of the reasons there's apparently such a high overlap between BDSM/polyamory and neurodivergence. There's...
Please Scream Quietly, Chapter 1
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sadly, there's no full audio recording (yet!) of my sociological book on the American BDSM scene, Please Scream Quietly: A Story of Kink. But here's c...
The Art of the Switch--with ElsieXO
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional BDSM culture has tended to ignore the artistry of being a good switch in favor of pure-dom/pure-sub identities and dynamics. Contemporary ...
On Erotica Writing: Chatting with Artifiction
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Julie and her sub Artifiction have both been writing erotica for years. In this episode, they share their wildly different journeys to the same destin...
Valentine Eroticas, Part 2: Fem Dom/masc sub
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
~Content warning: Very explicit BDSM erotica~Welcome to the Valentine's Day erotica special! This episode is a two-parter. This second episode contain...
Valentine Eroticas, Part 1: Masc Dom/fem sub
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
~Content warning: Very explicit BDSM erotica~Welcome to the Valentine's Day erotica special! This episode is a two-parter. This first episode contains...
Born This Way? Challenging Existing Constructions of "Sexual Orientation" (with Doug Robinson)
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation between Julie and Doug Robinson, they unpack some of the quirks and challenges of defining and articulating more complicated "sex...
Alternative Masculinities: An Interview with Doug Robinson
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie interviews playwright Doug Robinson about his experiences growing up and living as a gender non-conforming man. A pressing poin...
So Many Ways to Love Rope
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Julie talks about many the things that she loves about rope bondage (sometimes called shibari) and discusses vocabulary for talking a...
Chatting about FemDom with SugarandPoison
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger warning: brief discussion about Consensual Non-Consent (CNC) and Dubious Consent (DubCon)Feminine dominants are a much misunderstood, misident...
Unpacking the Relationship between Sex and BDSM
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are understandably confused about the relationship between sex and BDSM because... the relationship is very confusing. In this episode, Ju...
The Rise of Conservatism among Young Men: An Interview with Jonny
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout developed countries, young men have been running to extremist conservative politics with disastrous consequences for democracy. Rather than...
Masculine Submission: An Interview with Artifiction
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neither mainstream culture nor BDSM subculture is particularly supportive of masculine submission--especially for hetero(ish) cis-men. In this intervi...
Gender & BDSM Roles
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing heavily on the research she conducted from 2012-17 in the BDSM (Bondage & Discipline, Dominance and submission, Sadism & Masochism) su...
Reconceptualizing "Disorganized Attachment"
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trigger warnings: childhood trauma in general terms, mental illness (especially Borderline Personality Disorder), and relationship dissolution/divorce...
Jealousy in Polyamorous Life: It's Complicated
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two competing ideas exist: (1) that all polyamorous people don't get jealous and (2) that all polyamorous people get jealous but are just really good ...