Bawdy Storytelling

Are you an overeager trick or treater? Well, pull up a urinal, because this week professor Woody Shticks is here to teach you the Ancient Art of Cruising! If you’ve ever wondered how to master having unbridled sex in public places, Woody’s simple sexy procedures (up/down/flip-the-grip/stir/squeeze/repeat) and pro-tips like the tap back or the downhill doubledick will land you the Juiciest Johnson in no time. Are your knees sticky yet? #SubtletyIsForStraightPeople   About the Storyteller:   Woody Shticks is a comic stripper (comic, and stripper, usually at the same time) based in New Orleans. Follow on Instagram (mild), Twitter (spicy), or TikTok (ridiculous) @woodyshticks, or get into WoodyShticks.com!   Episode links:   Uberlube: Uberlube is a luxurious, high-grade silicone lubricant made from clean, body-friendly ingredients; it’s just silicone with a little Vitamin E. Uberlube is Dixie’s favorite lube, and they’re offering Bawdy Storytelling listeners a special offer – 10% off and free shipping when you us

Can a Viking teach you to have fun when you’re bleeding? Infamous storyteller Mollena Lee Williams-Haas goes on on a pervert tour of Europe, spontaneously deciding to accept an invite from a fan in Oslo. They both know this evening will end up in sex - but when she tries to explain that her period has arrived unexpectedly, he shows her a new appreciation for that time of the month. No wonder these folks conquered the fucking planet! #Celebrate #Menstruation #KnowYourNegro #Sober   Song: ‘Warm, Bloody and Tender’ (Rachel Lark) Watch the official music video (Dixie’s in it!) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGx4OLuE_xU About the Storyteller:   Larger than life, phat as hell, whipsmart AND smart about whips, Mollena Lee Williams-Haas:  [aka "The Perverted Negress" aka "Mo" aka "Pony Oracle," but that is a longer tail] is a performer, storyteller, BDSM/Kink/Leather/AlternativeLifestyle Educatrix, Executive Pervert, librettist and Muse. She is beloved by and in service to her "Spousemeister," legendary contempo

Have you ever stimulated a prostate through a vagina? Queer neurodivergent artist & coach Sarah Dopp encounters a generous & tech-savvy stranger on the internet, & they soon become gender identity penpals. And when Sarah discovers that Meredith has transitioned but hasn’t actually tried out her new vagina yet, she immediately hops a plane to Australia to help out because your first time should be with someone who cares about both you, and your pleasure. #Trans #LetsFindOutWhatThisThingCanDo #LikeThePastNeverHappened   You can watch the (10 year old!) video at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwnRqZ5ulBE   Song: ‘Make Me Feel’ (Janelle Monae) About the Storyteller:   Sarah Dopp is queer neurodivergent artist and certified ADHD coach living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of her past projects include Queer ADHD, a coaching community for the LGBTQ community, as well as Genderfork, a community expression blog for gender diversity. More of her voice can be found on TikTok or Instagram under @sara

Can Sex Parties empower you to heal your lifelong insecurities? Bonobo Network co-producer Misha Bonaventura is invited to an intimate acid-induced birthday experience and as she looks around at the beautiful bodies at this drug-fueled orgy, she sets an intention; Does she want to make love to her friends and compatriots tonight, or does she want to make love to time, and to the meaning of life? As she dances and rejoices in the sights and the orgasms of the luminaries around her, she suddenly finds herself singled out by the cosmos - and everyone else notices it, too. #Insecure #Excluded #YouBelong   Song: ‘Disco Tits’ (Tove Lo) About the Storyteller:   Misha Bonaventura co-produces the Bonobo Network - a  High Possibility, Low Expectation sex-positive community - alongside its founder, William Winters. She teaches and consults individuals and communities to develop their consent culture with a harm reduction and transformative justice lens. She is passionate about supporting sex positive community and helpi

Have you ever used Google Drive to negotiate your most elaborate scenes? When beloved Bawdy musician Rachel Lark meets new flame Tim on Tinder, they defeat their long distance woes with shared spreadsheets containing links to kinky video inspiration for their next date with requested words or phrases, potential triggers, sexy outfits and props to purchase, and more. But when they go off-script in a rented dungeon, they both learn that spontaneity can be surprisingly hot. #UnboxMe #Spreadsheets  #RTFM #LowBattery #OrgasmControl #GoodbyeQuake   Song: ‘The Manual Says’ (Rachel Lark) About the Storyteller:   Rachel Lark is a (formerly) Oakland-based singer/songwriter and the writer of the new musical, Coming Soon, which premiered in San Francisco in April 2022. Her music has been featured on Billboard, Upworthy, Boing Boing, Salon.com, The Savage Lovecast and more. She's been a long-time musical guest at Bawdy Storytelling, but this was Rachel Lark’s storytelling debut.    To learn more about Rachel Lark, check o

Is there anything more difficult than not being able to touch, taste or kiss your long-distance partner? Kinkster & Podcaster Dick Wound first suggests mailing each each their dirty socks and tshirts, but when he learns of his new love’s food fetish, they substitute kissing with SweetTarts on Skype, move to in-person and before you know it, she’s lying in a Dexter-style kill room, covered in ice cold pumpkin guts. It’s time to mix the batter! Plus, Dixie struggles with the hardest goodbye she’ll ever face. #ASMR #Sloppy #Squishy #Slippery #Scene   Song: ‘Bon Appetit’ (Katy Perry & Migos) About the Storyteller:   Dick Wound explores darker and more unusual kinks and fetishes on his podcast, Off the Cuffs, including fantasies of his own death, being dominated by robots, and seductive alien encounters. The podcast was established to document his journey into the kink community, but little time passed before Dick began receiving feedback from listeners and it quickly became evident that many needed guidan

Have you ever gotten a hand stuck in your vagina while a college party rages just 4 feet away? Sex educator and queer high femme Lilian Rogers loves the unique set of sensations that come with fisting: the openness, vulnerability, trust, the feeling of fullness… and OMG, the orgasms! So when she meets someone new on OKCupid, Lillian is prepared to teach this new-to-this partner how handballing works - but when her new partner slips right inside, she knows that it was meant to be. #Cinderella #LatexGloves #QueerDating   Song: ‘Gimme What I Want’ (Miley Cyrus) About the Storyteller:   Lilian Rogers is a queer high femme who currently hails from Mystic, Connecticut where she runs her vintage company, Femme & Nest. She can frequently be found roaming the beach and the woods in non-hiking appropriate outfits with partner and her dog sidekick, Pigeon. Generally, Lilian is making art and trying really hard not to kill her oversized collection of begonias, again.   Episode links:   OUR LAST LIVE SHOW/LIVESTREAM T

(CW: this episode discusses underage sexual exploration)  Have you ever done something really naughty on the internet? Delightfully unhinged Seattle Storyteller Claire Webber shares a stream of consciousness story about how her parents dealt with their daughter’s precocious obsession with questionable websites and animals mating on the Discovery Channel (spoiler alert: it was her gateway drug to gay porn).  Hey, what’s up with roughing up the suspect to Kay’s Jeweler’s commercials, Claire? And I’m speaking at Podcast Movement! Should we have a meetup in Dallas next month? ‘Cause I’d love to meet you. #SearchHistory #BaselineLingerie #ImJustThinkingMom   Song: ‘My Strange Addiction’ (Billie Eilish) About the Storyteller:   Claire Webber started performing in dramatic theater, but was gently guided into other creative endeavors with director's’ notes such as, “You make people intensely uncomfortable” and “This production was meant to be seen by families.” Stand-up comedy was a natural fit. Claire's dedication t

Where do Nerds end and Perverts begin - and are you down for a little Hard Justice while bent over the hood of a Batmobile? When Bruce Wang’s long lost lover returns from Australia, she needs Bruce’s help to get her mojo back. He wants to help - and where better than ComicCon?! Brace yourselves, dear listener, cause there’s a lot of Cameos in this episode: Wolverine, Catwoman, Doctor Who, Superman, AquaMan, Boy Robin, Deadpool, that super hot Centaur guy from the Old Spice commercial - but thankfully, Squirrel Girl never makes an appearance. Yes, those really ‘out there’ fantasies can come true; all it takes is a clever, enthusiastic co-conspirator. #NerdAndPerverts #NewExperience   Song: ‘Trouble in Metropolis’ (Jefferson Bergey) Learn more about Jefferson Bergey at: JeffersonBergey.com or help him create at patreon.com/JeffersonBergey About the Storyteller:   Bruce Wang is a prolific and well-respected Comic Book Writer and Cartoonist. He is performing this story under a nom de scene (a fake name) as any g

Feeling defeated by last week’s overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court? As an antidote to the bad news, we share this origin story from Author, Psychotherapist, Kinkster, Sex Radical and Ethical Slut, Dossie Easton. This story was told at Dossie’s Story Toast in 2019, where we celebrated both her 75th birthday and the 50th Anniversary of *this*, Dossie’s life-changing trip to a new sexually empowered version of feminism. Gather your strength and be inspired by Dossie’s true tale as we prepare to challenge what’s next. #WorkToDo #TooIntelligent #TooOutspoken #TooStrong #TheRiddleOfTheUniverse   Song: ‘Unstoppable’ (Sia) About the Storyteller:   Dossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut, The Bottoming and Topping Books, and Radical Ecstasy:  SM Journeys to Transcendence.     Dossie is a psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and more in her private practice in San Francisco, with a particular interest in how S/M journe

How do you give and receive pleasure while detaching from gender expectations? Storyteller and writer Matthew Beld has spent the Pandemic isolating and reflecting on who they really are, so a first time road trip celebration with new sluts feels daunting. Should they join the ass buffet? Can they be part of the orgy in the hot tub? As this proud slut embraces a more expansive non-binary identity, Matthew learns that the right people can help you find joy and connection - and that you don’t really have to know yet. It’s a bold choice, but you have to respect the confidence! #Nonbinary #ThatDressTho #Trans #TheMeatHasToGoSomewhere   Song: ‘I’m Good’ (The Mowgli’s) About the Storyteller:   Matthew Beld is a Non-Binary storyteller and writer in San Francisco. They've performed for Bawdy Storytelling and BawdySlam, Litquake, KQED, StoryCorps, and comedy shows around the Bay Area. Most recently, they've started writing sketches with Killing My Lobster. They're interested in kink, gender, and making tall men submit.

Have you ever had first time anal with your best friend/ex-fiancee in a jacuzzi room at Disneyland? Comedian/Writer/Producer April Kidwell and her butt buddy Scott are having a hard time in their relationship, going from broken limbs to life tragedy to a sports injury that breaks *another* leg. So they escape by going on holiday and pushing each other’s wheelchairs from Space Mountain to Star Wars World - and then polish it off with an inaugural booty blast back in the hotel room. But the real world always bubbles up eventually, doesn’t it? What a mess! #EnterThruTheExit #FrontOfTheLine #LifeIsMessy   Song: ‘Let’s fall in love for the night’ (Finneas) About the Storyteller:   April Kidwell is the writer, producer and star of I, Nomi - the one woman musical comedy about the life of Nomi Malone, before and after the cult classic about her life: Showgirls (you know, the 1995 erotic drama cult film directed by Paul Verhoeven). Off Broadway, April has performed in: Showgirls! The Musical! (As Nomi Malone), in Bays

Do you suffering from Witzelsucht (an obsession with groan-worthy puns and jokes)? Preschool teacher Mosa Maxwell-Smith tingles with glee when people roll their eyes at her puns, wondering how she might extend that thrill to the bedroom. Driven by loneliness, she bravely attends a live /Augmented reality sex party and meets Van, a thoughtful, compassionate person who helps her explore new territory: flogging, their shared organizational kink, paronomasia-related memes and Mosa’s burgeoning boundaries. #SelfCareIsSoxy #VirtualWorld #Kinkshamed #Brattiness #BestFriendsDay   Song: ‘Fever Dream’ (mxmtoon) About the Storyteller:   When Mosa Maxwell-Smith first discovered storytelling she craved it so much that she started hosting story parties with friends in her living room.  That was 2011, before the Moth was even in the Bay Area. She is elated by the explosion of storytelling as an art form and connector of humans over the last decade, and has been privileged to perform regularly at a variety of venues, includi

Do you ever wonder if Black people go to Burning Man? Pansexual Polyamorous Poet & Woman of Color Sylvia Blalock is looking for love - but how can she be with someone who won’t let her fist them? After getting stood up for the Black and White ball due to her date’s baby mama drama, she sells his ticket and buys herself one for Burning Man - and quickly meets Mr Sparkleteeth and Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, a queer POC couple who want nothing more than to make all her dusty, dirty dreams come true. Remember: When life gives you lemons, make cocktails and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer! #DaddyImHome #Queer #POC #Pansexual #FistingTip   Song: ‘Dem Cakes Tho’ (Todrick Hall) About the Storyteller:   Sylvia L. Blalock is a  San Francisco native is the author of Uprising, a book of poetry, and is the owner/founder of Queendom Network LLC. She’s presented at the UC Berkeley Empowering Womxn of Color Conference, as well as hosting Voices That Carry, a poetry event as part of National Poetry Month.   She’s on Inst

Have you ever received oral sex from a beautiful French woman at 200 miles an hour? Teenage Brendan Taylor had always believed that those Penthouse forum stories were complete fabrications; he’s focusing on his studies, not girls. And for a lanky, inexperienced country boy first trip’s to France, this young nerd is most excited about the train ride from Paris to Marseille on the TGV bullet train. Electric! High Speed! Yet when a sophisticated Parisian woman takes an interest, he begins to feel a different kind of electricity. Those French lessons don’t seem quite so important now, because Brendan’s discovered the universal language. #SinkOrSwim #Croissant #Bonjour #Unzipped   Song: ‘Finally Woken’ (Jem) About the Storyteller:   Brendan Taylor was born and raised in a small town in the Midwest in the 70s. He enjoys many shades of off-white from eggshell to ecru, and likes just a *touch* of vanilla. He gets migraines like a lawyer bills hours, curses like a barefoot sailor in a Lego factory, and is full of surp

Have you ever used an under-inflated rubber doll to jumpstart your reunion-slash-sex party? Sex educator Reid Mihalko spends more than a year hunkered down with his partner during the pandemic, which sets a personal record: the longest time he’s ever gone without a threesome. No more! Reid hatches a plan to host a writer’s retreat in a Northern California yurt with many of his sex-positive friends, and after travel and quarantining and rapid tests, nobody remembers how to connect anymore. What better way to get your strap-on gangbang going than to put that board game blow-up doll to good use? Well, this isn’t going into the memoir I’m writing, is it? #InflatableBro#Shiny #Squeaky #Plastic #LongDryPandemic #ThisIsMyLife   Song: ‘Do you Take it’ (The Wet Spots) About the Storyteller:   Sex and relationship geek Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com helps adults and college students create more self-esteem, self-confidence, and greater health and accountability in their relationships and sex lives using an inspiring

Would you be nervous about meeting someone if you’d already had sex with the person, yet you’d never actually seen them? After boffing someone at a pitch dark sex party, Dixie De La Tour gets a call from this mystery man, asking her for a date - and it makes her so nervous. Is she expected to have sex with him, since it’s already happened? And what if her date doesn’t like how she looks, since they haven’t actually laid eyes on each other? Big Thanks to the Risk! Podcast for inviting Dix to perform this story on their first livestream at the start of the Pandemic, and to Jefferson Bergey for this week’s original Birthday song. Remember: ‘You stop Reading, I stop Eating’! #HappyBirthday #RepentYourSins #Insecure #MatzohBallSoup   Song: ‘Jack in the Box’ (Jefferson Bergey) About the Storyteller:   Dixie De La Tour is a storytelling coach, sexual folklorist, professional storyteller, podcaster, teacher, impresario, community builder and most of all, a facilitator of new experiences. She is also the Founder, Cura

Do you ever wonder if maybe your Mom was right? As a 15 year old ‘sexually ignorant Midwest teenager’, Ryan Vermouth’s weeping mother confronts him. She knows he’s gay… he doesn’t think so, yet he fears she might know him better than he knows himself. So when Ryan attends his college’s annual drag ball with Bisexual/Bicoastal Jenny-cum-Johnny, he learns some empowering adult lessons about lube, bondage tape, and how clarifying it can be to transform your childhood traumas into joy, connection, and new, nourishing kinks. #TwoGoodHands #Bullied #LightlyGenderBent #YouDontHaveToKnow   Song: ‘Sex is Good, but have you Tried’ (Donna Missal) About the Storyteller:   Ryan Vermouth has always been intensely curious about people, which is why he became a social scientist, an actor, and kind of a slut. Six months and two variants ago, he was scheduled to perform at the August show until it was canceled—but he couldn't be more excited that the delay has given him a chance to be a part of Bawdy’s anniversary show (and al

Has opportunity ever knocked on your back door? Travel Junkie & Stoner Kimberly Anne gets off a plane in Sydney and immediately encounters bike messenger Sam smoking a joint in the park, & that’s a great way to make friends in a new country. And when he announces he’s bisexual and really into being pegged, she realizes that this might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Her journey Down Under is already yielding unexpected results (a new appreciation for yoga, for starters) #Powerful #POV #Considerate #TSACompliant   Song: ‘Enormous Penis’ (Da Vinci’s Notebook) About the Storyteller:   Kimberly Anne, though new to storytelling onstage, has been telling stories to her friends in a desperate attempt to make them laugh her whole life. Kimberly is hella native to the Bay Area, and has called San Francisco her home for the past 12 years.  She loves basic bitch shit like yoga, hiking and wine. Kimberly’s favorite thing is traveling and she has visited over 20 countries, experiencing new cultures, cuisines

Hey, wanna try out a Gloryhole while the Dragon Lady naps? LGBTQIA sexual health specialist & speaker Frank Strona discovers 1970s-era adult bookstores at age 17 during his first visit to the Sir Francis Drake - and quickly figures out how to get laid multiple times a day, even when traveling with Grandma! This week, we learn about pornographic video arcades, buddy screens, anonymous gay sex, and how to generously tip your doorman. #Cruising #DarkLabyrinth #SweetSpot #GuardTheBeef Song: ‘Hot Love’ (Leisure) About the Storyteller: Frank Strona's vast experience in adult content mediums, LGBTQ culture, sexuality and sexual health, coupled with his long background in public health, offers a unique perspective that lends him true credibility as a navigator of change.  Frank serves as a voice for diversity, inclusion, acceptance and health, he understands the power that being at the table as an out gay man has, and Frank knows how to leverage that power to make change for other LGBTQ folks. A long-time local B