Education Episodes

Kink Night at Club Eden just broke our brains — in the best way. On this Wednesday quickie, Adam & Pris recap their first-ever Kink Night at their home swinger club, where a dominatrix friend and her sub gave them a front-row education in flogging, electric wands, sounding rods, and the real meaning of consent and power exchange in the BDSM world. This episode is a must-listen for anyone curious about where kink and the ethical non-monogamy / swinger lifestyle overlap — and where they don't. I...

What’s your dynamic? It’s the one question every couple new to the swinger lifestyle and ethical non-monogamy (ENM) needs to know how to answer — and Adam & Pris break it down in this Wednesday Quickie. They dig into full swap vs. soft swap, same room vs. same roof vs. separate play, and why knowing (and stating) your dynamic up front saves everyone’s time. Plus: mismatched libidos, menopause and the lifestyle, learning to say no, and why non-monogamy really is a team sport. In this episode: W...

What were your first swinger experiences really like? A listener couple just entering the swinger lifestyle dropped that question in our anonymous confessional, and Adam & Pris answer it with zero filter. From a drunk Halloween party that went completely sideways to a first full swap that turned into a lifelong friendship, this is the ethical non-monogamy origin story we've never told on the show — mistakes, jealousy, death glares, and all. In this episode: The Halloween party "non-experience" ...

Swinger? Poly? Friends with benefits? If you've ever mixed them up, you're in good company — Adam's own barber had no clue. This week on Beyond Monogamy, real-life couple Adam & Pris break down the real differences between swinging, polyamory, and friends with benefits in the ethical non-monogamy (ENM) world — from a couple who has lived all three and collected a few red flags along the way. In this episode: Why so many swingers think they want polyamory… when what they really want is friends w...

Kink 101: Fetish vs. Kink, Power Exchange & Hot Wifing with The Kink Consultant We're stepping outside our usual non-monogamy lane and into the wide, wild world of kink with special guest Amanda Dames, aka The Kink Consultant. Amanda is a certified somatic sex & relationship coach and sexologist (and former NYC dominatrix!) who breaks down the real difference between a "kink" and a "fetish," why labels actually help you find yourself, and how power exchange, hot wifing, pre-claiming, and reclaim...

She's been with over a dozen people in the lifestyle — and has never once had an orgasm with any of them. Meanwhile, her husband comes every time. More than once. At the club. This week, Adam & Pris dive headfirst into one of the most common — and least talked-about — issues in the lifestyle: the orgasm gap. Is it a vetting problem? A communication problem? A men-are-oblivious problem? (Spoiler: yes, yes, and yes.) In This Episode: Why the orgasm gap is real — and gets worse in the lifestyle ...

Beyond Monogamy with Adam & Pris sits down with Stirling Cooper — former adult film star, ex-male escort, and now one of the world's most sought-after intimacy and sexual performance coaches for men. This one gets real, fast. Stirling breaks down how he cracked the swinger scene as a single male in Australia, built a high-class escorting career, won awards in adult film, and then walked away from it all to help everyday men take control of their sex lives. We also find out what celery has to do...

Episode Summary Adam and Pris sit down with Natasha Helfer, AASECT-certified sex therapist, author, and founder of Symmetry Counseling, for one of the most powerful conversations in Beyond Monogamy history. Natasha spent three decades helping people untangle religious trauma, sexual shame, and purity culture — and then made national headlines when she was excommunicated from the LDS Church for speaking openly about sex, faith, and mental health. In this episode, we dig into why so many people l...

What does it take to build the world's largest lifestyle event from a house party to a 3,000+ person New Orleans takeover? Adam and Pris sit down with Bob Hannaford, founder and CEO of Naughty Events and the mastermind behind Naughty N'Awlins — the most iconic swinger and kink convention on the planet. Bob pulls back the curtain on 28 years of growth, the Cathedral of Kink dungeon, the Sexual Freedom Parade, consent culture at scale, and what makes Naughty N'Awlins unlike any event in the lifest...

The guest didn't show up. The mics were already hot. What happened next became one of our most real, unfiltered episodes yet. In this Beyond Monogamy Quickie, Adam and Pris got caught mid-conversation while waiting on a no-show guest — and what started as backstage small talk turned into a deep, raw, hilarious dive into ethical non-monogamy, polyamory, swinging, jealousy, compersion, and what it actually looks like to evolve as a couple in the lifestyle. They cover: Why they didn't do polyamory...

She had rules. She had walls. She had a clipboard full of hard limits. Eighteen months later? Adam pulled the receipts — and Pris had some explaining to do. In this episode, Adam flips the script and puts Pris in the hot seat for a long-overdue evolution check-in. Armed with direct quotes from Episode 1, he revisits every bold declaration Pris made when Beyond Monogamy launched — and finds out just how much has changed after 18 months in the ENM and swinger lifestyle. What we cover: From "I don...

What if somebody finally made the documentary that explains ethical non-monogamy the way it always should have been explained? No sensationalism. No clipboard outsiders. Just real people, real experts, and real community — with humor baked in. This week, Adam & Pris sit down with the three-person creative team behind More Than Monogamy: director Dylan Birdsall of All the Birds LLC, and Urvashi & Kama from Spark Erotic — award-winning erotic filmmakers with 25 films and 11 years in the game. In...

An MD, PhD, and infectious disease specialist sits down with Adam and Pris to talk about the one thing the lifestyle can't afford to ignore — comprehensive, convenient, stigma-free STI and hormone testing you can do from home... Episode Summary Adam and Pris open with a confession: testing is something their community talks about in theory but often dreads in practice. Between clinic appointments, waiting rooms, insurance paper trails, and the anxiety of going in at all — the system has built m...

An MD, PhD, and infectious disease specialist sits down with Adam and Pris to talk about the one thing the lifestyle can't afford to ignore — comprehensive, convenient, stigma-free STI and hormone testing you can do from home. Episode Summary Adam and Pris open with a confession: testing is something their community talks about in theory but often dreads in practice. Between clinic appointments, waiting rooms, insurance paper trails, and the anxiety of going in at all — the system has built mor...

Stop what you're doing. Seriously. Pull over if you have to, because this episode features one of the most iconic voices in the history of sex education, adult entertainment, and the non-monogamy movement — and she showed up ready to talk about everything. Adam and Pris sit down with the legendary Nina Hartley — adult film performer, sex educator, activist, and someone who has been living intentional non-monogamy since before half of you were born. We're talking decades of swinging, triads, and...

Today we are going there. Full send. Adam and Pris sit down with Courtney Brame — founder of Something Positive for Positive People (SPFPP), host of a podcast with over 350 episodes, 500-hour certified yoga teacher, co-author of a sex education book, and one of the few men of color leading the national conversation on HSV stigma. Courtney was diagnosed with genital HSV-2 in 2013. Instead of shrinking from it, he turned that experience into a full-on movement — one that has helped thousands of pe...

What if your penis could tell you whether you're about to have a heart attack? Sounds wild, right? That's exactly the kind of conversation we had this week, and it did not disappoint. Adam and Pris sit down with Dr. Elliot Justin — physician, entrepreneur, and founder of Firm Tech — one of the most fascinating humans we've ever had on the show. Dr. Justin is on a mission to bring real, data-driven sexual health tools to men and women, and the technology he's building is genuinely mind-blowing...

Everyone loves talking about the fun parts of the lifestyle — the dates, the connections, the experiences. But what about everything that has to happen BEFORE any of that? The messaging. The vetting. The scheduling. The follow-up. All of it takes time, energy, and emotional bandwidth. And in most couples? It doesn't fall equally. On today's QUICKIE, Adam and Pris get real about how they divide the emotional labor of connecting with other couples — who does the messaging, who handles vetting (a...

About This Episode Y'all, this one is different. Adam and Pris sit down with the one and only Susan Bratton — intimacy expert to millions, bestselling author, founder of Personal Life Media, sexual biohacker, and Chief Advocacy Officer of ProDX Health. She's been in the lifestyle for over two decades, she's married to her husband Tim of 34 years, she has a boyfriend of five years, and she can tell you from personal experience exactly what expanded orgasm feels like. She's not talking about case...

Pregnancy in the lifestyle. Yeah, we went there. And honestly? It's one of those conversations that most people tip-toe around — until a condom breaks or somebody shows up to the party eight months along and suddenly everyone's got questions. On this week's QUICKIE, Adam and Pris pull zero punches on a topic that's way more common than people like to admit. This one was sparked by a real message from a friend who was gearing up to meet a couple — and found out the woman was pregnant. It opened ...

Most people think swinging is all vibes, chemistry, and “we’ll figure it out when we get there.” In this episode of Beyond Monogamy with Adam & Pris, we explain why that mindset is exactly why so many couples struggle early on. We’re recording live on location at Forbidden Fruit, one of the most respected adult education spaces in Texas, and sitting down with Jonny — the man behind some of the most popular lifestyle workshops in the community. From Fellatio 101 and BDSM 101 to rope classes, co...

This episode is a deep, grounded, and powerful conversation. In this episode of Beyond Monogamy with Adam & Pris, we sit down with relationship and sexuality professional Martha Kauppi, an AASECT-certified sex therapist, author, educator, and founder of the Institute for Relational Intimacy. Martha works at the intersection of intimacy, attachment, nervous system regulation, and relationship patterns — helping people understand not just what’s happening in their relationships, but why it’s happ...

Polyamory doesn’t have to be confusing, chaotic, or emotionally overwhelming. In this episode of Beyond Monogamy with Adam & Pris, we sit down with award-winning sex and relationships educator Leanne Yau—the brilliant mind behind Poly Philia Blog—to unpack jealousy, boundaries, emotional security, and why non-monogamy isn’t a “phase” or a lack of commitment. Leanne shares how she discovered non-monogamy at a young age, how being cheated on shaped her views of honesty and trust, and why jealousy...

SUMMARY Ever wonder what the original sexual revolution really looked like? Before there were swinger apps, lifestyle websites, or even the term “ethical non-monogamy,” there were people just living it — raw, real, and unapologetic. In this week’s episode of Beyond Monogamy with Adam & Pris, we sit down with Sam L. Feldman — author of Hookups, Hiccups, and Happenstances — to talk about what life and love looked like in the 60s and 70s when freedom was brand new, communication was everything, a...