No Sex Please - I'm religious
A fun but serious look at religious attitudes to SEX over the centuries and the discrimination that many groups have suffered. These have included people of ALL sexualities, faith and no faith at all. Proceeds from the Podcast help us support LGBTIQ refugees in Africa and other places.
Episodes
15 episodes
Fiona Patten - Former MP: A very Reasonable Person; Author of Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Role
My interview with the lovely Fiona Patten, former Member of the Victorian Legislative Council in Melbourne, Australia. Author of Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Role. Fiona talks about her achievements in parliament and we discuss the importance o...
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Episode 13
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45:55
Scared of Sex - Medieval Monks and Others
Interview with Michael BarbezatOh dear! Those religious medievals were quite obsessed with SEX. In this conversation, David Ayliffe interviews Michael Barbezat, a research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at...
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Episode 14
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39:47
Maria, What it is to be a true ally
Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli has gained national and international recognition as a writer, researcher, lecturer and consultant in the issues of cultural diversity, gender diversity, sexual diversity, family diversity, HIV/AIDS, and social diver...
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Episode 12
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26:55
Wanke for President - The Candidate who wants to ban Mrs Doubtfire.
Republic candidate 2024 Presidential Primaries, Wilbur Wankenschtrop, Founder of the Purity in Culture Movement - announced he plans to introduce legislation to ban Mrs Doubtfire and all films that feature cross dressing of any kind if elected ...
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Episode 11
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16:34
Melbourne is Handsome - Refugee Story
Robert Kasozi arrived in Melbourne on 29th March 2023. He has been a refugee escaping homophobic and cultural hatred of his LGBTIQ community for over 6 years. Every day in Kenya was a day wondering who would be attacked, imprisoned, raped...
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Episode 12
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23:27
America Hiring a Hitman 101
If you are a good conservative Christian in America there are probably lots of people you’d like God to kill, but if he doesn’t, what do you do? Hire a hitman? That tale wags shortly.Well, I ain’t a conservative Christian but I can tell...
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Episode 10
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Purity (Un)cultured: My Hardware Store Sex Talk, aged 29
Purity Culture was just another religious aberration in regards to sex introduced to protect, (read, ‘control’), Christian teenagers. Not only was sex before marriage a sin it was a quick and easy pathway to unforgivable slutdom for women. In a...
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Episode 9
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Silentium: When the worst cruelty is silence!
Closest I've come to swearing on my podcast. This a disturbing piece with claims of abuse of two young gay boys through hazing (initiation) at St John's College, Sydney University in 1985. I first came across this in 2018 when I found
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Episode 8
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19:59
Saying NO to Ultra-Right, White Supremacist, World Conquering Religion
The New Evangelicals podcast founder Tim Whitaker talks to Cath and David about his work and passion, and confesses rising from the death of his fundamentalism. As for purity culture with such high and unreasonale demands upon young church goer...
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Episode 7
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53:32
Growing up with Dave Allen and the teenage fundamentalists!
Guess who forgot to check his microphone. Checked everyone else, but me!Interview with @IWATF (WTF I hear you say?) "I was a teenage fundamentalist" is...
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Episode 6
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50:22
Talking Sexy with Deacon Ross
Please subscribe and if you like the podcast support us on www.patreon.com/nosexpleaseI begin with mention of some articles worth reading about the bad behaviour of people who say they believe in God, but who wants to know a God like th...
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Episode 5
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51:18
Sex Shame Alive and Well in Africa
Sex Shame is alive and well in Africa. In Uganda, as in no doubt many countries mother's can't give their daughters the "sex talk" - they are too ashamed. So it is the task of the aunts. Boys don't receive "the talk" at all. Not from men in the...
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Episode 4
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16:25
This Christmas - The Truth about Life for Queer Refugees in Kenya and Uganda.
Christmas should celebrate love amongst families and friends. But it's not always a happy time, especially for Queer refugees in Africa and around the globe. Good parents normally love their children no matter what. What happ...
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Episode 3
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Doctors without knowledge discuss Church Shame and Sex
Our small panel today, Humanity in Need board members Brian Coogan, Dr Cath Connelly and me, David Ayliffe. Being grateful for the interview with Dr Tina Schermer Sellers and her experience growing up in a progressive Swedish household where se...
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Episode 2
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26:27
Sexologist Debunks Sex Shame
My first published interview for the podcast is with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, a licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher, emeriti professor, and media personality whose expertise spans sex therapy, spi...
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Episode 1
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