Hello lovely humans. My name is Wai O'Leary and you are listening to sex stories,

a podcast where we share intimate stories about intimate things in an effort to improve sex lives everywhere

and my guest today is Shaina.

Welcome Shaina.

Thank you.

Would you like to introduce yourself for our guests? Yes. Okay, my name is Shaina. I'm 23 years old. I'm a filmmaker and a photographer. I'm a queer person person I identify as non-binary in my gender and I'd say I'm gay

so I date primarily non-binary people. Awesome.

I would love to hear a little bit about your sex life starting with the early stuff.

So eventually we'll get to the current stuff, but give us a little snapshot of your upbringing, background, and early sexual memories, pretty please.

Okay, I grew up in a middle to upper class household in San Diego, Jewish household, religious-wise, were reform Jews to like not

very religious, you know like had the rituals and would celebrate like the big holidays but

not much else and yeah I think sex you know it was something that was taboo in my

household I don't think it was as intense that was

as intense as other households that I've heard of, but it was basically just

something we didn't really talk about.

Growing up, I remember sex ed like, you know, it was pretty awful.

Like in fifth grade we I learned about women's periods in sixth grade.

I just distinctly remember learning

about men having wet dreams and men a jackpot.

In school?

In school?

So it was like fifth grade, women period sixth grade men have wet dreams and then

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