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Hi everyone and welcome back to doing it the Sex and Relationships podcast where sex has never been so nerdy with me, your host, Hannah Witten.

This week I am joined by the brilliant Emerson Cash.

Emerson is a sex and kink educator, content creator and writer, and the person behind the Instagram account at the Kink Educator.

She has a degree in human sexuality, and her work aims to make Kink and sex education accessible

to everyone. I wanted to get Emerson on the podcast after reading their posts about the risks

of the show how to build a sex room from a Kink educator's perspective to talk more about kink.

We covered so many interesting topics. First off, how Emerson has always been kinky from a

young age, but then seeing so many friends getting into kink later in life without any

information made her see the need to provide education around kink. Emerson also shared with me

about her first time entering a DOM and sub

partnership whilst at college, but without fully understanding consent and finding herself

in an abusive toxic dynamic. And while studying for her degree in human sexuality, for the first

time learning about consent helped her realise the relationship that she was in was very unhealthy

and that she'd been

experiencing sexual assault. Emerson talked about the importance of having proper kink education

and kink communities like FetLife being so crucial and helpful for understanding what is and isn't

healthy kink dynamics. We talked about the show, how to build a sex room, what Emerson thought was positive about the show, including the featuring of taboo kinks, but also several problems, like going against people's consent and doing things that made many participants uncomfortable, as well as a lack of education around kink practice. We had a really interesting conversation about what de-gendering kink means,

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