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Alive with Steve Burns

Maitland Ward on Sex

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0588 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Steve speaks with Maitland about why it’s so difficult to talk about sex.   Maitland Ward is an author, actress, and adult film star. She began her career on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful. Maitland is the author of the best-selling title, My Escape from Hollywood: Unapologetic, Unfiltered, and Unashamed.   Get 15% off OneSkin with the code ALIVE at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Head to ComicConTheCruise.com/ALIVE to learn more and book your cabin — and don’t forget to use code ALIVE for $250 off per cabin on new reservations! You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.    If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe.    Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Lemonada

0:02.0

Lemonada

0:04.0

Hey, there you are, come in, come on in, come on in.

0:20.0

Welcome to Alive. It's good to see you. You, uh, you look great. You look awesome. I'm making tea. You want some tea?

0:32.2

So anyway, I was thinking, um, you know how there are certain things in life that are just common to everyone, that everyone has in common.

0:47.1

They're just fundamental parts of the human experience and the human condition.

0:52.4

Death, we know, is one of them.

0:56.8

So, kind of thinking that another one of them is sort of the opposite,

1:03.3

would be sex, is something we all have in common, right?

1:09.5

All of us, you know, and none of us would be here

1:13.1

unless two people have sex, right?

1:18.8

And sex and sexuality are things that I find

1:24.8

kind of difficult to talk about.

1:29.0

I get a little embarrassed about it.

1:32.0

I don't know why that is.

1:33.1

Maybe it's because I didn't really have those conversations as a kid.

1:36.9

I think some of it is because I spent so long gone in children's television that I feel like I'm not supposed to have a sex life,

1:44.3

you know? I mean, I do have, have, have, have, have, have, here's your tea. Yeah. So I guess

1:53.5

that's my question, is if sex is such an intrinsic part of being a human being, then why is it that sex is so hard to talk about?

2:08.6

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Our guest today is someone who knows a lot about this topic, and we'll certainly have a unique perspective. So why don't we just, we'll just get started talking about sex, baby.

2:35.0

We'll talk about you.

2:37.1

Okay.

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