Sex Is Medicine REBOOT

Sex Is Medicine REBOOT

Sex Is Medicine REBOOT ~ The Podcast for Sexual Rebels and Spiritual Warriors! Emotionally honest, raunchy, and REAL, Sex Is Medicine is the go-to podcast for sexual rebels and spiritual warriors. Devi Ward Erickson and Alaina Salks serve up Holistic Sex Education with SPICE. Drawing from over 27 years of combined expertise in holistic sexual wellness, Vajrayana Tantra, Tibetan Medicine, and somatic science, Alaina and Devi deliver your weekly dose of sexual wellness through a social justice and anti-racist lens, generously sprinkled with F-bombs. With a focus on the transformative and healing aspects of human sexuality, Alaina and Devi are committed to busting myths and breaking down systems that keep you disconnected from your true sexual potential, while also providing education and resources to help you claim your birthright to embodied bliss. Because Pleasure IS Medicine, Education is Healing, and the Truth is Liberating.

Episodes

April 30, 2026 59 mins
Somatic Sex Educators, Rahi Chun and Ariel Sazbo, join Devi to explore the meaning of “Erotic Intelligence” and how conscious sexual intimacy allows us to rewire our understanding of intimacy, heal the nervous systems, and expand consciousness through the Body.

Discover the path from “release” to revelation and expand your understanding of what sex Is for!

Learn about:
1) The difference between Sex as Performance vs. Sex as Practice
2)...
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What many mainstream media outlets don’t tell you is that sex after 50 often becomes more intentional, emotionally fulfilling, and enjoyable than our younger years. 


It is a time when sex is less about performance and more about pleasure, communication, and intimacy.

Midlife sex and relationship expert, Karen Bigman, joins Devi for an honest conversation about what no one tells you about sex after 50. 

Tune in and learn:
  • Why curren...
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What does it feel like to come home to your body as a cancer survivor? How do you reclaim pleasure, sensation, and connection to your body after treatment?

In this episode of Sex Is Medicine, Certified Sexologist Stacie Steinbock shares their personal story of surviving ovarian cancer, undergoing cancer treatment, and how having cancer and being a cancer survivor has impacted their sexual health and sensual wellbeing. If you are or ...
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“When you dwell in a frequency that feeds you, your frequency will naturally reset your authenticity. Remember, there is a difference between a person who has medicine and a person who is medicine.” ~Malidome Patrice Some

We are committed to the collective activation of pleasure as sacred medicine. But WHY, why do we need pleasure as medicine, and how does this factor into our communities?

Here’s the truth: it is about more than skil...
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Are you sabotaging your sex life by falling into an "intimacy trap"? No, we’re not talking about love-bombing and emotional manipulation, we’re talking about the three biggest intimacy traps that men fall into when trying to navigate the complex landscape of post-pardom, perimenopause, hormonal fluctuations, and SEX.

In this week’s episode, Intimacy After Kids expert, Sofia Fortin, and Devi Ward Erickson discuss the three biggest tr...
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In this episode of Sex Is Medicine, we focus on understanding porn addiction—its causes, effects, and the underlying unmet needs that may drive compulsive use.

Guest Jeremy Lipkowitz, founder of Unhooked Academy, shares his personal journey of overcoming porn addiction with mindfulness and self-connection. 

Find out: 
* How porn rewires the mind to be addicted to novelty and more extreme content over time
* The overlap between Buddhist...
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Pleasure, or the lack thereof, can be a vital sign of our overall physical, mental, and emotional wellness. Desire, arousal, and orgasm are not luxuries—they’re biomarkers of health, reflecting blood flow, nitric oxide, oxytocin, vagal tone, and nervous system balance.

In this episode of Sex Is Medicine Reboot, Dr. Alicia Newsome weaves science, practical steps, and holistic wisdom to address common questions and misconceptions abou...
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Exploring Embodied Intimacy: Why Pleasure, Safety, and Consent are Medicine with Andre Lazarus

Sexual pleasure can be medicine, but only when woven with safety & consent. Unlike mainstream, porn-inspired sex, Embodied Intimacy is a somatic, relational, and healing practice, not a performance or technique. 

Present, connected, and embodied intimacy restores safety in the nervous system, dismantles shame around desire, and supports...
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In Episode 1 of Season 2 Sex Is Medicine Reboot, The Adoptedsexologist, Anna Linde, and Devi Ward Erickson discuss tending and mending the Motherwound within each of us, how it shows up in intimate relationships, and how to use embodied pleasure to nurture our hearts and awaken the wisdom of the body.

The Mother wound is a relational wound. Nurturing is the medicine to heal relational wounding. There are times when we must seek the ...
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Sex Is Medicine Reboot will be back Thursday, March 5th, 2026.

Make sure you sign up for your weekly dose of Sex Is Medicine and send us your questions at Holistic Sexology Institute 💫

Thank you for listening to Sex Is Medicine! We appreciate YOU! :-)

Please make sure you LIKE + SUBSCRIBE to Sex Is Medicine REBOOT! And please leave us a comment... we love to hear your thoughts!

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January 29, 2026 42 mins
In this 2025 Tantra Talks Throwback, Devi and Tugce dive into the truth about vibrators, desensitization, and the not-so-subtle gaslighting happening in the pleasure product industry.

This episode is not to shame you (or anyone) about vibrator use.

The purpose is to educate you about the long-term impacts on your body and validate your lived experiences.

In this episode, Devi and Tugce explore how Tibetan 5 Element Tantra and Holistic...
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January 22, 2026 37 mins
What is the relationship between Tantra and modern pornography? Can there even be a relationship between these two seemingly disparate approaches to sexuality?

In this 2025 Tantra Talks Throwback episode, Dr. Erickson and Devi Ward Erickson take on the very nuanced topic of Tantra vs Porn and discuss:

  • The difference between p✨rn and erotica—and why that distinction matters
  • How habitual p✨rn use can dull your imagination (which is ...
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January 15, 2026 59 mins
Did you know your p3nis is medicine???

In this powerful episode from the 2025 Tantra Talks archives, we’re flipping the entire script on what it means to be a man, to own a penis, and to awaken your vajra as a sacred, conscious tool of healing, transformation, and power 💪🏽

 In This Episode You Will:
  • Discover why your penis isn’t just for pleasure—it's a literal diamond scepter of wisdom (aka Vajra)
  • Uncover how circumcision trauma...
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January 8, 2026 43 mins
2025 Tantra Talks Throwback! If you followed spiritual communities online in 2025, you likely noticed this topic: Polyamory, Aubrey Marcus,  and “Radical Nonmonogamy”, etc., etc.

But are all these radical liberating concepts simply code words for “Poly f*ckery” i.e. f*ck around without consequence?

In this throwback episode of Tantra Talks from May 2025, we address one of the most common myths in Western Tantra:

Do you have to be poly...
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December 18, 2025 81 mins
​In this LAST Sex Is Medicine episode of 2025, we revisit a Tantra Talks episode from Spring 2025...

And, this time, strive to set the record straight by offering authentic, lineage-based guidance on the most proper, respectful, and effective ways to engage with this medicine from the plant world.

Tune in to learn about how to properly and respectfully engage with Grandmother Ayahuasca.
Whether you’re curious, cautious, or committed, ...
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How should we react when a partner is unable to maintain an erection?

This episode of Sex Is Medicine answers listeners' questions about:
  • Navigating psychosomatic ED as a couple
  • The impact of aging on sex and the best remedies for addressing vaginal dryness, thinning tissues, and low libido
  • Are Throatgasms a thing?
  • How to find your pelvic floor muscles
  • The use of fantasy to recover from porn addiction
Sit back, relax, and enjoy t...
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It's not often we get the opportunity to speak to living legends!  

Join us for a conversation about Reproductive Justice with Loretta J Ross and Marlene Gerber -two prominent leaders in the social justice movement.

ABORTION AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: An Essential Guide for Resistance, by Marlene Gerber Fried and Loretta J. Ross, emphasizes that the right to have and raise children is as essential for reproductive choice as the right ...
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Beyond The Clitoris: A Dissertation On Female Pleasure Zones

There is a concerning phenomenon in the field of sexology involving the emergence of a nearly militant insistence that the clitoris is the ONLY source of female orgasm.

This viewpoint not only dismisses the lived experiences of millions of women but is also simply anatomically incorrect.

While the clitoris and its surrounding structures are indeed extraordinary, they are not...
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This is a true story of coercion, manipulation, and abuse….

What happens when sexual healers engage in acts of sexual harm? 

Who can you turn to when an organization's leadership lacks a genuine interest in accountability?

In this episode of Sex Is Medicine, Devi speaks with ISTA survivor advocate, Cara Cordoni, to explore how "sex-positive, trauma-informed" communities can sometimes function as high-control groups that cause harm to ...
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Would you like to master the art of separating your orgasm from your ejaculation?

Would you like to become a multi-orgasmic man, but don't know where to begin?

Are you looking for guidance about how to practice semen retention and non-ejaculatory orgasms safely, but don't know who to trust?

What would it be worth to you to have access to over 27 years of combined expertise in the art, practice, and skill of safe and effective semen re...
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