Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World
Private Parts Unknown (FKA Reality Bytes) is a Bourdain-style podcast exploring sex, love, relationships, gender, and seductive subcultures around the world. Join host Courtney Kocak and expert guests for hilarious, sex-positive conversations — destigmatizing everything from abortion to Ashley Madison, polyamory to PMDD, sex work to Shibari, and more. Travel series include Helsinki, Finland; Mexico City, Mexico; and Tokyo, Japan. Private Parts Unknown is a proud member of Pleasure Podcasts. For network details, contact cameron@pleasurepodcasts.com.
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April 29, 2026 • 42 mins
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For the 257th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes author and New Yorker cartoonist Sophie Lucido Johnson.
Sophie is the author of Kin: The Future of Family, a thought-provoking book that explores how we can build meaningful, supportive r...
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April 22, 2026 • 33 mins
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For the 256th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer and publicist Lindsey Hall, whose viral essay “I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend’s ChatGPT and It Ended Our Relationship” ignited a massive conversation about love, privacy, and AI in the...
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For the 255th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Rosa Campbell, historian and author of The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report.
In this episode, Rosa unpacks the groundbreaking (and con...
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April 8, 2026 • 36 mins
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For the 254th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer, journalist, and professor Mallary Tenore Tarpley.
Mallary is the author of Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery, and her work reframes recovery not as a clean, finished d...
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April 1, 2026 • 73 mins
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For the 253rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, the tables are turned—host Courtney Kocak is interviewed by returning guest and Spent author Antonia Crane about her debut memoir Girl Gone Wild on its pub date!
Girl Gone Wild is an unwittingly feminist coming-of-age about amb...
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For the 252nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes life coach, transformation specialist, and author Dr. Dravon James.
Dr. Dravon is the author of Forgiveness: The Pathway to Happiness, and her approach reframes forgiveness as an act of self-love...
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March 18, 2026 • 29 mins
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For the 251st episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes author and professor Kelly Foster Lundquist.
Kelly’s debut memoir, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage, unpacks her first marriage to a man who would later come out as gay. Raised in evangelical purity c...
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March 11, 2026 • 18 mins
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For the 250th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak shares an audio essay cut from her debut memoir, Girl Gone Wild, about aging in the entertainment industry and why finding her first maybe-gray hair down there took her back to the Sony hack.
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March 4, 2026 • 77 mins
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For the 249th episode of Private Parts Unknown, we’re revisiting a favorite episode from the archives, originally part of the Mind Trip series, which explores the modern psychedelic renaissance as waves of decriminalization, legalization, and corporatization build across the ...
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February 25, 2026 • 32 mins
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For the 248th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes journalist and author Elyssa Goodman.
Elyssa is the author of Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City, a sweeping look at more than 150 years of drag—from 19th-century male i...
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February 18, 2026 • 22 mins
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For the 247th episode of Private Parts Unknown, the tables are turned—host Courtney Kocak sits down with Trio House Press junior editor Lili Gourley to talk about her debut memoir Girl Gone Wild.
Girl Gone Wild is a coming-of-age tale of ambition, delusion, drugs, sex, and mis...
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February 11, 2026 • 30 mins
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For the 246th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Nebraska-based swinger, porn performer, and legal sex worker Ms. Amanda.
Ms. Amanda has spent more than a decade moving between often-siloed sexual worlds. In this interview, she takes us behind the sce...
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For the 245th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes New York Times bestselling author, journalist, and screenwriter Deborah Copaken.
A former war correspondent turned chronicler of intimacy, Deborah has spent her career examining what it means to choose lo...
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January 28, 2026 • 33 mins
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For the 244th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes journalist and author Ruth Whippman.
Ruth is the author of BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity, a blend of memoir and reporting that asks a question many parents—people in gener...
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January 21, 2026 • 37 mins
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For the 243rd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes author and senior sexpert Joan Price.
At 82 years old, Joan has been writing and talking about sex and aging for decades, and she's still leading the conversation on why pleasure has no expiration date. In ho...
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Abortion Without Shame in Post-Roe America with Becca Rea-Tucker, Author of "The Abortion Companion"
January 14, 2026 • 29 mins
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For the 242nd episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes author, baker, and reproductive rights advocate Becca Rea-Tucker.
Fresh off the release of her new book, The Abortion Companion, Becca shares her own abortion story, her work in reproductive justice, and her ...
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For the 241st episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes writer, educator, and friend of the podcast Paulina Pinsky.
In this deeply personal conversation, Paulina reflects on her journey to four years of sobriety, unpacking how her relationship with cannabis moved fr...
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December 31, 2025 • 27 mins
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For the 240th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes Madam Dena Duff of Sheri's Ranch Brothel in Pahrump, Nevada.
Ever wondered what it’s like inside a legal brothel? Today’s guest, a madam in Nye County, Nevada, pulls back the curtain on the business of pleasure...
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For the 239th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes The World Walk author Tom Turcich.
Over seven years, Tom Tursich walked across six continents with his loyal dog, Savannah, on an epic journey chronicled in his book, The World Walk. Tom was the tenth person,...
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For the 238th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak welcomes adoptive mother and writer Marjie Alonso.
In this interview, Marjie unpacks what ethical adoption actually looks like—and why the familiar “better life” narrative so often obscures power imbalances, secrecy, and ...
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