Episode Details

Part 2 of my conversation with Associate Professor Simon Graham is here.

If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, go and find it in the main feed now & have a listen because otherwise this episode will make approximately the same amount of sense as opening a textbook directly to chapter seven and hoping for the best.

In this episode, we get into the gloriously human reality of sex, bodies, shame, testing, relationships, and the strange emotional admin that somehow still surrounds sexual health in 2026. We talk about the stories people tell themselves, the things nobody teaches properly, and why so much sexual health messaging still sounds like it was approved by a committee of anxious printers.

There’s humour, honesty, public health, awkwardness, compassion, and at least one moment where I completely forget I’m technically interviewing someone extremely academically fancy.

No fear campaigns. No moral panic. Just a smart, grounded conversation about the bodies we actually live in.

🎙️👀 What worked? What dragged? What made you mutter “Jesus Christ, Catharine”? Tell me.

Content Note
This podcast gets into bodies, panic attacks, trauma, sexism, mental health, and the occasional emotional sinkhole. Please look after yourself only listen when you feel safe to engage with potentially triggering material. 
Also, I swear.

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Credits
Recorded on the lands of the Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri peoples.
Sovereignty never ceded.

Recorded & edited at Ridley Farm Studio by Luke Ridley
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