#84 - Arielle Zadok / From screen to real life: intimacy, consent & sex education

On today’s episode of the podcast, we were joined by Arielle Zadok. Arielle is an intimacy coordinator, sexologist and founder of The Sexy Directory, an upcoming sex education platform launching in 2025. When she’s not facilitating intimacy on film and television sets, you can find her leading transformative intimacy workshops and speaking about sensuality, sexuality and intimacy at events. Arielle also hosts and produces Birds & Bees Don’t Fck, a show that normalizes how sex education of the past failed us, and how we all managed to get through that. Each week she brings on a comedian or sexpert for these fun, free flowing, educational conversations. Together, Arielle and Tim had a conversation about the role of intimacy coordinators in film and television, the responsibility of media creators to portray sex and intimacy in an authentic way, what makes a great sex scene, and the impact that misinformation from places like pornography has on real sexual interactions.  Find Arielle here: https://www.ariellezadok.com/ Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ariellezadok Timestamps:  00:00 – Intro  01:39 – The state of sex ed 03:53 – Arielle’s early interest in sex and sexuality 08:20 – How Arielle got started as an intimacy coordinator 13:59 – The need to portray intimacy in an accurate way 17:53 – What does a good sex scene look like?  20:12 – Intimacy coordination and kink  23:10 – What Fifty Shades of Grey got wrong about kink  30:18 – Does intimacy coordination exist in pornography?  34:35 – The problem with using porn as a form of sex ed 37:00 – Where we should be learning about sex from 39:05 – How messages about shame and masturbation impact our sex lives 44:13 – Education and The Sexy Directory 49:49 – Where to find Arielle  50:27 – Conclusion -----------------  Check out our books, 'How to talk with your kids about porn' and 'The Organ Education Forgot', available at https://www.sexinspace.com/books to download or buy.  Follow us here: https://www.instagram.com/sexinspacedotcom https://www.tiktok.com/@sexinspacedotcom https://www.facebook.com/sexinspacedotcom https://www.youtube.com/@sexinspace For more info, check out our website at: https://www.sexinspace.com/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.