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touchpoint
by touchpoint labs
Since 2016, thousands of people in New York City have attended the touchpoint town hall, an open forum conversation about love and sex. It's real people sharing the things they've experienced in bed and in love amongst a room of a hundred perfect strangers. Everyone can be anonymous and anyone can share. This podcast will feature some of the stories that are shared as well as some narration from touchpoint founder, Jared Matthew Weiss.At touchpoint, our mission is to cultivate emotional, relational, and sexual intelligence by creating space for people to learn from each other. In addition to our town hall, we are also working on a deck of cards that will make it easy to have a meaningful conversation about love and sex with the ones you choose.
Episodes
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Love, Sex, & Dating During Covid-19: Part Six
On this week's episode of the Touchpoint Town Hall, we heard from two couples who were navigating unique challenges in quarantine. First, Brandi and Kat shared about negotiating personal space while in lockdown. Especially since Brandi is a trans man who longs for alone time to become "more...
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Love, Sex, & Dating During Covid-19: Part Five
Ida, a 76-year-old widow logs in from Jerusalem (at 2:30am her time) to share with us her epic love story, and also to do a vibrant recitation of her new quarantine digital dating profile––which she literally raps for us... Paul and James share about how they got married at their local movie...
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Love, Sex, & Dating During Covid-19: Part Four
In this week's episode of Touchpoint, we have three very different stories about what it means to fully be ourselves. First Taty opens up about being polyamorous and redefining love for herself... ...then Erika shares how she navigated having––what she felt was––an embarrassing health issue with…
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Love, Sex, & Dating During Covid-19: Part Three
This episode was a total emotional rollercoaster, from Brooke's recitation of her sexts with an ex... ...to Punam's incredible story of a socially distanced child birth... ...to Jamie's wisdom around gender and touch... ...to Don's vulnerable share about his wife’s battle with Alzheimer’s… ...to...
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Love, Sex, & Dating During Covid-19: Part Two
In our second virtual episode, nearly 500 people from around the world logged in live to witness Jared chat with people about the things they’re experiencing in bed and in love during quarantine. Below are some of the highlights. 🙏🏼 A story from a Canadian woman of Indian origin who has...
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Love, Sex, & Dating During Covid-19
In this episode, Jared hosts 250+ people from 26 countries for a conversation about love, sex, and dating during Covid-19. Below are some of the highlights. 👩❤️👨 A story from two people who found each other on @bumble three weeks ago, had their first date (and “kiss”) over FaceTime, and have...
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The Touchpoint Check-In
It's March of 2020, and we are all in the midst of a real crisis of connection right now. We have been told to socially distance ourselves; to steer clear of each other. To hunker down in our homes, to avoid physical touch; and so our need for human connection has never been greater. That’s why…
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The Most Courageous Love Story Ever Told
On today’s episode of Touchpoint, I sit down with two of the bravest people I’ve ever met. Their life stories both individually and collectively stand as prismatic examples of the messes we create when we do not show up as ourselves and the magic we experience when we do. I first met Nick and...
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Danger, Touch, & Transformation In Bed
On this episode, you’ll hear stories of sexual exploration, gender transformation, and what one poet calls, “skin starvation.” Plus, Dr. Zhana offers some surprising insights into what consent means in the United States, and so much more. For more about Touchpoint, visit us on web or on Instagram...
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What Does It Mean To Be A Man?
Andrew Horn wants men to get more vulnerable. He’s the founder of a new organization called Junto, a not-so-secret club for men to explore emotional mastery where he curates workshops and weekend retreats for bros to come together, take off their macho masks, and get real about their feelings. In…
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BDSM Is Not Shorthand for Buddhism...But It Is
Sex, much like life, is best when we feel self-expressed. But that’s why, for many of us, sex just isn’t as good as it could be. Often, we may feel constricted or afraid, ashamed of what we think, what we want, or where we’ve been. In this episode of Touchpoint, we hear stories of people who have...
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How To Talk About Money When You're In Love
Mae West once said, “Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.” Because while love is the energy that makes life meaningful, money is the tool that make life livable. And at the intersection of love and money comes a very important and often triggering conversation that when left...
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How Meditation Makes Us Better In Bed w/ Emily Fletcher
Someone once said, “It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” I only say “someone” because the quotation has been attributed to at least three different people on the internet, and I really have no idea who said it. But citations aside, it’s pretty brilliant, right?…
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She Said Yes!
Sierra had a crush on Cassandra in 9th grade. But Cassandra didn't think she was into women at that point so it was a no go. Fast forward to adulthood when they find each other again and fall in love. And then, last week at our town hall, Sierra pops the question. Spoiler alert: this episode...
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Hookups, Happiness, & Heartbreak
On this episode, I play a round of the Touchpoint sex tarot with Amy Chan, the founder of Renew Breakup Boot Camp—a shmancy retreat for women to heal after a breakup. While we explore the intimate details of Amy’s sex life—a conversation she admittedly doesn’t have very often—she does drop some...
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Speaking Your Truth In Bed, In Love, & In Life w/ Miki Agrawal
Too often, we accept things the way they are; leaving ourselves and others without what we really need to self-actualize and grow. Too many desires go unmet. Too many dreams go unfulfilled. Too many words go unspoken. And too many relationships go on and on without reciprocity or joy. In general,...
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Sex, Love, & Spirituality
Alright. Let's get spiritual. This week on the podcast, we have Master Kundalini Teacher, Hari Kaur. So now you're possibly asking yourself, "WTF is Kundalini?" I totally feel you. About eighteen months ago, I had no idea what it was either. But then I met Hari––and along with my partner, Erin––I...
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Squirting, Consent, & Cosmic Love
From squirting to consent, journaling to coming out, cosmic love to sexy spreadsheets, the storytellers from this last town hall stirred our souls, opened our minds, and made us laugh—a lot. Unfortunately, we had some serious technical glitches while recording, and so in some parts the sound...
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WTF is Tantra?
Many of us crave deeper connections with our partners--both in bed and in life, and tantra is the art and science of making that connection as deep as possible. In this conversation, Layla Martin, one of the most epic tantra teachers in the world, provides us with some foundational knowledge for...
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The Magic of Talking Sex With A Long-Term Partner
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from talking to thousands of people about their sex lives it’s that we do not need to talk about sex to have sex—but we do need to talk about sex to have great sex. In this episode, I sit with power couple, Jen Miller and Jason Feifer. Jen is a published author…
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Becoming A Man In Bed, In Love, & In Life
Some of you may know Quddus Philippe from his early years as a VJ on MTV’s TRL. These days, he and his partner in life and love, Carmina, are cofounders of a personal development and media training company called Camera Ready. When I first sat down with Quddus, I didn’t really know where the...
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Parenting, Partnership, and Porn with Erika Lust & Pablo Dobner
With artistic vision and feminist values, Erika Lust is at the forefront of today’s sexual revolution, confronting the mainstream porn industry with a sex-positive, erotic and cinematic alternative, and reclaiming the cultural discourse surrounding women’s sexuality. In this episode, I chat with...
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A Town Hall About Identity, Virginity, & Group Sex
The first time she experienced oral sex, she was fourteen years old and her lover didn’t speak a lick of english; he wasn’t ready to fully acknowledge that he was gay until he had his first gay experience, and so one night, he just went for it; she wanted to give her partner a birthday he would...
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Getting In Touch With Your Fantasies
Alan Alda once said, “Your assumptions are your windows to the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.” With that in mind, I have one question: what do you imagine when you think of a dominatrix? I don’t know about you, but I don’t immediately think of a former...
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A Chat With Lindsey Metselaar from We Met At Acme
In between town halls, we’ve decided to start releasing episodes where Jared chats one-one with inspiring people about the things they’ve experienced in bed and in love. In this first one-one-one, Jared talks with Lindsey Metselaar, host of popular dating podcast We Met At Acme. After pulling…
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Watching Porn: Inspiring for Couples, Sometimes Healing for Survivors, and Better When Produced by Feminists?
Watching gay male porn helped her heal from sexual trauma;her boyfriend brought her to a porn cinema in Montreal and they were directed to the upstairs balcony where couples can practice what they watch on screen; after a lifetime of masturbating to porn, one night, he decided to skip it and run…
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Sex Under the Influence: Escape, Exploration, & the Search for Connection
She never knew she was only a few puffs away from finally enjoying oral sex; the first time he had sober sex, everything was illuminated; a few years into their relationship, they discovered eating a special treat before bedtime could lead to some playful new beginnings; on their third date, they...
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Great Sex: Sometimes With Toys, Sometimes In Groups, Sometimes With Love, but Always With Emotional Intimacy
She found herself tied to a wall in a basement having the best sex of her life; he met a hot guy at a party, brought him back to his place, got undressed, and quickly realized that some significant parts were missing; he made love to a virgin and it was unforgettable; she went to an all-female…
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Open Relationships: A Way to Discover Yourself, Other People, & Possibly A Unicorn
She joined a couple in bed as their “unicorn” and realized that polyamory could be fun--for two weeks, his wife had sex with a man with a “much much bigger penis” and they had to talk through it, she moved in with a new girlfriend after the first date and cheated like mad until fully embracing…
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Oral Sex: Giving, Receiving, & Believing We're Worthy
She responded to a text at 4am and discovered that her body was capable of magical things, he always was the giver until he realized that he too was worthy of love, unlearning shame from a catholic school upbringing started with her going down on a female friend as an adult. "Some people say I…
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From Porn To Tantra
A woman finds a sex toy in her husband's travel bag, unlocks the secret to their sexless and "disastrous" 25-year marriage, and then begins a powerful journey to most profound intimacy of her life; a true story about definining and redefining relationships and the discovery of self. This story…
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The Intimacy Practice
A man calls up an old friend and asks if they can be "intimacy partners." In the process they redefine what it means to define a relationship--specifically friends with benefits. This story was recorded at the touchpoint town hall in NYC on April 3, 2018 at The Assemblage Nomad. For tickets to an...
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Casual Sex: Visceral, Spiritual, & Not Just for Single People?
A young woman has a passionate encounter with a nameless stranger in a parking lot, an agender person has a spiritual awakening in the arms of a police officer, and a couple explores a playful evening with a new friend to celebrate their engagement. Hosted by Jared Matthew Weiss. All stories were...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Since 2016, thousands of people in New York City have attended the touchpoint town hall, an open forum conversation about love and sex. It's real people sharing the things they've experienced in bed and in love amongst a room of a hundred perfect strangers. Everyone can be anonymous and anyone can share. This podcast will feature some of the stories that are shared as well as some narration from touchpoint founder, Jared Matthew Weiss.At touchpoint, our mission is to cultivate emotional, relational, and sexual intelligence by creating space for people to learn from each other. In addition to our town hall, we are also working on a deck of cards that will make it easy to have a meaningful conversation about love and sex with the ones you choose.
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touchpoint labs
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