DetoxPod 85: Swingset Takes Desire! Crossover Episode

As some of you know, I occasionally co-host a podcast called Life on the Swingset, which is about progressive sexuality and alternative relationships. Several of the podcast regulars, including Dylan Thomas and Ryan Bentham, have appeared on Detoxicity multiple times. 

 

Each year, the Life on the Swingset crew ventures down to Mexico to spend a week in paradise at the Desire resort. The Swingset takeover is an inclusive environment in which sex-positivity is encouraged, but also where intellectual, emotional and sexual curiosity is explored and growth in all of those facets can be gained. When I was invited to take part in this year's festivities, I knew that I'd get a lot of food for thought when it came to masculinity. The episode of Detoxicity I recorded on the resort does not disappoint at all.

 

This episode is co-hosted by Dylan Thomas, was recorded live at Desire, and features several voices outside of the two of us. For the sake of discretion, the men that participate will not be named, but during this discussion names are tertiary to the greater conversation about manhood and personal growth, and how this week in paradise led to further discussions about racism and ethnic stereotypes, the undoing of decades of conditioning regarding relationship structures and sexuality, and we collectively try to figure out how to bring the spirit of curiosity and inclusion that's fostered during this week into our regular lives.