Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World - Love Letter to Ukraine

Love Letter to Ukraine

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03/04/22 • 66 min

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Private Parts Unknown: Sex & Love Around the World

For the 78th episode of Private Parts Unknown, hosts Courtney Kocak and Sofiya Alexandra are sending a love letter to Sofiya’s homeland: Ukraine — more specifically Odessa, the pearl of the Black Sea.

Sofiya grew up in Odessa, Ukraine, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1994, when she was in middle school. Now, in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Sofiya revisits the place she first called home, sharing her favorite memories and cultural touchstones, why it's Ukraine instead of "the Ukraine" (which undermines the country's sovereignty), how this war has made us realize our neglect of other conflict zones, and more. This episode was inspired by Sofiya's viral Twitter thread, which struck a chord with folks eager to learn more about Ukraine during this harrowing time.

We’re up for some Podca$h funding for the show, and, in addition to paying our team, we want to take a trip to Antarctica for a bucket list series about love and sexuality on the South Pole. Please write us a short love letter (just a sentence or two would be perfect!) letting them know what you love about our show. Please don’t hold back on the compliments! The deadline is Friday, March 4th. Here’s the link: https://www.podcash.com/love-letters/pLRE6

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Previous Episode

Mind Trip: The Psychedelic Connection of Subcultures & Countercultures with Jesse Jarnow

For the 77th episode of Private Parts Unknown, host Courtney Kocak wades deeper into our Mind Trip series about the modern psychedelic renaissance as a new wave of decriminalization, legalization, and corporatization has begun to swell in the United States.

For the 4th episode of Mind Trip, Courtney interviews Jesse Jarnow, author of Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America, about the gravitational pull of different underground subcultures and countercultures to seek out psychedelics, how these disparate groups connect and overlap through their curiosity, the impact of the internet, and the recent trend of institutionalizing and corporatizing the psychedelic experience, for better or worse.

For more from our Mind Trip series, check out this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Sabv4TOwfOmD2OwvPyxBJ

For more from today's guest:

Buy Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America via Bookshop.org
Follow Jesse Jarnow on Twitter @bourgwick
Check out Jesse’s website jessejarnow.com
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Meet Anjani Siddhartha: The Artist Behind Doc Johnson's Sex Toys

For the 79th episode of Private Parts Unknown, sex and art collide as host Courtney Kocak highlights a tremendous unsung hero: the dick artist. Specifically, Anjani Siddhartha, a designer for Doc Johnson and the artist behind many of their popular sex toys.

We discuss her journey to becoming a sex toy artist, where she gets her inspiration, her favorite designs, how her work and life changed during COVID, her thoughts on retirement after 26 years (!!!) with Doc Johnson, and more.

For more from today's guest:

Buy Anjani’s poetry book Divine Indifference on Amazon
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