Happy Slut
Happy Slut is a podcast hosted by Samia Mounts that explores sex, desire, and modern relationships with humor and honesty. Through candid conversations and personal reflections, the show encourages listeners to pursue pleasure and authenticity without shame. It covers topics like nontraditional relationships and reclaiming joy, aiming to help people trust their own desires.
Episodes
Too Slutty to Buy a House?
David Carlson was a professional organizer years before they began identifying as polyamorous, but their slutty pansexual ways went back to high school. When they found an opportunity to start fighting for your right to be a slut—or poly, or ENM/CNM, or just a group of people with a tight-knit chosen family who wanna buy a damn house together—they jumped at the chance.David is now the Campaign Dir
Mr. Alamo City Leather Goes Primal and Gives Back
Isaac Cardona has a degree in accounting, a penchant for devising ambitious community service projects, a vanilla husband he calls his soulmate, and a deep desire to be flogged by his sir. He's also my very first local happy slut! Based right here in San Antonio, Texas, a place one might not expect there to be a social group for gay men who love leather. AND YET! Isaac is one of the founding membe
The Swinger Queen Wasn't Feeling It
Taara Rose and her partner James were literally crowned Queen and King of the swinger community, but during the pandemic, Taara realized her pleasure had never been her priority. She set out to reconnect with her body, understand her own pleasure, and start advocating for it in all of her encounters.And the results...?Let's just say fire emojis abound, pinecones. And uhh, Taara got a tattoo of two
A Very Happy Manwhore with George Goulburn
A man who makes the plans, cooks the meals, puts his phone away, and genuinely loves giving women pleasure? Pinecones, we need to talk.George Goulburn is a 54-year-old Australian male escort who traded corporate life for a career making women feel safe, seen, and wanted. His bookings can include beach getaways, home-cooked dinners, and plenty of sex—but the attention he describes giving his client
Abortion is Good, Actually with Sophie Nir
Abortion is good for sex. I SAID IT, pinecones. I’m proudly pro-abortion for lots of reasons, but one of them is that without abortion access, consenting to sex can mean consenting to pregnancy…and y’all, that can really, really ruin sex.And then there are all the other, bigger reasons: women being able to control their own bodies, direct their own lives, and not be forced to give birth when they
It's Never Been Safer to Be a Slut
Getting tested for STIs is responsible. But what if your “comprehensive” STI test…isn’t actually comprehensive?Shameless Care founder Robert Johnson found that out the hard way when he tested negative for gonorrhea while unknowingly carrying it in his throat and passing it to a partner. That experience eventually led him to build Shameless Care, a sex-positive telehealth company designed to fill s
Hot Slut on a Train with Natalie Davis
Natalie Davis was a straight-and-narrow, rule-following lawyer mom who married her college boyfriend and fully expected to live happily ever after inside the white-picket-fence monogamy model.Then her husband cheated—and eventually asked whether they could start having sex with other people.What followed was messy, painful, liberating, awkward, sexy, and completely life-altering. Natalie is now th
You Are Somebody's Cup of Tea with JessJess
Pinecones, this week I'm talking to JessJess — party producer, president of Mission Control, organizer with the Bonobo Network, and the woman behind Beyond the Rainbow Events, which throws some of the most thoughtfully inclusive parties in the Bay Area. She's also been non-monogamous since high school, survived a marriage that ended in a way I wouldn't wish on anybody, and rebuilt her whole life i
She Was Chugging Junk Food Men
PINECONES I'M OVER THE MOON! Mina was my anonymous guest in episode 10 of Closeted, "My First Boyfriend Suffered a Lot Because My Sex Drive Was Too High." (Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-my-first-boyfriend-suffered-a-lot-because-my-sex/id1832942242?i=1000734016272) Back then, she was closeted, living with her parents, and maintaining a secret menagerie of lovers. Now, she's
You Can't Hate Yourself Thin
One of the biggest things making a joyful sex life hard to cultivate in patriarchy is our collective acceptance of patriarchal beauty standards. These bullshit standards have convinced almost everyone that they're not sexy. IT'S A LIE, PINECONES, IT'S A DIRTY LIIIIIIIE. All sorts of bodies are sexy, all sorts of people are sexy, and there really is someone for everyone - but only if we are able to
When One Partner's Kinky & the Other Isn't with Amanda Dames
Amanda Dames, The Kink Consultant, loves helping couples struggling to reconcile a mismatch in their desires, specifically surrounding kink. She's a certified Somatica sex and relationship coach and certified sexologist who specializes in couples where one partner is kinky and the other one isn't, and the way she works with them will change how you think about asking for what you want, whether you
Teaching Men to Flirt with Marni Kinrys of the Wing Girl Method
Marni Kinrys is the dating coach of every nervous, awkward man's dreams, pinecones. She developed her Wing Girl Method over years of watching good men fumble every time they try to connect with women - and her practical techniques for sparking attraction will make you more confident connecting with others, no matter who you are.In this episode:Why the "nice guy" is just the other side of the assho
Become Your Own Best Lover with Annette Benedetti
My new crush Annette Benedetti — intimacy coach and host of Talk Sex with Annette — is one of the most joyful, flirty humans I've ever talked sex with. And she got here the hard way: surviving assault at 13, a town that acted like it was her fault, and decades of healing before finding her voice again. This is the story movies never tell — the part after, where you survive, you still want sex, and
Socially Monogamous, Sexually Free with John & Jackie Melfi of OpenLove101
Pinecones, this week is a little different: a joint episode! I traveled to Houston to sit down with John and Jackie Melfi—leaders in the American swinger community, owners of the legendary Colette lifestyle clubs (Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and New Orleans), and the couple behind OpenLove101.com, where I used to blog back in the day. Between them they've got three-plus decades of experi
The Introvert Who Threw the World's Wildest Sex Parties with Polly Superstar
Pinecones, I am GLOWING. This week I sat down with a legend: Polly Superstar—founder of San Francisco's iconic Mission Control and the global Kinky Salon movement, latex fashion designer, author of the memoir Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary, and now the magical mermaid behind the Writing with Mermaids somatic writing retreats. For 25 years, Polly threw the most whimsical, artistic, immersive sex
From Cult Kid to Pro Dom with Lyra
I met Lyra at Dixie De La Tour's birthday orgy in San Francisco. (Yes, that's a sentence I get to say now.) We made out, she flew across the country a few weeks later to spend 28 magical hours with me and my partner Daniel, and my crush on her is TRULY ridiculous.Lyra is a professional dominatrix and sex educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area who specializes in pegging, anal play, and helpin
He Thought Women Were the Problem
Alex is a straight Black man in his mid-forties who has only had one relationship in his entire life. For years, loneliness, rejection, and crushing social anxiety convinced him that women were the problem, and he reinvented himself as a huge jerk for most of his adult life. Deep down, though, he was carrying wounds much older and deeper than he realized.In this brutally honest conversation, we ta
Casual Doesn't Have to Mean Careless with Billy Procida, Jr.
It's my goal to get as many of my comet lovers (and anchor lovers!) on the show as possible, and Billy Procida, Jr., is the first! Huzzah! I have such a crush. Billy is a comedian, writer, and podcaster out of New York City. He's been producing weekly episodes of the Manwhore Podcast for 12 years now, and his Naked Comedy Show - which is exactly what it sounds like - sells out every month in Brook
Great Sex Is Healing Me
I'm bringing you a delicious glimpse into my current sex and love life this week, pinecones, and it is JUICY. Basically, a woman my partner Daniel and I met at a sex party flew across the country to spend intimate time with us and IT. WAS. MAGICAL. And unexpectedly healing.In this episode:• Why I think great sex can be profoundly healing• How being deeply desired is changing my relationship with m
This Is What God Is with Rae Halder
Content warning: Mentions of sexual assault and child sexual abuse.We live within a system that allows sexual abuse of all kinds to flourish without much accountability, and because of that, a lot of us carry deep trauma around sex and intimacy. Rachel (Rae) Halder is one of those people, and she's also a certified trauma resolution and erotic embodiment coach with over a decade of experience help
Inside the World of a Professional Orgy Organizer with Ali Bravo
Ali Bravo is a professional orgy organizer, a sex positive educator, a kinky leather artist, and a powerhouse force for destigmatizing kink, pleasure, and desire. When I met her in person a couple of weeks ago at Dixie De La Tour's Birthday Forgy (Friend Orgy), she was freshly resourced from her pre-party kink scene with one of her partners, a man who goes by the moniker Pleasure Wizard (and appar
Women Have Out-Menned Men with Mila Jam
Mila Jam is an international pop sensation, an artivist (activist + artist), a trans icon, a rising star, and somehow magically also my friend?!?!? How did life get so cool?Mila and I go deep in this conversation. We talk about gender, womanhood, dating, celibacy, the “boyfriend show,” patriarchal conditioning, trans visibility, intimacy, emotional labor, and why so many modern women are just…tire
What If Queerness Was Infinite? with James Patrick Nelson
What if queerness was infinite, instead of limited by the strict rules and norms of our patriarchal world? What if we abandoned the binary of tops and bottoms, gays and straights, women and men, and embraced the idea--nay, the reality!--that all of us are fluid, ever-changing beings with deep wellsprings of desire and turn-on we would never know about if we didn't get curious and explore? I talk a
Why Am I So Weird with Women?
In this episode, I ask myself why, oh whyyy, am I so weird with women? I love them, I've known I'm attracted to them both sexually and romantically since I was a kid, and yet I've only managed to have one relationship with a woman that only lasted six weeks in college and otherwise have been a massive failure in the lady-dating department.And I'm not alone. I've heard lots of bisexual girlies talk
Happily Married? Check. Kink With Friends? Also Check.
Fox is a happily married parent with a normal work and home life...and a spicy social life with his kinky friends. Ooh la la!In this audio-only episode with Happy Slut's very first anonymous guest, we get into what happens when a self-described “regular Joe” follows his curiosity into the world of kink play and wildly honest connection—and finds out it sets him free.We talk about:The super-slow, p
A Buffet of Delicious Slutty Behavior with Callie Little
Callie Little is a polyamorous, pansexual witch who illustrated and co-authored my favorite tarot deck, Every Little Thing You Do is Magic, and its incredible companion book, which offers readers the opportunity to deepen their relationship with the cards and their own intuition. I reached out to them to replace two cards my dog had chewed up and they responded saying they checked out the pod and
Fed Up, Sex-Starved Women Can Get Theirs with Her Confidant
Her Confidant is Australia's only female-led male escort agency, serving all of Australia and now expanding to the United States. Owner Anna Grosman and anonymous escort Hudson chat with me about how therapeutic their clients find their services and how fulfilling it is to be a part of someone's most pleasurable moments.We cover:A 43-year-old virgin makes her sexual debut with Hudson in a hotel su
Fuck Like Your Life Depends On It with Dixie De La Tour
Dixie De La Tour has been facilitating joyful sexual experiences for most of her life, and you'll be shocked at the early life experiences that made her who she is today. She's the creator and host of the exuberant, wacky live show, Bawdy Storytelling, which features stories about sex, kink, gender, and body image and just celebrated its 20-year anniversary! She's also a self-proclaimed wild slut.
Big Announcement About the Future of ClosetEd
Listen for a major announcement about the future of ClosetEd! Gahhhh I'm excited about this one, pinecones.Watch all video episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@closeted-with-samiaxoxo,SamiaMentioned in this episode:Get a 15% discount on all FirmTech products!Use code CLOSETED at check-out.Get 15% off Kenneth Play's Beyond Satisfied Pro course at www.kennethplay.com/closeted
ClosetEd BONUS // Listener Advice Question: "Am I a sick freak?"
This week, I take a listener advice question from Ben (not his real name), who asked if he's a "sick freak" because he felt arousal instead of jealousy when he caught his ex-wife cheating with his best friend. Oh Ben! My heart! I hope my answer helps you, you sweet, sweet man.Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samia.mounts/Follow ClosetEd on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clos
ClosetEd Interview Series: Charlotte Shane, Author of An Honest Woman
I am extra excited about this week's interview, mostly because it was the result of me literally fangirl-ing my way into Charlotte Shane's DMs after reading her incredible memoir, An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work. Her book tells the story of her years working as a high-end escort in nuanced and poetic detail, and in this interview, we chat about what gave her the courage to pursue se
ClosetEd Interview Series: Dr. Elliot Justin, Founder of FirmTech
This week, I bring you my very explicit conversation with the most sex-positive doctor you'll ever meet, Dr. Elliot Justin, founder of FirmTech. FirmTech is a sex tech company, and they make a cock ring, called the TechRing, that give you valuable data on your sexual and cardiovascular health! Whaaaaaat. So cool.Get a 15% discount on all FirmTech products using discount code CLOSETED at check-out!
ClosetEd BONUS // Listener Advice Question: "Should we try having a threesome?"
Thank you to all the listeners who sent in questions for my advice series! Here is the very first one I've chosen to feature on this series, mostly because it's a really common question I've heard from folks who are questioning whether some form of nonmonogamy might be right for them. Listener Preston* asked:My wife and I are in an interesting part in our relationship that we both consider monogam
ClosetEd Interview Series: Amy Baldwin & April Lampert of Shameless Sex Part 2
Get into PART 2 of this sassy, sexy, totally unfiltered conversation about sex toys and personal sex stories that I had with the fine and fabulous April & Amy of the Shameless Sex podcast! PINECONES!!! These ladies give LIFE. We had so much fun chatting it up that we ended up recording for double the length of time we meant to and I am not sorry. Enjoyyyyy and find all things April & Amy b
ClosetEd Interview Series: Amy Baldwin & April Lampert of Shameless Sex
Get into this sassy, sexy, totally unfiltered conversation about sex toys and personal sex stories that I had with the fine and fabulous April & Amy of the Shameless Sex podcast! PINECONES!!! These ladies give LIFE. We had so much fun chatting it up that we ended up recording for double the length of time we meant to, soooo this baby is a two-parter. I'll be releasing part 2 next week! Enjoyyy
ClosetEd Interview Series: Mattie Jo Cowsert, ex-vangelical author of God, Sex, and Rich People
I am tha-rilled to bring you my looooong, super-chatty, unfiltered conversation with Mattie Jo Cowsert, an actor and author based in New York City. Mattie Jo wrote a memoir called God, Sex, and Rich People, in which she documents her deconstruction from evangelical Christianity and purity culture to become the most wholesome sex-positive activist you've ever encountered. Her pitch of a TV show ver
ClosetEd Interview Series: Adam Darrow, author of Seek the Risk
Okay, pinecones, I am getting real personal with you in this bonus interview! Adam Darrow is a man of many extreme talents - house-building, extreme sports including free solo rock-climbing, tankless scuba diving, and BASE jumping, and you know, running tech companies, whatevs, no big deal - and he recently published a memoir about his foray into extreme non-monogamy with a woman named Jane, who t
ClosetEd BONUS // Samia's Origin Story: Dealing With Jealousy
This week, I bring you another snippet of my origin story, with the sordid tale of the first time I confronted my own feelings of rage-y, crazy jealousy in my very first healthy, functional nonmonogamous relationship. The number one question people curious about nonmonogamy ask me is, "How do you deal with your jealousy?" This story answers that question and also gives you some insight into how to
ClosetEd Interview Series: Billy Procida of the Manwhore Podcast
This week, I'm bringing you my feisty, flirty, rambly conversation with comedian and podcaster Billy Procida, host of the Manwhore Podcast, in which he has vulnerable, funny, sex-positive conversations with all sorts of fascinating people. I have become a devoted listener. Billy also hosts the Naked Comedy Show, which is exactly what it sounds like and has monthly shows in Brooklyn (next one is Fe
ClosetEd Interview Series - Kenneth Play
This week, I bring you my fascinating conversation with the adult sex educator, Kenneth Play, whose Beyond Satisfied Pro video course I've been advertising on this show since the beginning. Kenneth is the real deal: attuned, curious, determined, and passionate, he's made being a good lover his life's work, and he wants to help you have more earthshattering experiences, too. In this inter
Happy New Year, Pinecones!
Just dropping into your feed right quick to wish all you sexy babies a very happy and safe New Year's celebration! I'll be back next week with another yummy interview, but for now, party well, don't drink too much (it's bad for sex!) and enjoy the chillest week of the year. I hope you're all surrounded by loved ones, laughter, and deliciousness! xoxo,SamiaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in
Why I'm Nonbinary and You Can, Too
Because I'm a curmudgeon who hates Christmas, here is something to tickle your earholes that has nothing to do with any of the winter holidays! An audio essay about why I identify as nonbinary, for your listening pleasure. If you'd like to see the written version, check it out on my Substack:https://samiamounts.substack.com/p/why-im-nonbinary-and-you-can-too And while you're there, subscribe
ClosetEd Interview Series: Amanda Dames, The Kink Consultant
Amanda Dames is a certified sex and relationship coach who specializes in helping couples navigate kink dynamics within their relationships. She's also a prolific content creator, with a Substack, popular accounts on Instagram and TikTok, and a podcast of her own, The Kink Consultant, available wherever you get your podcasts. In this bonus episode, we discuss Amanda's origin story, from her d
Samia's Origin Story: Who's Got Dibs, Getting Cheated On, Making Out in Bathrooms
Hey hey, pinecones, Samia here. I've brought you so many stories from other people's lives, but haven't shared that much with you about my own life. This cannot stand! Nay! In order to correct this tragic imbalance, here is the first in a mini-series in which I'll be sharing with you bits and pieces of my own personal origin story. Enjoy, and let me know if you have thoughts or questions by e
ClosetEd Interview Series: Kathy Kay of the Strictly Anonymous Podcast
Kathy Kay is the anonymous host of the Strictly Anonymous Podcast, where anonymous guests call in and reveal their sexiest secrets, and she is an absolute delight to talk to about all things sex. I frickin' love herrrr! In this episode, we talk about Kathy's origin story and how she grew into the sex-positive, non-judgemental vixen she is today, her take on what is actually normal in human sexuali
ClosetEd Interview Series: Luna Robbie of Sex Stories
Luna Robbie is an artist, podcaster, sex worker, and magical enchantress who had me charmed from the very beginning of our delightful hour-long conversation. Her podcast, Sex Stories, is a deep dive into the naughtiest secrets of her anonymous guests and has been releasing episodes for seven years, and her work as a courtesan at Sheri's Ranch in Nevada has helped inform (and finance) her mission t
Quick Update - Stay Tuned for Saucy New Content
A between-seasons announcement from ClosetEd host, Samia Mounts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:BetterSleep FREE TrialGet 30 days of BetterSleep for free with link www.bettersleep.com/closeted.Beyond Satisfied Pro Video CourseGet 15% off the Beyond Satified Pro video course from Kenneth Play and take your sex life to a whole new level: www.kennet
11: “I Literally Can Love More Than One Person. And I Find it More Fulfilling When I Do.”
Katie is a 50-something twice-divorced mother of adult children who works as a teacher and loves helping her students reach their highest potential. You’d never know from her clean-cut look and wholesome vocation that she has threesomes with her friends in her free time, and that she never wants another live-in partner again. In this cultural moment, perimenopausal women shedding the chains
10: “My First Boyfriend Suffered a Lot Because My Sex Drive Was Too High”
Mina is a young South Korean woman who lives with her parents and knows how to fit in to conservative Korean society…but in her private life, she spends plenty of afternoons and evenings in love motels with her menagerie of lovers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:Beyond Satisfied Pro Video CourseGet 15% off the Beyond Satified Pro video course fr
9: “I’m Greedy. I Like Both. I'm not a Straight Man.”
Troy is a Black man with a big extended family working a blue-collar job in the American Midwest. He lets people assume his sexuality, but he never talks about it, never dates or has sex, and hasn’t for years…since a terrifying diagnosis turned his life upside down.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:BetterSleep FREE TrialGet 30 days of Better
8: “I’m Always Like, What’s the Hottest Orgasm You Can Get?”
CJ is a Korean American adoptee and actor who lets people assume he’s gay or straight depending on the context they meet him in…but in reality, he’s a bisexual, BDSM-loving undercover freak. And barely anyone knows.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7: “There Was Just Sex Happening Everywhere”
Andrea is a successful entrepreneur working in corporate America with happy kids and a handsome husband who made it clear from the get that he never wanted to be monogamous…which led to her discovering that she’s not straight, and this could actually work for her.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:BetterSleep FREE TrialGet 30 days of BetterSl
6: “It's Like Multiple Friends With Benefits”
Youngho looks like a very normal Korean man with a very normal wife and a very normal life. Except he and his wife Jiyoung have regular adult play dates with their close circle of friends, and no one else in their life has a clue.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
5: "It Made Me Feel Like I Would Be Doing Something Wrong By Keeping Them a Secret"
Ray is a straight, classically masculine Black man working in the entertainment industry…who since his teenage years has been secretly sleeping with trans women while only dating cisgender women publicly.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:Beyond Satisfied Pro Video CourseGet 15% off the Beyond Satified Pro video course from Kenneth Play and take yo
4: "The Military Wrote a Law Saying I Can't Have a Threesome"
Connor and Willow are a happily married military couple who had always been monogamous…until an older military couple introduced them to swinging and changed their lives forever.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:Beyond Satisfied Pro Video CourseGet 15% off the Beyond Satified Pro video course from Kenneth Play and take your sex life to a whole new
3: “I Was Getting Money Doing Something That Felt Good, That I was Good At”
Darla is a happily married freelancer who provides for her aging parents and spreads joy and sunshine everywhere she goes. She also turns to sex work when finances are tight…and she and her husband, Leo, just don’t talk about it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:Beyond Satisfied Pro Video CourseGet 15% off the Beyond Satified Pro video cours
2: "There’s No Affair or Anything Like That…but I Love Her"
Jason is a devout Christian, a loving father and husband, and a registered Republican who works in constitutional law. He’s also polyamorous, loves his girlfriend, and has a deep bond with his wife’s boyfriend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Mentioned in this episode:Beyond Satisfied Pro Video CourseGet 15% off the Beyond Satified Pro video course from Kenneth Play
1: “The Lying is the Betrayal, Not the Sex with Other People”
Liz has the perfect life: gorgeous husband and kids, big house in the suburbs, a successful career, a white picket fence. You’d never know looking in from the outside that she and her husband, Dex, have never been monogamous.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Introducing: ClosetEd with Samia Mounts
We’ve all got secrets...and with the cover of anonymity, ClosetEd invites you to listen in as other people divulge their juiciest ones. We live in a prescriptive society. We’re told what to wear, who to love, how to be “normal." But behind closed doors—let’s be honest—we’ve all got freak flags to fly. Join host Samia Mounts as she uncovers the joy, the pai
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