{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"2. stuff came out: horizontal with a sex writer","description":"In this episode, I lie down with Grant Stoddard. Grant is an experiential journalist who specializes in reporting from outside of his comfort zone (sometimes way, waaay outside). The wild situations he has experienced bodily have appeared in Thrillist, Vice, T, New York Magazine, Penthouse, and Maxim, among many others.  He\u2019s the author of one of my favorite memoirs of all-time, Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert. When I was reading it on the bus, I laughed so hard that I completely missed my stop and had to double back about ten blocks. It follows Grant\u2019s journey from lovelorn small town virgin to sex writer at Nerve.com. In 2002, Nerve was the very first place where I posted an on-line dating profile, after my friend Marley insisted that it wasn\u2019t a weird and scary thing to do. As a budding sex-positive advocate, I began devouring Nerve\u2019s sexy offerings, including erotica, photography, and Grant\u2019s column, \u201cI Did It For Science!\u201d Last year, he began collaborating with Kenneth Play, our community co-founder, and I met the author of "I Did It For Science" in my hallway. This episode is the first Horizontal with Lila recorded on the road, in a cozy, creaky, charming airbnb in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Grant and I (along with another writer, her fiance, and my boyfriend Alex) were staying for the weekend in order to attend a Hacienda Maison play party themed \u201cThe Year of the Cock.\u201d Andrew Sparksfire, owner of Hacienda Villa, the sex-positive intentional community in which I live, created Hacienda Maison down in NOLA as a sex-positive retreat center. The Maison is a sumptuously-appointed, several-storied, meticulously-restored plantation house, available to rent out for your sexiest events. In this episode, we talk about sex parties (dubbed \u201cplay parties\u201d in the sex-positive community), the alchemy of attraction, the benefits of having two partners, and Grant\u2019s first experience seeing female pubic hair. So there. Come lie down with us in New Orleans. You can hire Grant to sling some words for you. Peruse his zillion-article portfolio here. More horizontality, please: To become a patron of the horizontal arts, support me on Patreon, a website for crowdsourcing patronage! Patronage allows artists like me to buy equipment, schedule recording tours, and devote my time to creating more horizontal goodness, for you! Becoming my patron has delicious perks, ranging from exclusive photos and behind-the-scenes video content, to handwritten postcards, spring cleaning phone calls, and creative input on future episodes! You can become a patron for $1 a month on up, and the rewards just get more sumptuous. patreon.com\/horizontalwithlila For all things horizontal with lila, including show notes, horizontal-inpired writing, and saucy saucy photos, subscribe at http:\/\/horizontalwithlila.com Without whom, it would not be possible: Badass theme music by Alan Markley, on Instagram as @plasticcannons Saucy cover art by Shana Shay (hire her!) on 99designs Mixing and mastering magic and sorcery by Owen Muir of Self Disclosure productions, on Twitter as @psychdisclosure ","author_name":"horizontal with lila","author_url":"https:\/\/horizontalwithlila.com","html":"