Emma-Louise Boynton is bringing her hugely successful sell-out live event series Sex Talks to the Edinburgh Fringe to get into the nitty gritty of all things sex and intimacy. Writer, broadcaster and podcast host Boynton is sex columnist for ES Magazine and relationships columnist for Semaine. Each night she will be joined by a special guest star to discuss topics surrounding sex, intimacy and finding love in the age of the dating app. These open and honest discussions welcome audience participation and will close with an anonymous Q&A, which, Boynton says, is basically group sex therapy.
Sex Talks is a fun, frank and liberating series that gives us a chance to come together to get into all the juicy details about sex, intimacy and gender. Boynton’s talks get to the heart of some of the most fundamental questions surrounding what it means to be human, to explore your own body and to love and connect with others.
Boynton began Sex Talks to help more people to have access to the sorts of conversations and insights she had experienced in the sex therapy. Since its inception, the series has welcomed guest stars including writers, actors, sex therapists and others to discuss issues including the orgasm gap, sexual shame, medical misogyny, sex on screen, modern masculinity and the future of porn.
This vital series has grown into a community for people who feel, or have felt, unsure, confused or ‘broken’ when it comes to sex.
Emma-Louise Boynton comments, Sex is a prism through which we can explore all the most important issues facing us today – from gender inequality to body image issues to the future of (sex!) technology. Sex reveals so much about who we are – how we see ourselves in the world, how we experience being in our own bodies, how we relate to and connect with others. Sex is everywhere, and yet it is often depicted in a heavily sanitised, reductive way or else entirely through the prism of porn. But what we really need is to have more honest, open and vulnerable conversations about sex. That is exactly what Sex Talks exists to do. And what better place than Edinburgh to explore this most universal of topics in all its colourful, messy, bloody, glory.
