Bawdy Storytelling Podcast
Episode 35 - RISK! and Bawdy in Brooklyn - Part Two
Host: Dixie De La Tour
Date: December 28, 2017

Overview

This special crossover episode with the acclaimed RISK! Podcast was recorded live at The Bell House in Brooklyn. Known for centering honest, unapologetically sex-positive storytelling, Bawdy Storytelling brings together real people—rockstars and everyday folks alike—to share their raw, transformative sexcapades. In Part Two of this Brooklyn collaboration, host Dixie De La Tour is joined by RISK! host Kevin Allison, sex educator Bex Caputo, and beloved Bawdy mainstay Melaina Williams Haas. Together, they deliver hilarious, moving, and boundary-expanding personal stories, with live music by Rachel Lark.

Key Discussion Points & Stories

1. Opening Banter, Live Show Energy, and Musical Backstory

(00:00–05:10)

• Warm Welcome: Dixie addresses the delay, expressing gratitude to listeners after a personal family loss.
• Playful Banter: Dixie, Bex, and Kevin share an impromptu, rhyming riff on "golden showers," blending humor and sex-positivity.
  • "But pleasuring you is this burden I carry." — Dixie de La Tour [00:49]
  • "You still gotta wait for the stream to be nascent." – Kevin Allison [00:57]
• Live Show Context: Dixie highlights the show's musical tradition and Rachel Lark’s ongoing contribution of custom, delightfully dirty songs:
  • "Every single sexual act you've ever done or thought about doing, she's got a song for it." – Dixie de La Tour [05:01]

2. Melaina Williams Haas: Piss Play and Unexpected Business Ideas

(05:10–10:57)

• Melaina shares the story of how a previous story about being a "urinal" led to a real-world flirtation and prank in a New York gay sports bar.
  • After finishing a non-alcoholic beer, her date cheekily refills the bottle in the bathroom—with his own urine.
  • Melaina drinks it, riffing on the "piss water" reputation of cheap beers, and jokes about launching "Hellmut tinkles" as a product:
    • "Everyone knows that whatever Budweiser makes is piss water, but yours is so much better than the one they make." – Melaina Williams Haas [09:41]

3. Bex Caputo’s First Group Sex and True Sexual Liberation

(13:33–28:58)

• Prequel: Bex sets the stage—age 24, recently single after a sexless six-year relationship where their sexuality was considered a "burden."
• Turning Point: A friend's text in Toronto promises a hotel party and adventure: "Hey, so there's a party at the hotel tonight. My friend's bringing a backpack full of pot brownies and I found two volunteers to go down on you. Cool." – Bex Caputo [13:33]
• Queer Prom: The party is a queer prom, setting up Bex’s first opportunity to consensually explore desires in a supportive community.
• Owning Desire: Bex navigates offers and awkwardness, culminating in a bold, flirtatious redhead’s memorable pick-up line:
  • "I would chew through a park bench to eat your cunt." – Redhead (as recalled by Bex Caputo) [18:10]
• Empowerment Scene: Bex’s first experiences of group play are wrapped in careful negotiation, affirmation, and a ritual of self-acceptance:
  • “Now, the last thing I want you to do is tell yourself you’re beautiful.” – Redhead Domme [23:53]
  • The room of queers cheer Bex’s affirmation, underscoring the healing power of community.
• Afterglow: Bex’s "fuck drunk" epiphany walking out of the hotel: "I was fucking living it." – Bex Caputo [28:53]

4. Melaina Williams Haas: From the Projects to Penthouse Submission

(32:33–54:27)

• Origin Story: Melaina talks about her path from growing up in the NYC projects to becoming a globally-known sex educator—and the challenge of being a kinky Black woman in a white-dominated community.
• Manifesting Love: Facing burnout and loneliness, Melaina "negotiates with the universe" for a dominant partner who will accept and cherish her as she is, planning to give up on the scene if it doesn’t happen by New Year’s.
• A Message Arrives: She answers an OkCupid message from Georg, an older, successful, Austrian composer with an unpolished profile and bad selfies—but an honest, attentive approach.
  • “He read my profile and responded to shit within my profile ... Why motherfuckers don’t do this as a default is baffling to me.” – Melaina Williams Haas [40:36]
• First Meeting: Melaina heads to his penthouse, directly overlooking her childhood neighborhood.
• Chemistry, Sex, and Negotiation: After mutual vulnerability and humor—“He proceeds to eat the pussy like it was a pot of neck bones and he had not seen meat in a year.” [45:54]—they negotiate an MS (Master/slave) dynamic, including financial security, health care, and sexual openness.
• “Can we go back to the healthcare?” – Melaina Williams Haas [47:00]
• Happy Ending, Broader Significance: Moving in with Georg, Melaina reflects on what it means to be authentically seen and loved, especially for marginalized "freaks and perverts:"
  • "If you had told little Black me 40 years ago that ... I'd be the most well taken care of by someone who sees you as the most precious and beautiful jewel ... I'd have said, get the fuck out." – Melaina Williams Haas [50:17]
  • “A big shout out to all the perverts of color, cause I fucking see you and I know how it is ... Yes, it is magically delicious. So get your freak on, brothers and sisters.” [54:14]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "The music that you will hear in this episode ... is from Rachel Lark, who has been writing custom songs for us for years." — Dixie de La Tour [02:46]
• "I want the one who doesn't give a shit that I am a bossy loud ass bitch. I want the one who thinks that's the hottest fucking shit on the goddamn planet." – Melaina Williams Haas [38:00]
• "Don’t wait until you are as old as I am to find your true calling and to be who you are. And I say, wait if that's what it takes." – Melaina Williams Haas's partner, Georg, paraphrased [52:35]

Segment Timestamps

• 00:00–05:10 – Opening: Dixie’s intro, team banter, musical backstory
• 05:10–10:57 – Melaina’s "piss play" story and Hellmut Tinkles
• 13:33–28:58 – Bex Caputo’s journey from sexual suppression to group play empowerment
• 32:33–54:27 – Melaina Williams Haas: Finding love, submission, and authentic care from the projects to the penthouse

Tone and Style Highlights

The episode blends piercing honesty with raucous humor and moments of real emotional resonance. Dixie’s hosting energy is warm, irreverent, and deeply sex-positive. All stories are delivered with rawness and vulnerability, normalized by laughter and mutual support from the live audience and stage guests. The language is explicit and unfiltered, always embracing the spirit of "The Moth for pervs."

This episode is a bold celebration of queer, kinky joy, radical self-acceptance, and the beauty of finding community—whether at a glitter-bombed queer prom or in a penthouse overlooking the projects.

For more transformative, no-holds-barred stories, explore further episodes at bodystorytelling.com and risk-show.com.