
Nothing shakes the feeling of failure like a buttplug dance party, right? When Sarah Newsome decides she wants to dispel her ‘not queer enough’, ‘not kinky enough’ blues, she joins her friend Lindsay on a camping trip to Critical Northwest, a...
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Dixie Delator
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Sarah Newsome
All of my life I've never fit But I won't complain and I won't quit I am enormous.
Watski
Get used to it.
Sarah Newsome
Everyone tells me I'm too much maybe it's just your not enough for me can't you see I'm the kind of.
Watski
Woman I'm supposed to be? Hey, my vagina is eight miles wide. Absolutely everyone can come inside. If you're ever frightened, just run and hide.
Sarah Newsome
My vagina is eight miles. Why?
Dixie Delator
Hi there and welcome to the Bodi Storytelling Podcast. I am sexual folklorist Dixie Delator, and this is the birthday episode, also known as episode 74. I'm recording this podcast on my birthday, and rather than my usual Patreon ad, I want to ask for help for someone else. And I can't do this without you, so please listen. I have a friend that I met almost 10 years ago. Her name is Nancy Donoval, and Nancy is one of the most incredible story coaches I've ever met. I met her in the traditional storytelling world. My first time venturing out to a place that I thought would be full of prairie huts and people who treated me like a whore in church. And they kind of did. Except for Nancy. She treated me different. She was so interested in my stories, and she told me her own. She had been raped when she was 19 years old, and she had become a storyteller. She has a company called Stories to Stop Rape. She won a national storytelling award for her story Unicorn, and I will make a link to that in the show notes so you can hear it. And we've been friends all this time. The freak wedding story that I told a few months ago, that was on the Risk Body collaboration show. Nancy and I worked on that for hours and hours because she knows that territory, the sexual assault territory, so well. She helped me work on what was okay to talk about, what I felt like I could talk about. And she works in colleges. She works with young people who are going through sexual assault, learning about consent. But it's very hard for her to work, because. So here's her history. Way back when, many, many years ago, she lived in an apartment and there was a gas leak. And the gas leak should have killed her. When they came in to repair it, they were like, you should be dead. You should be dead. But she wasn't. But she started getting sick. She started having respiratory problems, she developed asthma. A few years after that, she's renting an apartment near Chicago and they're lacquering the floors downstairs. They didn't open the window. It's an old building. The fumes come up through the floor. And that's when she really got sick. Nancy has had chemical sensitivity and sickness for many, many years. It's affected her ability to work full time. And she's been working part time teaching storytelling in the Twin Cities area for the best she could do. But that's not enough to live on. She couldn't afford a place to live. So she was reliant on the kindness of friends to put her up in a guest room. But she's had to be very careful with who she stays with because of the chemical sensitivity. Nancy and I work together on Zoom, which is like Skype when we work on story coaching because I wash my hair, because shampoo makes her sick. She'll be in bed for days if you use anything. I use hair color. I use things that would make her sick. So we always communicate via the phone or Zoom when we work together. That makes it really hard to live. Four or five months ago, she told me about this job, this storytelling job that was coming up and she wanted to apply for it. She lives near Minneapolis. The job was in Tennessee at East Tennessee State University. And I said, why don't you apply? You have nothing to lose. Then they wanted her to fly in and do job interviews and she was afraid she was going to get sick. But she did it and pretty soon they offered her the job in Tennessee and they said, we'll work with you on your chemical sensitivity. That's life changing for her to finally have a full time income. But she didn't have enough money. They could only give her a small amount for her moving costs. And it's very expensive to move. This weekend, Nancy, Hope Against Hope, borrowed some money and she went to Tennessee and she went to look for an apartment. She didn't think she could find anything that would be okay, that she wouldn't be sick all the time because she's very, very sensitive. And she found an apartment in a house and the woman that she's renting from has Chemical sensitivity, same thing. So she knows her home is going to be safe. She took the money she borrowed, she signed a lease. Everything has come together. She's moving in six weeks to Tennessee. She's got a place that she knows will be safe, but she doesn't have the money to move. So I and another friend have started a GoFundMe for her. I've never done a GoFundMe before. I just want to help my friend. So I'm going to put a link to the GoFundMe in the show notes. Best birthday gift you could give me is help Nancy start her new life. Every single thing is pointing toward her being able to finally work a full time job. To finally do what she's eminently qualified to do. Oh, the part I forgot to tell you is the National Storytelling Network gives lifetime achievement awards and they've just awarded the Circle of Excellence award to Nancy Doneville. It happens to be in the Bay Area. So for the first time in many, many, many, many years, Nancy and I are going to be in the same place in July her to receive a lifetime achievement award. And I'll be performing and teaching event producing at the conference. Help us get her there to receive the award on stage. She deserves the recognition. She deserves this award. Help her get from Minneapolis to Tennessee to start this new job that is perfect for her. The job she was made to have. Everything points to. Yes. She just doesn't have the money. She's got to pay back the loan for the deposits and she doesn't have anything for the moving costs and it's pretty expensive to move that far. She's on a plane right now. I just checked in with her. She's flying back. She's starting to pack. She's not very healthy. She's going to need a professional mover. She's going to need a lot of help. She's got it all lined up. It's just a matter of the money to do it. Go to the show notes, go to the GoFundMe. I'm also going to post it on Facebook and Instagram and other places so you can find the link. I'm the one who told Nancy this is possible. I've told her just try. Just try. And now it's all there. She's so close. Help me get her there, will you? Thanks for listening. It's time for this week's story. The storyteller that you're about to hear came to her very first body storytelling recently. And as I like to do at a certain point I told the audience, you can get on this stage and you can tell your own story. I announced the theme for the next show in San Francisco, which was Gateway Drug. And a day or two later, I got this email. Attached to it was a voice memo of her telling me the story. And when I looked at the name on the voice memo file, I stopped. The name of the story. You'll be able to figure it out when you listen to the name of the camp that she went to in this story. Kind of gave me pause. Then I listened to it and laughed so hard. She is a boy storyteller. She was terrified. She got on stage, she rocked the house. Listen to all the laughter you're gonna hear in this room. First time storyteller. This one is from Sarah Newsome.
Sarah Newsome
All right, take two. So I'm lying on my back and I'm staring at this string of Christmas lights that are clothespinned to the roof of a cream colored canvas yurt that's nestled deep in the woods next to a river. And I look next to me and there's this woman sitting on her partner's face, and she's bouncing up and down vigorously. Her boobs are jiggling and her dirty ass camp feet are just inches away from my face. And I look to my right and there's a group of people, five people, starting to assemble, and they're moving their body parts around like Rubik's cube pieces. There's like a mouth on a cock here, a hand on a tit here, and another hand's reaching for anal beads. And I'm lying there in the middle thinking, oh, shit, should I have done that second dose of mdma? Oh, you see, last spring, I was sitting at Panchitas Pupuseria in the Mission and crying into my margarita to my friend Lindsay and telling her how terrible this year had been. I felt like a failure in every aspect of my life. I wasn't successful in my job. I didn't feel cool enough to be in the queer scene here. I didn't feel experienced enough to be in the king scene. I had a string of failed relationships, and I was completely striking out in my dating life. And my friend Lindsay says, you know what? Come to Critical Northwest with me. It's the regional Burning man event up in Seattle. It's like, good way to just let go. Fresh start. And I'm thinking, well, I can't afford to go to Sandals, Jamaica. And after three margaritas, this sounds like a great idea. So two months later, we pack up Lindsay's Car. And we make the drive up to Granite Falls, Washington, to settle in on a freemason campground with about 700 other of Seattle's Burning man community to camp for a week and drink and do drugs and all those other things. And so during the week, I'm having fun. I am drinking, smoking, swimming naked in the river, and I'm getting to meet all the people at my camp, Uncle Louie's. And it's a very active poly camp. And I had no experience with anything poly before. And immediately I'm like, lost in the sea of acronyms that they're using. They're dropping, like, folks, fwb, hbb, lfg. And I'm like, wtf? Where's the nre, man? I just. I'm not. I'm lost. And immediately all the icky insecurities that I'd been battling just came bubbling up. But the awesome thing about the Burning man community in Seattle is they are so age positive, sex positive, body positive, and they are so welcoming. And better than that, they are like the biggest perverts I've ever met. It's amazing. They are spending all of their day in the red light district at this in the sex camps. And that's great. But as the event is coming to an end, I'm like, well, now I have my own poly acronym. E, F, B, M. Everybody's fucking but me. Like, what the hell? And so Friday night, the vent's starting to wind down, and I'm in our messy ass tent, and I'm crying to Lindsay again, like, why won't anyone fuck me? God damn it. We're surrounded by perverts. This should be easy. And Lindsay's assuring me, you're great, you're awesome. Just be yourself. And as she's trying to console me, she's taking the little zuplock baggie out of her duffel, and there's four pills inside. And she says, you know what? I was gonna save these, but we're gonna do these tonight. And I'm like, what are those? God, what are those? What are those? And she's like, these are moon rocks. I'm like, what? Some what, moonrock? She's like, it's mdma, which is like ecstasy with a little something extra. And it's like, so good. And I'm like, okay, well, anything not to feel this shitty way. So my essential need to know questions before experimenting with drugs is one, will it cause brain damage? No. Okay, great. Second question. Is there any possibility at all while I'm on this drug That I will shit myself. No. Awesome. You know what? Screw it. Give me two. And so I pop my two pills and I start costuming up for the night, having no idea what to expect. And I've got my blue wig on and my fishnets and 45 minutes later. Holy shit. Now I know what's going on with mdma. It's amazing. My skin is on fire and colors are so pretty and I want to put everything, everything in my mouth and I want to touch everything. And my eyes are immediately drawn to this camp where the sign says, fuck you, I'm a wizard. And underneath the sign, there's this purple satin jacket that is absorbing all the lights from this disco ball. And there's a gold embellished dragon on the back of this jacket. And I'm like, I must touch the dragon. And so I run over to the jacket and I tap the gentleman wearing the jacket. And he, he turns around and I'm like, oh my God, he is six foot four, red headed, bearded, viking lumber, sexual, sexy, Zach Galifianakis thing going on. And without thinking I say, oh my God, can I rub my face in your beard? And he laughs and lets me rub my face in his beard. And he tells me, I'd like to rub some things on you too. And so, so I'm excited. We take our flirtations to the red light district. Yes. I'm thinking, oh my God, I finally get to enter like the pervert elite. And I'm noticing as we're walking there holding hands, I'm doing that weird hop skip that kids do when they're going to Disneyland. I am so, so excited. And we enter into the red light district and there's moans and groans and there's like the deep bass music from this butt plug dance party happening. And we walk towards this where there's like a beautiful soft glow on the sign of where we're about to fuck. And the sign says tuna melt. And I'm like, oh boy, here we go. So we walk into the dressing room and there's a table full of lube and condoms and gloves and hand sanitizer and toys. And I'm like, oh my God, this is great. And so we undress and we walk into the tent and there's three couples already in there. And I'm there sitting, thinking, oh, am I gonna feel awkward? Like, I don't know, this is kind of strange. But then I'm like, oh my God, there's this like electricity in the air and I, I am determined to be the epicenter of this fuck tent. And so my Viking takes my fishnets and he starts ripping the stitches in the crotch. And with each tear I am getting so wet. And I quickly mount him and I slide on top of him so slowly. And I am relishing every rock hard inch of him and I'm moving my hips slowly and he quickly flips me onto my back and he's thrusting and my nails are digging into his freckled butt cheeks and I'm pulling him in deeper and deeper and he lets out this guttural growl as he comes. And then he collapses on top of me like a redwood falling in the forest. And he pushes himself up and he wipes the blue wig away from my face and he looks into my eyes and I'm expecting him to say something really profound and sexy. And he leans in and he goes, jesus Christ, your pupils are enormous right now. Okay? And so he kisses me and we leave the tent and I fall float home just on my little MDMA cloud. So excited to do this again tomorrow. And I wake up the next morning like a kid on Christmas. I want to unwrap that gift again and again and again and again. And so I run over to Kevin Bacon camp where my Viking is standing there at the bar in a G string making bloody Marys. I don't waste any time. You make me tuna melts. 9pm Be there. It's a date. So Saturday night comes around. It's the last night of this Burning man event. And I go and meet my Viking at tuna melt. And what I don't know is that the last night of a Burning man event. Everybody is fucking and everyone's finishing all their drugs and everyone's doing all the booze. And there is a line around the red light district for this sex tent. And we're like slowly like inching our way towards the front. And I'm like the girls in the line at the club that aren't wearing any clothes and they're like bouncing around just to stay warm. I'm like, yay. And the Viking squeezes my hand and he goes, sarah, I just want to let you know that I'm like super high on mushrooms right now. Oh, shit. Okay, well, I'm sober. Are you consenting to this? He goes, oh, yeah, awesome. Let's get weird. And so we enter into the dressing room of Tuna Melt. And I'm noticing as we cross the threshold that the electricity that I thought was in the air is actually this industrial sized bug zapper that they have above the tent where the mosquitoes who are, like, intoxicated from all the huffing and puffing of the floor happening are just flying into their death left and right. So sexy. And I'm starting to undress and I poke my head into the tent to see the situation that's happening. And immediately I am met with not the sweet smell of sex, but, like a wall of odor of sweat and dirty sunscreen. I don't even know if that's a thing, but dirty sunscreen it is. Woo. A lot to take in. Okay, stay present, Sarah. This is sexy. So the floor is moving. There's butt cheeks and ball sacks and tits. And there's like, no place to fuck in this tent. People are standing in the middle of this tent, like, trying to fuck and, like, holding up the canvas rope. And I'm like, oh, my God, this is wild. And I see a tiny spot open up on the floor and I grab my Viking and I like, slide on in on these display, disgustingly wet pillows, by the way. And I am ready for my Viking to enter me, but his penis is still on a long, strange trip. So that's not happening. Okay, so he decides he's gonna go down on me. He's kissing my neck and my breasts and he moves down and down and I can feel his hot breath on my clit. And then nothing. There's. Wait, nothing's happening.
Dixie Delator
What?
Sarah Newsome
So I prop myself up on my elbow and I look down and he's talking to my vagina. He's having, like, a conversation with my vagina, like they're catching up like old friends. And so I'm not trying to eavesdrop or anything, but I'm pretty sure my pussy doesn't need to know that you're from Belle Plains, Kansas, and the Oregon. It. I'm sorry. So I tap him on the head. Sorry to interrupt. Sorry. Why don't you go get some lube? So he goes, gets the lube, comes back, and he's, you know, rubbing his hands and he starts rubbing his dick. And I'm like, whoa, that smell. There's another smell happening here. What is that smell? It's like, vaguely familiar. Hmm. Okay, stay present. This is sexy. He slides his fingers into my vagina and my vagina is burning. Shit, my vagina is burning. Wait, I know that smell. That is hand sanitizer.
Dixie Delator
Oh, my God.
Sarah Newsome
Oh, my God. My Viking is so shroomed out that he has now put Purell all over my genitals and all over his. And at this point I'm like, fuck this shit. I am so done with this. And I slam my hand down and almost as if by divine intervention, there's, like, something hard underneath my fingers. And I'm like, what is this? And I pull it out and it's this disgusting riding crop. And I'm like, okay, let's see what happens. And so my Viking is trying to put out the fire on my pussy with his mouth. And I start to imagine that this riding crop is like a magic wand. And I'm, like, orchestrating the orgy happening around me. And before I know it, I've become like the wizard Mickey in Fantasia, where I'm like, yes and yes, and your butt's going to go up and your mouth's going to go on that cock and you're going to lick her pussy. And I'm like, tapping the Viking on the back. And suddenly his broom awakens and okay, now we're in business. And so, with my riding crop waving around in the air, he enters me. And I'm tapping him like an unruly red stallion, still waving my magic crop around. And he's thrusting and he's thrusting and he's licking and flinging and banging all these things. And oh, my God, I'm close. I am really close. And I climax and whoo. Holy shit, that was disgusting. And as I leave the tent, I notice I'm leaving more behind than just, like, this wild adventure. I walk away leaving behind all of these shitty insecurities that had been weighing me down and drowning me for the past year. All those feelings of being unwanted and not good enough, not sexy enough. And instead, I walked away feeling empowered. Like, yeah, I'm sexy, I'm fun, I'm adventurous, I am disgusting, and I am. And the most important thing is I walked away feeling like I am finally good enough. And I have a tiny little fuck yurt in the woods to thank for that. Thank you.
Watski
Sam. I'm going down. I'm going down Going down I'm going.
Sarah Newsome
To down.
Watski
I'm going down I'm going down on your. I'm breathing deep Then I leap in I'm going under like eating that Visa key to how we could beat global hunger, achieve total peace on Earth. I'm a freak, I'm a local wonder More lung capacity than Freddy Mercury vocal numbers I plunder the briny deepest PA lunker Plunging in, hunkering downhill between those fluffy pink balls Like a fallout bunker in if I never emerge on the surface don't Give me in 20 years I'm back like Kimmy Schmidt, what's up? Hold that, wait. Hold that, wait. Cause I really gotta say one thing straight I'm not shouting on the chocha so that you'll reciprocate I just go in no strings tastes great, tastes great Fun times I got a one time I'm new as arsery if you don't want none well that's just more for.
Dixie Delator
Me.
Watski
I'm going down on you like I like it but brom line cause I don't like it I lied that shit's my valentine. One tiny warning I'm dining on your gourmet form until the morning performing like it'll stop global warming My palette is got no equal talent could vanquish evil and maybe make Rick Moranis be in the Ghostbusters secret for one taste and I'm willing God bless, God bless Until you quiver I will not rest liquor repeatedly like her beavers I swear reader and my tongue is a visa debit card that failed my process it's like the miracle worker Random blind and I'm deaf and dumb plus each inch of my body's numb except for the tip of my tongue in each Wikipedia topics printed in microscopic rays zinc on your clips or the single option I got to know something about this wonderful glow that we come from so locate your swollen being and then probe the folds of it fiendishly till you come about infinity times baby that isn't a crime on you Given our planet's gender ratio it'd be a mockery glossing over fellatio meaning that really it quick I gotta touch on objectives you are pretty straight but I'll say sexuality's an arc maybe I could suck up backlights on my soul while not e dark why couldn't I get sexual with a man at all? At 13 I was in my bedroom stuffed animals it's like a banging in object can't jam the crotch of a man in my jaw and softly massage it fell as vomit like what if the sausage is smelling hella funky? Don't you wash your chuck be? Of course I wouldn't devour icky salami but that goes the same for encountering stinky punani. So in this scenario where I brush my teeth with a penis, let's assume that the penis we're dealing with sparkles the cleanest of all penis penis on a wall so let's say you're okay with your lips around a But you still can't wrap your mind around the final money shot. Don't give up is what truly makes it foul bitches get him close, no busting and hand him a paper towel no gravy on your chin Everybody wait Squirrel to an acorn Dudes like to look at dicks and they're straight porn Put your hands up if you got hang ups Put your hands up if you got hang ups if I could get with it I'd have a wider ocean I'm fishing in but I'm in inhibited by my social conditioning so where my head's at a present the odds are gloomy that I would agree to feast on a deed that's presented to me But I'm not officially ruling out that at some point in my life I'll have a I'm that guy that's going down on you I am going so low that I am going down to the core of the earth and then maybe below.
Dixie Delator
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That's ohmygodyes.com Dixie for $5 off. You know when you watch those movies and they have the bachelor auction, you can win a date with a bachelor and people reach in their wallets and they go, I want a date with that. Guess what we got for Rafflin? We got unicorns. This Friday, May 17, we are doing Unicorn Fest. We are going to have unicorns that you can buy raffle tickets for. It's just like that Bachel auction thing. It's exactly the same, except they're unicorns. Except the last time I tried this ten years ago, PayPal shut me down for soliciting. Yeah, PayPal, get over yourself. That's not what's going on. These folks are going to help us raise money so the body can come to some new cities. It's expensive to travel. Plane tickets are expensive. Everything's expensive. So my friends, my attractive friends are pitching in to help me me raise some funds. So this Friday, May 17th, Unicorn Fest, we're going to have Sibian rides. You can buy a ticket to win a Sibian and you get to test drive it for a little while. You've got, of course, the win a date with unicorn. We will have unicorn buttholes from Synthetics, our friends who make the vajinkle. I contacted them about a month ago and I said, have you ever made unicorn buttholes? And they're like, ask us in a week because that's a great idea. So unicorn buttholes are on their way from LA to San Francisco. There's a very limited quantity of commemorative unicorn buttholes. You can get one if you're there at the show. KHT Cocktail Syrups is going to be creating some brand new custom cocktails just for me. Their new cherry bomb cocktail syrup. Their new fairy dust cocktail syrup. These drinks sell so fast that we've run out every time that we've had them served at Body Storytelling. Come try the brand new ones never experienced before. I will see you Friday, May 17th in San Francisco at Unicorn Fest. They're never gonna let me do this again. You know, you better be at this one. I don't think it's gonna be repeated. And then on Thursday, June 6th in Seattle, it's our five year anniversary in Seattle. I have comedian Emmett Montgomery. He is a legend in Seattle. I have Tootsie Spangles of the Libertinis and so much more. It's going to be a big celebratory show. I'd love to see you on June 6th in Seattle and then we're back in San Francisco on June 20. The theme is best thing. Maybe your friends get you laid, maybe you sleep with your friends. If you have a story, pitch me. I'm Dixie@bawdystorytelling.com that theme is in San Francisco. We're gonna have shows in July. I'll give you the theme soon. August, we're going to be working on big projects. No shows in August. And then in September, some tour dates show up on Friday, May 17th to help make those tour dates possible. And that's what's coming up for the live shows for body storytelling. See you in person soon. Are you a sex educator, a relationship coach, a therapist, a communication nerd, a social worker, an intimacy expert, or a sex positive podcaster? Do you want to see the world, be more sex positive, more accepting, more open? Then join me. On June 10th through 14th. I'm going to be at Sexgeek Summer Camp. I'm going to be one of the faculty. This year it's year five of the camp. This year it's on the west coast. And I saved room in my schedule for this one because I think what they're doing is so important. There's cabins, there's countryside, there's s', mores, there's great swag. And it's an entire week of learning how to do your job better. Join me at Sex geek summer camp, June 10th through 14th near Portland, Oregon. You can find a link to the information in the show notes. It's time to say thank you. Thank you to podcast producer Marty Garcia. So much fun to work with. Thank you to video archivist Joe Moore, to sound engineer David Grossoff, to project manager Dana Hanna. Thank you to you. Thank you for writing reviews. Thank you for telling your friends about this podcast. Thank you for listening and for the mail that you send me. If you want to tell me about your life, nothing makes me happier. You can get me@dixieodystorytelling.com One final thing I want to tell you about another podcast you should know about. The hosts are knowledgeable. They want to you you to have more pleasurable sex. And you know me, I believe in talking about sex. I'm going to give you a taste of their podcast at the end of this, but I want to make sure that you go look for Sluts and Scholars. You can find them wherever you find podcasts. They really know their stuff. Here's a taste.
Sarah Newsome
I'm Nicoletta. And I'm Simone.
Dixie Delator
And together we're Sluts and Scholars.
Sarah Newsome
Every Thursday, we drop a new episode and probably your pants. Our guests range from Nina Hartley to.
Dixie Delator
Exes and Dita Von Teese to sexual trauma therapists.
Sarah Newsome
So join us weekly to talk smart and fuck smarter.
Host: Dixie De La Tour
Storyteller: Sarah Newsome
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Episode Theme: Sex-positive transformation, queer/poly community, and festival hookup misadventures
This episode of Bawdy Storytelling features Sarah Newsome’s hilarious and honest tale, “F*ck Yurt”, a journey of self-discovery and sexual misadventure set at a regional Burning Man event. Guided by her friend Lindsay, Sarah explores the world of polyamory, festivals, and psychedelic-fueled sex tents—and ultimately finds empowerment through embracing her (sometimes messy) desires. The story is told with raw vulnerability, humor, and a vivid sense of place, making for a quintessential Bawdy storyteller debut.
“...come to Critical Northwest with me. It’s the regional Burning Man event up in Seattle…a good way to just let go. Fresh start.” (11:46)
“I had no experience with anything poly before. And immediately I’m like, lost in the sea of acronyms they’re using…FWB, HBB, LFG—and I’m like, WTF?” (13:30)
“All the icky insecurities that I’d been battling just came bubbling up.” (13:53)
“Will it cause brain damage?” (No.)
“Is there any possibility at all I’ll shit myself?” (No.) (15:38)
“Holy shit. Now I know what’s going on with MDMA. It’s amazing. My skin is on fire and colors are so pretty and I want to put everything…in my mouth and I want to touch everything.” (16:26)
“My Viking takes my fishnets and starts ripping the stitches in the crotch and with each tear I am getting so wet… He lets out this guttural growl as he comes and then he collapses on top of me like a redwood falling in the forest.” (18:31) “He wipes the blue wig away from my face and looks into my eyes…leans in and goes, ‘Jesus Christ, your pupils are enormous right now.’” (19:08)
“He’s talking to my vagina. He’s having, like, a conversation with my vagina, like they’re catching up like old friends.” (21:11)
“That is hand sanitizer! Oh my God, my Viking is so shroomed out that he has now put Purell all over my genitals and all over his.” (22:10)
“I start to imagine that this riding crop is like a magic wand. …I’ve become like the wizard Mickey in Fantasia…” (22:41)
“I notice I’m leaving more behind than just this wild adventure. I walk away leaving behind all these shitty insecurities that had been weighing me down and drowning me for the past year… Instead, I walked away feeling empowered. Like, yeah, I’m sexy, I’m fun, I’m adventurous, I am disgusting, and I am. And the most important thing is, I walked away feeling like I am finally good enough. And I have a tiny little fuck yurt in the woods to thank for that.” (24:04)
| Timestamp | Segment/Content | |-----------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 10:11 | Story begins: Sarah describes the wild yurt scene | | 11:46 | Sarah’s initial struggles, burnout, and Lindsay’s festival suggestion | | 13:30 | Sarah’s bewilderment at poly relationships, acronyms, and insecurities | | 14:28 | “Everybody’s fucking but me” – the ultimate festival FOMO | | 15:38 | Decision to take MDMA, and her criteria for trying new drugs | | 16:26 | Sensory transformation on MDMA and the start of flirtation | | 18:31 | Vivid, comic description of festival sex with the “Viking” | | 19:08 | Hilarious post-coital blue-wig moment | | 20:10 | Consent check with the shroomed Viking | | 21:11 | Viking delivers small talk to her vagina | | 22:10 | The infamous “hand sanitizer as lube” fiasco | | 22:41 | Sarah’s Fantasia-inspired orgy orchestration | | 24:04 | Emotional/psychological resolution and self-acceptance post-yurt |
Sarah Newsome’s “F*ck Yurt” story is a quintessential Bawdy Storytelling highlight: uproariously funny, totally honest, and unexpectedly moving. Through sex, drugs, festival chaos, and authentic community, Sarah unearths the liberation of letting go of self-doubt—and celebrates the wild, sticky, empowering side of sex-positive self-discovery. This first-time storyteller’s journey (and her encounter with hand sanitizer) is likely to make listeners cringe, laugh, and ultimately cheer.