The Heart

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1. Ghost: Violet

   22 Mar 2016 · 15 min · S6 E4 · Explicit

   Kari is nothing like the actresses in the scenes that she films. She’s tall, robust, the kind of girl who can pick up a camera and take it where it needs to go. Violet, on the other hand, is petite and soft. She’s got…

2. Ghost: Emily

   8 Mar 2016 · 17 min · S6 E3

   Does love ever really die? Even though Kaitlin has a beautiful boyfriend she still hears the ghost of those she once loved ring in her ears. But, there’s another ghost in her life; her boyfriend’s current love. This…

3. Ghost: Alex

   23 Feb 2016 · 19 min · S6 E2

   Powerful memories are like paused tapes in our minds – a hum barely heard beneath the noise of our everyday – ready to be played at any moment. This audio fiction explores the process of falling in love with someone,…

4. Ghost: Bobby

   10 Feb 2016 · 12 min · S6 E1 · Explicit

   A personal account of the haunting absence of a lost love. This is a story about grief, loss and reaching for freedom. The sense of emptiness that comes after saying, I love you, every day until, suddenly, you don’t.…

5. Samara + Kelsey

   13 Jan 2016 · 22 min · S5 E4

   At the beginning of a relationship, the small decisions feel like big decisions: When to text? What to wear on the second date? How naked to get. For Samara and Kelsey, the first decisions were a bit bigger. When…

6. Mr. Claus + Mrs. Claus

   22 Dec 2015 · 6:41 · S5 E3 · Explicit

   You’ve got a squeeze on Christmas Eve? You know you’ll have their lovin’ — but what about ol’ Mrs. Claus? Her man’s out — she’s got nuffin! In our retelling of “The Night Before Christmas,” join lonely Mrs. Claus as…

7. Idiot + Dummy

   9 Dec 2015 · 21 min · S5 E2 · Explicit

   Idiot + Dummy met where many boneheads meet: in grad school. One night, they ran into each other on the subway. The two are alike in a lot of ways. They both stay up late, go to punk shows and raves, do drugs, and have…

8. Desiray + Aaron

   17 Nov 2015 · 33 min · S5 E1

   Desiray felt a deep, human connection the moment she first heard his voice: Aaron Carter spoke to her through his music. When Desiray was down, Aaron always cheered her up. When she needed him, his music was always…

9. The Magic Wand

   22 Sep 2015 · 7:52 · S4 E5 · Explicit

   Vibrators have been the friend of the female orgasm for over a century now. Back in the 1800s you could only get access to one via a doctor’s appointment. To cure your irrational woman feelings, hysteria. When they…

10. The Beach

    19 Aug 2015 · 15 min · S4 E3 · Explicit

    Being naked can be scary. There you are, your whole self. No decorations, no cool skirt or shoes or shorts to look at instead of…you. This story is about one special woman, our naked hero. After undergoing surgery and…

11. The P-Spot

    4 Aug 2015 · 7:32 · S4 E2 · Explicit

    Once upon a time, Kaitlin went to a radical sex education workshop. At the workshop, the facilitators spent 45 minutes going into extreme detail of the complexities of the female system of sexual arousal. Then they…

12. The Intimacies

    21 Jul 2015 · 13 min · S4 E1 · Explicit

    Once upon a time, we did an episode about what happens when there is too much going on sexually. The Ethical Slut says that love isn’t finite. Loving more than one person means having more love instead of less. This…

13. The Real Squishy

    7 Jul 2015 · 6:26 · S3 E14 · Explicit

    Most people remember the first time they got off, most of us conveniently forget the era before that when we have no idea what masturbation was. When all we knew is what felt good. We develop strategies that seemed…

14. Riis Park

    30 Jun 2015 · 14 min · S3 E13 · Explicit

    In the summer of 1960 Joan Nestle was 20 years old and in love. At the time she lived in a Lower East Side tenement apartment and the city was hot, sweaty and humid. Joan and her girlfriend Carol would ride the subway…

15. Gina Gold

    17 Jun 2015 · 26 min · S3 E12 · Explicit

    At 5 years old, Gina was parading around the stage with a number pinned to her chest. But as the host of The Little Miss America Competition sang the national anthem, she felt he might have as well been singing,“You’re…

16. The Lost Pardner

    20 May 2015 · 9:19 · S3 E11 · Explicit

    Badger Clark is remembered for shaping the poetry of the Old West with striking impressions of the cowboy life. But his poem “The Lost Pardner” about the intimate love of two cowboys has a special kind of beauty. It…

17. How to Become a Princess

    5 May 2015 · 25 min · S3 E10 · Explicit

    Just after the new year, Kaitlin and Mitra take a business trip to small town Ontario to meet Steffy. At six foot two inches, Stefonknee is the tallest six year old you will ever meet. Of course, she isn’t actually…

18. Dual Control Model

    21 Apr 2015 · 8:45 · S3 E9 · Explicit

    Our friend Dr. Emily Nagoski debunks tired, widely held ideas about sex and replaces them with perfectly clear, scientifically sound explanations. One of those new ideas totally blew our minds, so we’re bringing you…

19. The Subway

    17 Mar 2015 · 11 min · S3 E7 · Explicit

    A one day’s love has a life cycle. It’s born, it lives a very brief life, and then it dies. That’s it. It’s usually cut short by circumstance, often by time or distance. Sometimes there’s only enough magic for the one…

20. The Hurricane

    3 Mar 2015 · 18 min · S3 E6 · Explicit

    Eintagsliebe, a sort of real German word meaning one day’s love. Or, a fling. This can be analogous to the mayfly, eintagsfliege. The mayfly sneaks in through an open window, lives her little mayfly life to the…

21. Lili

    17 Feb 2015 · 9:44 · S3 E5 · Explicit

    It was sometime in the early years of their marriage when Gerda Weganer asked her husband, Einar, to dress in women’s clothes and sit for a painting. The intended subject was running late, and suggested to Gerda that…

22. Beauty Is Pain

    3 Feb 2015 · 28 min · S3 E4 · Explicit

    It’s fun to try to be beautiful when people are giving you positive attention for it. It hurts if you’re not meeting that standard and people treat you like you aren’t even there. You watch the people who are getting a…

23. And 27 Other Firsts

    20 Jan 2015 · 5:37 · S3 E3

    Short and Sweet: Mid month we bring you something short. Whitney Jones (producer at PITCH) tells us about his first love, and 27 other firsts in chronological order. Originally produced on Cowbird. You will also hear…

24. First

    6 Jan 2015 · 17 min · S3 E2 · Explicit

    When we do something for the first time, we enter into a world with new rules. It’s the creation of a new path, a new possibility. We meet this threshold with no knowledge of what will happen, how we or the world will…

25. Welcome to the Heart

    1 Dec 2014 · 8:37 · S3 E1

    A radio show is born. Again. We all go through phases and have an identity crisis or three. Audio Smut started as an hour long broadcast radio show at CKUT in Montreal, and has transformed into a delicately crafted…

26. Mouthwash

    16 Sep 2014 · 14 min · S2 E8

    An Interlude. This is an interview about necking (or lack thereof). A kiss over time: at the beginning, in the middle, at the end. If you don’t like how somebody kisses, can you grow into it? Samara’s Grandma tells us…

27. Last

    20 Aug 2014 · 17 min · S2 E7

    Episode Twelve. Kaitlin and Kyle. They met at a kissing booth. On their first date they went on a recording adventure (for one of the early Audio Smut documentaries about the Drag Queens). They became obsessed with…

28. Movies In Your Head

    23 Jun 2014 · 25 min · S2 E6

    Episode Eleven. Audio Smut presents: a radio play. This episode was a documentary experiment, produced in collaboration with composer Shani Aviram. We set out asking questions about how perception is altered in early…

29. My Natural Pocket

    8 Jun 2014 · 7:42 · S2 E5

    A Quickie. Behold the almighty power of the V. Vaginas can hold the largest and smallest of objects with barely the slightest uncomfort. So it just makes sense to stash your weed in there. Star reporter, Ruth Eddy…

30. Coming Of Age

    12 May 2014 · 40 min · S2 E4

    Episode Ten. This episode is about growing up, becoming an adult, entering a stage of independence: shaving cream, tampons, driving, voting, doing your own dishes, doing your own taxes and sex. This episode will take…

31. Love Letters

    2 Apr 2014 · 36 min · S2 E3

    Episode Nine. The written word: a way to fuel a romance, a way to capture someone’s attention, a way to break up. We read people’s most private letters, and tell the story of the relationships that were made and…

32. To Nora

    9 Mar 2014 · 6:56 · S2 E2

    A Quickie. In 1909, James Joyce wrote his wife, Nora Barnacle, a series of very sexy letters. While her side of the correspondence has been lost, we still have Joyce’s letters–and they’re really good. In this quickie,…

33. Fuck Love

    23 Feb 2014 · 50 min · S2 E1

    (Welcome to Season Two) FU*K LOVE. Family. Responsibility. Survival. Economic Stability. These were once much more important to things to build your life on. This episode looks at the ideal of true love, how it came…

34. A Valentine

    13 Feb 2014 · 5:33 · S1 E12

    A Quickie: Do you believe in true love? Does it really exist, or is it just a mythology made up by Hollywood? How would you define true love? Jonathan Goldstein shares his thoughts on this Valentine’s Day special.…

35. Lovemaps

    5 Nov 2013 · 36 min · S1 E11

    Episode Seven. Psychologist and sexologist, John Money came up with the theory of a lovemap. A lovemap is a template. It’s a template that we are constantly measuring our sexual and romantic experiences against. It’s…

36. Afternoon Delight

    26 Jul 2013 · 9:46 · S1 E10

    A Quickie: This quickie is a history- a love map, if you will- of how Kaitlin manages to be such a productive person. Also, this is the reason why Kaitlin insists on holding our meetings in coffee shops. Here, the…

37. Getting By

    8 Jul 2013 · 40 min · S1 E9

    Episode Six Homelessness isn’t really something that can be easily defined. Sometimes people make choices, other times people have no choices. In this episode, we have three situations from three very different people…

38. Yellow Jumpsuit

    25 Jun 2013 · 8:55 · S1 E8

    A Quickie: Keith’s virginity story. Keith is and always has been an extremely charming man. I know it was the 90s, but there is nothing charming about a yellow jumpsuit. Poor clothing choices aside, Keith still proves…

39. Happens to the Best of Us

    11 Jun 2013 · 30 min · S1 E7

    Episode Five. It’s your highschool sex ed class. Mrs. Green is going to play a movie. You are very excited. The room goes dark, the movie begins. You’re already a little bit aroused; you’ve seen pornography before but…

40. Movie Night

    20 May 2013 · 12 min · S1 E6

    A Quickie: What will people think? This story happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of Audio Smut Producer, Erin. When surfing the Casual Encounters on Craigslist one must be prepared to be…

41. Pregnant

    8 May 2013 · 33 min · S1 E5

    Episode Four. The good times and the bad times of making babies. Babies being born is a topic we accidentally avoid on audio smut. But the fact is, we have bodies that make us babies and sex is involved, albeit in…

42. The Wrath of the Potluck

    25 Mar 2013 · 12 min · S1 E4

    A Quickie: The time that god punished you for having a threesome with my sister. Devon is one of Kaitlin’s oldest friends from high school. They now live in different cities and see each other yearly if they’re lucky.…

43. Poo

    3 Mar 2013 · 31 min · S1 E3

    Episode Two. Seriously, what’s the big deal. In this episode, we tackle one of the biggest taboos. We eat food, everyday and eventually that food has to come out. Yeah it’s gross and stinky but it is one of the most…

44. Mozart

    28 Feb 2013 · 6:01 · S1 E2

    A Quickie: We bring to you a surprising letter from Mozart. Tip the show and its creators. This audio magic wouldn't exist without the generous donations of its fans. Thank you! Learn about your ad choices:…

45. The Sensorium

    5 Feb 2013 · 26 min · S1 E1

    Episode One. Experience more than sight, sound, smell, taste, touch. Venture with us beyond the 5-way sense scape. Tip the show and its creators. This audio magic wouldn't exist without the generous donations of its…