We spoke to Bahareh Goodzari on pregnancy and sexuality, the erotic and how this directly ties into political conversations. We dove deep, and we LOVED speaking to her! Guaranteed to have learned something after listening to this episode. Thanks, Bahareh 💜

Some book and podcast recommendations from Bahareh:

Books 📕
Essay Audre Lorde Uses of the Erotic
Men explaining things to me
Invisible women
The caliban and the witch - Federici
Woman in the body - Emily Martin

Podcasts 🎧
Scene on the radio seizoen 3

This is a recording from our live radio show Radio Pleasure Society on Echobox, it aired on Saturday September 12th. We are uploading all our shows as a podcast, so we can include our audience here as well.

We spoke to Lucy Roeber, founder and editor at the Erotic Review. The Erotic Review was relaunched as a biannual literary and art journal for a contemporary audience in spring 2024. A cultural platform that explores desire through essays, stories, poetry and art.

We spoke to Lucy about how censorship has influenced the work she does with the Erotic Review, how she believes we should tackle this as a community and what the future brings for the Erotic Review as a creative pleasure advocate.

Some 📕 recommendations from Lucy:

1. At Certain Points we Touch - Lauren John Joseph
2. This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century - Rebecca Birrell (just read)
3. LoversXXX - Allie Rowbottom

Subscribe to the Erotic Review's Substack here.

This is a recording from our live radio show Radio Pleasure Society on Echobox, it aired on Saturday August 15th, 2026. We are uploading all our shows as a podcast, so we can include our audience here as well.

What does genuine consent culture look like practically in a nightlife setting? How do well-run venues actually implement it? Is there an etiquette or unwritten code that regulars understand but newcomers might not? This and more was discussed during a great chat we had with Ellen Verheij from Kaleidra Studio.

Some book and podcast recommendations:

Books 📕
Wormmaan - Mariken Heitman
I who have never known men - Jacqueline Harpman
De thuiswacht - Dola de Jong
The safekeep (De bewaring) - Yael van der Wouden
Man maakt stuk - Maurits de Bruijn

Podcasts 🎧
Onder Mediadoctoren
Geeky Dingen
Bad Gays
Achterwerk

This is a recording from our live radio show Radio Pleasure Society on Echobox, it aired on Saturday May 23rd, 2026. We are uploading all our shows as a podcast, so we can include our audience here as well.

Who’s pleasure counts? Why has our sex become so goal-oriented? When is it allowed to just be…good?! We spoke to Linda Duits about 'plezier', the Dutch word that ecompases something in between pleasure and fun. It's hard to translate, so just listen to the episode 👅.

Here are some book and podcast recommendations from Linda:

📕 Wormmaan - Mariken Heitman

📕 I who have never known men - Jacqueline Harpman

📕 De thuiswacht - Dola de Jong

📕 The safekeep (De bewaring) - Yael van der Wouden

📕 Man maakt stuk - Maurits de Bruijn

🎧 Onder Mediadoctoren (Linda's own podcast she's been making since 2012)

🎧 Geeky Dingen (another of Linda's podcasts!)

🎧 Bad Gays

🎧 Achterwerk

🎧 Wie is Emmy?

This is a recording from our live radio show Radio Pleasure Society on Echobox, it aired on Saturday April 25th, 2026. We are uploading all our shows as a podcast, so we can include our audience here as well.

We dived into the world of cruising with Barnaby Savage. By collecting, documenting and researching stories of cruising Barnaby's project 'Cruise Verhalen' tracks the fluid (re)shaping of public space and through the recording of oral history documents cruising culture in the Netherlands.

Some book recommendations Barnaby gave us, that we'd love to share here:

📕 De Roze Rand van Donker Amsterdam - Gert Hekma

📕 Amsterdam de Roze Geschiedenis - Monique Doppert

📕 De Stad - Marcel van Engelen

📕 Fire Island: Queer History - Jack Parlett

📕 The Carnivorous Lamb - Augustín Gómez Arcos

This is a recording from our live radio show Radio Pleasure Society on Echobox, it aired on Saturday January 31st, 2026. We are uploading all our shows as a podcast, so we can include our audience here as well.

This episode of Radio Pleasure Society is in Dutch 🇳🇱.

In deze aflevering van Radio Pleasure Society spreken we met Jesse Bleekemolen en Rein van Leeuwen over een documentaire die ze gemaakt hebben: F*CK DRUGS, een film over oa seks en drugsgebruik binnen de gay scene.

Benieuwd naar de documentaire? Tijdens de Roze Filmdagen gaat de film op 21 maart, 2026 21.00 uur in premiere en is later op 29 maart, 2026 om 13.30 te zien. En op 16 april, 2026 om 21.20 is de documentaire op NPO3 te zien.

*heb je hulp nodig met jouw drugsgebruik, dan kun je altijd uitreiken naar Mainline of Chemsex.nl

Dit is een opname van onze live radioshow Radio Pleasure Society op Echobox, uitgezonden op zaterdag 28 februari, 2026. We uploaden al onze shows als podcast, zodat we ook ons publiek hier kunnen betrekken.

We spoke to CEO and Founder, Samuel Douek of Pleasure Platform HOWL on all things LUBE 💦. What do we hope brands like HOWL can change about how we talk about pleasure, intimacy, and sexual health more broadly? And what does the bigger cultural shift look like if we'd approach things with a more sex positive mindset?

Some book recommendations Samuel gave us, that we'd love to share here:

📕 Cosmos & Psyche

📕 Nexus

This is a recording from our live radio show Radio Pleasure Society on Echobox, it aired on Saturday January 31st, 2026. We are uploading all our shows as a podcast, so we can include our audience here as well.

We spoke to Pimenta Cítrica on AI and Sex(uality). What changes or protections in AI policies should change around sex education and the use of AI? How is AI influencing how people explore and understand their sexuality? And what does a healthy and ethical future of AI look like in our sexual lives?

We dove DEEP. Listen back and enjoy our fruitful conversation with Pimenta Cítrica. We learned so much!

This is a recording from our live radio show Radio Pleasure Society on Echobox, it aired on Thursday December 4th, 2025. We are uploading all our shows as a podcast, so we can include our audience here as well.