The title of this post should be “where do you hide your podcast?,” because I’m starting to believe there’s a problem with my podcast on itunes. If you know me, you know I like to make overly dramatic even the mundane, but seriously, this is the longest it’s ever taken to upload one of my Hot Sox podcasts. I’m beginning to worry. My friend Ian told me he uploaded the podcast last night (I know, I need to learn how to do it myself) and now it’s gone. Disappeared. With no means of tracing. This feels wrong. It has never taken this long to upload a podcast, and now I’m starting to think it’s because itunes doesn’t like that I mentioned talking to your children about sex in the subject of this week’s podcast. Am I just being paranoid, or would that be a red flag for itunes?

The podcast is with super-mom Dawn Tulman, who’s also the face behind Toibocks and the co-host of Porn Star Pundits (and no, she’s not a porn star but she looks like she could be). The conversation started out being all about “where do you hide yours?” See, this budding entrepreneur needed a discreet place to hide her sex toys after her daughter found one of her vibrators all rolled up in some of Dawn’s shirts. When Dawn had to answer the question, “mom, what is this?” she decided it was time to make a change (insert Michael Jackson lyrics here). So, this intelligent bombshell took matters into her own hands and created Toibocks . The toibocks, and the new ToiTissue, are great places to hide your sex toys, condoms, lubes, passport, pot, checkbook and more, and while that’s the beginning of this conversation, the chatter quickly turns into a larger conversation about sex. From sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) to how to talk to your children about sex and sexuality, Dawn’s stories of raising two boys and a girl are hilarious and informative for any parent who’s looking for ways to talk to their kids about the birds and the bees.

It’s a seriously great second half podcast. Actually, the whole podcast is rather entertaining, if I may say so, but I don’t know when you’ll ever be able to agree with me.  I do know that it’s more difficult to keep a TV show containing sexually graphic language, or a radio show/podcast of the same, on the air without corporations, American citizens and Steve Jobs getting their panties in a bunch. They’re happy to help sell sex, but only in the form of oiled up women in bikinis on cars (does that date me?), Miley Cyrus or an app that might suggest sex, but not that people have it (yeah, I made that last one up, and it’s bad, I know).

I get so bummed when I think about the amount of work I’ve put out in the world, on mainstream media channels, and the amount of poop me, and everyone else affiliated with said show, had to deal with when it came to talking about sex. I will never forget the time I almost got both me, and Joan Rivers, fired from WOR, because we talked about pegging back before Dan Savage called it pegging. Heck, we could show kids a violent scene, even a rape scene, from CSI before they go to bed, but sex, no, that’s not something we talk about, only something we do, when we do it, and that’s none of your business when it’s done, and porn is evil until it’s not. That’s when I’m alone in my car, away from my wife and my kids and I can masturbate in peace and in public.

Got carried away. Not going to delete though.

Dawn’s approach to talking to her kids about sex is no nonsense, and unfortunately, daring. But it shouldn’t be. It’s progressive. Smart and the way all parents should talk to their kids about sex. As if it’s natural. Because it is. Really, if sex is normal and if you talk about it normally, then it’s not a one conversation topic. That I stole from Dawn. Cause it’s true.

Maybe there’s just a really long line to upload podcasts today, and maybe by the time I post, because I will post this either way, my fantabulous and fun podcast with Dawn Tulman, the face behind Toibocks, will be at the top of my list. But since I promise you a podcast every Friday, why not listen to me, from earlier this week, when Dawn and Johnny Dam had me and Joanna Angel on New Dissident Radio (<– to listen to podcast click that link) talking about politics, which is, of course, a way dirtier word than sex.

And if you want to see the toitissue box, I made video: