On today's episode,
@PupAmp
explains that while pup play might seem weird from the outside, the stress relief that results is pretty relatable for anybody.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts!
How many people have an attraction to animals? More than you'd expect, according to
@Lexi_M_Z
and
@StoriesZoo
.
Check out the full episode via the link in the thread.
How many kinks are there? And where do they even come from?
Find out from
@Aella_Girl
and Professor Christian Joyal on the premiere episode of Philias, a new miniseries from Taboo Science. 🖤
Why do some grown adults like to wear diapers? Lots of reasons, according to Benny,
@TheUsualChloe
&
@TheUsualSophie
Hear the full episode diving into diaper fetishes, ageplay & ABDL in the link below.
Forget the ethical issues around animal testing — most of the time, it gives us bad data, too.
Hear the latest episode of Taboo Science with
@emilytrunnell
and
@BooLacey
:
In the cuckolding ep,
@DrDavidLey
mentions how giving someone "bunny ears" is actually horns, an ancient sign that someone is a cuckold.
there is so much more to this fact that I couldn't include, so here's a thread. it is SO WEIRD and involves frankensteined roosters.
Did you know Taboo Science episodes also appear in video form on YouTube?
The channel is 75 subs away from 1,000, which is when monetization kicks in. Consider subscribing! Link in the thread below.
Favor to ask! Today is the first day to vote in the Women in Podcasting Awards, and Taboo Science is up against comparatively larger shows in the Science category. I need your vote! Click the link in the thread to go straight to my nominee page and click the big "VOTE" button.
Foot fetishes tend to be more common among men than women.
@JustinLehmiller
says the reasons for that might be cultural.
Listen to the full episode about foot fetishes at the link below!
I hate how timely this episode is, what with the striking down of Affirmative Action in university admissions.
As
@Anthrofuentes
explains, the experience of race is real. It's just that you can't find it in our biology.
Listen to the full episode:
I think I need to do a polyamory episode because the imagining of what she's "really" thinking or "really" feeling in this thread is absolutely delusional
I have yet to see a video from a polyamorous person talking about how their relationship works without them obviously coping or being on the verge of actual tears the entire time
and that's the end of season 4, Philias! I've had a blast, thank you to everyone for listening.
now I'm going to take a nice long break from thinking about human depravity (meant in the BEST way, of course)
Breasts are sweat gland version 100 trillion.
Today's ep is a big one. With
@bridgetmcgann
and
@MAMAVA
cofounder Sascha Mayer, it's all things breastfeeding: biology, behavior, judgment, legislation, all opening with a probably regrettable TMI from
@smashleyhamer
.
Episode 2 is up, and it's all about pornography! Featuring some fascinating insight from psychology researcher
@JoshuaGrubbsPhD
.
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app, or right here:
Menstruation is usually considered a useless byproduct of the reproductive cycle — but it's so much more than that.
Explore the misconceptions, stigmas, and downright miraculous biology of periods with
@KateClancy
on an all new episode:
Happy Halloween! You'll have a hard time not talking to strangers about tentacle porn after this episode. 🦑 Sorry not sorry.
Hear
@EroticMonsters
talk monsterfuckers, horny vampires, demon sex, and why LGBTQ ppl + monsters are a match made in heaven:
It's one of the most experienced forms of discrimination. It's also one of the most accepted. Here's how to fight it.
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app, or right here:
There's a stereotype that people with foot fetishes are creepy. Where does that come from?
@tinahornsass
has a theory.
Listen to the full episode on foot fetishes at the link below.
Fun fact: in the last decade, there have been ZERO records for the name "Dick" added to the US Social Security name database. Babies just aren't named "Dick" anymore.
Hear the full episode on
#profanity
:
#podcast
#language
#etymology
#linguistics
Who would volunteer for this study?
On today's episode, science writer
@SeattleBryn
talks all things poop: what it's made of, why it smells like that, and all the ways it can heal both people and the planet.
Where does necrophilia come from, and what makes someone actually desecrate a corpse? 💀💀💀 Featuring psych researcher
@drvictoria
and neuroscientist
@fmri_guy
!
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app, or right here:
Want to appear on this week's episode? Do you have a hilarious story about poop? (Not kidding!)
Record it on your phone's voice memo app and email it to ashley at tabooscience dot show. Keep it to less than 60 seconds, please!
i know, this sounds made up. i thought it was until i checked several academic papers, one in german (thank you for your service, ChatGPT).
i mean, LOOK AT THIS
You don't have to be kinky to benefit from aftercare, according to Ask a Sub's Lina Dune.
Listen to the full episode to learn about why people like BDSM, the science of subspace, and what Fifty Shades of Grey got so very wrong.
Feeling anxious, depressed, or angry about climate change? Turns out there's a whole field of psychology for that.
Hear the new episode with
@selfsustainPDX
on your favorite podcast app, or in the link in the thread below.
@arithisandthat
After a too-long hiatus due to having a baby, 2023 is the year I'm launching season 3 of
@tabooscience
. My goal is to get comfortable with promotion! Newsletters! Promo swaps! The show is good and I am worth it! ✨
you always knew the castrated roosters by the horns, and horns in turn became synonymous with a weak male. when you held up “bunny ears” behind a man’s head, you were saying he was weak and had no balls
There's an open episode week in about a month while I wait for a big interview guest to become available and the researchers I contacted for a particular topic are ghosting.
Listeners, what do you think about a solo episode where I explain as many niche kinks as possible?
so they’d remove a claw from each foot and fucking GRAFT THEM TO THE CHICKEN’S HEAD. like horns. this actually worked really well bc there’s a ton of blood flow in the comb so these horns would grow like a regular body part
It's hard to study heterosexuality scientifically when you can't keep your definitions straight. 🥁 Check out the new episode with
@hanneblank
right here:
The diversity of human intelligence just can't be captured by a single number. But that's not the only reason to be skeptical of IQ.
Hear more on today's episode with UC Berkeley professor
@spiantado
:
There's an open episode week in about a month while I wait for a big interview guest to become available and the researchers I contacted for a particular topic are ghosting.
Listeners, what do you think about a solo episode where I explain as many niche kinks as possible?
Taboo Science's first episode only came out three months ago but its Twitter account is turning two. That's how long
@smashleyhamer
had been sitting on this idea before making it happen.
#MyTwitterAnniversary
Season 3 is here, and we're diving into the science of addiction!
Join me and
@GriselNeuro
to find out why drug use is older than humans, why some people get addicted while others don't, where DARE steered you wrong, and more.
Seriously, why don't we have head transplants yet?! It's not for lack of trying — and as
@bschillace
explains on today's episode, those experiments left just as many questions as answers.
How often do we lie, really?
New ep featuring
@judiketteler
, author of “Would I Lie to You?: The Amazing Power of Being Honest in a World That Lies.”
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app, or right here:
I'm getting married soon, so what better way to celebrate than by digging into the uncomfortable facts of marriage with researcher and author
@StephanieCoontz
?
Listen to the full episode on your favorite app or here:
Are kids REALLY learning "critical race theory" in school?
@JG4Justice
explains what CRT is and what it isn't — and we break down the psychology of what's really going on in the US right now.
Listen now:
What is
#depression
, really? Do antidepressants actually work? And how can ketamine and psilocybin possibly help?
New episode featuring Gerard Sanacora, director of the Yale Depression Research Program:
Q for longtime listeners: I'm going to do a rerun episode in a few weeks (I'm speaking at Podcast Movement, nbd 💅).
What old episode do you think everyone should hear? I have my opinions, but I want to hear yours.
🚨🚨🚨 THINGS ARE HAPPENING 🚨🚨🚨
If you've been hoping for another season of Taboo Science, I highly recommend subscribing to the newsletter before tomorrow:
ok so: farmers generally only keep one “intact” male rooster around, because if you’ve got more than one they fight and injure each other. so they’d castrate all the other roosters, but they needed a way to identify them easily
Episode 3 is all about 🍆 🍆 🍆! Featuring the expertise of the amazing
@ejwillingham
, author of "Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis."
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app, or right here:
On today's ep,
@inaparkmd
lays out the freaky facts about STIs. How long have they been around? Why don't we have anything higher-tech than the
#condom
? And when did we stop saying "STD," anyway?
New episode! NUDITY with Ruth Barcan, Ph.D.
Are we more human when we're nude or when we're clothed? How did art influence nudity taboos? And where is my naked revolution?
Even the no-makeup selfie trend doesn't shield you from beauty standards.
Explore the history, science, and conflicting messages about makeup with
@TheLadyAye
in today's episode!
New episode! What do we get wrong about obesity? Featuring the incredible
@yonifreedhoff
.
Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast app, or right here:
Where did the idea of furries being a fetish group even come from? Dr. Courtney Plante of
@furscience
says it's typical human psychology.
Hear the full episode to get the details on furries, including fursonas, fursuits, and what's behind the rare (but real) furry fetish.
this is so weird; my podcast listener gender demographics have completely flipped in the last month. (left is Feb-March, right is the last 30 days)
this has got to be all the new listeners from hearing me on
@lateralcast
, howdy fellas!
As I record interviews for season 3, I'm also working through the archives to add transcripts and freshen up YT videos, so I'm re-listening to everything.
And man, I still love the cannibalism episode. It's the ideal I try to make every ep live up to.
@DrDavidLey
thanks for the visibility,
@DrDavidLey
! also looking for people willing to talk (tastefully!) about their involvement in
#bdsm
&
#pupplay
for episodes on those topics