Talk About Gay Sex TAGSPODCAST

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  Are You Ready for Love—or Just Repeating the Pattern? feat. Relationship Coach Lonay EP 778 23.07.2026 1val 2min

  Why do we keep attracting emotionally unavailable men—even when we swear we know better? This week, special guest Lonay of Radiant Hearts Journey joins Steve V. and Co-host Teddy Alexis for an honest conversation about dating patterns, emotional availability, past trauma, and the subconscious beliefs that may be shaping our romantic lives. The group explores what it really means to be “ready” for a relationship when all of us are still works in progress. How much healing should happen before we begin dating? When should we offer someone grace for their wounds—and when are we simply ignoring another red flag? Lonay also introduces us to Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) and explains how hypnotherapy may help uncover the deeper beliefs behind the partners we choose, the behavior we tolerate, and the stories we continue telling ourselves about love.
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  Can a Sex Club Heal You? Gay Men, Shame & Sexual Freedom EP 777 21.07.2026 51min

  What if visiting a sex club offers gay men more than a hot night out? Inspired by a therapist’s argument that queer sexual spaces can provide freedom from shame, greater body confidence and a powerful sense of belonging, Steve V, Jeremy and Kodi explore whether sex clubs, bathhouses and darkrooms can actually be healing spaces for gay men. The hosts discuss the freedom of entering a room where heterosexual rules no longer apply, whether getting naked removes—or merely exposes—our judgments about age and body type, and why anonymous sex can sometimes feel surprisingly intimate. But can we mistake sexual validation for genuine healing? The conversation also examines loneliness, rejection, emotional avoidance and the importance of recognizing whether we are pursuing sex because we truly desire it—or because we need someone else to make us feel desirable.
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  Is Monogamy Over? Polyamory, Gay Content and; Dating App Burnout with Oleg Kudymov EP 776 16.07.2026 1val 1min

  Life coach and content creator Oleg Kudymov joins the men of TAGS for a fun, candid, and occasionally provocative conversation about how gay men are connecting—and disconnecting—in modern life. Are polyamorous relationships becoming the future, or are we simply getting more honest about wanting different things from love and sex? Oleg shares his perspective as the guys explore jealousy, communication, commitment, and whether one person can realistically fulfill all of our emotional and sexual needs. The conversation also turns to gay content online. Is it merely entertainment, or can visibility itself be a form of activism? They discuss authenticity, representation, thirst traps, and the pressure creators face to educate their audiences while still having fun. Plus, are dating apps actually helping us find connection—or leaving us feeling more isolated, disposable, and exhausted? The guys unpack app burnout, endless scrolling, making connections in real life, and what it takes to turn an online match into something meaningful. It’s an energetic episode about relationships, visibility, sex, and finding genuine connection in an increasingly digital world.
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  Sex, Reinvention & Starting Over at 50: Remembering Dale Savage EP 775 14.07.2026 59min

  Adult performer Dale Savage didn’t begin his career until the age of 50, proving that desire, sexual discovery and reinvention don’t come with an expiration date. Following the news of his death at 62, Steve, Lincoln and Kodi reflect on his unexpected second act and the courage it takes to pursue a dream later in life. The conversation expands into what aging can look like for gay men when we stop following society’s timeline. Can our fifties, sixties and beyond become our most sexually confident and creatively fulfilling years? The hosts discuss embracing changing bodies, releasing shame, exploring fantasies and refusing to become invisible simply because we are getting older.
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  Who Taught Us Not to Be Ashamed? EP 774 09.07.2026 59min

  Robin Byrd, Madonna, Confessions, and the sex-positive baton TAGS has carried for 8+ years On EP 774 of TAGSPODCAST, Host Steve V. and Co-host Kodi Maurice Doggette look at the people, pop icons, late-night pioneers, and queer spaces that helped gay men talk about sex without shame. After watching the Robin Byrd documentary, Steve reflects on Byrd’s impact as more than a late-night cable personality. She created space for adult performers, queer people, nightlife figures, outsiders, and honest conversations about sex at a time when mainstream culture often pushed those voices aside. Steve also shares his personal connection to Byrd after renting her Fire Island house years ago. The conversation expands into Madonna and the release of Confessions II, exploring how Madonna’s long relationship with gay men, AIDS awareness, sexual freedom, dance-floor culture, and chosen family helped many queer people feel seen. For Steve, Madonna made sex feel powerful, expressive, and less shameful. Steve and Kodi also reflect on TAGSPODCAST’s own role in carrying the sex-positive baton for the past 8+ years. Through conversations about kink, HIV, PrEP, hookups, love, shame, aging, bodies, open relationships, and desire, the show has become a place for honest gay sex talk — and along the way, the hosts have surprised themselves with how much they’ve shared and learned. This episode asks: Who gave us permission to talk about sex? Was it Robin Byrd? Madonna? Porn? Bars? Fire Island? The Eagle? A drag queen? An older gay man? A friend? A hookup? Or the dance floor itself?
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  Another Gay App Promising Connection? Honk If You’re Suspicious. EP 773 07.07.2026 50min

  On this episode of Talk About Gay Sex, Steve V and the hosts take on the buzzy new gay app GOOSE, a platform being marketed as a more social, anti-algorithm alternative to the usual hookup and dating apps. But after reports surfaced alleging that some of the accounts promoting the app may have been AI-generated or otherwise inauthentic, the hosts ask the obvious question: are gay men being sold “community” through fantasy, exclusivity, and possibly fake hot guys? The conversation gets cynical, funny, and very real as the hosts unpack why so many new apps promise deeper connection while still leaning on the same old gay marketing tricks: hot bodies, invite-only access, curated status, and the suggestion that the “right” boys are already inside. Is this innovation, or just another beautifully branded attempt to monetize gay loneliness? The hosts also explore the growing shift away from app fatigue and toward real-life meetup culture: gay dinner groups, activity-based gatherings, queer social clubs, sex-positive spaces, and the desire to meet people in rooms instead of grids. But they also push back on the idea that hookups are the problem. Sex can be connection. The issue isn’t desire — it’s dishonesty, manipulation, and the way tech keeps trying to package intimacy as a product.
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  The Roles We Play: Public Persona, Private Truth & Gay Sexual Honesty EP 772 02.07.2026 59min

  In this episode of Talk About Gay Sex, Steve V. and the hosts unpack the roles people play in public, in private, and in the bedroom. The conversation starts with public figures who seem to perform outrage, cruelty, or contradiction for attention, ratings, power, or applause — and asks the bigger question: if someone is “different in person,” does that excuse the harm they create publicly, or make the performance even more disturbing? From there, the discussion turns inward. Gay men often understand performance on a deeply personal level. Many of us have played roles to survive, to be accepted, to seem masculine, to appear sexually confident, or to hide vulnerability. But when does a role protect us, and when does it become a costume we can’t take off? The hosts explore how this shows up in queer life, relationships, and sex — from performing confidence in the bedroom to navigating labels like top, bottom, vers, dom, sub, daddy, boy, slut, romantic, kinky, or vanilla. Are these roles freeing expressions of desire, or do they sometimes limit who we really are? At the heart of the episode is the idea that authenticity is what creates connection. The audience does not tune in because the hosts have perfect sex lives or perfect answers. They tune in because honest conversations about gay life — the messy, horny, funny, complicated, emotional truth of it — make people feel seen.
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  Sexual Confidence After Shame EP 771 25.06.2026 1val

  This week, they ask: when did sex stop feeling shameful — and what changes once you enter your shameless era? From flirting and DMs to hookups, turn-ons, aging, confidence, and knowing exactly what you want, Steve and Kodi get into why gay men can become bolder, freer, and even sexier with age. Plus: Pride, desire, daddy energy, directness, and the confidence kink.
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  From Shame to Shameless EP 770 23.06.2026 1val 4min

  On a new TAGSPODCAST aka Talk About Gay Sex Host Steve V is joined with Co-hosts Kodi Maurice Doggette and Sebastian LaCause. Today we’re talking about Pride, belonging, and the moment sex stopped being shameful — how community helped us become more confident gay men, and why aging might be the thing that finally makes us shameless.
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  Milo Miles: Banned at the Border EP 769 18.06.2026 59min

  This week on TAGS LIVE, Host Steve V and Kodi Maurice Doggette welcomes adult performer and content creator Milo Miles for a powerful and deeply personal conversation about queer visibility, adult work, stigma, travel, privacy, and what happens when your identity and profession are used against you. Milo Miles recently made headlines after being detained by U.S. Customs while traveling from Toronto to Las Vegas and receiving a reported 10-year ban from entering the United States. LGBTQ Nation reported that Milo was held for hours, questioned about his sexuality and work, and later spoke out about the emotional and professional impact of the experience. In this episode, Milo joins Steve V and Kodi to discuss what happened, how it changed his relationship with travel and safety, and why queer people — especially those in adult entertainment or sex-adjacent work — are still forced to navigate shame, surveillance, and double standards. Steve and Milo also get into the bigger conversation around adult performers, respectability politics, personal privacy, chosen family, relationships, and the courage it takes to keep showing up publicly when the world tries to reduce you to one part of your story.
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  Top, Bottom, Goblin: The New Rules of Dating EP 678 16.06.2026 1val

  On a new TAGSPODCAST aka Talk About Gay Sex podcast Host Steve V and Co-hosts Jeremy Ross Lopez and Kodi Maurice Doggette are back. This week on TAGS LIVE, we’re talking Goblintimacy, Gen Z “practice dates,” whether gay men should disclose their bedroom position upfront, and the bold new art of meeting someone through DMs. Is messy intimacy the new vulnerability? Are practice dates helpful or a little cruel? When should you say whether you’re top, bottom, or vers? And can sliding into someone’s DMs still feel sexy without being creepy? It’s a modern gay dating episode about confidence, chemistry, sexual honesty, rejection, and learning how to shoot your shot.
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  Thee Rose talks about his short film "Artifice" about labels and identity EP 767 11.06.2026 1val

  On a new TAGS LIVE aka Talk About Gay Sex the live edition Host Steve V and Co-host Teddy Alexis are joined to welcome their Special Guest Thee Rose to talk about his short film 'Artifice' that will screen at this year's iconic Frameline Film Festival on June 22 in Oakland, CA. A meditation on a mystic woman haunted by pronouns, personality, and projection. Through poetry, presence, and subtle exposition, the film forgoes conventional narrative structure in favor of circling around its thesis: What can you know about a person? They shift in the light.
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  Why We Still Celebrate Pride Part 2 Plus LGBTQ Film List EP 766 09.06.2026 51min

  On a new TAGSPODCAST aka Talk About Gay Sex podcast Host Steve V and Co-host Kodi Maurice Doggette are back with a new Sex Talk. In Part 2 of why we celebrate Pride as we need it more than ever even with the looming threat of safety concerns. Gays sound off on their complicated reasons why they celebrate Pride and the hosts share more ways they will be celebrating.
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  Pride... What does it really mean 04.06.2026 1val

  On a new TAGS LIVE aka Talk About Gay Sex the live edition Host Kodi Maurice Doggette, filling in for Steve V, and Co-host Teddy Alexis are back with an all new Sex Talk discussing Pride past, present and future. Breaking down what Pride means to them and how it affects the community at large.
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  Between Love and Lust... The Ups and Downs of Casual Sex. EP 764 28.05.2026 58min

  Filling in for Steve V, Kodi Maurice Doggette alongside special Guest Host Teddy Alexis discuss more Sex Talk and more Hot Topics
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  1000 Partners: Myth, Fantasy or Gay Reality? EP 763 21.05.2026 57min

  On a new TAGS LIVE aka Talk About Gay Sex the live edition Host Steve V and Co-host Kodi Maurice Doggette are back with an all new Sex Talk that has once again gone viral from an early Kinsey Report and later study that says 29% of gay men have had 1000 sexual partners. However the study was done in San Francisco, pre-AIDS and only interviewed men that went to bathhouses...skewed or has newer generations embraced our sexuality due to drugs like PrEP and PEP...we discuss and breakdown! Plus with adult performers like Drake Von's '1000 Bottoms in one day' challenge are we desensitized to sex?
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  Chosen Family, Ex-Lovers and Party Friends: Who Actually Stays? EP 762 19.05.2026 55min

  On a new TAGSPODCAST aka Talk About Gay Sex podcast Host Steve V and Co-hosts Kodi Maurice Doggette and Sebastian LaCause are together in studio with a new discussion on our 'Chosen Family' as gay men. Today we’re talking about chosen family… and whether it actually lasts forever. Because for queer people — especially gay men — chosen family can become everything. Sometimes they know us better than our real families. They were there during breakups… hookups… coming out… sex awakenings… bad apartments… lost jobs… grief… Pride weekends… dance floors… recovery… marriages. Some of our deepest friendships started because we were all just trying to survive loneliness together. But then life changes.
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  The Sex and Relationships that Changed Us EP 761 14.05.2026 1val

  On a new TAGS LIVE aka Talk About Gay Sex the live edition, Host Steve V and Co-host Kodi Maurice Doggette are back with a brand new Sex Talk. Part 1 we're talking and sharing our past sexual and romantic relationships that changes us over the years plus we're taking in Part 2 about two gay icons Rupaul and Pedro Amoldovar and their opposing views on how we approach politics...
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  F*ck Buddies vs Friends With Benefits… and What Happens When It Evolves? EP 760 12.05.2026 42min

  On a new TAGSPODCAST aka Talk About Gay Sex podcast is back with Host Steve V and Co-host Kodi Maurice Doggette who are going deeper with the conversation with F*ck Buddies and FWB...I think gay men sometimes create categories because they help us emotionally organize intimacy… but real life gets messy. We're asking the question: Why do some sexual connections evolve while others stay transactional?
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  Gay Smut Club Photographer Micahel Furfari Ep 759 07.05.2026 57min

  On a new TAGS LIVE aka Talk About Gay Sex the live edition Host Steve V and Co-host Kodi Maurice Doggette are back to welcome their Special Guest Michael Furfari of the popular Gay Smut Club and Gay Smut Studio group where he captures sexy men in their element primarily using various polaroid cameras. Michael shares what makes a good model, his focus on the people that work in the clubs, his love of polaroid and how he's pushed the lines of more NSFW photography...