I'm not, though. I'm just kidding. That's true. She's the bottom. I feel like Eric Everhard, we should send him a t-shirt that says, I'm the penetrator. No, he's the, remember he's the opener. The anal opener. Yeah, the anal opener. Yeah, you'll hear

why he's the anal opener uh and so and he might say a lot about men and women here and speaking more so to penetrating a woman and we do ask in the episode well does this apply to everyone because everyone has an ass and like yes there's penis owning individuals that have a prostate in their ass although it makes anal sex even more enjoyable in that regard. But this applies to everyone because, again, universal orifice. So before we do that, we will do a sex question. But we were talking about hemorrhoids because...

Let's get down

to it. Nice transition. We were, yes, Amy's like... Well, we were talking about hemorrhoids because we had some sex questions about it, but we don't have all the answers. We

did, and I think it's a great thing to address because we will find out how, uh, from folks out there, we're doing a call to action right now. If you're someone that is an expert on hemorrhoids, a doctor or someone that knows about hemorrhoid because people do hemorrhoid surgery often we've had, you've even received a lot of questions. I've received a lot of questions uh from folks that have hemorrhoids it's a very big common it's super common and and people uh after childbirth after years after heavy lifting

heavy lifting heavy poopings yeah

all of it that it's an issue so with anal are uh we we won't necessarily address how to anal uh if you are experiencing

hemorrhoid we're waiting you're waiting for more info from someone. I mean, I have some ideas, but I'm not an expert in it. So, and we don't want to give false information. So you know, someone or you are someone, yes, you know where to find you. You're good at the call to action. Yeah. Call 555, 555. No, email us. Uh, was it, we want to do contact contact at shameless sex.com and say, I am someone that, uh, I am an expert in this or I have reference. Right. And if

you are a person that experiences hemorrhoids, uh, know that we will find some answers for you because anal may not be out of your, uh, bedroom menu or your booty menu or your menu, uh, that's on your sexual playlist. If you hear, if you're a growling,

it's my dog. He's being a little shat. That's me. That's Amy's butt growling. Speaking of shat though, I have a speaking of shat thing. Oh lord. This episode talks about shat a lot. There's a lot of shit talk in here. Literally though, there's a lot of conversations around poop and navigating the anal sex space if there is fecal matter or if you want to be extra clean. And so I just want to say this ahead of time. If someone is really uncomfortable with that kind of conversation, this may not be the episode for you. Because Eric has a lot to say about that. He has a lot of experience in porn and working with people who go to the utmost measure to make sure. There's a book recommendation

here. It's called Everybody Poops. Everybody. Sometimes. Everybody poops. Everybody Oh, I didn't know where you were going with that. Yeah, there you go. You got it. But that book is for, I think, two plus. You can read it.

But adults could use it

too. And that's what I'm saying. And not that I'm shaming you if you have any surrounding. Poop shame or poop fear or poop-a You're

a germaphobe. We're not going to go into this because we talk a lot about this in the episode. But I just wanted to give that disclaimer. There's a lot about pleasure techniques, etc. Like positions, things like that. And there's a lot of poop talk. So be prepared. And I have to say as a sex educator, when I teach anal sex 101, this is one of the number one questions though. What about poop? How do I navigate this? And it should

happen. So we'll into it. If you're going to play in the mud, you might get dirty. Yeah, it's not going to be that explicitly dark and stormy with stool. That's a new cocktail they're making. It's dark and stormy with stool. So

good. It's all the rage. It's got chocolate in it, maybe?

I don't know.

All right. We think we're funny. If you're still with us, we love you. Good job. You're strong. Thank you. All right. Sex question, not related to poop, just so you know, but still related to the anal. I am a 36 year old cis woman and I've tried anal sex a few times over the years and every time it's been painful and I get scared and end up calling it quits pretty early on in the session. I've never successfully had an entire cock in my ass. Some fingers from time to time, yes, and that felt good. Any suggestions for me or do you think anal sex is just not meant for me? This is really common. I think Eric talks about this too and the reasons why a of people maybe opt out of having anal sex is because they have these negative experiences where it's really painful and like, never again, never again will I do the anal. Um, it's off the table. Um, and I think we talk about this, even though he's a porn star where we talk about this in the episode, unfortunately the number one sex educator for anal sex is porn. But like he says in this episode, he says, I'm designed to create fantasy. It's not necessarily like, here's all the facts. Here's how you really do it. It's for shock value and entertainment. And so if people are watching, you know, 90% of the porn out there, unless it's instructional porn or very sex positive porn, it's going to show you like, don't even lube it up, shove the cock or the dildo or the plug in the ass and then people are having these painful experiences so that's one of my first questions for this person is where did you or the people that penetrated you have anal sex education for the first time or you know have they ever is it porn did anyone ever take a sex ed class have they have they listened to a podcast like this because there are plenty of ways to have wonderful, pleasurable anal sex that doesn't have to be painful. Yes, anal sex will have discomfort when your muscles are relaxing, but pain doesn't have to be a part of it with enough breath, lube, slowness, prep in terms of the fingers and plugs, which I think Eric also talks about on here. April, you have perfected the anal sex game only in the last two years. You're 38 now? I'm 39 now. 39. You got really good at anal at like 36 or 37, right? You like really got it down. I think I

was 36.