

The Hook Up
ABC Podcasts
The Hook Up is about love, sex and relationships. We answer your questions, learn things together, cry over heartbreak and normalise shit. Every Tuesday Dee and Pip debate your dating dilemmas and hear your cooked stories. Every Thursday it's the sex ed you never had — we call on an expert to go deep and find answers with Dee.
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Feb 8, 2024 • 28min
How To Do Anal (If You've Never Done It Before)
If you wanna start using your backdoor in the bedroom but don't know where to start, we got chu. Sex coach Georgia Grace and founder of sexual wellness brand NORMAL Lucy Wark chat to us about all the basics of butt play.

Feb 6, 2024 • 28min
Are We Living In A Low Effort Dating Era?
83% of you reckon we live in a low effort dating culture. Where people never put in effort and everyone just bails or ghosts each other. So are Australians just lazy or have dating apps made everyone burnt out?Also is it actually a bad thing? Should you expect so much effort at the start of getting to know someone? Dee and Pip hear your hot takes and chat it out.

Jan 29, 2024 • 45min
The Imperfects On Learning How To Be Vulnerable
It’s finally happened, The Imperfects are on The Hook Up <3 If you don’t know - The Imperfects are a hugely popular podcast where some of the most well-known guests jump on to share their insecurities and all the ways they feel imperfect. Comedian Ryan Shelton and Josh Van Cuylenburg chat to Dee and Pip about the power of vulnerability and what they’ve learnt from hearing so many people’s incredible stories.

Jan 22, 2024 • 33min
More Kinky History With Esme Louise James
She’s one of our favourite brains in the whole wide world - historian, writer and TikTokker Esme Louise James is back with some more kinky history for you.

Jan 15, 2024 • 48min
Unpacking Internet Culture and Dating With Vulga Drawings
We chat to author and cartoonist Lily O’Farrell – you might know her as Vulga Drawings on Instagram, and she’s just released a podcast about how internet culture is shaping dating, sex, pleasure and the patriarchy.

Jan 8, 2024 • 26min
Dylan Buckley On Embracing Your Authentic Self
Dylan Buckley is an ex AFL player now turned podcaster - who you’d probs know from Dyl & Friends - a podcast where (mainly AFL players) are open, vulnerable and share their stories. Dee chat’s to him about masculinity, social pressure, his AFL career, vulnerability, being an emotional guy, embracing your insecurities, and the importance of male role models.

Jan 1, 2024 • 38min
Madeleine Stewart: Talking Dating With A Disability
Did you know if you’re on the disability support pension it might stop you from taking your relationship to the next level? Award winning writer, stand up comedian and disability advocate Madeleine Stewart joins Pip to chat about what’s going on.

Dec 25, 2023 • 19min
Your Most Cooked Sunday Secrets
Every Sunday on our insta @triplejthehookup we get your raunchiest secrets, honestly they leave us gooped, gagged and gazumped. In this special ep - you’ll hear some of the most cooked Sunday Secrets from 2023, from a missing butt plug, a sneaky rideshare hook up, and getting caught mid dildo.

Dec 18, 2023 • 38min
All The Cooked Things From 2023
It’s been a hell of a year. From Jonah Hill's therapy speak, the orchestra orgasm, and Sam Levinson's controversial show The Idol and Anna Paul's break up that rocked world – we take wrap 2023's biggest moments in love, dating, sex and relationships.

Dec 12, 2023 • 37min
How To Open Up And Embrace Vulnerability
A lot of guys still associate vulnerability with weakness. But you told us that it’s messing with your mental health and your relationships - as you suffer in silence.