Audio Smut to Make Terry Gross and Ira Glass Blush

Public radio isn’t exactly known for turning up the heat — unless you have some kind of fetish regarding audible mouth noises or endearing speech defects, or you like to rub one out imagining Terry Gross or Ira Glass talking dirty to you.

A (new to us) show out of Canada called Audio Smut intends to change public radio’s staid reputation — in a very public radio kind of way, of course. (For starters, their website features not a single animated gif of a naked person, but rather a subtle patterned background that looks like faded Victorian wallpaper.) Here’s a description of the show in their own words:

In a public radio world that turns a blind eye and blushing cheek to sex, we give you Audio Smut. A show about your body, your heart and your junk. Every 2 weeks we deliver honest, emotionally engaging stories that read like a diary and sound like a dream.

Our mission is to educate and initiate public discourse about gender, sex, and relationships from a sex positive, queer and feminist perspective. Our work seeks to portray sexuality in a diverse and honest light.

The show was created in 2006 by a group of Montreal sex workers for McGill University’s CKUT 90.3. Over the years and over the shifts in collective members, Audio Smut is this little podcast that you are hearing now. The show still airs on CKUT 90.3 on the first Wednesday of every month, in addition to our monthly air on NYC-based BBOX Radio the first Sunday of the month.

You can listen to past episodes online right here, or you can go here to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, FeedBurner, et al.

They talk about threeways, quickies, STIs (that’s a good episode, f.y.i.), virginity, gender, dirty talk, Mozart (did we mention this is public radio?), prison sex, and even armpit fetishes (holy shit, did we mention this is public radio?).

Man, are Canadians effin’ cooler than the rest of us or what?

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