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Real people. Real lives. Real sex. Melody Thomas leads a frank, often enlightening, always entertaining exploration of sex, sexuality and relationships.
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Accentuate the Positive
Sex positivity is the idea that all sex, provided it's healthy and explicitly consensual, is good. But what happens when a complicated theoretical ide...
Kinky Boots
What you think of as kinky and what I think of as kinky might be two different things, but it generally means behaviours and fantasies outside of the...
Sex and Relationship Q&A on Nights
It's a BANG! takeover!
RNZ Nights host Bryan Crump is joined in the studio by Melody Thomas and father-daughter sex advice duo Nic and Lena Beet...
BANG! Live in Wellington
Recorded at Bats Theatre in Wellington as part of the NZ Fringe Festival, this is BANG! Live. Featuring Tawa mum and sex toy expert Abby Lund, Morgana...
Pretty Poly
Ethical non monogamy is nothing new - but an increasing number of people are giving it a go. Research from the US reports that 4-5% of people identify...
The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
In Sex At Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, co-authors Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha take what they call the "standard narrative...
Let's Stay Together
We all know how it goes - two people meet, they fall in love, they decide to get married and live happily ever after. We've heard different versions o...
Talk About It
Research shows that putting a name to a feeling helps manage it. In this episode, three BANG! listeners talk about things they've struggled with and t...
All Bi Myself
Didn't you know? It's 20-bi-teen! What better time to get schooled on the ins and outs of bisexuality. In this ep, a couple from season 2 return to ta...
BANG! Live in Christchurch
Live from the Bread and Circus Festival in Christchurch, Melody Thomas puts your sex and relationship questions to father-daughter sex advice duo Nic...
Coming soon! BANG! Season 3
Hurrah! BANG! returns for Season 3 on Monday March 4th.
Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
MeToo, masculinity and domestic violence
A previous episode of BANG! left a few loose ends so Melody Thomas pulls together a panel for a discussion of tricky topics.
This season'...
The LIVE Show
In this very special episode of BANG! recorded in front of a live audience at The Basement Theatre, Melody Thomas and guests dispense advice, tell per...
Speaking Out
We hear three stories from people who have worked through shame or embarrassment towards "really wonderful sunshine" on the other side.
C...
Takātapui
Scholars and activists Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Elizabeth Kerekere speak with Melody Thomas about what sex, sexuality and gender looked like in Te Ao...
FAQs
How do lesbians have sex? What's it like to be asexual? Or polyamorous? And how can a disability affect your sex life? Melody Thomas seeks answers fro...
Man O' Man
'Toxic masculinity' is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot these days but a lot of guys seem not to like it... Maybe it's the 'toxic' part? In this...
All The Kids Are Going Bi
In this episode, Melody speaks with a couple of people in heterosexual relationships whose attractions are nevertheless far from straightforward.
Any Date With Me's a Blind Date
In this episode, three people in their 30s and 40s talk about dating.
In the second episode of season two, Melody speaks with three peopl...
BANG! x On The Rag
Melody Thomas is joined by Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A'Court from The Spinoff's On The Rag podcast for a boisterous chat about their "sexu...
Like A Virgin
Using real stories told by real people, Melody Thomas leads a frank (but often entertaining) exploration of sex, sexuality and relationships. In the f...
Lust for Life
In BANG! episode 7, Melody speaks to couples in their 60s and 70s about the different ways they choose to stay connected, Lesley Maskery discusses pol...
Fifty Shades of Grey
In episode 6, Melody faces up to another awkward phone call, we learn about how intimacy is affected by life-threatening illness, visit an "adult ente...
Maybe, Baby
In episode 5, we hear from parents about how kids affected their relationships, clinical psychologist and sex therapist Nic Beets highlights some of t...
Love & Marriage
In episode 4, we hear from couples about the ways sex and intimacy has changed over their years together, and Sex Therapy NZ's Helen Mounsey shares ti...
Netflix and Chill
In episode 3 a group of 20-somethings tell us what dating and hooking up looks like for them, plus Eleanor Butterworth on 'ethical sex', Hera Lindsay...
Sex and Sensibility
In episode two, we explore how teens deal with sex ed, relationships and the influence of pornography. Plus famous Kiwis travel back in time to delive...
The Birds and The Bees
Melody Thomas leads a frank and often-entertaining exploration into sex, sexuality and relationships - starting at the very beginning with 'The Birds...
Bang! Coming soon!
Featuring real stories from real people about sex, sexuality and relationships, Melody Thomas leads a frank and often-entertaining exploration over 7-...