About
Meet the creator and host
That’s me, Emma-Louise Boynton. I’m a journalist, presenter, writer, and the creator and host of the award winning, sell-out live event series and podcast, Sex Talks.
I thought I was broken in my relationship to sex. I thought there was something wrong with me because I couldn’t orgasm in partnered sex and frankly, I didn’t think I liked sex much anyway. Then I started sex therapy and discovered that far from being alone in this, I was in worryingly great company. Did you know that more than 40% of women and 30% of men will experience some form of sexual dysfunction at some point in their lives? Nope, I didn’t either.
It’s this taboo, and the resulting silence it creates, that makes sex a subject so closely associated with shame.
Sex therapy changed my relationship not just to sex, but to my body, to my sexuality, to my confidence, to my sense of self. I quickly learned that your relationship to sex is about so much more than just fucking. It’s about your relationship to yourself and to your body, it’s about how you experience gender and the power dynamics that come with it. It’s about your capacity for vulnerability and how willing you are to let others in. Sex tells us soo much about who we are and how we show up in the world.
And yet, we don’t know how to talk about it.
I set up Sex Talks because I wanted more people to have access to the sort of conversations and insights I had in the sex therapy room, convinced as I am that they can be as transformative for others as they were for me.
In what now feels like a past life, I worked as a producer for the BBC and Sky News here in London, and for Tina Brown’s ‘Women in The World Summit’ in New York. I also co-founded the female-focused creative production agency, Her Hustle and the political issues platform, The Venn.
I regularly host panels and discussions for other brands on topics ranging from gender inequality. to sex and relationships, to body image issues.
Get in touch: emmalouise@sextalk.co.uk.
“I went to my first Sex Talks just before Christmas - it was about the orgasm gap and it turned into an intimate sex therapy session where everyone felt liberated and comfortable to share their fears and desires.”
— Eleanor Halls, Deputy Culture Editor at The Telegraph