A bonus episode: Vivian Whitman interviews Schuyler about the household he grew up in, the road that led to this series, and Bob’s. Play it right here — no podcast app needed.
The Intimacy Series is 330 episodes across twenty tracks, covering everything from what closeness actually means to the specifics of technique, kink, structure, health and repair. It is the conversation most people never got to have — conducted properly, at length, and without anybody blushing.
The education most people received stopped at anatomy and consequences. Plumbing and warnings. What comes after — asking for what you want, finding out what you actually like, handling the moment it goes wrong, staying interested in the same person for decades — was left to instinct, rumour, pornography and whatever a friend said once at a party.
The result is millions of adults quietly convinced that everyone else got a manual they missed. They didn't. Nobody got the manual. This is an attempt at writing one.
The series runs to 330 episodes organised into twenty tracks, and each track is a genuine progression rather than a themed pile. Foundations begins with what intimacy even is and ends somewhere considerably deeper. Touch & Technique starts at first principles and works through the mechanics nobody teaches. Kink & BDSM Foundations opens with what kink actually is and closes with negotiation, aftercare and risk.
That structure matters because people arrive at this subject from wildly different places. Someone who has been married thirty years and someone who has never said the word "want" out loud both deserve a sensible starting point. You can begin at track one and go the distance, or drop into the exact subject keeping you up at night, and neither approach leaves you lost.
Episodes are short by design — the length of a commute or a walk, not an afternoon. The intention is that you finish one able to do something differently, rather than merely having heard about it.
Every episode is written for listeners of any orientation and any relationship structure. Nothing here assumes a default couple, a default body, or a default set of interests. Where a subject applies differently to different people, the series says so rather than quietly picking one audience and hoping the rest feel included.
That extends to experience. There is no assumption you are young, partnered, able-bodied, healthy, or having any sex at all right now. Several tracks exist precisely for the seasons when the answer is none of the above — illness, medication, ageing, distance, grief, and the long silences that fall over otherwise loving relationships.
It is not titillation dressed as education. It is not a shame-free zone in the sense of anything goes — consent, honesty and risk are treated as seriously here as technique. And it is not the work of a single person pronouncing from a chair: the series draws on a bench of trusted advisors and specialists, because no one person knows all of this, and pretending otherwise is how bad advice gets made.
The explicit material lives apart from the rest on purpose. Eleven of the twenty tracks go considerably further than the public platforms permit, and those episodes are delivered through a private members' feed for verified adults rather than being softened until they stop being useful.
The Intimacy Series is written and produced by Schuyler Emerick — more than thirty years in the adult industry, and a long habit of asking the questions other people step around. There is more about that below.
This series is educational. It is not therapy and not medical advice. Where a subject touches on health, we say so and point you to someone qualified.
He is not a therapist, and he’ll tell you so before you ask. What he has instead is more than thirty years inside the adult industry and a habit of paying attention.
He grew up somewhere between June Cleaver and the counterculture — a conventional household run by parents rather more open-minded than the neighbors, who taught him early that openness beats judgment. He went to art school, found his way into finance, and came out in the early 1980s, just as the AIDS crisis was beginning. He happened to be sheltered through it, inside a long-term monogamous relationship, while a great many around him were not. That is not a thing a person forgets, and it shapes how this series talks about risk, honesty and care.
By the early 1990s he was building adult websites, back when the industry was still working out what the internet even was — the start of a career that has never left the space since.
September 11th changed the register rather than the direction. Life was short, and he began living more openly: the private gatherings he hosted grew into sex-positive events built on consent, warmth and zero shame. Along the way he patented an adult product, and eventually took ownership of Bob’s Adult Bookstore in Salem, Oregon — a shop serving its community since 1975.
He is gay, married, and openly talks about all sexual and intimate subjects without flinching — long past being embarrassed by any of it.
The series comes out of that whole journey, but it isn’t only his. He has spent years assembling a bench of trusted advisors and specialists, and leans on them constantly — because, as his father the librarian put it, you don’t need to know everything, you just need to know the people who do.