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Uncertain Intimacies (Dr. Chris Haywood)

Uncertain Intimacies (Dr. Chris Haywood)

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Dr. Chris Haywood explores the phenomena of swinger or lifestyle clubs in the UK, how club owners are trying to create inclusive spaces, challenge the idea of female sexual passivity and how gender and sexuality become unusually reconfigured in spaces dedicated to recreational hetero erotic sex.


This podcast series is a companion piece to the book “Disrupted Knowledge: Scholarship in Time of Change” published by ⁠Brill⁠ and ⁠Haymarket Books⁠. Funding for this podcast is provided by the ⁠Institute for Social Science⁠ at Newcastle University.


Recorded by Chris Haywood.

Produced by Karl Birrane.

Theme Music by Anna Heslop.

Episode Music by Professor Christopher Whitehead.

Special thanks to the Culture Lab at Newcastle University

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