If you haven't heard of Sunny Megatron before this moment, prepare yourself to enter a world where sex and sex education can be fun, non-judgmental, and completely devoid of shame. Sunny's about to hit the big time thanks to her upcoming Showtimes series Sex with Sunny Megatron, premiering this Thursday, October 30 at 11pm EST.

Sunny has been a mainstay of the sex education scene here in Chicago for sometime now, but soon she will no longer belong exclusively to us, but to the world at large. Sunny's message of sex positivity isn't necessarily radical in and of itself, but it shines like a beacon in a world still consumed with guilt and shame regarding sex.

Below you will find an excerpt from Fleshbot writer Tucker Bankshot's interview with Sunny, and you can read the full interview over at Fleshbot, and be sure to tune in to Sex with Sunny MegatronThursday October 30 at 11pm EST.

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Tucker Bankshot: You spent over a year and a half developing your new series for Showtime. What are you hoping that people take away from the show, what are some of your big goals for this 8-week series?

Sunny Megatron: You know, I have one basic, generic goal. People will see the show, and they’ll see all of this wild and crazy stuff, and people will get the impression that that’s what I want to inspire people to do, to take their biggest, craziest fantasy and act it out. And that’s not what I’m going for, you know? Hey, if that’s what they’re inspired to do and what they want to do, great, but my goal is to just to get people to start talking about sex. That’s it.

We’ve grown up in a society that has told us that sex is something to be scared of, that it could kill you. That sex is something to be ashamed of, and we’re not taught that it can be fun and pleasurable and all of these positive things, so we grow up with partners, and maybe we’ve been married for twenty years and have never been able to have a meaningful conversation about sex with our own partner. Maybe we’ve never had sex with the lights on, or been able to verbalize our fantasies, or even just say, go a little bit to the left, you know?

So if watching this show inspires just those simple, first step conversations about sex, then I feel like my job is done. That’s what I aspire to inspire in people.

TB: Which is great, because I think that it’s attainable and at the same time ambitious.

SM: Yeah, yeah. And whatever else people get inspired to do, if there’s a segment about a particular kind of sex, or fetish, or specific sexual act that someone’s been wanting to try and this inspires them to take that next step, great. So I think it’s going to be a lot of things for a lot of different people.

TB: Yeah, and Showtime is a great place for it too. The kind of programming they’ve been doing and the way that they’ve been separating themselves from what, let’s say, HBO is trying to do, it’s almost like they’re more, and I hate this phrase, but more educational and more like what HBO used to be. It reminds me, somewhat, of the Real Sex documentaries HBO used to do, which were a very formative part of my own sexual awakening, and from the very little that I’ve seen, it seems to be hearkening back to that style of programming. So for Showtime, and the things that they’ve been doing with shows like Masters of Sex, this seems to be more in line with the direction that they’re headed.

SM: You know, I have to give huge props to Showtime because from the initial conversations with the network, all the way through to today, they have always gotten it. They have always stood behind promoting the message of sex positivity and education, which is phenomenal. They get it like you wouldn’t believe.

The thing that’s going to be different about this show as opposed to some of those past sex shows that we all enjoyed watching, is that I always kind of got a sense that the people we saw on those shows were people other than us. They were those people. It was kind of like, hey, let’s go see what these freaky people are doing. And our show is more, we’re all the freaky people. The people that we’re going to be watching, that could be your neighbor, or your sister-in-law, or you! So I think it is making it a little more human and a little more relatable to your average, everyday person because it’s not the weird, freaky people that are doing this stuff, it’s your doctor. It’s the person that bags your stuff at the grocery store. It’s the person you’re sitting next to in church. It’s not just those weird, freaky people. It’s everyone, or potentially everyone.




Read the full interview by clicking here and check out the trailer for the show below...