Shelf Pleasure

About Shelf Pleasure

Shelf Pleasure is the podcast for romance readers, by romance readers. Explore everything from sweet and steamy rom-coms to sci-fi and fantasy erotica with your hosts Krista and Kelsey. Read what you love and fuck the rest. #nosmutshaming

Publisher

Shelf Pleasure: A Smut & Romance Podcast

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

11 Apr 2022

Latest episode

24 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Apr 2025

   Chapter 59: Unhinged

   Help us send off Shelf Pleasure with a bang! In our final episode we discuss Unhinged by Vera Valentine and debate the logistics of getting it on with your front door. As a little treat, listen to us tell on ourself (more than usual) as we answer listener questions! CW: explicit sex, violence, voyeurism, attempted food drugging, gun violence, stalking, murder (off-page)

2. 

   27 Mar 2025

   Chapter 58: Lights Out

   What would it be like if you were super into your stalker? Find out in this month’s episode as Shelf Pleasure jumps into Lights Out by Navessa Allen. As an added bonus, enjoy snippets from the audiobook (including a Batman impersonation, a screaming cat, and voice modulators) CW: explicit sex; BSDM (including knife, blood, breath, and primal play); violence; references to rape, abuse, and cannibalism (off-page, recounted); stalking; murder; and desecration of a corpse.

3. 

   27 Feb 2025

   Chapter 57: Initiation

   Shelf Pleasure is back with a (gang) bang! Listen in to experience Initiation by Alethea Faust and learn about all of the ways in which your favorite kink can be used to cast spells. Are you more into conjugation or adulation? Or maybe it’s transmutation... CW: explicit sex, violence, kidnapping, drugging, sexual assault (off page)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

24 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

33 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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