Billy Procida is “more than a self-proclaimed slut," according to esquire.com. "He’s a thoughtful guy who chooses fresh, current topics, like what it’s like to be transgender and dating, or a porn copywriter.”



Procida, a 28-year-old comic and Norwood native, discusses these (and other) things on his Manwhore Podcast, which Esquire recently chose as one of the 10 best sex podcasts of 2017.



Yep, that’s right. There are at least nine others.



(Actually, as Esquire duly notes, that are 240 podcasts on iTunes under the category of “sexuality.”)



On Sunday night (Oct. 8), Procida will be recording one of these podcasts before a live audience at the People’s Improvisational Theater (PIT) in Manhattan. And his guests will include four former lovers who, at Procida’s urging, will tell him why it would be totally cool if they never see him again.



Ever.

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“Since April of 2014,” he notes, “I’ve been talking to women I’ve dated and trying to figure out why we didn’t work out. For the live podcast, I will have four of these women onstage and let them give it to me.”



In a manner of speaking.



Two of these ladies have been on Procida’s podcasts before and at least two of them are funny for a living.



“One of the women is a comedian, but not a stand-up. She does funny songs with a comedy partner of hers. She performs dirty songs on her ukulele. In fact, we’re opening the podcast with one of her songs,” Procida says.



And why not?



What’s a sex podcast without a dirty ukulele song?



Another of the women writes sketches. “She’s also an actress,” Procida notes. “The other two are not comedians.”



Although, presumably, they have a sense of humor.



Procida says he started the podcast in 2014 because “women would sleep with me but they wouldn’t date me. And I thought, “Who better to talk about this with than the women themselves?’ I’m a hopeless romantic.”



Sleeping around, he insists, is still fairly new to him. “In fact,” he says, “I’m sure if you tracked down people who knew me in Norwood they’d say, ‘He’s still a virgin, right?’ But, in a relatively short period of time, I think I gained a lot of experience and a lot of varied experiences. And I think it’s a good thing to talk about it in this kind of a setting.”



Procida is of the opinion that New Jersey’s sex education courses are “less than stellar” and says he’s an advocate for comprehensive sex ed in schools.



“A lot of folks say, ‘Sex education? That’s for the parents to do,’” Procida says, “but the parents don’t know what they’re talking about, either.”



Talking with Procida, it’s hard to know where the serious ends and the comedy begins. But, even though he works steadily in the stand-up world, he insists that he takes the topic of sex seriously.



“There are a lot of comedy podcasts out there that are sexual in theme,” he says. “I’m more of a sex podcast that is sometimes funny, than a comedy podcast about sex.”



If you go ...

WHAT: “Manwhore Podcast: Live!” hosted by Billy Procida

WHEN: 8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 8

WHERE: The People’s Improv Theater, (PIT), 123 E. 24th St., New York.

INFO: manwhorepod.com/live