August 2024

Hi Caddyshackers 

Gosh there’s a lot of stuff on YouTube!

While it seems to have been around forever, YouTube was actually launched on February 14th, 2005. It’s owned by Google and is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.70 billion monthly active users as of 2023. More than a quarter of the world's population uses YouTube every month!

You know the saying “if you don’t know how to..... YouTube it”! There are even YouTube videos on YouTube functions. Wild! 

Home Turf

In our humble corner of the internet, the Caddyshack YouTube channel is the quiet sibling of our Instagram and Facebook channels.  We currently have a very modest 78 subscribers on our channel. Thank-you, we appreciate that! Our channel has 107 videos with series organised into playlist episodes. Fancy hey!

At the time of publishing this blog, we’ve had a grand total of 28,384 views. Heck yeah! According to YouTube analytics, our most viewed video with almost 6K views is “How to make a woman orgasm”. This video was taken from a webinar we did with the wonderful Dr Melissa Kang aka Dolly Doctor back in 2021 (remember that magazine?!). You can watch the Top Ten most googled sex questions webinar in its entirety here. 

The other most watched video is “The making of Connie condom dress”, which was created in 2014! This clip features the staff and young people at Thirroul Youth Project, in the Illawarra, NSW, Australia putting together some fabulous condom couture for Youth Week. Shout out to Alex Sturman at Xander Productions who filmed and edited the clip over a series of weeks as they created the dress entirely made out of condoms. 

Featuring a whopping 834 views (ha ha) is the “Caddyshack Bloopers reel”, which was from a chlamydia outreach screening event we conducted at the University of Wollongong back in 2019. It’s fun if you want to take a look.

Another video with high views is “Barrier methods of contraception”, which we created in 2021, when we were getting a lot more creative online amidst Covid-19. 

Looking back

Let’s highlight some videos that haven’t been seen as much, but are well worth the watch. These are all from the “On The Couch webinar series”. You can watch the webinars or listen to the podcast version with the following fantastic guests, who were a real honour and privilege for us to host. 

Stella Topaz, is a sexological bodyworker, erotic coach and sex educator from Abundant Body. Stella brought her own experiences (and gaps) of living queer, feminist, white and female in the world to this webinar. Embracing and loving the body they are in and the person they are, they take great care to live with compassion, gratitude and presence. Sexological bodywork celebrates and strengthens us in who we uniquely are, beyond restrictive binaries and imposed roles and structures. Watch or listen to the episode.

Fav Quote from this episode:

“There's so many areas where our bodies are regulated, stigmatized and marginalized, and they are not  just individual, they're systemic.” 

Axel Nathaniel Rose, is a Ph.D candidate, writer, editor, and teacher at the University of NSW. His experience as a queer, transgender, and disabled man informs all that he does, and he believes that a crucial part of activism and social change is the stories we tell. His Ph.D comprises a dissertation on queer people’s engagement with literature through blogging and a novel about the impacts of climate crisis and social media on young queer people. Watch or listen to the episode.

Fav Quote from this episode:

“People often say they feel overwhelmed thinking about queer or trans healthcare but the vast majority of people don’t need to learn a lot, it is more about grounding our practice in compassion and humility than it is about have specialized knowledge... the respect of trans and queer people right to consent, right to knowledge, those are things you can practice without any fancy vocab” 

Maggie Smith is the Clinical Nurse Consultant at t150 service at The Albion Centre in Sydney.  They have over 20 years’ experience working in HIV, sexual and transgender health. Maggie co developed and successfully launched t150 one of Australia’s first publicly funded trans specific HIV and sexual health services in 2018. They are a current board member for Australian Professional Association for Transgender Health(AusPATH), Australian Sexual Health and HIV Nursing Association(ASHHNA) and a past board member including past president for the Gender Centre NSW. Watch or listen to the episode.

Chris Cheers is a psychologist and educator based in Melbourne, Australia. He is passionate about creating accessible, accepting and safe spaces where people become empowered to reach their life goals. Through extensive training and lived experience, Chris has also developed expertise in providing individual psychology services and workshops to artists and creatives and the LGBTIQ+ community. Chris is the author of The New Rulebook,  a practical, game-changing guide to embracing that uncertainty. It compassionately asks you to re-examine five key areas: self-care, emotions, work, body and love (all the big stuff!), and then offers radical, evidence-based solutions to improve your wellbeing. Watch or listen to the episode.

Ruiqi Fan is a clinical nurse specialist who has been working in the sexual health field for 7 years. Ruiqi first came to Sydney as an overseas student where she studied a Bachelor of Nursing at Western Sydney University. Finding her passion as a sexual health nurse, Ruiqi pursued and completed a Masters degree in sexual health with Sydney University. Ruiqi enjoys working with Mandarin speaking clients. Her bilingual ability as well as having a migrant experience to Australia has enabled her to be more compassionate and build better rapport with clients with similar background.  Watch or listen to the episode.

Aleks Trkulja is a certified sex therapist and clinical counsellor running her private practice The Pleasure Centre in Eora Nation (Sydney). Aleks has specialty training in issues of mental health, sexual function, relationships, and eating disorders. Her therapeutic practice is sex-positive, trauma-informed, and guided by multiple evidence-based therapeutic approaches. In practice she works with all sexual and gender identities, individuals and couples. Watch or listen to the episode.

Where to from here?

In March 2023, YouTube got a new CEO who said the vision for the future of the app will include “a range of creator monetization and expression tools, along with YouTube TV developments, generative AI, podcasts, and more”.  

Not to ruin the aesthetic of this blog, but here is a graph of the top ten most viewed YouTube clips in Billions!! You can thank us later for having Baby Shark or Despacito stuck in your head for the rest of the day! 

Caddyshack Project won’t be getting even close to the billions which is so fine! YouTube is a great place for us to store and showcase the webinars we host with our guest’s permission.

Still to come in 2024!

Get your free tickets and be part of the live online audience for upcoming On The Couch episodes. Here is the line up still to come this year!

In August, Laura Crozier from Youth Affairs Council of Victoria

In September, Dr Tessa Opie & from In Your Skin with Kerrin Bradfield

In October Rachel Wotton with Mohammed Samrah

In December with Positive Life Positive Speakers Bureau.

Register here

In case you missed it, we’ve busy behind the scenes turning webinars into podcasts which we launched in July. Have a listen on your favourite podcast app, just search Caddyshack On The Couch or jump right in here!

Until next time,

Peace, Love & Protection

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