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"It's funny how everything that starts with the word 'adult' generally indicates 'sex' (or booze), and yet, even as adults, we're discouraged from talking openly about it. It's impolite dinner conversation, it's not considered appropriate for small talk. Aside from weather and food, I say, what's a better getting-to-know-you conversation topic than sex and sexual preferences? Right?
"This may be why I'm so popular at parties."
-- Danielle Corsetto, author/artist of Girls With Slingshots, interviewed by Jamal Registre; published 2013-07-24
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I get that Ms. Corsetto wants to loosen people up and fight prudery, but her advice is a recipe for making many people massively uncomfortable for insufficient reason. (there are times people need to be made uncomfortable, but dinner parties are not such times.)
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I use those topics-- successfully-- more often than one would expect possible. The trick is to keep it light and joking and general. At some point the discussion can go away, or else it can become more personal and explicit, without becoming umm... performative, one might say.