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How To Practice Gratitude

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If you are wondering how to practice gratitude, even in tough times, this episode is for you. This encore episode offers guidance on how to practice gratitude all year round to create more pleasure, joy and connection in your life.

We’ve gathered more tools on how to practice gratitude for our Pleasure Pod members, including an interactive Erotic Gratitude Generator!

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This episode is an encore of Speaking of Sex #066, originally aired in 2014.

Erotic Game Play : Rules, Roles and Goals

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In this encore episode (first shared back in 2013!) we share our framework of Erotic Game Play and invite you to start creating playful baby steps towards the kinds of erotic experiences you crave.

Humans love playing games. From puzzles and word games to ball sports and races, humans love the thrill, challenge and emotional highs of games. The rules, roles and goals of any one specific game is how we shape the experience of play – you know you won’t be tackled during a chess match, and you can expect to get wet playing water polo.

What happens when we apply the framework of game play onto the thrilling, stimulating and risky ways we humans like to play when naked and alone with our trusted lovers? What freedom and extraordinary experience can come from the formal structure of rules, roles and goals?

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Sex & Power In Marriage

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How do power dynamics play out in your marriage? What are the hidden power struggles getting in the way of your happiness and fulfillment within your marriage? How can we reclaim marriage from it’s history as a system of ownership and transform it into a container to create the kinship, belonging and security we all crave?

In this episode, we explore sex and power within marriages, and how you can come into a more consensual Power-With relationship with your spouse.

We talk about:

  • the history of marriage as an institution of Power-Over
  • what a Power-With relationship might look and feel like
  • decision-making in marriages
  • aligning your marriage to support your life goals and values
  • how domestic labor and caretaking reflect power dynamics
  • how withholding sex can be a unspoken power grab
  • visions for equitable, consensual power dynamics within marriages

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Finding Just Right

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How can we create deeply satisfying, fulfilling erotic experiences when what the body wants is so changeable and context-dependent? In this episode we explore how to find “just right” over and over again by paying exquisite attention to yourself AND your partner, creating a positive feedback loop of verbal and non-verbal communication so you can be deeply satisfied, feel totally met and taken care of, and respect one another’s needs and boundaries.

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