Pleasure Mechanics

Meet Scarleteen: Sex Ed For The Real World

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Did you get all the information, support and kindness you deserved as a teenager emerging into your sexuality?

Far from it, right?

So many of us missed out on years of pleasurable exploration because we didn’t have accurate information about our bodies. So many of us still carry wounds and trauma from what happened to us in our early years, especially if we didn’t have enough non-judgmental support. Some of us were hurt or harmed when we actively were seeking help. Now more than ever, censorship efforts target the very information youth need to stay safe and make informed choices.

On the podcast this week we speak with our friends at Scarleteen, in celebration of their 25 years of providing comprehensive, fact-checked, compassionate resources for young people and emerging adults – and those who care for them.

​Scarleteen.com is one of our go-to resources for all questions about supporting youth when it comes to health & wellness, consent & communication, orientation & identity. Scarleteen offers the foundational knowledge that fills in the gaps of abstinence-only education. Their website is teeming with resources, like this guide on how to “have the talk” with young people you care about.

Please join us in supporting Scarleteen- make a direct donation here. Like us Pleasure Mechanics, Scarleteen is a grassroots, independent project that relies on the direct support of those we serve and who care about these resources being in the world.

Sensitive, But Not Delicate

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Erotic Touch Mastery, Stroke by Stroke. Get started tonight.

Our bodies are sensitive, but not delicate. This phrase is something Chris has been teaching for twenty years, since the early days of the Sexological Bodywork training, in response to a pattern they noticed after teaching erotic touch for hundreds of hours. Many people are hesitant when it comes to erotic touch, approaching the genitals as if they are delicate and easily hurt. The truth is, even our most sensitive bits are quite resilient and many people crave much deeper, more intense touch than they are getting from hesitant lovers.

If we can remember the body is “sensitive, but not delicate” we can be both intense and gentle at the same time, and create much more fulfilling and satisfying erotic encounters.

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Love Every Day with Dr. Alexandra Solomon

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Dr. Alexandra Solomon joins us to explore the power of daily incremental practice in the realms of love, connection and pleasure. In this free podcast episode we explore how we can all practice Love Every Day, while being patient with change, working with even the most reluctant of partners, and respecting the process of incremental growth. Join us for a compassionate and uplifting conversation about the power of practicing pleasure, joy & connection.

Take a deeper dive with Dr. Solomon in her online course, Intimate Relationships 101

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More About Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD

Over the last two decades, Dr. Alexandra H. Solomon has become one of today’s most trusted voices in the world of relationships, and her work on Relational Self-Awareness has reached millions of people around the world. Dr. Solomon is a licensed clinical psychologist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, and she is on faculty in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University where she teaches the internationally renowned course, Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101. In addition to writing articles and chapters for leading academic journals and books in the field of marriage and family, she is the author of three books, including her most recent daily devotional Love Every Day.

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Making Good Vibrations

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Here’s how to create more sensation and arousal with the pleasure of vibrations! In this podcast episode, we explore how you can create exquisite sensations of vibrations for yourself or a lover, and enjoy the wide range of feeling that vibrations can evoke for us – using just your hands and mouth! We also explore using vibrators and other tools to enjoy pleasurable, focused vibrations.

Vibration is just one quality of artful erotic touch. Explore the whole range with us and become a master of erotic touch with our online courses.

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The Erotics of Fear

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Why do we humans enjoy being afraid? Why does it feel so good to be just the right kind of scared?

This spook season, we explore the erotics of fear – what it means to want to be afraid, how we all have different appetites and preferences for fear, and how we can choose to play with fear on purpose, creating thrilling and invigorating erotic expereinces for one another.

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