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Let’s Talk About Sex

50+ Free Sex Questions and Conversation Starters For Intimate Conversations from PleasureMechanics.com

Questions About Growing Up & Learning About Sex

  • Where did you learn about sex when you were a kid?
  • What were you taught about masturbation as a child?
  • Who was one of your first celebrity crushes? What attracted you to them?
  • What is something you believed as a kid that you now know is a myth?
  • What were you taught about love and marriage?
  • Who were the happiest adults you knew as a kid?
  • How did your family talk about LGBTQ+ issues?
  • Have you ever been to or been in a pride parade?
  • Who was one of the first queer people you met?
  • How did your family deal with conflict? What did repair look like?
  • What big emotions were safe in your family? Which were not allowed?
  • What were some of your first sexual experiences? Were they wanted?
  • Who did you talk to about your first sexual experiences? How did they respond, and how did their response impact you?
  • If you could go back and tell your 6 year old self anything, what would you say?

Questions About Sexuality, Culture & Identity

  • What do you think an ideal sex culture would look like?
  • Why do you think sexuality has been oppressed over history?
  • Do you think humans are meant to be monogamous? Why or why not?
  • What words do you use to describe your gender identity and sexual orientation? What other words have you used in your life?
  • What do you think should be included in all sex education for kids? for teens? for adults?

Questions About Love & Relationships

  • What drew you to me when we first met?
  • What values are most important to you in our relationship?
  • What is your love language and what are some examples of how you most feel loved?
  • What is one of your favorite memories of our first few years?
  • What about our relationship are you most grateful for?
  • How can I be a better partner to you?
  • What is one simple thing I could do for you to express my love?
  • What do you need most when you feel stressed? sad? angry? worried?
  • When in the past year have you felt most loved?
  • What would the chapters in The Story Of Us be named?
  • What songs would be on the soundtrack of your life story? our love story?

Questions About Fantasies & Desires

  • How do you think about the difference between Fantasies and Desires?
  • What is one thing you find hot in fantasy but don’t actually want to explore in real life?
  • What is one thing you want to experience more of in real life?
  • What is something you’ve always wanted to try but never had the chance?
  • What is one of your Peak Erotic Experiences?
  • What do you think is one of the hottest scenes in a movie and why?
  • What Do You Want Right Now?

Questions To Ask Before An Erotic Encounter

  • What are you into?
  • Is there anything I can do to make you feel safe?
  • Is there anything in your past you want me to know about?
  • Do we need a safe word?
  • How will we be practicing safe sex?
  • What does this mean to you?
  • Do you want this?

Questions To Ask During An Erotic Encounter

  • Will you tell me when this feels just right?
  • Would you like me to go deeper/slower/faster or is this good?
  • What would make this feel even better right now?

Questions To Ask After An Erotic Encounter

  • Can I bring you some water, a snack or anything else?
  • What are you aware of?
  • What were your favorite moments?
  • Did you feel overwhelmed at any point?
  • What was the most exciting moment for you?
  • Was there anything you wanted more of but didn’t ask for?
  • What could have made it even better?

Conversation Starters About Giving & Receiving:

  • What was the best gift you received as a kid?
  • What was one of the best gifts you ever gave to someone else?
  • What is a gift you wanted as a kid and never received? 
  • In your professional life, do you think that you Give or Receive more frequently?
  • What is your favorite kind of massage to receive: foot, shoulder or hand? 
  • Which is easier for you in general, Giving or Receiving?
  • When you are sick how do you like to be taken care of? 
  • Would you rather receive a love letter or be made a homemade meal? 
  • What is your favorite position for cuddling?
  • Would you rather go on a weekend getaway or receive an expensive romantic gift?
  • If you had $500 to spend on a date, what would you do? 
  • If you had three hours and $0 for a date, what would you do?

Intimate Relationships 101 with Dr. Alexandra Solomon

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Our friend and teacher Dr. Alexandra Solomon has spent over 20 years working with couples as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and teaching the popular Marriage 101 course at Northwestern University, and is the author of two bestselling books on love and erotic intimacy. Dr. Solomon is one of the teachers we most love learning from in this field, and we find our philosophies and approaches align and complement one another.

So when she recently launched an online course, INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101, we enrolled right away, and Charlotte and I have been spending time with the course, both together and exploring on our own. We are both having mind-blowing aha! moments that are breathing new life into our own relationship. We’ve been together for 15 years, and even as dedicated love professionals, this course is giving us so much support and new tools to reconnect – especially after the pressures of this past year!

INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101

We love this course so much we asked Dr. Solomon for permission to share it with you, and she generously agreed to join us for an interview about why we need Relational Self Awareness now more than ever.

And to be clear – Relational Self-Awareness is for ALL of us.

Relational Self-Awareness is grounded in the most important relationship – your relationship with yourself.

If you are single or between relationships, this course will help you make sense of your last relationship and help you get ready for your next one.

If you are in a relationship, this course will help you use relational and sexual self-awareness to navigate these troubling times.

★ INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101 is a self-paced online course and offers you:

  • 6 modules with 20+ videos that bring together cutting-edge research, clinical wisdom, and practical tools that you can integrate into your life today.
  • Worksheets and resources designed to help you apply the content into your life.
  • Support along the way via in-course comments and emails from Dr. Solomon.
  • A copy of Dr. Solomon’s books, Loving Bravely and Taking Sexy Back… because every good class includes some required reading!

This course is a deep dive and will give you a comprehensive foundation in the skills of relational and sexual self-awareness— the skills you need to create a thriving and healthy intimate partnership. Enroll in INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101.

INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS 101

More Resources About Relational Self Awareness from Dr. Alexandra Solomon

  • Taking Sexy Back: Speaking Of Sex Podcast Interview with Dr. Alexandra Solomon

Relational Self-Awareness with Alexandra Solomon, Ph.D.

Relational Self-Awareness is a framework that helps us understand who we are as individuals in relationship to others and within culture and society. Relational Self-Awareness invites us into self-compassion, self-love and self-knowing through careful examination of ourselves and our relational patterns.

Alexandra Solomon, Ph.D. is a pioneer in the field of relational self-awareness, and is now bringing her 20+ years of experience as a therapist, professor and popular author into a self-paced online course Intimate Relationships 101. This course offers you hours of powerful lessons, interactive worksheets and guided conversations so you can develop your relational self-awareness skills, from the privacy of your own home.

We are currently enrolled as students in this course and, even after our 14 years as love geeks and explorers, are learning so much and having game-changing conversations prompted by Dr. Solomon’s loving wisdom and poignant guidance.

This course is for all of us – single folks, lovers, folks just getting out of a relationship or dating again after a long time. Join the course here with our exclusive discount, and then be in touch and let us know what you discover.

Cheers,

Chris and Charlotte, PleasureMechanics.com February 2021

Moving For Pleasure

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Big thanks to Marie Jenicek from This Thing Called Movement Podcast for allowing us to share this beautiful interview.

In this interview between Charlotte Mia Rose and Marie Jenicek, discover:

  • how Charlotte got into this work originally
  • why Chris and Charlotte started Pleasure Mechanics
  • why touch is an underestimated essential for our wellbeing
  • how shame gets in the way of our sexual experiences and what we can do to dismantle it
  • how to explore the relationship between your movement, sexuality and pleasure
  • how ecstasy can be a renewable resource for each of us  
  • how we can train our body to experience more pleasure and wellbeing

This Thing Called Movement Podcast was featured in The New York Times Dance section article: ‘Slowing Down to Feel’: Moving Our Minds Around Our Bodies


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Erectile Dysfunction and Ejaculation Control Resources

It goes by many names, each pointing to different variants of the same issue: erectile dysfunction, performance anxiety, premature ejaculation. Your body isn’t responding how you want it to, when you want it to. You aren’t staying hard long enough and are ejaculating to quickly to really enjoy your encounter. Or maybe you are able to have great erections alone, but when you are playing with a partner you don’t get hard, even if you are turned on.

There is a ton of misinformation and myth about the penis, male sexual pleasure and the male sexual experience. There is so much pleasure possible when we get over the “always hard, cum on command” concept of sexuality that so many men struggle to live up to!

Here are some resources about ejaculation control, erectile dysfunction and performance anxiety. We’re here for you as you explore your way to relaxed, abundant, full body arousal and climax.

Podcast Episodes About Performance Anxiety

Podcast Episodes About Erections

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