Shame Slayers, Unite! For the all-new 25 minute video teaching on how to effectively slay the shame and reclaim fearless belonging, please join us for free in the Pleasure Pod! Participate in our Shame Slayers Survey here Thanks To Our Episode Sponsor: * Get fresh, healthy ready to go meals delivered from Factor Meals, and use the code PLEASURE50 for 50% off your first box and 20% off your second! * Become a Sustaining Member of the Pleasure Mechanics Community...

Mapping your Peak Erotic Experiences is a powerful practice to mine your personal history for clues to creating a better sex life for your future! Love the podcast? Ready for more? Join The Pleasure Pod & Get The Interactive Worksheet & More of the Best of Pleasure Mechanics! The Peak Erotic Experiences Practice comes to us from the late great Dr. Jack Morin, author of The Erotic Mind, who suggests that we use our own Peak Erotic Experiences, our...

Erotic Touch Activation is our Pleasure Mechanics process to awaken your touch, activate your hands as erotic tools and sensitize your sense of touch. Erotic Touch Activation allows us to shift out of “working hands mode” where we use our hands for functional touch and into using our hands as erotic tools of sensing, feeling, listening, and creating pleasure. Ready for an Erotic Touch Activation? Join us on Sunday March 24 for a live community call and experiential practice...

The Five As of Erotic First Aid : What To Do When Good Things Go Wrong As Chris recovers from a recent sex injury, we share the five steps of offering Erotic First Aid. From broken bed frames to thrusting gone askew, we share stories of sex injuries and accidents and offer a reliable framework for responding with care, getting the help you need, and staying connected. Big thanks to our episode sponsor Factor Meals for keeping us well fed this week! For ready to eat,...

Praise can feel like loving strokes that go right to our soul’s sweet spots, giving us the affirmation, acceptance and encouragement that so many of us crave – but can also cause embarrassment, discomfort or even humiliation! Some people love being praised for their physical appearance, and others find this distracting. In this podcast episode, we explore erotic praise, praise kink and the full range of emotions that receiving praise can evoke. Get to know your specific relationship with...

Join us for a live community call to explore what it takes to make big LEAPS in our erotic lives. We will guide you through powerful frameworks and offer experiential guided practices to map your own next leap, big or small, towards your erotic yearnings. RSVP for FREE Join us LIVE : Leap Day, Thursday February 29th 8 pm – 9:30 EST Be nourished by the Pleasure Mechanics community and leave the call with a personalized erotic action plan for your next LEAP INTO PLEASURE!...

Emily Nagoski shares the game-changing tool from her new book, Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections. The Core Emotional Floorplan is a framework that allows all of us to more clearly see and share their own unique emotional experience, and find pathways back home towards Care, Play and Lust. Join Chris for a guided video practice in mapping your own emotional floorplan and mapping your own paths to lust – it’s included in your FREE first month...

In this intimate interview, Emily Nagoski shares her insights from authoring her new book Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections. We dive into the common misconceptions about long term erotic relationships, and what really works when it comes to creating a sex life worth wanting. For a bonus interview and guided practice on Mapping Your Emotional Floor Plan and finding your specific pathways back to LUST, join us in The Pleasure Pod...

When we Touch To Feel, we unlock boundless potential for sensual, emotional and relational pleasures. Touching To Feel is a lifetime practice of waking up our bodies to FEEL more, feeling the true depth and range of our own emotions, expressing ourselves through touch and touching with purpose and intention to create a wide range of extraordinary erotic feeling states! All of this, in three simple words: Touch To Feel * Join us for erotic touch training at...

Tend The Tender is a phrase that invites us all to bring more loving attention to our most tender places, and to allow others to care for us when we are feeling a bit raw. To be tender is to be human, and yet many of us struggle to ask for care when we need it most. If we learn how to tend the tender, we can bring more compassionate care to ourselves and those we love the most. Get Equipped With These Generous Offers From Our Podcast Sponsors: * Get ED medications and at-home...

What happens after your lover discloses their fetish- or you discover a fetish or kink and need to talk about it? In this episode we discuss how to bring more compassion and curiosity to conversations about newly disclosed kinks and fetishes. Want more guidance into kink? Join us here. This call was inspired by a listener’s voicemail – share your questions, wins or aha! moments with us at PleasureMechanics.com/hello Get Equipped With These Generous Offers From Our Podcast...

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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 g******s as if they are delicate and easily hurt. The truth is, even our most sensitive bits are...

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...

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...

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. Thanks to our episode sponsors! * DipseaStories : Explore an audio library of immersive erotic...

Relaxing into pleasurable touch is one of the most nourishing erotic experiences – but how do we stay relaxed while also being present with our partner, communicating our needs and expressing our pleasure to create a positive feedback loop that you’ll both enjoy? This episode was inspired by a recent personal coaching session. If you are interested in a 1-1 deep dive with us, check out our Private Coaching sessions here! Thanks to our episode sponsors! * DipseaStories :...

Vanilla can be so delicious on it’s own, but with permission to enjoy a wide range of toppings, the possibilities for pleasure become boundless. Maybe it is the whipped cream of extra romance, the sprinkles of sensation play or the spicy popcorn of adding in new toys, you can add so many toppings to your favorite vanilla and never get bored. Tell us about YOUR favorite pleasures to add to vanilla by recording us a voice memo here. Grab Your Essentials From Our Sponsors...

Vanilla is absolutely delicious, but only if we choose to savor it. Vanilla sex is not “plain” or boring in any way – vanilla can be luxurious, decadent and indulgent. In this episode we sing the praises of vanilla sex, and share strategies and tools for deepening our enjoyment of the many pleasures of vanilla. Grab Your Essentials From Our Sponsors & Support The Show! * Check out the high quality CBD infused lubricant from Morgasm.com and use the code PLEASURE for 15%...

How worried do I need to be about STIs? How often should I get tested? What does a complete STI panel mean? Do I need to get tested every time I have a new partner? I have erectile struggles but only sometimes, and especially on new dates, why? Should I try ED medication? What is the difference between Viagra and Cialis? If you have questions about sexual health and sexual self-care, you are not alone! We get emails like this every day, and we are not doctors – but now we can finally...

Superfreaks Unite! What would happen if we all let our inner Superfreak flag fly? What joy and bliss awaits us on the other side of courageous kinky exploration? Join us in conversation with Arielle Greenberg, author of Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure & The Pursuit of Happiness (Beacon Press, 2023) We cover: * Reclaiming Freak Pride * Kink Vs. Fetishes * The 4 Ps of Transgression * Finding Kink Community * Developing Resilience Skills for...

Mismatched Libido is one of the most common reasons couples seek therapy, but we don’t hear a lot about Mismatched Kink. It doesn’t have to be a dealbreaker if your kinks don’t align perfectly, if you have very different kinks or even if only one of you is kinky! Join us in this podcast episode to explore what to do when your kinks don’t align, and how to more compassionately and realistically approach communicating about your kinks with your partner or dates. Sexual...

What awaits on YOUR erotic journey? What discoveries, adventures, lessons and transformations are just ahead on your path? Join us to sink into the idea that your erotic life can be a journey – rich with excitement, meaning and purpose. Unroll your map of possibilities and gaze at the expansive horizons with us, and get unstuck, out of ruts and on your path to more erotic fulfillment. Enroll in our free online course now to begin equipping yourself with tools, strategies and...

The Golden Rule is a recipe for erotic disaster – doing unto others what you would have them do unto you is NOT good advice, it turns out, in or out of the bedroom. It’s time we started breaking the golden rule – and started exploring the true meaning of reciprocity, mutuality and generosity. Thanks to our episode sponsors for being part of our global team of Pleasure Partners: * Tap into your erotic imagination with DipseaStories – explore the library of audio erotica,...