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,...

Touch is not a luxury nor a pleasure to be earned at the end of a work day. Touch is an essential human need, at all stages of human life. Most of us experience some level of touch hunger or touch starvation, and the impact on our lives can be dire. The good news? Touch is readily available, free and accessible, and even just a little bit of safe, affectionate touch can quickly reverse touch hunger. Thanks to our episode sponsors! * Enjoy delicious, easy, healthy meals...

What would it feel like to Make Love As Art? What would it look like to bring more artistry, playfulness and creativity to your love life? If eroticism is a creative expression, what wants to be expressed through you? What kind of erotic artist are you ready to become? In this episode we bask in the afterglow of our experience at the EcoSex Symposium – and invite us all to become erotic artists and love activists! Thanks to our episode sponsors for being part of our global team...

What are your deepest yearnings? What horizons do you achingly long for? What do you want to experience in this one precious life? Recently inspired by Ariel in the new The Little Mermaid, this episode is an anthem to the power of desire. We all have deep desires that we hide away from those we love. Sometimes, we hide our most precious treasures in the dark to keep them safe. In this Speaking of Sex podcast episode, we give you permission to start feeling into your buried desires,...

We all experience seasons within our sexuality. At times seasons stack together to create sexual eras within our lives. We explore how embracing erotic eras can be a useful and liberatory framework to use as we reflect on our erotic lives. This podcast is a continuation of the ideas we shared in podcast #297: Surviving Sexual Seasons. Our community of listeners told us the ideas within that podcast were incredibly useful and supportive, and we build on those ideas in this podcast....

If you are ready to start exploring kink but feel overwhelmed by where to begin, we invite you to try MiniKink! And if you are already kinky and expanding into new dynamics or activities, MiniKink gives us the chance to efficiently and safely explore what more is possible. MiniKink invites you to create very short, bite-sized kink scenes to explore one small element of kinky play at a time – a long kiss up against the wall to explore immobilization, for example. Kink doesn’t...

Riding the red wave, surfing the red tide, earning your red beard… there are as many euphemisms for period sex as there are opinions about it, and in this episode we dive right into the charged and tender conversation of getting intimate while bleeding. Thanks to our episode sponsors for being part of our global team of Pleasure Partners: Tap into your erotic imagination with DipseaStories – and explore freely with a FREE 30 day experience by...

JoEllen Notte, author of In It Together : Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family joins us to discuss how we can all show up more fully for the people in our lives who are living with depression. We ALL know someone who struggles with depression, and in this podcast episode we explore how we can love one another more fully while steering clear of the resentment, guilt and shame that can damage our most intimate relationships. “Depression does not inherently break our...

Cockwarming, Docking & Engulfment are all names for different applications of a similar erotic move, where we hold an intimate part of the body inside our holes, bodies or crevices. This warm, wet, intimate embrace is an erotic technique that we can all explore in our own way, and this episode explores this move in depth revealing all the powerful erotic energies and arousal arcs it can be a part of. Time Sensitive! Go to PleasureMechanics.com/Yes for free registration to the...

On the other side of curiosity there is a boundless playground of pleasure, intimacy and connection. When we listen to what other people find pleasurable about their kinks and turn-ons, we can start noticing the responsive desire that stirs within, and find our own Responsive Kinks! In this episode we invite you into the practice of turning towards other people’s pleasure with more curiosity, wonder and willingness to discover new parts of your own erotic being. Thanks to our...

What would it feel like to stretch a little more? How much release, relaxation, relief and pleasure are just a stretch away? In this episode we invite you into stretching into more pleasure – with both the physical practice of stretching whenever and however it feels good to you and the emotional practice of stretching open into receiving more pleasure, joy and love. Thanks to our episode sponsors for being part of our global team of Pleasure Partners: * Go to...