Sex + Intimacy · Dose 02
Desire isn’t a light switch.
Shame-free education about desire, pleasure, sexual pain, communication, identity, intimacy, and sex lives that do not follow a single script.
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Desire makes more sense when you stop treating it like a test.
Start with the question
What are you trying to make sense of?
Start with the question that has been difficult to ask, explain, or understand without judgment.
Dose 01
Desire + Mismatched Desire
Understanding differences in wanting, initiating, frequency, and what helps desire become more accessible.
Dose 02
Pleasure + Orgasm
Expanding pleasure beyond performance, pressure, and narrow definitions of successful sex.
Dose 03
Sexual Pain + Comfort
Making room for pain, safety, pacing, care, and conversations that should never require shame.
Dose 04
Shame + Sexual Scripts
Questioning the messages that shaped what you believe you should want, do, or enjoy.
Dose 05
Communication + Consent
Talking about wants, limits, uncertainty, feedback, and changing your mind without turning intimacy into a test.
Dose 06
Intimacy Across Life Stages
Navigating sexuality through stress, parenting, health changes, aging, and evolving identities.
The Sex + Intimacy Dose
Before you ask what’s wrong.
Curiosity creates more room than comparison.
01
Digest
Notice what is happening without immediately grading your desire, body, pleasure, or relationship.
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Think
Separate desire from love, attraction, obligation, and performance. They are connected, but they are not identical.
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Do
Have one smaller conversation. Name a want, a limit, a question, or something you would like to understand together.