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The Feminine Rebellion: Reclaiming Pleasure and Power with Melissa Louise · Libido Lounge

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And around me was misery.
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So I was always questioning those things, and I was just like, why would we be and I was raised
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really Christian.
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So why would God make everything so perfect?
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But somehow, I'm a default because I'm a woman, I have a menstrual cycle, and because I
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actually like sex.
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So that's where it all started.
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I also traveled a lot in Central And South America and India and all of these places when
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I was younger.
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It's just the the masculine project.
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And what's devoid in the masculine project is women's autonomy and sovereignty and pleasure.
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It was to me, it was a revolution and it was the the rebellion in me.
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It's like, I'm gonna find out more.
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Half of the planet is female and we're all here because of women.
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We have basically 13 to 15% of testosterone levels than a man's body does.
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So our testosterone runs out really quickly.
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It's the push hormone.
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So men's system, they run on a twenty four hour cycle, which is the sun cycle.
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Our system works on a lunar cycle.
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We're problematic because we have this menstrual cycle.
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Our cortisol levels become very, very high, which also decreases aloe verdos, so many
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things, but it's so, it really messes with our health and our ability to think.
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We need to have our dopamine rebooted, and the easiest way is through.
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We have a pharmaceutical world that needs to make a lot of money out of women, you know, by
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one movie.
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You know, when we're learning to speak to a man differently and listen differently, you better
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be prepared.
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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome back to another episode on The Lounge.
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I'm your host and board certified sexologist, doctor Diane.
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And I have a treat for you guys today.
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We talk sometimes on this show around the importance of pleasure, which I think is such a
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pivotal topic because it really takes us out of the conversation around, like, pleasure just
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being about sex or just being about intis intimacy.
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It's obviously that, but I think so many times people move into this world of thinking that if
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it's just okay not to attend this.
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Right?
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And and for many of us that study sex, pleasure becomes so important, and it can be as
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important as all of the other self care things we do.
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Good, you know, good food and movement and water and all of these great things.
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So I'm really excited to introduce you all to Melissa Louise who is a pleasure advocate.
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She's an erotic blueprint coach.
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She works around the world teaching and training and leading courses.
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She really helps to help men and women just both find their attraction within, helping them
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to almost like be their own turn on.
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And there's so many more things that that Melissa is doing.
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So we're gonna learn all about this and more, but we're gonna focus on pleasure, your why,
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how to overcome this, and so much more.
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So welcome.
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Thank you for being here with me.
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Oh my goodness, Diana.
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I'm so excited for this conversation as well.
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So thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Same here.
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Same here.
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And like I said, I think there's just so much alignment between you and I around this
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conversation of pleasure and how we look at it.
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So we're gonna talk about the importance and why.
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Think we should maybe start with the why it's related to physical health and emotional health
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and spiritual health and how it's beyond just this this intimate moment.
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But I'm curious, like, for for learning a little bit about you, like, how how did you
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come to see pleasure as so much more than just this intimate moment?
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I love this question.
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This is and it's not a short answer, but I'll I'll try and keep it short.
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You know, as a as a woman being raised in the Western world and also, you know, it really
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comes back to where I was raised, which is in Australia on the farm and on the land where
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anything to do with the feminine, anything to do with how I operated in the world was, as a
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woman, is completely considered defunctory.
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Like, you've gotta produce, you gotta do the things, and everything gives over to work.
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And around me was misery.
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You know, the misery of the women, how also so so there's many different layers to this.
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So that you know, that's the beginning of the layer of, you know, just the misery in the
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women and also the illness that we experience, and then also the the part that, we have to be
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ashamed of who we are as women cycle, and this has a lot to do with pleasure.
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So I was always questioning those things, and I was just like, Why would we be?
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And I was raised really Christian.
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So why would God make everything so perfect?
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But somehow, I'm a default because I'm a woman, I have a menstrual cycle, and because I
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actually like sex.
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So apparently that's a default even though I'm created in the eyes of perfection.
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So that's where it all started.
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And then when I started really noticing just how closed off I was expected to be as a woman
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and how many people around me, like in marriages and relationships and masculine
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project, I was witnessing I also traveled a lot in Central And South America and India and all
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of these places when I was younger.
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It's just the the masculine project, and what's devoid in the masculine project is women's
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autonomy and sovereignty and pleasure.
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So that I just it was to me, was a revolution and it was the rebellion in me.
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It's like, I'm gonna find out more.
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And then once I start finding out more around the health of our menstrual cycle, where we
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don't have a healthy menstrual cycle when we're devoid of pleasure, and relationships and the
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responsibility of our pleasure for ourselves.
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So yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's so relatable.
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I know it's so relatable for me.
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I'm sure it's so relatable for so many people around this.
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Almost like this woman stigma, right, around, well, so many of us are giving our lives in a
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service way, whether it's on our career or as a mother or as a giver in some sort of way.
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And I think there's been this, like, this stigma, right, that we can't self care, we
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can't self pleasure, we can't have these things because they're almost at the expense of
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service instead of actually really beginning to fundamentally understand, which I think so many
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people are starting to around, oh, this pleasure and attending to this is actually
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which is what allows all those other things to to work.
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I mean Definitely.
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We So what ways, like, would you say that you see, like, pleasure really related to, like,
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then?
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Like, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, like, you know, tell me a little bit about,
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like, kind of your perspective on, like, how all those interplay.
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So if we're looking at the the masculine project of how our world is run, it's based on
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a testosterone driven and, amplified existence, which is produced, work, work, work, and going
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you know, getting up with the sun where we're following the sun calendar.
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Now that works really effing well for a man's body.
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And yet, I don't know if you've noticed about half of the planet is female, and we're all
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here because of women, by the way.
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Like, every single person has come from a woman's body, but we will ignore the female
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body.
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So we're just looking at testosterone levels.
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I mean, we have basically 13 to 15% of testosterone levels than a man's body does.
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So our testosterone runs out really quickly.
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Now testosterone is the go out and get shit done hormone.
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You know?
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It's it's the push hormone.
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So men's system, they run on a twenty four hour cycle, which is the sun cycle.
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Our system works on a lunar cycle.
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So we're recording this on the new it is new year today.
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It wasn't January.
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Today is the first moon cycle of 13 moon cycles in in a whole, you know, iteration.
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So I love that this is when we're recording this.
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Yeah.
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So happy new year, by the way.
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Yeah.
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Funny new year.
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Yes.
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So so then if a woman is existing in the man's the man's energetic cycle, she's in constant
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depletion, and we see this.
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We've created menopause.
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Menopause is not the female body is not designed to always turn in on itself and to be
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a fucking problem in itself, but our culture makes us believe that we are.
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We're problematic because we can't orgasm when the man orgasms.
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We're problematic because we have this menstrual cycle.
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We're problematic because even though the world needs human beings to be born to keep
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producing, to keep purchasing, we're problematic if we want time off to actually
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care for them.
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It's all of this stuff where we're so problematic.
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Therefore, we are in consistent depletion.
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Our cortisol levels become very, very high, which also decreases our libido, so many
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things, but it really messes with our health and our ability to think.
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So we women are consistently producing in survival.
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We're consistently producing from this place of survival.
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So a woman who is following her system is like every hour and a half, every two hours, there's
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a need for a break and pleasure.
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Now pleasure, yes, can be an orgasm, but pleasure is the way that we eat.
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Pleasure is is like just taking standing out in the sunshine and just taking 10 deep breaths.
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I mean, science is proving all of this, but women are going, yeah.
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This is how we need to exist.
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You know?
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Now that science is proving it, many people are getting on the bandwagon.
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But it actually we need to have our dopamine rebooted, and the easiest way is through
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pleasure.
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So and pleasure is our responsibility.
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And I think too because much of the way of the feminine has been dismissed because it doesn't
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fit into the construct of of the masculine project, then just the way that women are has
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also been deemed as frivolous or it's it's not really it's not to be taken seriously.
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Yet a woman is born an orgasm.
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Like, we are orgasmic by nature.
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The way our whole system operates is an is so erotic.
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The fact that, you know, the way that we fall in love, the way that we'll touch the skin of
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our children, the way that we're so like, you know, the silk that we wanna wear or the way
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that we set up our houses.
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Like, you know, there's people talk about how the feminine just amplifies everything.
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Well, that's all that is in an orgasmic manner.
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It's an erotic turn on manner.
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But because we vilified those words and we've vilified the act of pleasure, it's being
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removed from the human experience.
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It's how we experience life.
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So it's so necessary for the health of relationships and family, as well as our brain
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and our heart health.
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Our our hormones need to be reset through pleasure, which is why we have so many issues
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around our menstruation.
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I mean, people we have a pharmaceutical world that needs to make a lot of money out of women,
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you know, by relieving clutter.
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Mean, follow the money and you will find the answers.
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Mhmm.
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Mhmm.
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Yeah.
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One of the things I'm thinking about as you talk that I've been just speaking out about,
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just I feel a level of frustration around this, is when it comes to even describing female
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anatomy, like, lot of what I find is happening is we are oftentimes, like, looking at, like
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and and we're comparing, like, okay.
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The clitoris on a woman is like this part on a man and that type of thing.
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And I I get really frustrated by it because kind of like you're saying, it's like we've
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gotten to this point where everything about a female is almost looked at as like like, okay.
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This is how to relate it to the masculine versus this is a completely different like, we
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are structured very, very, very different, and both, you know, man and women are, you know,
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amazingly perfect in their uniqueness of their structure.
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But I think we really are running into these problems of not supporting the female to
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pleasure and orgasm by saying, like, okay.
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Well, this body part, it's like the female version of that.
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And, like, that's not really what it is at all.
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Yes.
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So you you brought up, like, pleasure being our responsibility, which I totally agree with.
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But I would love to, like, go deeper into that.
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Like, what does that mean to you, and, like, what do you have to say about that?
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Because I think that's an important thing.
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Yeah.
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I mean, first of all, knowing our body and knowing how our body responds to certain touch
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and what we like and what our different orgasmic gateways need.
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The clitoris is well, clitoris is our labia is the first gateway.
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You know, our labia, many women don't you know, we're not even taught this, but our labia is
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the most exquisite first gateway.
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She's closed for many reasons.
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It's like, I'm not effing ready, and she will open when she's ready.
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And how does she need to to feel safe enough to be ready and to open?
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That, you know, also to our our, well, the map of arousal is completely opposite to a man.
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So our responsibility is understanding having boundaries.
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It's like, no.
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Not yet.
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Or do you know what?
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I need this first.
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Or would you I wanna ask you some questions first.
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Or please, can you slow down?
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Not clear.
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Like, you need to slow down.
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Yes.
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You can say, please.
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But it's like, you need to play down.
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And then if the slowing down is still not enough, being able to keep on placing in more
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and more boundaries.
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So the responsibility of understanding what our pleasure looks like, what we need, what do we
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need?
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You know?
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And it's like it's also taking penetration out of the scenario that that solves what we're
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always going for.
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Like, this perception that if our body's not ready, we don't want to receive penetration,
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that it's not, you know, defunctory or just not fair if the man receives honoring and he gets
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to receive a lot of pleasure and honing honouring through different of us giving in a
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different way.
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Like, it's also changing our brain of, like, if if we've kissed a guy, if we've gone out on a
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date with a guy, if we've said yes to him to being in a house, that doesn't mean our body's
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accessible to him.
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It just means the next step.
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So in responsibility, it's maintaining our boundaries, having our boundaries, also
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learning about our body and having that curiosity.
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We it's kind of like being given the keys to a car.
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I mean, I was raised driving manual cars, but I know a lot of people don't these days.
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But it's like, you know, someone's not gonna give you if you've always been driving an
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automatic car, they're not just gonna hand you the keys to their big full drive truck and say,
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here, take this to the next city with all of my furniture in it.
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Like, you need to know how to fucking drive the manual.
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You need to have lessons.
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You need to so it's the same thing about our body.
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You know?
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Yeah.
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I definitely know, and I think it's so well said.
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It's like, I think so many times there's almost this, like, obligatory, like, oh, I'm here.
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I'm naked with this person, and, you know, I'm already in it, so now I have to be in it
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versus, like, well, there is this, like, not only responsibility, but right, and to say,
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actually, this is not what I want right now, or I want it slow, or I want it this way.
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Like, all I think I think we just have gotten to a point sometimes where there's this belief
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that men are just supposed to, like, automatically, like, know and read our minds
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and that sort of thing, and it just is not it doesn't work that way.
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What about orgasm and like
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Can I just add sorry, darling?
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I just wanna add to what you're saying about your man.
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It's like, you know, this thing of expecting a man to know, it's also really fucking unfair.
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It really is unfair.
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And the way that men operate in life is they'll just keep going towards something to fix the
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problem.
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So I'm not saying that we're a problem, but if you think about that, it's like if you are
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silent and you're not giving him the map and you're not supporting him, well, problem to fix
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is making sure there's pleasure or making sure in many men's eyes, it's like there's gotta be
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an orgasm.
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So they're gonna keep on doing a plus b equals c, but you're a y and a x and a z and then a w
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and then a l and give me an s, you know, and he's going, oh, we had to do it.
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We're not.
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It's not fair.
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It's really not fair on him.
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And many men will just keep on moving through the world doing what they think they know so
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they get the result that they think they need to operate with.
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And so, yeah, it's also not not fair on them that way.
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Yeah.
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I think it's a really good point, and I think that's where the faking orgasms and all of that
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just comes into, like, the complication of the matter around, like, oh, if we see as the
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orgasm and it's a plus b equals, like, a fake orgasm, then it's, like, we're just sending
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that signal like you're saying, have I and really giving the information to the person
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that's trying to provide pleasure that it's working.
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So obviously, we're gonna get this whole thing because No.
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We're sending the message that a plus b equals c.
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So it's Yeah.
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Do you where do
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you find
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I'm gonna come back to the orgasm thing in a minute.
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But where do you find from a standpoint because I know in some of your work, you talk about,
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like, emasculation.
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And I look at emasculation as, like, two different parts.
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Right?
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I look at as men emasculate themselves and females emasculate men.
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Right?
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So it can happen externally or internally.
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Where do you think that plays?
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Like, how does that come in with, like, your work in this whole conversation of pleasure?
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Oh, so much.
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So much.
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You know, many men that I work with, they know that they're being emasculated by their woman,
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yet it's also just they kind of put up with it.
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So then what that does also is separates the connection so they feel they don't have a
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place.
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You know, the woman's, you know, often comes saying, he doesn't do this.
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He doesn't listen to me.
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He's not you know, I've told him so many times, and he's like, well, what's worth it?
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You know, why should I do anything?
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It's always wrong anyway.
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So I love Alison Armstrong saying about women's my favorite.
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Yeah.
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Women treat men like, you know, misbehaving hairy women.
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Now this also comes from the space where we're very critical of ourselves, and we women walk
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through the world criticizing our own breath.
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We criticize the way that our nose sits on our face.
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Men don't think that way.
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So we're going towards the man as if criticism's going to change their behavior, and
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it doesn't.
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All it does is, like, well, they'll leave.
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They'll leave the room.
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They'll leave for the day.
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They won't come home early, and that they mentally leave as well.
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You know, they're kind of shut down.
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So then also too, it's like once something's problematic, everything feels problematic.
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So emasculation, when we are doing it to our men, we're actually not on we're needing and we
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can be criticizing and we're requiring to be really seen as a woman, but we're not seeing
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them as a man.
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And so we're wanting something from them that we're not willing to give.
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And it also brings us to the point where we're mothering.
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I mean, there's nothing fucking more unsexy than a relationship dynamic that feels like
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your fucking mother.
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Excuse my language.
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And I thought it was actually you know, I went out I have a new lover in my life, and we went
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out we have a rule.
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We worked out on our very first date.
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Do not eat and then try to make love, so we made up a new rule.
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The first F comes first and then the feeding comes second, so we're going after carcass
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living in a thing, and I see it all around, all of these women telling their men off for paying
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at the wrong place, for it was just insane, and I was just watching all of this stuff of, like,
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how insidious emasculation is.
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Like, these grown ass men that are obviously in their fifties and sixties.
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You know, they're on holiday.
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The children like, these they they have a life.
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You know?
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They're they're they're fully fledged adults, and yet the bickering and the start and, of
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course, it's coming I'm not women we have our own stories of what's happening.
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I'm not saying he's the most amazing man and she's just annoying.
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Like, it's also it takes two to tango, but the first thing to to unravel from the female side
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is how we are masculinating our men and how we're mothering them, which there's no way they
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wanna come to us.
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There's no way they're gonna slow their touchdown when it's just like, no.
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It's gonna be wrong anyway type thing.
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Yeah.
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And I think, you know, to add on to that, I think another thing that I learned and Alison
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is my favorite because she literally changed my entire life with how I approach masculine.
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And and one of the reasons I'm four years into the most successful relationship of my life is
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I think so rooted in how much I've studied her work.
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Mhmm.
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Because I think it's it's this thing, like, women, we are we do wanna speak up for things
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that are bothering us, that are maybe creating that emotional distance.
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But I think we do it, I get Allison's term as a way of, like you say, like, looking at the the
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man as like a big hairy woman when everything is wired differently about him.
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So the way he approaches the world, the way he does his focus awareness, like so many things,
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are just not how we perceive things.
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So it's not that he's necessarily doing anything wrong, in these thing in these times
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where we may feel hurt.
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Maybe he's doing something wrong, but it largely is just, hey, a different perception of
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the world that if we can come and come at it from this is how I perceive, this is how you
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perceive, we can be on the same team again without creating that emasculation.
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I mean, emasculation also comes from where this belief that or the misunderstanding.
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I mean, what is it?
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The man, all he wants to do is make his woman happy.
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Yeah.
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But when we're emasculating, it was like they they just believe they can't, so they just
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don't do anything because they would rather not do something if they're gonna get it wrong.
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Whereas we as women operate very differently.
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You know, we'll keep fucking up.
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We'll keep losing.
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We'll keep we'll do things consistently consistently, but it's just a very different
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way to how men operate.
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And so there is this beautiful gift that men bring to the table, which is they just and I
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tell you what, when a when a man knows that what he does makes his woman happy, it, like I
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mean, you know, I have this beautiful saying, and I've had a client experience it whereas,
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you know, when we're learning to speak to a man differently and listen differently, you better
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be prepared because you're gonna get your man in a way that you thought that you want, so
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he's gonna give it to you, and you better be ready because he's gonna give you his all, And
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he will tell you everything.
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But are you ready?
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Yeah.
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I mean, it's like this approach has made me completely fall in love with the masculine,
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like, just as a general, you know, archetype of just everything that men are in the world, and
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I did not always feel that way.
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So I think it's a really it's a really important thing, and and I do think that when
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we stop doing that and we give up our right in Allison's terms to do that and make it okay,
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then there is so much more of even approaching the sexual conversation with being on the same
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same team
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Yeah.
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And asking for what we want and need, but doing it in a way where it's like people are
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empowered and they're, like, happy to show up and they're not feeling belittled and they
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can't get it right and all these things that you're that you're saying.
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So Beautiful.
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What about where do you do you feel like there's any link with emasculation and any
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ejaculatory problems?
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Is there have you ever seen that sort of link?
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Yeah.
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It's definitely you know, when people say the word erectile dysfunction, I say it's fully
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functional.
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Your cock is fully functional.
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It is telling you something that needs addressing, whether that be physical health,
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spiritual health, mental health.
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And I see this I see this with my clients that I work, you know, when they're putting in these
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beautiful boundaries, like both men and women.
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So if I'm working with men and where they get to, like, put in boundaries, but also where
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it's like, okay.
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Well, what's the message that she's telling you?
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What are the things that you haven't been doing?
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Well, where have you been dropping, and where can you ask better questions?
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I had one client who he was he spent the whole first part of our call expressing all of these
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things about trying to work out what to do for his beautiful wife.
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They've got three children, and I leaned in.
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Like, I I said I asked him, and they've been married.
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I can't remember how long like, many of their children are seven, so they've been married for
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a while.
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And I asked him, I said, have you asked her?
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He said, oh, no.
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And I just and I just like I said, sweetheart.
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I said, you I can't give you the answer.
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I'm not her.
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And he goes, but and I said, just ask her.
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She would love it if you asked her.
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Yeah.
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And then what came from all of that is he felt like he had more of a place and he was getting
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things right.
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He talked about that.
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He's like, I he goes, I'm so fucking attracted to her.
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It's like, win.
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I get it right.
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I he's going like, she's receiving me, like, when I put in a boundary.
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When I've when I've told her I've got her, I've got her.
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And when she softens, he goes, I just want her more.
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You know?
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So that's also looking at where, you know, as you talk about for men emasculating themselves,
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where they're not asking the right questions and they're not following through or they are
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sort of in their little boy energy and it's like, well, know, that's, yes, she's speaking
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to that way because maybe you are acting, you know, their actions are coming from.
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She's already got children.
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Especially when we're looking at relationships where there's children, it's like, sweetheart,
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she's already got So there's that part, you know?
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But then too, when I'm working with women and they change the way that they speak to their
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men and the way that they ask questions and the way that they listen and the way that they
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offer all of the information that the man might need to support them is just like how quick and
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also too, what I love about men, and this is the big difference Yeah.
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Is that they let go of things a hell of a lot quicker than we do.
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Our system hangs on to things.
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You apologize, and I've I've raised a boy.
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You know, I had no idea what to do with a boy, and Alison changed my life.
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That is you know, when he was eight, we lived in Peru, like I talk about it all the time,
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changed everything.
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And I know when I would apologize to my kid, you because he was so intense raising as a
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teenager, I'm hanging on to the fight.
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I'm hanging on to all of these things.
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I'm in grief.
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Once there's an apology, boom.
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I'm just like, are you sure?
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So, yeah, I'm fine, mom.
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I'm fine.
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And it took it takes a lot to go to believe him.
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I have to believe him.
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Yeah.
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And the reason I'm bringing up my kid is because it was constant, and it was just this
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constant reminder.
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So when when we stop emasculating and we start using different language that, you know, we
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receive our men the way that we want.
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They want us more.
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They can come to us more because there's not this thing in the middle that they're sort of
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deflecting from or moving away from.
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So, yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's not making each other wrong all the time.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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It really changes things so much.
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Mhmm.
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So I know I think we should save orgasm for and talk about orgasm here in part two.
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So I think in part two, let's talk about, you know, why orgasms are so important, but also
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really talking about about what's happening if, like, if especially a female is not orgasming
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from penetration with desire mismatch, you know, some of these kinda conversations.
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So Mhmm.
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We will do that here in part two.
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And everybody remember that part two, can access by joining my libido club.
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So you have links for that in the show notes.
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And I wanna make sure we wrap up part one, though, with everybody knowing how to get ahold
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of you.
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I know you have some really exciting retreats coming up, both a, female, a feminine retreat,
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well as a couples retreat.
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So we'll put those information in the show notes.
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But looking at your, your pages online about them, they just look divine.
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So can you tell us a little bit about them?
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Yes.
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It's so exciting.
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So I'm going to Europe for the whole month of April and the May.
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And, actually, there's even there's a few more coming on, but the major ones are in London.
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So I have an all women's one in London and an all women's one in Romania, and I may be having
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an all women's one in Spain after next week.
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But these are two days these are two days workshops, and when I hold retreats here in
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Mexico, I take care of everything, but because I'm traveling to London, it is, you know, it's
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a two full days of workshops, and you will, like, need to find your own accommodation and
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stuff like that, but we'll be together for two full days.
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And it's really around bringing safety in the feminine body to open into our own arousal and
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to really bring in, you know, these parts of ourselves that understand where how pleasure
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arises.
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So there's lots of somatic practices.
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There's a lot of beauty you know, we'll be doing rage rituals, all of these things that,
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you know, bring that allow our system to be free to experience pleasure.
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And then the couples one, I'm cocreating with an incredible, incredible colleague of mine,
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Alex.
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We've been working together, like, through many different iterations over the last three years.
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So it's so exciting that we're gonna be coming together in London and really bringing this
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aspect of ravishing your partner.
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So that's gonna be really delicious and sexy.
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Yes.
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Sounds delicious.
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And I I wanna just name for everybody this, you know, with the female retreat and the focus of
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one of the points to learn on safety that when you know, as as studying sexology continually,
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one of the things that I continually come back to is that I think safety is one of the key.
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There's several keys, not the only key, but one of the top key fundamental things that really
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allow the female to experience pleasure.
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And I think there's so many layer.
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I mean, what I've discovered myself is, like, layer upon layer upon layer upon layer of of
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blocks that have a lot to do oftentimes with safety.
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And every time I get to a layer and I uncover another layer and I work through another layer
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subconsciously, pleasure and orgasms and everything just, like, everything just levels
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up.
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So I think it's a really important thing, from a standpoint of pleasure, physical, emotional,
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spiritual, all of that health and really unlocking that which what, holds us back from
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experiencing that.
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So I just really wanted to name that because I think it's a really powerful thing about what
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you're offering.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think safety is often also sort of cornered as like, oh, I'm safe.
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Like, something is not gonna physically happen to me, but safety is so much deeper than that.
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Am I safe that, you know, I'm not gonna be abandoned, like, after I have the orgasm?
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And they also talk about that where they've done studies in the brain where when they've
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looked at the brain when a woman's in full deep, what we call the g spot, but her sacred
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area orgasm and cervical orgasms, her whole brain is lit up except for two parts, and that
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one part is like feeling safe.
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Safety is like, is my heart safe?
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Are my emotions safe?
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Am I safe to be fully me where it doesn't matter what I look like, I've got snot coming
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out of my nose and jacked with a piss coming out of everything, and I'm gonna be Jarvis.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, so deeply.
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It's it's what we need.
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End of story.
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It really is.
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It really is.
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So everybody go check out her work.
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I know you have a great Instagram page as well, so we're gonna link all of that, all of your
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offerings here in the And then we'll see everybody.
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Please join the libido club, and we'll see you all over in the club for part two.
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We're gonna talk about juicy, sexy, delicious orgasm, so stay tuned.
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Thanks, everybody.
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Thanks, Melissa.
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I'll see you guys all soon on The Loud.
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