The Origins of Our Fantasies

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If your partner touches you, you feel yourself tense up a lot or you're always kind of on guard when they're going to initiate, you might have low sex drive. This goes back to that enjoyment desire connection that we talked about in the earlier episodes. If your body has learned that sex is an unsafe, scary, painful, unwanted experience, why are you going to have a wild desire for that? Right? So those are just some of the many things that can come up. And there's more detail in that, in that course that I mentioned. But just being able to recognize like these things make sense. There's nothing wrong with me. It makes sense that I have these

Sex Therapist Vanessa Marin is back on the pod to discuss how we can all make sex more ENJOYABLE. She shares with us:

How we can stop faking our orgasms and experiment with real pleasure;
How to communicate honestly with our partners about what we want in bed; and
Why masturbation can be an opportunity for self-exploration and reclamation.

She also offers empowering advice for individuals recovering from sexual trauma.

Plus, Glennon contemplates writing erotica.

CW: Discussion of sex after sexual trauma

For our previous conversations with Vanessa, check out: Episode 195 Sex Talk & That Night in Miami: Sex Therapy with Vanessa Marin, Episode 196 How Glennon & Abby Learned to Talk Dirty with Vanessa Marin, and Episode 213 Sex Fantasies: What Do They Say About Us? with Vanessa Marin.

About Vanessa:

Vanessa Marin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times Best Selling author of Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life, co-written with her husband and partner-in-crime, Xander Marin.

Vanessa is here to help you kick shame out of the bedroom so you can start feeling the connection, pleasure, and joy you deserve!

TW: @VMTherapy

IG: @vanessaandxander

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