Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers Ep. #271: The Wheel of Consent with Britta Love
Britta Love (they/she) weaves between the worlds of conscious sexuality and psychedelic ritual, with a through line of social justice and embodied consent. They became an advocate for sex worker’s rights as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in 2007 and have been a writer and activist pushing for the decriminalization of drugs and sex work ever since. Britta is a certified somatic sex educator through the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education, has trained with Betty Martin’s School of Consent and is a certified circle keeper with the Planning Change Restorative Justice Certification Program under the tutelage of Kay Pranis.
Britta is currently completing a research-based memoir about healing and awakening through altered states induced by sex and drugs, based on her Consciousness Studies thesis at Goddard College, and is in the process of organizing a Sex Strike // Strike for Pleasure in response to the U.S. abortion bans.
In this episode, Eryn and Britta talk about:
- Britta’s journey with healing & sexuality
- Navigating consent in long term relationships
- The Betty Martin wheel of consent - “some of the most psychedelic, life changing work” for them
- Getting clear on what our desires are, what we want to take, what we want to allow
- Allowing versus enduring
- Understanding our patterns within the wheel of consent
- Not assuming people have easy access to their choice & their voice
- Receiving no’s
- Cultivating consent in psychedelic spaces
- Not transferring hierarchies of power
Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/britta-love
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