How The Wheel of Consent Invites an Ever-Deepening Embodiment for Intimacy, Pleasure, and Relationships with Dr. Betty Martin
Apr 3, 2021
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Discover the Wheel of Consent with Dr. Betty Martin, exploring touch, pleasure, and consent. Learn about awakening desires, overcoming conditioning, and navigating challenges in writing. Dive into the endless exploration of touch and pleasure through the Wheel of Consent, and the importance of restoring voice and consent in reclaiming sexual sovereignty.
Understanding societal conditioning and gender dynamics is crucial for authentic touch interactions and consent communication.
Deep dives
Developing the Wheel of Consent
The podcast episode delves into the evolution of the Wheel of Consent, a pioneering work by Dr. Betty Martin, focusing on touch, boundaries, and consent. Through the practice of clear agreements and exploring how people struggle with articulating their desired touch experiences, Dr. Betty Martin highlights the importance of understanding the recipient's role in touch interactions. She emphasizes the significance of clarifying who touch interactions are for, sharing insights gained through engaging with hundreds of individuals, revealing common confusions and obstacles faced when asked about personal touch preferences.
Awakening Sensory Receptors
The discussion emphasizes the importance of awakening the hands and activating sensory receptors to experience touch authentically. Dr. Betty Martin recounts a transformative session where a client struggled to engage in touch authentically, illustrating the necessity to recondition touch receptors to seek pleasure in touch. By reawakening sensory perception through interactions with local objects, individuals can unlock the potential for genuine touch experiences that resonate within their nervous system.
Impacts of Cultural Conditioning on Touch Perception
The podcast addresses how societal conditioning affects touch perception, particularly within gender dynamics. Dr. Betty Martin reflects on the challenges individuals face in identifying and expressing their touch desires. She sheds light on how conditioning influences touch interactions, revealing common societal expectations and limitations that hinder individuals' ability to receive touch authentically, especially in intimate settings.
Book Journey and Healing Process
Dr. Betty Martin shares insights into the 13-year process of writing her upcoming book, delving into the emotional challenges faced due to societal stigmas and gender norms. She reflects on the healing journey associated with reclaiming personal desires and breaking societal conditioning. The book offers a comprehensive guide to navigating consent and touch interactions, empowering individuals to communicate and connect authentically.
How can we learn, re-learn or deepen our body’s sense of safety for receiving the kinds and quality of touch and pleasure we truly desire, whilst expanding its ability to know and ask for what it really wants? Dr. Betty Martin and The Wheel of Consent offers a safe and clear container for this embodied inquiry. Betty shares her journey of how the subtle yet powerful touch distinctions of giving, receiving, taking and allowing evolved, the importance of waking up our hands to receiving pleasure, and her process of distilling and transmitting her depth of knowledge into the newly released “The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.”
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