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Pleasure Mechanics
Passionate & Compassionate conversations about all areas of sex, love & connection with The Pleasure Mechanics. Explicit, soulful, candid conversations rich with erotic knowledge and know-how.
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Mar 15, 2024 • 36min
Erotic First Aid
The Five As of Erotic First Aid : What To Do When Good Things Go Wrong As Chris recovers from a recent sex injury, we share the five steps of offering Erotic First Aid. From broken bed frames to thrusting gone askew, we share stories of sex injuries and accidents and offer a reliable framework […]

Mar 8, 2024 • 25min
Praise Kink
Exploring the erotic power of praise in relationships and its role in enhancing pleasure. Discussing different types of praise, the concept of a 'praise kink,' and the importance of affirming someone's core being. Delving into the art of erotic praise and the complexities of receiving compliments in intimate relationships.

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Feb 16, 2024 • 39min
Paths To Lust : Map Your Emotional Floorplan with Emily Nagoski
Emily Nagoski, author of Come Together, introduces the Core Emotional Floorplan as a tool for understanding and sharing unique emotional experiences. The podcast focuses on mapping emotions to reach lust, exploring seek, care, and play within emotional floor plans, and navigating emotional spaces in relationships for enhanced intimacy.

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Feb 2, 2024 • 41min
The Surprising Science of Lasting Sexual Connection: An Interview with Emily Nagoski
Emily Nagoski, author of Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections, challenges conventional notions of sustaining sexual connections. They discuss the impact of stress on sexual connection and the surprising underrepresentation of diverse experiences in the scientific field. The importance of vulnerability, authenticity, and connection in relationships is highlighted, as well as the process of unlearning societal myths surrounding sexuality.

Jan 11, 2024 • 26min
Touch To Feel
When we Touch To Feel, we unlock boundless potential for sensual, emotional and relational pleasures. Touching To Feel is a lifetime practice of waking up our bodies to FEEL more, feeling the true depth and range of our own emotions, expressing ourselves through touch and touching with purpose and intention to create a wide range […]

Dec 14, 2023 • 24min
Tend The Tender
Tend The Tender is a phrase that invites us all to bring more loving attention to our most tender places, and to allow others to care for us when we are feeling a bit raw. To be tender is to be human, and yet many of us struggle to ask for care when we need […]

Dec 8, 2023 • 34min
Whose Panties Are These?
What happens after your lover discloses their fetish- or you discover a fetish or kink and need to talk about it? In this episode we discuss how to bring more compassion and curiosity to conversations about newly disclosed kinks and fetishes. Want more guidance into kink? Join us here. This call was inspired by a […]

Dec 1, 2023 • 34min
Meet Scarleteen: Sex Ed For The Real World
The podcast highlights the importance of scarleteen.com as a valuable resource for sexual health and education. It discusses the challenges faced by young people in navigating teen sexuality and the online landscape. The importance of open conversations about sex with children is emphasized, along with the value of the Scarleteen book as a resource for teenagers and emerging adults.

Nov 17, 2023 • 25min
Sensitive, But Not Delicate
Erotic Touch Mastery, Stroke by Stroke. Get started tonight. Our bodies are sensitive, but not delicate. This phrase is something Chris has been teaching for twenty years, since the early days of the Sexological Bodywork training, in response to a pattern they noticed after teaching erotic touch for hundreds of hours. Many people are hesitant […]

Oct 27, 2023 • 49min
Love Every Day with Dr. Alexandra Solomon
Dr. Alexandra Solomon joins us to explore the power of daily incremental practice in the realms of love, connection and pleasure. In this free podcast episode we explore how we can all practice Love Every Day, while being patient with change, working with even the most reluctant of partners, and respecting the process of incremental […]