Circles of Women are Powerful, Healing Spaces

Circles of Women are Powerful, Healing Spaces

These past few months have been hard.  I want to blame it on perimenopause.  I want to disconnect from my body, disassociate from the flight response building in my limbs. I think that’s why we scrape orgasm off our plate: it allows us to live without feeling, live...
My First Bodysex Experience

My First Bodysex Experience

When I arrived at Menla Center that Friday afternoon, I was tired yet excited. I drove all the way down from Quebec—a seven-hour straight drive to Upstate New York. For the first time, I crossed the frontier alone behind the wheel. “Is this your vehicle, Ma’am,” asked...
Workshop Opening Questions

Workshop Opening Questions

“By sharing how we feel about our bodies and our orgasms, we create a powerful healing process”- Betty Dodson Read shares from our leaders. Browse the links below to read the full post. Claiming Myself Was Difficult I later learned that bodies with vulvas...
My Bodysex Experience

My Bodysex Experience

On my way to my very first BodySex workshop, my heart began beating a familiar beat that occurs when I’m about to do something that I know will have a lasting effect on me. My hands get mildly clammy, my chest warms, and my eyes hyperfocus, taking in everything...
Housework, Coffee Breaks, and Orgasms

Housework, Coffee Breaks, and Orgasms

I spent the morning cleaning. I don’t actually like cleaning, but thinking of how I was high up on the ladder cleaning windows, singing along to Allison Russel‘s album ‘The Returner‘ and shaking my butt as though no one was watching (and I’m pretty sure all those...