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Episode 1: Coming Home to the Body
Episode 1: Coming Home to the Body
What happens to pleasure when your body changes forever?
In this opening episode of Pleasure Bound, hosts Kelsey and Kate—two quadriplegic women living full, sensual, complicated lives—introduce themselves, their stories, and the why behind this podcast. Together, they open an unfiltered conversation about disability, sexuality, grief, embodiment, kink, shame, desire, and the radical act of reclaiming pleasure in bodies shaped by trauma and paralysis.
This episode reflects on life before and after spinal cord injury, the grief of losing familiar sensations, the cultural forces that desexualize or fetishize disabled bodies, and the courage it takes to re-enter pleasure—without comparison, without apology. Along the way, they explore kink, shadow work, adaptive tools, orgasm myths, brain-based pleasure, and why connection—not perfection—is the true medicine.
This episode sets the tone for Pleasure Bound: a space for messy, erotic, hilarious, deeply human conversations about coming home to the body—again and again
In This Episode:- Meet Kelsey (C6 quad, dancer, writer, filmmaker, sensualist) and Kate (C5 quad, mom, triple Taurus, pleasure activist)
- Living in “two worlds”: able-bodied identity vs. life after paralysis
- Grief, desexualization, and the shock of how the world’s gaze changes
- Why pleasure practices matter—especially in disabled bodies
- The difference between self-care culture and true embodied self-love
- Kink, shadow work, and why stillness can unlock new forms of intimacy
- Fetishization vs. desire: navigating devotees and objectification
- Why orgasm is not the only (or ultimate) goal
- Brain plasticity, new erogenous zones, and adaptive pleasure
- How comparison to your former body can block healing
- Creating pleasure practices that honor energy, capacity, and consent
- Why community, storytelling, and curiosity are revolutionary
- Move Me (film by Kelsey)
- DanceAbility Method
- Disability After Dark (Andrew Gurza)
- Adaptive pleasure tools & sex education spaces
Music by Freaque
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6xmxsU99bvYcGrvdsw3pFk?si=GSH_oqRIRmyb-I9Y5_-hXQ
Content Warning:
This episode contains candid conversations about sex, disability, and trauma.
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By Kelsey Peterson, Kate SteeleEpisode 1: Coming Home to the Body
What happens to pleasure when your body changes forever?
In this opening episode of Pleasure Bound, hosts Kelsey and Kate—two quadriplegic women living full, sensual, complicated lives—introduce themselves, their stories, and the why behind this podcast. Together, they open an unfiltered conversation about disability, sexuality, grief, embodiment, kink, shame, desire, and the radical act of reclaiming pleasure in bodies shaped by trauma and paralysis.
This episode reflects on life before and after spinal cord injury, the grief of losing familiar sensations, the cultural forces that desexualize or fetishize disabled bodies, and the courage it takes to re-enter pleasure—without comparison, without apology. Along the way, they explore kink, shadow work, adaptive tools, orgasm myths, brain-based pleasure, and why connection—not perfection—is the true medicine.
This episode sets the tone for Pleasure Bound: a space for messy, erotic, hilarious, deeply human conversations about coming home to the body—again and again
In This Episode:- Meet Kelsey (C6 quad, dancer, writer, filmmaker, sensualist) and Kate (C5 quad, mom, triple Taurus, pleasure activist)
- Living in “two worlds”: able-bodied identity vs. life after paralysis
- Grief, desexualization, and the shock of how the world’s gaze changes
- Why pleasure practices matter—especially in disabled bodies
- The difference between self-care culture and true embodied self-love
- Kink, shadow work, and why stillness can unlock new forms of intimacy
- Fetishization vs. desire: navigating devotees and objectification
- Why orgasm is not the only (or ultimate) goal
- Brain plasticity, new erogenous zones, and adaptive pleasure
- How comparison to your former body can block healing
- Creating pleasure practices that honor energy, capacity, and consent
- Why community, storytelling, and curiosity are revolutionary
- Move Me (film by Kelsey)
- DanceAbility Method
- Disability After Dark (Andrew Gurza)
- Adaptive pleasure tools & sex education spaces
Music by Freaque
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6xmxsU99bvYcGrvdsw3pFk?si=GSH_oqRIRmyb-I9Y5_-hXQ
Content Warning:
This episode contains candid conversations about sex, disability, and trauma.