Permission for Pleasure

This episode gets personal as my oldest daughter interviews me around healthy conversations about sex. We chat about the ways I talked with my own daughters about sexual health, tips for parents, developing your own sexual relationship, and discussion prompts for partners. This intimate interview will offer you some useful tools to start your own healthy conversations.

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If you experience conflict in your relationship over sexual desire, you’re not alone. According to my guest expert, every couple has a difference in sexual desire! Do men and women experience desire differently? Are we really supposed to just feel sexual desire? How can couples work through this issue in a healthy way? This conversation answers these questions and more.
 
Leslie Gustafson, LMFT, and AASECT CST is a Sex, Women’s & Marriage Master Coach who’s heart and mission is to “Unleash Women & Couples into Empowered Lives, Lasting Love and Amazing Intimacy.” She provides personal coaching through her transformational programs -Get Your Dream Marriage and Amazing You! Women’s Program. Host of The Smart Sex Podcast, you can find her on IG @LeslieGustafson1

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There is more than one way to experience desire. Sexual desire works a lot like curiosity. Think of it like this: What has to happen for you to be motivated to have sex? Learn about the different desire styles, and why it’s normal for you and a partner to experience desire differently.
 
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Dr. Laurie Mintz, author of Becoming Cliterate, joins Cindy for a discussion about female pleasure, cliteracy and the orgasm gap. Why are women having fewer orgasms than men? What do women really need to experience more pleasure? This conversation provides the education and tools to get you started on the journey to orgasm equality.

Dr. Mintz is a feminist professor, author, speaker and therapist. You can learn more about her at www.drlauriemintz.com, or watch her TEDx talk, Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters and How to Get It.

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Cindy Scharkey RN, BSN walks you through the amazing anatomy of the clitoris. There is so much more than you can see on the surface. Learn about the thousands of nerve endings, all the erectile tissue, and why female arousal takes more than 5 minutes. The truth about the clitoris? It is a whole network... and the key to female pleasure.

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A podcast to educate and equip women with the information and confidence they need to express, experience and enjoy their sexuality. Cindy Scharkey RN, BSN, brings her 30+ years of experience as a health-care professional to open the doors to healthy conversations about sex. This is a community where you can listen and learn to give yourself permission for pleasure.
 
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