Amanda Vee curates the pleasure product/sex toy reviews for Sex Coach U where she is also a coach in training, and she has a YouTube channel called Sex Talks With Amanda. ~

Here for your enjoyment is a whole world of options, starting with the perhaps more familiar dildos, vibrators, butt plugs/beads, and cock rings and expanding out into the realms of air-pulse clit stimulation and remote-controlled male and female sex strokers for solo or partner fun. We talk about creating settings for self-play, pleasure based on the experience as well as orgasm, and chatting with your beloved about bringing sensation enhancers into your lovemaking. ~

Thanks Amanda for coming on the show and sharing your passion and experience supporting people finding ways to enhance their pleasure and sex lives. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

You and your beloved each have a body and a palpable energetic field, and between you near and far is electric chemistry. It's part of what makes us and you so special, a hint of the hugeness you are here to enjoy and give back to. ~

What is it? How do we refine it and stay in it from lovemaking to daily activities, across the ups and downs of relationship and self-emotion? Here are not answers but practical exercises, wild imaginings, and a little sharing of experiences of some ways that can be. It's for you - and your beloved, now or to be - to discover what else is possible in feeling the trance flow of nature within and between you. ~

Wishing you much joy, pleasure, sweetness, calm, fire... all of it. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Ariana Cuan is a Miami Beach, USA-based coach who helps people get out of their own way and have successful relationships, professional lives, and more. ~

Self-sabotage can look like many things - getting carried away making stories based on assumptions about someone in an intimate relationship, hounding or avoiding people to deal with fears or insecurities, mismanaging money, alienating workmates, and so on. Like many things it's just a habit, sometimes from early in life, sometimes from adult relationships experiences or whatever, that can be stopped and healed, and from there prevented from being a habit going forward. Skills can be taught to adults and kids so we all have the environment to be ourselves and express ourselves without shame and get our needs met. ~

Her site is store.healingselfsabotage.com. Thanks Ariana for giving us the insights from your compassion and experience, especially that great message to give it the time it needs. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Welcome to #2 in our 3-part series on devotion to the body solo and together. In this meditative space, you are invited, first alone, to see and feel and hear everything you love about your beloved, throughout the day and when making love. And then... to continue the meditation with them right there, being still together, then perhaps attending to every wish of their body for an hour or two while they relax, then coming into moving together... and another time, to receive their full attention, and relax, and come to move together. ~

There is room for all the things you like, curiosities as-yet unexplored, challenges and difficulties, all of it. The more you see and embrace them, the more they can give you the greatest of their gifts, not just the sexual intimacy which is worthy of honour, but the simple true flavour of who they are, the chance to be loved exactly as you are, so much sexier, more heart- and spirit-nourishing than any previous lover any media image we've seen, any limited thing we've been taught about what is possible and even who this person is. ~

Wishing you the deepest open embrace. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Here is a meditation for you, to enjoy some time alone really appreciating yourself, all the senses, the places you are used to feeling good, the places less well known or liked, all together. ~

Total simplicity, all sensations, all images welcome. ~

See what you discover. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Have you ever been judged for being something you are, or are not? ~

Whether it hurts or you have a thick skin, you can take the experience to become richer and stronger. They don't like your skin colour or sexual orientation? You can be friends with and learn from more people than them. They threaten social exclusion or violence? You can be so fearless and have so many allies you're safer and more confident than them. ~

And in the context of intimate relationship, the prizes are many - choosing people who are worth it to be and grow with, staying true through conflict where others bail, keeping the fire of love and purpose young and steady, and discovering new worlds of what can be created and savoured in this life. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

People can be with one or more lovers and sex can be one of many forms of intimacy. Your life is yours to craft based on your needs and how that communicates with other people's. There is a huge array of possibilities, and focusing on where you shine and grow best is powerful. ~

This show takes the question, am I into monogamy (literally, one wife) or polyamory (many loves) and asks, who are you? who are they? how do you let yourself live fully and be a means for other people to live fully? It suggests a new language based on love, communication, diversity, commitment, pleasure and more that you are a part of inventing or in some cases re-finding, uniting mind-body-spirit-feeling needs and abilities. ~

Beyond looking within and out with the people in your life, some books and shows a lot of people have read and listened to are Opening Up(Tristan Taormino), More Than Two (Franklin Veaux & Eve Rickert), The Ethical Slut (Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton), Polyamory Weekly, Loving Without Boundaries, Amory, and there are many more. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

We have an amazing capacity to experience on many levels simultaneously, from heart to spirit to sex and beyond, not only in our lovemaking but in every breath of life. ~

This episode gives you a practice for feeling into some of these sensations at your pace, choosing to focus on one or another through a given experience, and over time developing all your abilities to enjoy life and meet another person. ~

We can unlearn cultural teachings for example to deny the body or be addicted to sensation, and instead be relaxed and free in love and life, deepening the pleasure and gratitude of the moment, of meeting another, of growing. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Every year worldwide, millions of girls and boys are forced to marry and therefore have sex against their will, instead of having the freedom to choose love and personal development for greater contribution to society. Those who try to choose freedom can be beaten or killed for so-called family "honour". ~ 

In India, since 2010, the Love Commandos organization (www.lovecommandos.org), has ferried 70,000 young couples to safety and freedom. In this interview Sanjoy Sachdev speaks of healthy cultural traditions and modernizing influences that together can move society away from fundamentalism, arranged marriages and violence around relationship choice. ~ 

As Nelson Mandela said, "to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." ~ 

This is part of our series and love and sex around the world - check out past shows on Brazil, Indonesia, China, and Kenya - to promote safety, equality, freedom and of course pleasure for all. Thanks for being a part of this movement, and thank you Mr. Sachdev for taking the time to speak with us. ~

Love Commandos can be supported through the website listed above. ~ 

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.

Is commitment a happy or heavy word to you... or both?

In a lot of the world it was just assumed for a long time that if you were of this gender or that social or ethnic group, you had to such and such in life whether you liked it or not. Marriage is just one example, but it's an explosively important one - a good relationship can make your life so much better, and being locked into a bad one can ruin it. You only get one life, and it's yours, and if a relationship is good it shouldn't need to lock you into anything because you're always choosing to be there... right? ~

This episode says, the spirit in which a commitment is made and kept is important, and it can change in a way that supports the growth of each person and of the relationship. One of the problems with rigid expectations is that they are rarely mutual, as the experience of men owning women through marriage has shown - unequal safety and freedom, so many people sworn to fidelity having secret affairs, the majority ending in divorce, and a huge chunk of those that stay together being profoundly damaging to one or both people. ~

But is there a way being adaptable - which is one of the things humans are among the best animals at - can actually allow us to enter into and keep commitments that are good for us, the other person, and society? For however long that commitment is good to last, and however exclusive or overlapping you want it to be, assuming good communication of course. And true freedom from coercion means everyone giving their gift to the highest to human evolution, and any couples and groups can synergistically create certain things that no individual can. ~

Comments on this show and suggestions for future episodes? Send a message to [email protected] or Instagram @hsrthankyou. Thanks for listening. ~

Thanks to Jette Weiss for the cover art and Youssoupha Sidibe for the music, used under license.