224. Get REAL Pleasure & Stop Faking It with Vanessa Marin

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sex Therapist Vanessa Marin is back on the pod to discuss how we can all make sex more ENJOYABLE. She shares with us: How we can stop faking our orgasms and experiment with real pleasure; How to communicate honestly with our partners about what we want in bed; and Why masturbation can be an opportunity for self-exploration and reclamation. She also offers empowering advice for individuals recovering from sexual trauma. Plus, Glennon contemplates writing erotica. CW: Discussion of sex after sexual trauma For our previous conversations with Vanessa, check out: Episode 195 Sex Talk & That Night in Miami: Sex Therapy with Vanessa Marin, Episode 196 How Glennon & Abby Learned to Talk Dirty with Vanessa Marin, and Episode 213 Sex Fantasies: What Do They Say About Us? with Vanessa Marin. About Vanessa: Vanessa Marin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times Best Selling author of Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life, co-written with her husband and partner-in-crime, Xander Marin. Vanessa is here to help you kick shame out of the bedroom so you can start feeling the connection, pleasure, and joy you deserve! TW: @VMTherapy IG: @vanessaandxander To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And to be loved, we need to be normal.
0:07.0	Hello, lovebugs. Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things.
0:13.0	Today, we have a sweet, sexy episode for you with our fave, Vanessa Marin, who makes sex feel doable.
0:24.0	She's gotten you talking. This is the fourth episode that we've done here.
0:29.0	Oh, I just like that. I like Vanessa's approach very much.
0:34.0	Vanessa Marin is a sex therapist and New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks,
0:40.0	the five conversations that will transform your love life co-written with her husband, Sandra Marin.
0:46.0	Vanessa is here to help you kick shame out of the bedroom so you can start feeling the connection, pleasure, and joy you deserve.
0:53.0	Thank you for coming back again.
0:55.0	We just wanted to ask you a bunch of questions.
0:57.0	Yeah, I'm ready.
0:58.0	And I want to ask you also to tell us what people ask you the most often.
1:04.0	First, I want to ask you this.
1:06.0	We've done three episodes together already.
1:09.0	And one of the most frequently asked questions to me after people listen to those episodes are,
1:16.0	if I've been faking orgasm with my partner, I've heard this like 20 times.
1:22.0	Okay. If I have been faking orgasms with my partner, how do I come clean?
1:29.0	I want to stop it now. I want to get real.
1:32.0	I want to start over. I want to explore how to have an actual orgasm.
1:35.0	But I'm in so much shame and fear because I've been faking it this whole time.
1:39.0	Where do I start? So we'll just start with an easy one like that.
1:43.0	Yes. Okay. If you have two options here, I'm going to give you two choices.
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