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Episode 193 ’The ‘Hell Yes! Checklist’ (Gretchen Shanks)

Bawdy Storytelling

Dixie De La Tour

Arts, Performing Arts

4.7738 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Ever been asked ‘What turns you on’? Sex and relationship coach Gretchen Shanks had been celibate for years, with no idea how to answer that question. So she hires an expert - Bawdy’s own Princess Fancypants! - who sends her a single-spaced 12 page checklist (don’t worry, it’s not comprehensive) & together, they explore Gretchen’s FuckNos & HellYesses. This episode has ProTips, as well as bondage advice on how to make your kinky fantasies come true. #FindYourVoice #ProDomme #Listicle

 

Gretchen Shanks (she/her) is a Seattle-based sex and dating coach trained in the Somatica method, an experiential and practical method of coaching that’s grounded in the body. She came to this work after confronting and tackling her own struggles with body image, dating, and shame about her sexuality. Now she gets great satisfaction helping others untangle the knots of socialization, shame, and uncertainty so they can embrace and embody their erotic self and have the kind of sex and relationships they’ve always wanted.

You can find Gretchen at https://www.gretchenshanks.com

on Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/gretchen.shanks

or Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gretchen.shanks/

 

Song: ‘I wanna be your Slave (Måneskin)

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains true stories of sex, kink, gender, or body image.

0:09.1

Thanks for being a consenting adult, because here we go.

0:12.8

All of my life, I've never fit, but I won't complain and I won't quit.

0:20.2

I am enormous.

0:22.6

Get used to wait.

0:26.6

Everyone tells me I'm too much.

0:31.6

Maybe it's just you're not enough for me.

0:35.6

Can you see?

0:38.3

I'm the kind of woman I'm supposed to be.

0:43.3

Hey, my vagina is eight miles wide.

0:47.3

Absolutely everyone can come inside.

0:51.3

If you're ever frightened, you're and hide. My vagina is eight miles wide.

1:03.0

Why?

1:06.4

Hi there. And welcome to the body storytelling podcast. I'm sexual folklorist Dixie Della Tour,

1:12.5

and this week we have a story from sex and dating coach, Gretchen Shanks.

1:19.3

How's your week going? I prefer for this part of the podcast to be upbeat and hopefully

1:26.4

uplifting because all of us need that right now.

1:29.6

But I can't do that this week. If you follow me on social media or on Patreon, you've heard me

1:36.8

talk about my friend Kate Horowitz. Kate was somebody I was really excited about co-producing

1:43.1

with. Kate had been the founder of Oregon House,

1:46.8

which was the largest sex party in the Bay Area for a number of years. And she'd recently started

1:53.9

a subscription box, which was going to deliver safer sex supplies to your house. I thought it was

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