Florence Bark

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Masturbation should be as big a part of your self care routine as your meditation, breathwork, or morning walk. Content creator and sex & relationships expert Florence Bark feels masturbation is central to our self-esteem and wellbeing.

In this chat with Fearne, Florence explains why it’s so important to understand our own anatomy, and why masturbation should be prioritised as much as partnered sex. Plus, they chat about how to begin overcoming the shame society has made so many of us feel around sex and bodies.

Florence’s book is called This Book Will Make You Feel Something, and is out now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the show that shines a light on topics we've told to keep hidden in the dark.
0:08.0	Today I'm chatting to Florence Park.
0:11.0	We set a lot of time aside to have sex with our partners, but we never think of it for ourselves.
0:17.0	And I don't think we can rely on our partners to give us that pleasure and give us all those good hormones and stuff like that.
0:24.0	We should be able to do that for ourselves as well.
0:27.0	And I think carving out that time to really make yourself feel good about your body and make yourself feel good in your body is so important.
0:36.0	And it should just be like the time that you set aside for yoga, for breath work, for that walk in the morning that you do.
0:43.0	Like it should be part of that routine.
0:46.0	Florence is a content creator and sex and relationships expert.
0:50.0	She and best friend Reed make a YouTube series called Com Curious and they also host the fuck's given podcast.
0:58.0	Their videos by the way have over 42 million downloads.
1:03.0	So clearly there is an appetite for learning about sex and our bodies in a way that feels more responsible and kind than we might be getting from porn.
1:14.0	Let me tell you though, that does not mean less explicit.
1:18.0	Florence has now written a brilliant book that focuses on something that I'll be honest, even I slightly awkwardly steer clear of masturbation.
1:28.0	And in particular women masturbating.
1:32.0	It's called this book will make you feel something and is a fantastic mix of really sexy science that teaches us about the female anatomy and gorgeous erotic stories.
1:45.0	Or meditations as Florence calls them.
1:48.0	Florence lives in LA and she gets to go on gorgeous hikes out in nature right on her doorstep.
1:54.0	But she very kindly flew back here to London to have this quite frankly mind blowing chat with me.
2:02.0	Masturbation is self care. That's the top line here. It's a way of connecting deeply with our body without inner world.
2:12.0	But as we chat about a lot, there's so much shame surrounding it especially for women.
2:18.0	And I also found it fascinating how much of this conversation seemed to come back to body image.
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