How To!: Make Sexual Consent Sexy

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

After experiencing multiple instances of sexual assault, Julia often feels sexually disconnected from her own body. She wants to be aware of her boundaries and find pleasure in new relationships going forward. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Jamila Dawson, licensed marriage and family therapist, and August McLaughlin, health and sexuality journalist and host of Girl Boner Radio. Together they wrote With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships. They share candid, tangible advice about navigating consent and how to turn awkward conversations into something empowering — even sexy.

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0:00.0	Oh, is that a pumpkin spice latte?
0:03.2	No, it's the pumpkin spice latte.
0:05.9	Starbucks?
0:06.9	Obviously.
0:07.9	You know, I once got so obsessed with pumpkin spice, I only wore orange for a month.
0:11.4	Ugh, that's nothing.
0:12.6	I once got so obsessed I got a pumpkin shaming into my hair.
0:15.0	Oh yeah?
0:16.0	Well last year I cured outside Starbucks for a week, and my tent was a shape of a pumpkin.
0:19.8	Well, I'm changing my name to pumpkin spicy.
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0:54.4	all under one roof after now, the home of homes, shopping store and online.
1:01.7	Just a heads up that this episode contains a discussion of sexual assault and sex.
1:07.3	It's a fascinating and even hopeful conversation in a lot of ways, but of course we understand
1:12.9	if this episode isn't for you and we'll look forward to seeing you same time next week.
1:19.6	I'm saying, may I kiss you, is like, what is unsexy about that?
1:26.4	You know, it's wonderful and it's also a very empowering, I think, litmus test.
1:37.9	Welcome to How To.
1:39.2	I'm Amanda Ripley.
1:41.2	Today we're going to try to see if we can make sexual consent sexy.
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