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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Make Sexual Consent Sexy

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

How To, Education

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 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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company directors in the UK can apply. Just a heads up that this episode contains a discussion

0:53.6

of sexual assault and sex. It's a fascinating and even hopeful conversation in a lot of ways,

1:00.6

but of course we understand if this episode isn't for you, and we'll look forward to seeing you

1:05.4

same time next week. Someone saying, may I kiss you? What is unsexy about that? It's wonderful.

1:18.0

And it's also a very empowering, I think, litmus test.

1:26.9

Welcome to How To. I'm Amanda Ripley. Today we're going to try to see if we can make sexual

1:33.2

consent sexy. Is that even possible you might ask? Well, we're going to find out.

1:39.9

Can you ask for consent without ruining the mood? Can you continually negotiate boundaries,

1:45.2

even if they change in real time? And finally, can you heal after an experience that you really

1:51.6

didn't consent to? So I think, you know, unfortunately, like a lot of people I've dealt with sexual

1:59.6

assault multiple times in my life. That's our listener, Julia, in New York. Unfortunately,

2:05.9

stories like hers aren't as rare as we'd like them to be. More than one in three women and one

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