This is the Authentic Sex Podcast, real-life conversations about sex, pleasure and relationships.

I'm your host, Juliet Allen.

Welcome to episode 46 of the Authentic Sex Podcast.

My name is Juliet Allen.

I'm your host.

I'm a sexologist, a sex and relationship coach and tantra practitioner.

And basically every week I talk about a topic of my choice,

often inspired by what I feel like people need to learn about more in the world,

inspired by my own personal experiences over the last however many years that I've been sexually active.

And yeah, from study and from books and workshops and retreats and yeah, I just get my

inspiration.

I get my inspiration from friends too, from family, from lovers, from ex-lovers, from my beautiful partner now, like

all my ideas just come from all different things. And today we're talking about self-pleasure

and we're talking about self-ple a sacred ritual and what inspired me to

record this episode is that um i guess personally i see an experienced self-pleasure um it ebbs and

flows in my life the enjoyment enjoyment around it, around it.

Sometimes I go through stages, especially when I was younger,

went through stages of self-pleasureing every day more than once,

and then I go through stages where I don't feel like self-pleasureing at all and it doesn't even

enter my mind as an option like I don't even think about it.

So I notice that when I'm happier, I self-pleasure more.

When I'm more stressed, I often will self-pleasure less.

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