Hello lovely humans, I'm Wiley and you are listening to sex stories, a

podcast where we smash shame to make the world a sexier more loving place, in which taking care of each other is the norm

by sharing details of our intimate histories. This is a special past guest update episode and

our guest today is a solo poly private practice physician and writer in her 40s.

She is a passionate advocate and educator on the intersection of sexual health as a vital

element in overall integrative health, and current turn-ons include power exchange,

harnessing feminine domination as a means of deep psychological healing, and supporting others in crafting

a life of wellness, both physical and relational,

including understanding conscious relationship design, which you can read about on her

sub-stack under the white coat, originally a guest on episode 224,

Erotic Audacity Wellness and luxury.

Welcome back, Dr. Amber Hull.

Thank you so much for having me back, Wyo and thank you so much

for that lovely introduction. I always look forward to our conversations.

I love talking to you and I have learned so much from you just like both as we grow our friendship

and our kind of like professional parallelisms

over the time that I've known you.

So could you please start off by telling our sweet listeners and myself today if you had to rate yourself

on a sexual shame a meter with 10 being full of shame and zero being like I don't have any

Where do you fall today right now when if ever has it fluctuated in the last since I've talked to you. So I think it was about a year ago that we first had our first conversation and I think if I remember correctly at that point I probably said too wish, but I would say that that's decreased over the course of the time that we've known one

another in part because some of the things that I've learned from you.

But I would say it's probably down to a one at this point. I've gotten much more vocal and up front about my preferences when it comes to relationship structures, which we'll talk about in conscious relationship design, and in, you know, sort of like expressing my desires and play space and what that looks like and you know what I have to offer other people and as a result of all of that as a result of my decreasing shame and like exonerating myself for like holding on to some of these things where just like relics from

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