What Women Think About During Sex with Lucy-Anne Holmes

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Hannah is joined by Lucy-Anne Holmes, who is an author and activist. Lucy discusses the stories and the gorgeous illustrations in the new book she's edited called Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They're Having Sex, and also what she thinks about during sex herself. She and Hannah talk about Lucy's journey to becoming a sacred sexual priestess and the connection between spirituality and sexuality. Finally, Hannah and Lucy answer some of your questions from Instagram, like is it normal to think about what you're having for dinner during sex.

CW: mentions of abuse and forced sex fantasies. Timestamps to skip: 10:00 - 10:47 (47 seconds), 42:55 - 43:44 (49 seconds), 47:21 - 48:33 (one minute 12 seconds). These timestamps are without ads: you may or may not be served ads whilst listening to the episode which may change the time stamps. If you hear a section start and don’t want to listen, just skip ahead the length of the section to avoid it.

MORE ABOUT LUCY-ANNE HOLMES
Lucy-Anne Holmes is a writer, actress and campaigner living in Sussex. She is the author of three previous novels which were published in ten countries, and of Don't Hold My Head Down, her funny and eye-opening personal sexual odyssey. Lucy-Anne was also the founder of the No More Page 3 campaign to convince the owners and editors of The Sun newspaper to cease its Page 3 feature, which showed photos of topless models. The newspaper withdrew this feature as a result of the movement. When she is not working on Women on Top of the World, Lucy-Anne is on a training course to become a sacred sexual priestess.

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/lucyanneholmes
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- Women on Top of the World: What Women Think About When They're Having Sex: https://www.waterstones.com/book/women-on-top-of-the-world/lucy-anne-holmes/9781529409277

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0:00.0	But I was just basically beset by disaster.
0:02.0	I couldn't ask for what I wanted.
0:04.1	I was just really passive.
0:05.4	I found it.
0:06.0	I never asked what I wanted.
0:07.4	I couldn't do it.
0:08.2	I needed a lot of alcohol to get naked.
0:11.6	I hated my body.
0:13.0	So the will was there, but I was really, you know, had a lot of issues.
0:18.0	And so I was writing about them and I'm picking them and what happened just
0:21.9	much long story short is I just by exploring my sexuality I just you know I it was just one of
0:29.5	the most transformative life-enhancing experiences of ever you know that's ever happened to
0:35.2	I feel I found you know I got to really find myself as a friend.
0:38.7	I got to explore pleasure.
0:40.3	I also really found my power.
0:45.9	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten, where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
0:57.7	Hi. things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies. Hi everyone, welcome back to doing it.
1:00.4	Since we last spoke, I have turned 29 years old.
1:04.6	Yes, happy lockdown birthday to me, but this podcast is not about me.
1:09.7	It's about my wonderful guests. And today I have the
1:13.4	incredible Lucy Ann Holmes with me. Lucy is an author and activist. She has written many,
1:20.0	many books, mostly rom-coms and what the publishing industry likes to call chicklet. She's written
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