EWP :: 18. (Re)Claiming our sexual curiosity

Embodied Writing Pleasure Series

This week we reclaim our sexual curiosity.  

Over the last few posts in this series we have been examining our attitudes and shame around sex and our sexuality.  Today, I invite us to reconnect with our curiosity, particularly as it relates to sex.

When we have internalized messages that encourage shame about a thing, we lose our ability to be curious about that thing.  Sex and sexuality are no exception, and in fact many of us have shame around even being curious about them in the first place.

When we are able to reclaim our curiosity, a myriad of opportunities open for us.  Reclaiming our curiosity around sex opens us pleasure, yes, and it also opens us to connecting more with ourselves and who we are.  It allows us to find freedom  in our lives, to find our own liberation from shame and our oppressive culture.  It brings us closer to our own humanity.

Allowing ourselves to be curious about who we are, and what brings us pleasure is all about freedom and our personal liberation.  Sexual…