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So, you want to start writing erotica? Here’s a beginner’s guide
I recently asked people to share their questions with me and I've been recording short videos as my answers. This week, I answer your questions about getting started with writing your own erotica. I talk about: How to find the time to write.How to know what to...
You + Me + the Sea
We will need to find an isolated beach. I want absolute privacy and seclusion with you – I’ll share you with the elements, but that is all. I’ll make a shelter for us for when we want to rest, and I’ll lay a blanket to keep the sand away from our most tender places....
The radical act of pleasure
I was thrilled to talk with Lara Waldman - The Abundance Activator - for another of my Intimate Conversations! I love the way that Lara brings together her 25 years of experience in self-development, transformation, and healing work, to offer a new approach to...
Five things I’ve learned about desire
1. Retaining my desire for desire is what matters to me most. As long as I can feel my desire for desire, I know I’ll be able to navigate the seas of change. 2. Staying curious and creative allows me to stay open to finding and enjoying new desires. My desire is not a...
Growing desire into pleasure
Desire is longing, anticipation, yearning, having and not having. When I write about desire I often feel it as an ache, an empty space waiting to be filled, a delicious potential. Pleasure is in the moment, embodied, felt and received. When I write about pleasure it...
PleasurePractices #4: Garden of delights
One of my long-held fantasies centres on having a private, outdoor space where I can be naked and commune with the elements. I want to stand in a rainstorm and feel the water drenching my hair and skin, running down my back, and wetting my lips. I want to press my...
PleasurePractices #3: Passion
Have you ever had a lover reach for you and touch you with such passion it takes your breath away? Do you know that feeling just before their hands make contact with your skin and you can almost feel your body leaping to meet their embrace, to close the gap between...
PleasurePractices #2: Magical, powerful, intentional
I want to call in my magic. I want to call in my power. I offer myself to something greater – it is time to fully claim my soul’s magnificence. I bind my breasts together to make them stand proud and to bring my nipples close enough that I can touch them both at the...
PleasurePractices #1: Slow, slow, sensuous, slow
Just me, some lube, a bed, and time. Touching myself gently and reverentially. Stroking, soothing, relaxing my body and my emotions. Creating safety, and landing into this sacred space. Away from all the external noise and demands. Just me, some lube, a bed, and time....