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How to support survivors, how to talk about past trauma, understanding trauma as a cause of sexual dysfunction and painful sex - learn more about sexual trauma and recovery here.
Reclaiming Your Sexual Self After Trauma
How do you recover from a traumatic relationship? How do you start enjoying sex again after trauma? Explore videos on healing and sex after trauma.
Healing After Trauma
How can pleasure help someone heal after trauma? Rev. Pleasure discusses ways to help reclaim your body and redefine pleasure.
Sex And Relationships After Trauma
Learn more about how to talk to your partner about past assault, how to support a friend who has experienced trauma, pain and sexual dysfunction after trauma.
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Boost Your Sexual Consent Skills
Not only is consent essential for making sure sexual experiences are positive and wanted, practicing good consent is also crucial in healing, and helping partners heal from sexual trauma.
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Trauma Facts: Did You Know?
Half as many sexual assault and rape cases have been reported since 1993, but there are still over 300,000 American survivors of assault each year.
Consent isn’t just a “yes” or “no.” It should be given enthusiastically throughout sexual activity and can be withdrawn at any time.
Past sexual trauma can be emotionally and physically damaging. For vagina-owners, it can cause vaginismus — a condition that makes penetration very painful.
Trans and gender-diverse people are at higher risk of experiencing sexual trauma than cis gender people.
Callisto is a non-profit that creates technology to help detect and report sexual predators on college campuses.
If someone tells you they’ve experienced sexual trauma, believe them, do not judge them, listen to them, and offer support if you can.
Trauma (noun)
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A deeply disturbing or distressing event that can cause lasting psychological effects, which is known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A traumatic experience related to sex and relationships — whether it’s caused by an abusive relationship, a bad date, a sexual assault, or something else — can make it hard for the survivor to enjoy future sex and intimacy. While there’s no one way to heal from trauma — everyone heals at their own pace, in their own way — there are many resources and support groups to help.
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Is Pain Affecting Your Sex Life?
Discussing pain, sex, and everything that goes with it.
My Vagina Hurts!
Sometimes vaginas experience pain during and after sex. Why? Is this normal? Tune in as RebaTheDiva & Nurse Jenna discuss potential causes of pain, telling your partners and how to make sex less painful.
Between You And Me
Learn to identify, honor, and assert your boundaries for better sex and more fulfilling relationships. Bring your boundary questions to Roan and get tips for exploring and communicating.
Healing From A Traumatic Relationship
Speaking from her experience with domestic violence, Mia shares her journey and practices toward healing, reclaiming her body and sexuality, and opening up to new relationships.
Sex After Trauma
Speaking from her experience with domestic violence, Mia shares her journey and practices toward healing, reclaiming her body and sexuality, and opening up to new relationships.
Approaching Sex After Birth
Our bodies and sex lives change after childbirth. Pleasure Professional Lucia Pavone will break down the in's and out's of sex after birth and address anxieties about getting back into the sheets.
We Need to Talk About Consent
How many of you have had a real, clear talk about consent with a partner after #metoo? Q Wilson, your boi of validation and warmth, will get you so pumped and ready to have an empowering, not awkward conversation.
Healing After Trauma
How can pleasure help someone heal after trauma? Rev. Pleasure discusses ways to help reclaim your body and redefine pleasure.
Nope, That's Not Consent
Stalking your crush, pushing for the yes, kissing as she fights until she gives in... Guess what, Hollywood? That's not consent. Join Dawn Serra in this fast-paced look at the myth of what's romantic and consent (or the lack of it) in TV & movies.