Nicole McNichols

makes us feel like I'm ashamed of sex.

I'm ashamed of my wanting.

I'm afraid of my real desires.

So I'm going to embrace this very performative version of sex because it's still disembodied, right?

It's still a performance the same way that soaking is or the same way that

Being ashamed to even talk about sex is all of it just reflects our overall incredible discomfort with the topic in our culture.

Oh, great.

It is.

Thank you.

I mean, and that's the thing is that it's so tied into everything that we're all about as human beings, right?

We...

Again, in our culture, we tend to think of sex as being siphoned off into this domain that just kind of lives over there, right?

But our sexuality, it's tied into our energy, our being, our identity, our expression, our fantasy, our wants.

It's really what makes us uniquely human, right?

We are not evolved to simply have sex just for the purpose of procreation, right?

It serves a social, emotional role as well.

And so when you're thinking about yourself as being a grounded, healthy person, learning to let go of that fear and stigma and embracing a sense of authenticity and connectedness in your sex life, I think can really help people

feel a lot happier and more grounded in themselves.

It is about all of those things, right?

Because an amazing pleasurable, an amazing sexual experience is really about pleasure, right?