#503 From Selling Pleasure to Feeling It with Paigge Gilbert

About this episode

In this episode, we’re joined by our marketing director Paigge Gilbert for a deeply curious conversation about sex, pleasure, intimacy, and desire. We talk about what it’s actually like to train as a sex and relationship coach through Somatica—and dive into some big questions about how we experience and explore our erotic selves. We explore: • Our core desires and how to discover how you want to feel during sex • Once you know how you want to feel, how do you figure out what you want to explore? • How to access your erotic energy when you feel disconnected from your body—or even unattracted to your partner • Ways to become more embodied and experience more pleasure • Why allowing yourself to feel your erotic desire, even in public, can be powerful • What kink and spanking can actually do for us—and why certain things turn us on • The power of dirty talk, curiosity, and “cheerleading” someone as they share their erotic fantasies • How to get curious about desire rather than judging it • What sex and relationship coaching training through Somatica is really like This is a conversation about moving beyond the idea that there’s a “right” way to experienc