I remember when I first qualified as a Sexological Bodyworker thinking: “Well, obviously this kind of work should be available to clients alongside other more conventional therapies.” I reached out to local wellbeing centres at the time to see whether they’d be interested in me offering sessions there. A couple got back to me showing some curiosity, but it never led to anything. And so, I set up a workspace at home and steadily built my practice in my own way. There were many

This blog post was written by Susan Lucas to accompany our podcast discussion on the same topic. It's a deeper dive than my own posts - I'd expect no less from a philosopher(!) - and definitely one for my fellow pleasure geeks and sapiosexuals! Introduction Experience suggests that many people, and particularly many women - including many who would generally align themselves with feminist ideals and principles - derive pleasure and satisfaction from the experience of being se

Just how universal is love? And what role, if any, does privilege play in our access to and experience of it? This piece aims to answer these questions and more, and to figure out what we might do with the answers!

I've wanted to share this story with you for some time about two seemingly very different roles - one of which involves emotional tyranny, misery-making, and the disempowerment and manipulation of others. The other can make you a very interesting person to speak to at parties! Hi, I’m Lex, and I’m a recovering people pleaser. Allow me to take you back to a time in my life over a decade ago. I was living a pretty idyllic life. I was growing my own vegetables in the garden of

An exploration of the desires and motivations behind pegging, from the perspective of the receptive partner.

Learn about the altered states that can be experienced as the submissive in kinky play, and ways to navigate the transitions smoothly.

Would you like to be wealthy?! Financial wealth has become so synonymous with success and happiness that it's very easy to be captured by...

Your New Year's Resolutions are probably going to fail but here's why they are still important and valuable!

How can we take action in response to suffering? Here I explore some options for the overwhelmed, and call us into connection.

The who, what, and why behind my Exploration sessions, which are available one-to-one or for duos and triads.

Outside world power dynamics impact how we engage in D/s power play. What can we do to ensure everyone feels empowered?

“I’m so BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORED”. It’s almost a rite of passage from childhood to becoming a teenager to face this dreaded affliction (and...

One of the things that drew me to this work was the sense that I was "missing out" on living. It was a pervasive feeling for many years -...

In this piece, I share a little on how I view kink, and not only how it fits in the work I'm doing, but why I think an ethical and conscious

Following on from my last blog "From here, I can give" about getting our own needs met before serving others, I want to highlight that...

At the beginning of September, I travelled to Bilbao to attend the "Like a Pro" training from the School of Consent. This deeper dive...

Love keeps popping up - somewhat unsurprisingly - in my writing recently and so I would like to dive deeper today into the act of loving....

A description of what Sexological Bodywork is, what a session might involve, and why someone might want to explore this.

Are you single? I was asked this question recently and it really stumped me. The person asking was expecting a yes/no answer but ended up...

When people ask me what I actually do as a pleasure coach, I have found that the most succinct way to describe it is I "love people out...