Claiming Sex
Sex is a vital physical, emotional, mental and energetic process. When sex isn’t working in your life, you are more prone to depression, anxiety, low self image and decreased self confidence.
Cultural beliefs serve to misinform, create taboos, embarrassment and shame. Societal practices still create disservice to women, in particular, thwarting our ideas of what a woman is and can be. Taboos, cultural and societal constraints make sexual education a necessary evil rather than something that is taught openly. Pleasure is not a part of sexual education – only mechanics.
There is not less desire in a woman… there is a mismatch of motivation and timing and a very different sexual background and upbringing between women and men that is not understood in a still generally male dominated society. When we don’t desire, our body does not respond with desire. Duh. Western medicine diagnoses lack of desire as a ‘disorder’ and marks us dysfunctional or malfunctioning.
How can we expect to escape this climate of sexual ignorance without coming away with not enough or mistaken information about ourselves as women and as sexual creatures? By taking our sex away from society, away from culture, away from parents, away from partners, claiming it for ourselves, reeducating and relearning.
This 10 week course for women (of any sexual orientation) will touch on every aspect of sex including the physical, emotional, mental and relationship aspects. Many ‘better sex ed’ classes focus on how to please your partner. In this series, rather than learning to please a partner, you’ll learn about yourself, how to please yourself and, in turn, enjoy sex. By the end of this series, you’ll be well on your way to seeing yourself in an entirely new, sexual way.
- Taboo, Mystification and Why We’re All in This Class – We’ll spend this class discussing the unseen sources of sexual limitations such as what words are ok to say and not ok to say, what exploration is normal and what isn’t normal. By the end of this class, you will have blushed furiously, laughed and giggled and become bound and determined to forge into the hot sticky depths of sex.
- Untangling Sex – Developing healthy boundaries between the act of sex, biology, relationship and emotion is essential to gaining a healthy relationship with sex and in turn, a healthy sexual relationship with yourself and others.
- Untangling Sex Some More – You’ve got tens of years behind you thinking of sex in very defined ways using words and phrases from other people’s objectification of something they barely understood themselves. In this class, we’ll get rid of outside expectations in developing your own opinions about yourself, your body and sex.
- Divine Feminine – We’ll talk about gender, sexual orientation and role and separate them from one another. A woman is all woman, no matter what role she plays – she is not less than or unfeminine. Grasp your divine femininity… the power to make womanhood what you are.
- Body Image - If you want to be normal, let’s at least be realistic about what ‘normal’ is! We’ll look at ourselves, celebrities and other women to determine what the true ‘norm’ is and learn to discard unrealistic expectations in order to see the places where we exceed ‘normal’ into beautiful.
- Vaginas! – No women’s sexuality course would be complete without it! Although we won’t be pulling out mirrors in class, we will talk about the appearance, functionality, care and maintenance of them. They are more than a health concern to be thought about once a month with disdain or once a year with a cringe… they are a source of pleasure and pride.
- Mind over Pleasure - You might be surprised at what a truly powerful role the mind plays in your ability to enjoy sex and achieve orgasm. We will discuss trauma and beliefs that affect our ability to enjoy sex and begin the process of reprogramming the mind and taking that power back.
- Turn it On – We’ve laid the groundwork of getting everything to work together. The next step is to identify what YOU like. We’ll talk about a variety of sexual activities and styles and help you identify what works for you, give you topics for research on your own… as well as discussing how to express sexual needs.
- Choosing Sensation – It’s down to the details! What forms of touch and stimulation get you going? We’ll talk about a variety of techniques and products, what they are made of and how they are used.
- Put it in motion – introducing your new sexual self! In the final class, you’ll get the chance to see how far you’ve come, how you’ve changed and we’ll talk about how to move forward from here.
There is no physical contact in this class. However, there will be images, video, discussion and objects of a sexual nature, related to sexuality. Participants must be 21 and over. Women only.
