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tips for responsive desire, part 1

tips for responsive desire, part 1

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Sarah Diedrick
Dec 09, 2022
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Hi lovely paid subscriber,

As promised, here is your bonus content! Throughout this desire series, I’ll be sharing some tips around working with responsive desire. I’ll be sharing 2-3 tips each week so you have a bite-sized portion to sit with - and maybe even apply to your relationship(s)!

Alas, here are your first two:

  1. Center pleasure over heteronormative notions of what sex is supposed to be.

    Heteronormativity is the assumption that everyone is straight. It leads to dominant culture prioritizing and emphasizing heterosexual relationship structures and interactions. This is exactly why sex has come to be defined as penis in vagina. But, luckily, we’re in an age of expanding our definition of sex to exist outside of just that.

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