Dear Cindy: I left the church but still have a hard time experiencing pleasure
On Freeing Yourself of Guilt and Shame
I grew up catholic, and while I no longer involve myself with the church, I still have some hangups. It seems like I have a very hard time allowing myself to experience pleasure, sexual or otherwise. Any advice on this?
This week’s question, from a man, really resonates. I conceived the idea of MakeLoveNotPorn 15 years ago as a response to the fact that when we don’t talk openly and honestly about sex in the real world, porn becomes sex education by default, in not a good way - something I experienced for myself through dating younger men. But it was the extraordinary outpouring of emails from all around the world in response to my 2009 TED talk launching MakeLoveNotPorn, that inspired me to turn MakeLoveNotPorn into what it is today: the world’s first and only social sex videosharing platform.
The important thing about MLNP isn’t just what we do. It’s the way that we do it.