It's About Your Midlife Sexual Health
11/12/23 • 42 min
What we discussed:
- The story behind Intimate Wellbeing & why Cass and Leah are so dedicated to changing the conversation about sexual pleasure for midlife women.
- How the Intimate Wellbeing brand has evolved from its initial concept of being an accessible online store to becoming a recognized sexual health education community
- What happened when Cass & Leah started talking more openly about sexuality with their friends and how important they feel it is for women to have places to talk openly!
- How Intimate Wellbeing is working with the Taboo Sex Show to create a space for midlife women to learn about sexual health without feeling overwhelmed or out of place at a sex show.
- How they’ve made shopping for sex toys easier and more comfortable by curating a collection of safe, high-quality toys from brands they trust.
- The origin of their brand of lubricant, Okanogan Joy, and how they’re changing the conversation about the benefits of using lubricant.
- Plus! I share my review about the Dame Pom vibrator with Cass & Leah
Links from this week’s episode:
Intimate Wellbeing Website: https://intimatewellbeing.com
Shirley’s Picks: https://intimatewellbeing.com/pages/menopause-chicks
Intimate Wellbeing on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intimate.wellbeing/
BIG thanks to the following for sharing my passion for women’s health:
Feel Amazing Vulva & Vaginal Moisturizer
©Menopause Chicks
What we discussed:
- The story behind Intimate Wellbeing & why Cass and Leah are so dedicated to changing the conversation about sexual pleasure for midlife women.
- How the Intimate Wellbeing brand has evolved from its initial concept of being an accessible online store to becoming a recognized sexual health education community
- What happened when Cass & Leah started talking more openly about sexuality with their friends and how important they feel it is for women to have places to talk openly!
- How Intimate Wellbeing is working with the Taboo Sex Show to create a space for midlife women to learn about sexual health without feeling overwhelmed or out of place at a sex show.
- How they’ve made shopping for sex toys easier and more comfortable by curating a collection of safe, high-quality toys from brands they trust.
- The origin of their brand of lubricant, Okanogan Joy, and how they’re changing the conversation about the benefits of using lubricant.
- Plus! I share my review about the Dame Pom vibrator with Cass & Leah
Links from this week’s episode:
Intimate Wellbeing Website: https://intimatewellbeing.com
Shirley’s Picks: https://intimatewellbeing.com/pages/menopause-chicks
Intimate Wellbeing on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intimate.wellbeing/
BIG thanks to the following for sharing my passion for women’s health:
Feel Amazing Vulva & Vaginal Moisturizer
©Menopause Chicks
Previous Episode
It's About Releasing Shame Around Sex
What we discussed
- The biggest questions Dr. Klein gets asked at her clinic like, “Am I normal?”
- The questions women have about wanting to be sexual with their partner and also being a professional woman
- The pleasure gap, the masturbation gap, faking orgasms, shame, stigma & more!
- Why there’s a overfocus on intercourse in heterosexual couples
- The importance of educating women at a young age about their anatomy before they begin exploring it with a partner
- The physical and mental health benefits of masturbation and how women can talk about it more with their friend groups
- Online DISinformation about sexual health and how to find trusted, reputable experts
- Dr. Klein shares her red flags to look out for when consuming sexual content online
- What well-meaning parents should know about the research in favour of educating children about their anatomy early and how it benefits all of us
Links from this week’s episode:
Follow Dr. Klein on Instagram
Learn more about the West Coast Centre for Sex Therapy here
Books Dr. Klein recommends:
- Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski - Find it on Amazon.ca or Indigo.ca or Amazon.com
- Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Dr. Lori Brotto - Find it on Amazon.ca or Indigo.ca or Amazon.com
- Becoming Cliterate by Dr. Laurie Mintz - Find it on Amazon.ca or Indigo.ca or Amazon.com
BIG thanks to the following for sharing my passion for women’s health:
Feel Amazing Vulva & Vaginal Moisturizer
©Menopause Chicks
Next Episode
It's About Being A Change Maker with Colleen Kelly
What we discussed:
- Colleen’s change-making work in the area of volunteerism, the non-for-profit sector
- How we traditionally interpret words like “volunteer” and “menopause” and why that must change
- Choosing to compromise vs what we will never compromise on when it comes to our life’s work
- How important paradigm-shifting language is for rethinking how we see the world
- The power of language and the words we use
- Continuing to do our work even when we know we won’t necessarily live to see the impact
- Being forward-thinking enough to ensure there is a way for others to continue the work we’ve started
- We explore the language of being a changemaker and how it makes us feel to use words like paradigm shift, social construct, and rhetoric
- Why using phrases like “forest person” and “tree person” is a preferable way of describing big and small picture thinking
- How things may be difficult or hard, but they don’t have to be impossible.
BIG thanks to the following for sharing my passion for women’s health:
Feel Amazing Vulva & Vaginal Moisturizer
©Menopause Chicks
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