Euphemia Russell - Is Pleasure a Four-Letter Word?

WellBeings with Dominic Bowden

Do you want to feel more alive? The answer is, probably, who doesn’t? And that’s why it’s one of the first questions LA-based pleasure and embodiment coach Euphemia Russell asks their clients. Because that feeling of being alive, however that feeling hits you - excitement, aliveness, engagement - that’s pleasure. And we’re delving deep into the pleasure spectrum with Euphemia in this episode of WellBeings through their best-selling book Slow Pleasure: exploring the pleasure spectrum.

We have so many choices available to us in every moment to invite more pleasure into our lives, but the barrier to this, as Euphemia describes it, is that we’ve inherited a society that structurally and collectively views pleasure as selfish, something to be deferred until after all the work is done or just downright shameful. Pleasure is about so much more than sex. There it is! That naughty, taboo word that has us all feeling super awkward. You knew it was coming so we thought we’d get it out of the way early. Yes, of course, pleasure can be about sex, but it can also be about movement, engagement, ease, connection - it can even just be the very basic reminder that we live in a body. One of the traps that society has created for us around pleasure is that we’re presented with two very binary options, one that is hyper-sexual and one that is totally desexualised. But like so many things, Euphemia explains, pleasure is a spectrum. So jump on in with us, the water is lovely and warm.

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