With Pleasure Quotes

“Great sex is not a train you get on as a passive passenger and wait to “get off” at your stop. It is a place, an idyll where you can relax, explore, pause, savor, run around, or leave altogether when you choose.”
― August McLaughlin, With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships

“We believe that you are the expert of your own life, and we want to help create space for and facilitate additional healing, growth, pleasure, and vibrancy in your life, however that may look for you.”
― August McLaughlin, With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships

“If we practice moving toward our body’s distress, however—meaning noticing our body’s reactions, taking them seriously, and working with our body, not against it—we give ourselves a better chance of mitigating or reducing distress or harm to ourselves or those who love us.”
― Jamila Dawson, With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships

“We may feel trapped between our need to take care of ourselves by going to our doctor’s appointments and our body’s heightened sense of uncertainty, disgust, or alarm at the prospect of being in the situation.”
― Jamila Dawson, With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships

“For folks who are inclined, pleasurable sex and orgasm can also help minimize stress and anxiety, while instilling a sense of bliss or peacefulness. Almost anything that engages one or more of our senses—taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight—in positive ways can invite the myriad perks of pleasure.”
― Jamila Dawson, With Pleasure: Managing Trauma Triggers for More Vibrant Sex and Relationships