Name
Pleasure is the Measure
Date & Time
Sunday, June 1, 2025, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Dr. Emily Nagoski
Description

In this talk, sex educator Emily Nagoski will describe a transformative approach to “low desire.” Based on the most current science, this talk offers three actionable ideas for helping clients sustain (or rebuild!) sexual connections in long-term relationships by shifting focus from desire to pleasure and strategies to co-create it.

 

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

  • Integrate the seven primary process emotions into a sex education context and to address difficulties with arousal, desire, pleasure, and orgasm.
  • Differentiate between “responsive desire,” “spontaneous desire,” and "magnificent desire" and explain their relevance to differential desire in couples.
  • Explain at least two lessons from people who self-identify as having "extraordinary sex" for couples struggling with desire differential.
  • Describe the relationship between context and the perception of sensation as pleasurable.
Session Type
Main Stage