Member-only story
Can You Handle A Month Focused on Your Sexual Self-Pleasure? — Dr. J. | Donna Jennings, Ph.D.
Welcome to May’s Monthly Self-Pleasure Challenge Week One, May 1–6
Self-Pleasure to know thyself. Could this be more relevant than for your sexuality?
Most folks don’t know their sexual self because our culture, institutions, family, and society send negative messages about understanding ourselves as sexual human beings. I created this sexuality challenge for masturbation month for you to explore who you are sexually with a focus on pleasure. This idea might sound foreign to you because many people talk about masturbation and orgasm as pleasure, yet we have not stated pleasure as a part of sexual health.
The World Health Association has added pleasure to the definition of sexual health. Their new document recognizes that sexual pleasure is a fundamental part of sexual rights, sexual health, and sexual well-being. I have spent my entire career working to advance permission for sexuality exploration to all folks, especially women, to include sexual pleasure in their lives.
