Sexual Wellness & Pleasure

Libido, Desire, Sexual Health & Embodied Pleasure

This section of the Sensual Bodyworks blog is dedicated to sexual well-being and pleasure as essential aspects of overall health, confidence, and quality of life. The articles here explore how desire, arousal, and pleasure are influenced by physical, emotional, hormonal, and psychological factors across different life stages.

You’ll find evidence-informed writing on libido, sexual confidence, body awareness, and the ways stress, fatigue, medication, childbirth, menopause, and relationship dynamics can affect sexual experience. Rather than focusing on performance or fixed expectations, this category centres sexual wellbeing as something responsive, personal, and changeable over time.

Content in this section also addresses pleasure anatomy, nervous-system regulation, arousal patterns, and the role of safety and relaxation in experiencing desire. Articles are written to help readers better understand their bodies, reduce shame around sexual challenges, and develop a more compassionate relationship with their own sexuality.

The Sexual Well-Being & Pleasure category includes guidance for women and couples navigating low or fluctuating libido, changes in desire after major life events, and questions around sexual satisfaction. Where relevant, posts link sexual wellbeing with communication, consent, and emotional connection, while keeping the primary focus on individual embodied experience.

All articles are designed to provide clear, practical insight without sensationalism. The aim is to support informed choice, normalise variation in sexual experience, and offer reliable education that empowers women to make decisions about pleasure, intimacy, and sexual health on their own terms.

Reconnecting With Desire After Childbirth

Childbirth is a profound physical, emotional, and identity-shaping experience. While much attention is given to recovery in the early weeks and months, many women find that long after their body has healed, something still feels different. Desire may feel distant, muted, or absent altogether. Low libido after childbirth is far more common than many people realise. It can emerge months or even years later, and often comes with confusion, worry, or a sense that something is “wr

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Spontaneous vs Responsive Desire: Why Desire Feels Different and how it Works

If you have ever wondered why you or your partner want sex differently, or why desire no longer shows up the way it once did, you are not broken and neither is your relationship. At Sensual Bodyworks , we regularly support people who feel confused, rejected, or under pressure around intimacy. One of the most liberating shifts comes from understanding the difference between spontaneous desire and responsive desire , and learning how context and care influence arousal. This un

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OMGYES Review: A Guide to Female Pleasure

What a refreshing surprise it was to find OMGYes, a mini encyclopaedia of female arousal and pleasure.

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Touch Deprivation: The Quiet Absence That Shapes Our Wellbeing

Human beings are designed for connection. From the moment we are born, touch is how we learn safety, comfort, and belonging. Yet for many adults today, meaningful physical contact has become rare.

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Real Sexy: How Confidence, Not Size or Age, Creates Feminine Allure

Sexy isn’t about age, colour, or dress size. It’s not defined by the surface of things, the numbers, the labels, or the filters. It’s a state of mind, an energy that radiates from within.

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12 Signs Your Body Needs Erotic Healing

In today’s world, our bodies often carry layers of tension, emotional weight, and unspoken longing. We go to the gym for fitness, book massages for relaxation, and meditate for mental peace, but few of us explore one of the most powerful forms of holistic renewal: erotic healing.

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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande; Reflections on Intimacy, Touch, and Rediscovery

What makes Good Luck to You, Leo Grande so refreshing is its open-hearted normalisation of sex work. There’s no sensationalism, no shame, just two people learning how to be present, honest, and kind to each other. Leo’s professionalism, empathy, and calm presence mirror the same qualities at the heart of sensual bodywork: respect, care, and the ability to create a safe, supportive space for exploration and healing.

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Unshamed: When Women Reclaim Their Erotic Desires

A woman’s desire, we’re told, is dangerous. Too raw. Too unruly. Too unpredictable. It makes people uncomfortable. It threatens the status quo. So she’s taught to mute it, apologise for it—or worse, feel ashamed for having it at all.

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Anxiety, Pleasure, and the Power of Touch - Reclaim Your Body

The words you’re about to read come from one of my clients — someone who has lived with anxiety for many years, and who found their way to sensual massage as part of a wider journey of healing and self-compassion.

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