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You decide

what pleasure means to you

erotic and otherwise

Alison Pilling (she/they) is a teacher, writer and mentor, on a personal and professional journey through the erotic realms. Exploring the world of conscious sensuality, pleasure and power in myriad ways towards personal and erotic freedom.

As creator and host of The Sex Lectures, Ali offers a permissive space for promoting sex-positive information and inspiration. As a mentor, she’s a sounding board for your inspiration. As a writer, she shares her world and holds space for yours.

Feeling like there is more than you have experienced in sex is natural.

Of course, there’s more: healing, fun, eroticism, better touch, better relationships, better styles of communication and understanding. Rather than feeling bewildered or complaining about where you’re at, the decision may only be giving the time to explore what that ‘more’ could be.

The decision is the sliding door.

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Here’s the writing of the practitioners I admire, in my field and beyond, personal and professional writing beyond the sales pitch and censors. Here we are brave, sharing what we know, what we’ve learned, what we believe. I’ve invited them to write about what we find hard to say or share. I invite you to come into our world with all its beauty, suffering, paradox, eroticism and pleasure.

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