Don’t Mind If I do!: The Stigma of Masturbation with Ellamae Fullalove

Ellamae Fullalove, founder of @vavawomb_ and @mindovermkh, is a community and events founder, advocate, speaker, podcast host, workshop facilitator, poet and all round creative. Ellamae curated the stigma shaking community brand  @vavawomb_ which provides educational, scroll-stopping content on gender equality, intersectional feminism, pleasure, infertility, health and well-being. She co-founded The Vagina Festival event using performing arts, story telling, workshops and poetry as a catalyst for change.She designs and delivers workshops to untangle shame, to self explore and to tap into your sexual mental health, as well as for mindfulness using art therapy as a method of reflection. She founded the worldwide MRKH Podcast, events, creative awareness and resource platform @mindovermrkh (which you can find via the Va Va Womb website) to support those with MRKH, DSDs and other relatable experiences through amplifying stories from around the world, hosting creative writing clubs during lockdown and running social events in London. By day, Ellamae works in Social Housing, all of her evening and weekend work supporting those with MRKH has come from a place of wanting to be the woman she needed when she was a girl, because no person with MRKH should ever feel alone.DescriptionWith sexual censorship on the rise, our social media influencers need a societal shift more than ever! Let’s face it - both masturbation and pleasure remains one of the most taboo topics out there. Yet, aren’t we all doing it? Maybe, maybe not. Sure, bedroom antics and sexual pleasure is a personal choice - however, are we robbing ourselves of a world of exploration when it comes to “things down there”? In this episode, I chat with friend, advocate, and creative activist, Ellamae, to chat about vagina symbolism, “ridding the rap” when it comes to lube, the benefits of solo-play, and why our sexual freedom rests in the hands of an algorithm. Topics: In this episode, Ally and Ellamae discuss:Why Vagina is not a dirty word: Removing the stigma once and for allThe medical diagnosis, MRKH, that both Ally and Ellamae bonded overWhy masturbation, self-pleasure and exploring happiness became Ellamae’s “why” How faking orgasms can be a bump-starter, benefit or betrayal Sex, social media and censorship: Battling Metadata and the algorithm “Gods”Aeroplanes, fruit, and road-signs: Vagina symbolism in all its forms. Follow: You can find Ellamae on Instagram @vavawomb, and via her website www.vavawomb.com . If you love this episode, please share and leave a review — let’s smoke out stigma and make truth-telling the next biggest trend! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.