Pleasure After Purity Culture with Rachel Overvoll, Somatic Sex Coach

Rachel Overvoll is a Somatic Sex and Intimacy Coach and published author of Finding Feminism. Using her credentials from the Somatica Institute and Kinsey Institute, she works through the mediums of embodiment and self-attunement to help clients step into the power of an authentic and pleasure-centered life. The term “purity culture” is generally associated with the white, American, Evangelical Christian Purity Movement. However, evangelicals don’t have a monopoly on the ethics of purity culture. The specifics vary by religion and culture, but gender and sexual control upon which purity culture stands is global, cross-religious, and cross-cultural.  Rachel and Dr. Kate talk about the Purity Culture that conflates women’s worth with their virginity.Couples don’t even hold hands til engaged. Any distractions to man’s path to God are a sin.But actually, men keep control over women’s bodies in the form of sexual oppression.Some see it as positive…but in the Purity Culture, it is embedded so deeply and really is oppression. Rachel talks about how Purity culture instills in women a deep hatred of their bodies and mistrust of their bodies because they are taught it causes evil.Women in this culture cannot enjoy their bodies as it causes themselves and men to sin.The process of women trying to leave the Purity culture is also part of the conversation: Regaining love of your body, and knowing you deserve pleasure.Dr. Kate and Rachel talk about:1. what purity culture is and some of the lessons it teaches children growing up in it 2. How did Rachel begin to unpack purity culture messaging? 3.   How does purity culture impact how someone shows up for themselves? For a partner? 4.  How can someone recovering from purity culture begin to explore what is pleasurable for them? 5. How can someone deal with the shame that's rooted in purity culture as they begin their exploration of pleasure? And so much more. Join us.The Modern Intimacy WebsiteSocial: Dr. Kate The Modern Intimacy Rachel Overvoll  @rachelovervoll  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices