Every Day Is Worthy of Pleasure
Nina Hartley offers a poetic reflection on building a life of daily pleasure, presence, and care. This meditation reminds us that erotic joy is not a rare indulgence but a human need we are all worthy of, every single day.
Reclaiming Erotic Joy After Betrayal
Nina Hartley offers compassionate support for people healing from betrayal. This blog explores how to gently reconnect to erotic joy, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim pleasure after heartbreak or abandonment.
Disability and Desire Deserve Better Representation
Nina Hartley affirms that disabled people deserve full inclusion in sexual education and media. This powerful blog breaks down ableism and celebrates the beauty and validity of disabled desire and erotic expression.
Why I Still Teach Sex After All These Years
Nina Hartley shares why she continues teaching sex after decades of experience. This heartfelt blog explores her legacy, the importance of pleasure and truth, and why sex education still matters at every stage of life.
Your Pleasure Map: Start With What Feels Good
Nina Hartley offers a grounded guide to mapping your own pleasure. This blog helps readers explore sensation without pressure, building body awareness and confidence through curiosity, not performance.
The Difference Between Fantasy and Consent
Nina Hartley explains the essential difference between fantasy and consent, especially for those exploring kink, porn, or power dynamics. This blog offers clear, grounded guidance on keeping erotic play safe, ethical, and consensual.
Yes, Sex Workers Belong at the Table
Nina Hartley makes a powerful case for why sex workers must be included in conversations about sexuality, healing, and education. This blog honors their wisdom, care work, and long-standing role as cultural teachers and embodied leaders.
You Do Not Have to Want Sex to Be Whole
Nina Hartley affirms that sexual desire is not required for wholeness. This powerful blog honors asexuality, survivor healing, and seasons of disinterest with deep care and permission, offering a shame-free message of worth and truth.
How to Be a Better Lover Without Tricks
Nina Hartley shares how to be a better lover without gimmicks. This calm, grounded blog teaches presence, breath, timing, and care as the real keys to confidence and connection in sex.
Kink and Healing: When Pain Meets Presence
Nina Hartley explores the connection between conscious kink and trauma healing. This blog offers a grounded, sex-positive guide to how power play can be a space for reclamation, with clear boundaries, strong consent, and honest communication.
Curiosity Over Shame: The Heart of Sex Ed
Nina Hartley reflects on why curiosity is the foundation of sex education. This blog honors the brave, awkward, sacred questions people ask and offers a shame-free invitation to keep learning, exploring, and speaking the truth.
Lube Is Love: Stop Making It Taboo
Nina Hartley celebrates lube as a joyful, shame-free part of healthy sex. This blog explores types of lube for different bodies and activities, dispels myths, and offers practical tips for making pleasure smoother and more satisfying.
Reclaiming Power Through the Erotic
Nina Hartley introduces the core practices of self-attunement and self-consent, inviting readers to reclaim the erotic as a source of inner power and presence. This blog offers tools for healing, embodiment, and building an authentic relationship with desire.
Sex After Trauma: It’s Okay to Go Slow
Nina Hartley offers a gentle, trauma-informed guide to reclaiming sex after trauma. This compassionate blog normalizes mixed feelings, shifting desires, and the need to go slow, offering survivors permission to heal at their own pace.
Erotic Identity Isn’t a Performance
Nina Hartley unpacks why erotic identity is not about performance. This blog invites readers to stop faking arousal, release pressure to “feel sexy,” and embrace authentic, moment-to-moment intimacy instead.
Aging and Arousal: What No One Tells You
Nina Hartley shares honest, compassionate guidance for navigating changes in arousal, lubrication, erection, orgasm, and desire as we age. This blog offers validation, practical tips, and a new way to relate to pleasure over time.
Your Partner Isn’t a Mind Reader: Erotic Communication Basics
Nina Hartley shares loving, practical tools for erotic communication. Learn how to ask for what you want in bed, receive feedback with care, and build deeper trust through honest conversation and embodied consent.
Touch Deprivation Is Real
Nina Hartley validates the deep ache of touch deprivation and offers gentle, practical tools for self-soothing, platonic touch, and nervous system healing. This blog reminds us that longing for connection is not weakness. It is human.
When Sex Feels Far Away: How to Begin Again
Nina Hartley offers a gentle, shame free invitation for people who feel disconnected from sex or sensation. This blog explores how to begin again through presence, safety, and curiosity rather than pressure or performance.
Anal 101: A Gentle Invitation
Nina Hartley offers a shame free, beginner friendly guide to anal play. This warm and practical blog includes clear tips, consent centered advice, and body aware metaphors to support safe, pleasurable exploration.