Discovering pleasure and joy beyond penetrative sex can help alleviate genital pain in men. In my conversation with Heather Edwards, we dive into redefining sex, strategies to ease pain in and out of the bedroom, and how clinicians can make their practice more gender inclusive and positive.

The mission in moving forward is to create space for the parts that hurt while also bringing your awareness to other parts of your body that aren’t in pain and want your attention (like your ear lobe!). There are parts of your brain that are trying to protect you, so focusing your attention on parts that hurt is normal, but we don’t want to get stuck in these parts, we want to move through them.