PLEASURE with Lidia Bonilla: Defining, embracing, and living pleasure

Julie and Casey sit down to talk with Pleasure Strategist Lidia Bonilla about the value, politics, and fear around women’s pleasure, what it takes to go from survive to thrive, and life lessons from caring for an ill parent.

TOP TAKEAWAYS

• Reclaim your pleasure by following your curiousity

• Pleasure is your god given right

• Pleasure is unproductive by capitalist standards- yet it’s essential to our well being

• Pleasure is about connection, numbing is about disconnection

• We stay in our misery because it’s safe and familiar, but believing our misery is as good as it can get keeps us cut off from our pleasure and potential

• Lesson: Following your curiosity

Lidia Bonilla is an empowerment coach and product inventor, committed to women having lives full of power, pleasure, and intimacy. She is the founder of House of Plume, an intimate lifestyle brand that provides the discerning consumer with storage options for their pleasure items.

Lidia co-founded Women of Sex Tech, a global organization dedicated to merging sex and technology.

She is a highly sought after expert, whose work has been covered by the New York Times, Refinery 29, Forbes and Essence Magazine. I'm passionate about speaking on topics like making pleasure a habit, learning how to love your body, and creating a life of freedom and authenticity.