Pleasure Uprising: Desire, Attachment, and the Sex You Actually Want
by Laura Jurgens, Ph.D.
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<p><em>Formerly The Desire Gap Podcast</em></p><p><br></p><p>Most people who feel disconnected from their desire, their pleasure, or their partners have spent years assuming something is wrong with them. It isn't. The disconnection is real — but it traces back to what most of us were never taught: how to be in our bodies fully, how to connect to each other authentically, how to know and ask for what we need without guilt or shame. Culture shapes that — the broader culture we inherit, and the family we grew up in — and it can be unlearned. Pleasure, secure attachment, and authentic desire are your birthright.</p><p><br></p><p>You can learn what you were never taught — and unlearn what got in the way.</p><p><br></p><p>Dr. Laura Jurgens is a somatic sex and intimacy specialist, Master Certified Intimacy Coach, American Board of Sexology Certified Sex Educator, and former research professor whose work sits at the intersection of nervous system science, attachment theory, and genuine embodi