Stella

Touch without the hidden “foreplay” agenda
Couples

Touch without the hidden “foreplay” agenda

Struggling with predictable, agenda-driven touch in your long-term relationship? Discover how to enjoy sensual massage and cuddles without the pressure of sex — and why touch WITHOUT a hidden foreplay agenda can actually reignite desire. Includes a playful, no-strings couple’s touch practice perfect for cosy date nights in.

Cosy Winter Nights: How to Create Deeply Intimate Date Nights at Home
Couples

Cosy Winter Nights: How to Create Deeply Intimate Date Nights at Home

Shorter days, cosier nights – the perfect season to slow down and truly tune into your partner. In this guide, Stella shares a simple yet profound touch practice that rebuild Likelihoods of tears, laughter, and the sweetest intimacy (no sex needed). Perfect for couples craving deeper connection this winter.

heartbreak
Intimacy & Connection

What Constitutes Success in Love? Redefining Failure in Relationships

What constitutes success in love? Society says it’s how many years you stayed together. But calling a breakup—even after 32 years—a “failure” is unfair and damaging.
As a somatic sexologist, I hear it often: “I failed at love.” Yet divorce with mutual respect or losing a partner to death doesn’t erase the growth, depth, and transformation that happened.
True success in relationships isn’t duration—it’s how deeply you dared to be seen, how much love expanded your heart, and how profoundly it changed you. Jungian analyst Jan Bauer writes in Impossible Love: “What we call a ‘failed’ love affair may be the most successful event in a person’s life if it has furthered the development of the soul.”
Stop pathologising your heartbreak. Passionate, turbulent, or “impossible” loves—like Romeo & Juliet or Héloïse and Abelard—were once celebrated as great passions. Today we label them toxic.
You didn’t fail. You lived. You grew. That’s real success in love.

Fun Sex Positions for Couples
Communication in Relationships, Couples, Sex Education & Techniques, Sexual Confidence

Fun sex positions for couples to try!

We often hear about new and daring sex positions to try, but sometimes the real magic comes from adding creative variations on classic sex positions you already enjoy. Many couples, especially in long-term relationships, find comfort in the familiar — and there’s nothing wrong with that. But a little creativity can turn those tried-and-true favourites into something exciting and deeply intimate again.

Understanding Tight Foreskin
Men

Tight foreskin? phimosis and circumcision

Explore this supportive, expert-backed guide to tight foreskin and circumcision. Learn what’s normal, when to seek help, and how to approach decisions with confidence and care.

Are you having a big O
Self-Love & Sexual Wellbeing

Are you having a Big O – or a climax?

If you’ve used the words orgasm and climax interchangeably, you’re not alone. But here’s the beautiful truth: when we dig deeper into the types of orgasms in women, a whole world of sensation, awareness, and joy opens up. And that’s what we’re diving into today.

Sexual Confidence, Women

‘Nobody cares about women’s pleasure’

Exploring Female Pleasure and Reclaiming Desire: Insights from Good Luck to You, Leo GrandeEmma Thompson’s brilliant film Good Luck to You, Leo Grande isn’t just a delight to watch—it’s a quiet revolution. With warmth, humor, and unflinching honesty, it shines a light on female sexuality, aging, body image, and the rarely discussed truth: most women have never been taught how to truly experience pleasure.Thompson herself recently pointed out that science has almost entirely ignored female pleasure. She…and the evidence backs her up. The anatomical structure linked to the G-spot was only officially described in 2012. Female ejaculation is still dismissed by many doctors as “incontinence.” Centuries of medical research prioritized male anatomy, leaving women to figure out their own desire in the dark.In the film, Nancy—a widowed retired teacher—hires a sex worker (the charming Leo Grande) because she realizes she has never had an orgasm and no longer wants to die without knowing what pleasure feels like. Her journey is awkward, funny, tender, and profoundly relatable. It mirrors the stories I hear every week from clients: women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond who are finally ready to reclaim the pleasure that was never theirs to begin with.So many of us carry the same quiet “shoulds”:“I should feel more sexual.”
“I should love my body by now.”
“I should be having orgasms (or at least know what I like).”But pleasure isn’t a performance. It’s a return home.Your body is not broken. It’s waiting.
Those thousands of nerve endings didn’t disappear just because life, motherhood, grief, or shame told you to ignore them. They’re still there—ready to light up the moment you turn your attention, your breath, and your curiosity back toward sensation.Good Luck to You, Leo Grande ends with Nancy standing naked in front of a mirror, looking at herself—really looking—for the first time, and smiling. “I haven’t felt this alive for ages,” she says.If that line stirs something in you, trust it.
The desire to feel alive in your own skin is not frivolous. It’s sacred.You don’t have to suppress it anymore.
And you don’t have to navigate the journey alone.Here’s to choosing aliveness—messy, joyful, unapologetic aliveness.(If this resonates and you’re ready to explore your own pleasure with kindness and support, my practice is a judgment-free space for exactly that. You deserve to come home to your body.)

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