Do you remember a time when you felt in charge of YOUR body, advocated for YOUR sexual well-being, or claimed agency over YOUR desire?
What would it look like if you could reside in YOUR full sexual self, harness joy & pleasure, and experience YOUR liberation?
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Sexual Liberation Contest Stories
Donate Smashing the Shell of Shame by Alex (she/her) I am on the road to sexual liberation, but I’m not quite there yet. The years of sexual encounters in which my pleasure was dismissed and denied makes it difficult to…
Donate The Moments In Between By Helena Bon’em Harder | she/her I’m 12 and my best friend and I start experimenting with things I read about in Playboy while babysitting. At the time, every family I babysat for had a…
Donate cobwebs Alex (they/them) Last fall, I gathered all the loose threads I’d shoved underneath my bed and started braiding them together. I held each knot between my fingers and framed them in gold, refusing to untangle a single strand,…
Donate The Opposite of Mind Blowing Caz Killjoy (they/them) | Honorable Mention When I was about 30, I confessed to a friend of mine that I wasn’t sure if I was orgasming or not. My understanding at the time was…
Donate I Wanted To Feel Alive Mel | Third Place Winner Of The Sexual Liberation Contest I wanted to feel everything at once and nothing at all. For the longest time it didn’t matter what I wanted, what I craved,…
Donate Friendship Is Sexual Liberation Lourdez Velasco | Second Place Winner Of The Sexual Liberation Contest To me, friendship is sexual liberation. Practicing care and intimacy through friendships has taught me so much about accessing my pleasure, learning more about…
Donate Anything But Enough Ina F. | First Place Winner Of The Sexual Liberation Contest Bear with me before I bare it all (the last of that sort of pun, I promise). I’d like to start with a little bit…
Sexual Liberation Story Archive
Donate By Bishop Howard | They/Them | Associate Clinical Social Worker My sexual liberation journey began in 2015, when I moved to Chicago IL and discovered the joy of intimacy and kissing. For the longest time I had a very strict…
Donate By Anonymous I just had one of the best orgasms of my life. Ok, maybe just the last two weeks. But seriously it was like 30 minutes of waves and shocks and pulses… I was grateful my house was…
Donate It’s been many years since I’ve been living a beautifully-liberated life as a sexually-active queer and trans person. Yet, it wasn’t until after major chronic illnesses, the birth of my child in my 40s, and unpredicted body changes from…
Donate In the mid 2000’s, I started going to gay clubs in Los Angeles. Aside from West Hollywood which was frequented by mostly Gay white men, there was the Black lesbian scene where QTBIPOC folk could dance, flirt, and be…
Donate by Ignacio G Rivera I was 12 years old and it was the first time I had stayed in a hotel room without my mother. She wasn’t very far. She was a few rooms down from where I was…
Donate The moments I cherish the most in my sexuality are when I feel like I trip the wire of some part of my desire I know nothing about, and then an entire world of lust and pleasure opens up.…
Donate by Dr. Renair Amin (she/they)| Relationship Wellness Expert The moment that I truly realized that I had become sexually liberated, I was elated. I felt powerful. Excited. And ready. I was overwhelmed with emotion and could not contain how…
Donate I am a very independent and free-spirited person. I always have been. My mom would often think “what is wrong with my child?” as I’d walk inside the house from whatever outside activity we were doing. You see, I…
Donate By Kit Stubbs, Ph.D. It was the early 2000’s when I bought my first vibrator in college, at a dark, sketchy-feeling shop called, “Sex World in Minneapolis.” Before then, I would use my hands to reach orgasm. But, the…
Donate My Sexual Liberation story is the day I came across the Farsi Wikipedia page for Orgasm. I was sixteen and had recently learned to access state-blocked websites using sketchy open source VPNs. Before that day, I didn’t know that what…