From Sexual Shame to Sovereignty: Pleasure, Communication, and Unlearning Conditioning with Jocelyn Silva

Empowerment coach and sex educator Jocelyn Silva shares how growing up Catholic in the San Fernando Valley shaped intense shame-based messages about sex, and how a positive first sexual experience and feminist activism led her to leave the church and become a sex educator with Coochie La, teaching comprehensive sex ed in low-income communities.

She and the host discuss how shame and political forces restrict bodily sovereignty, why online information and porn can mislead young people, and how reframing “sex” as “pleasure” reduces performance pressure. Silva explains signs of performative sex, how stress and lack of emotional safety affect desire, and how clients can shift limiting beliefs using a thoughts-feeling ...