13. It helps you get in touch with your emotions.
In 2013 Helen Hunt starred in a film by director Ben Lewin called The Sessions, where we were introduced to the idea of a “sex surrogate” — a therapist who actually has sex with you in order to help heal sexual performance-related issues.
This might seem like a wild idea, but it is not a new idea. Tantra practitioners have been healing men and women using sexual activity for time immemorial. Psychology Today says, “We feel happier, warmer and better, live longer, and experience life as more meaningful if we love and let ourselves be loved.”
Receiving acceptance and affirmation of ourselves through sexual intimacy is deeply validating. We can heal each other through deeply transparent, intimate, and emotional sex. Whether we experience deep love, verbal affirmation of our bodies, physical, emotional, and spiritual adoration — or simply the presence of another human being — sex has the potential to bring our deepest wounds to the surface and heal them.
What better way to be loved than to MAKE love?
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