Pleasure Bound Podcast

What happens when you lose your s*xuality… and then find it again? 🔥

In this episode of Pleasure Bound, we get radically honest about our first experiences with s*x and pleasure after becoming paralyzed —

The grief.
The fear.
The loneliness.
The awkwardness.
The curiosity.
The fu***ng possibility.

We talk about relearning our bodies, dissecting and rebuilding s*xual confidence, navigating vulnerability, internalized ableism, self-touch, trauma, desire, radical self-love, and what it means to realize:

I’m still here.
I’m still worthy.
I’m still capable of pleasure.
And I’m not fu***ng done.

Reclaiming your s*xuality isn’t about going back to who you were, it’s about allowing what’s here now, and discovering who you can become.

And maybe pleasure isn’t just something we experience, maybe it’s a way of saying yes to being erotically, fully, and honestly ALIVE with our whole selves.

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Keep rebelling💋

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Andrew has been a leader in the world of s*xuality and disability for years now.

He’s that zero-f**ks-given Crip homie, who blazes the trail for those of us seeking liberation and a renewed sense of worthiness when it comes to s*xuality, sensuality, and beyond, in our marginalized bodies.

We LOVED this conversation. Andrew doesn’t hold back with bold and honest questions, and a compassionate lens for owning our truth.

These are the ones that fuel-up the Pleasure Bound tank.

Check out our episode on Andrew Gurza podcast Disability After Dark now.

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Xoxo,

Kelsey and Kate 🌹⚡️

Episode XIII ☠️🌹👑

Lucky 13: Don’t Be a Lady. Be a Legend. — Reflections on the Pleasure Bound Journey

Thirteen feels like the perfect place to pause.

In tarot, the Death card isn’t about endings—it’s about transformation. It’s the courage to release what no longer serves us so something more honest can emerge.

Over these first 13 episodes, we’ve let go of shame, internalized ableism, old expectations, and stories that taught us to shrink ourselves.

This episode is our moment to look back before we move forward.

It’s also the beginning of a new season.

A season where we’re choosing to be legends, not ladies.

We’re letting the lady die—the version of ourselves shaped by the need to be pleasing, quiet, grateful, or anything other than wholly ourselves.

Some things need to end so something more joyful and expansive can begin.

Here’s to becoming. 🖤

🎧 Episode 13 is out now.
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EPISODE 12: Where Shame Dies with special guest trista marie is out now 🔥🔥🔥

Some people help change the way you see yourself. They give you permission, they invite you into something richer. Trista is one of those people.

This week on Pleasure Bound, we’re joined by author, model, and disability advocate Trista Marie McGovern for a conversation about shame, desire, visibility, and what it takes to come home to yourself in a world that teaches disabled people we’re too much, not enough, or somehow outside the story of pleasure.

Trista shares the journey that led her to write Where Shame Dies, reflecting on growing up with scoliosis and chronic respiratory failure, and the years it took to stop carrying ableism as though it belonged to her. We talk about modeling as an act of vulnerability and reclamation, the healing power of q***r community and chosen family (including the joy of “kissing the homies”), navigating dating, rejection, and intimacy, and what it means to unapologetically claim your own pleasure.

We love how this conversation moves between grief and joy, rage and tenderness, because that’s what living in our bodies often asks of us.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your body is worthy of love, desire, or delight, this episode is for you.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and let us know what ignites in you.

Tomorrow marks 14 years since my spinal cord injury. 14 years ago today, is the last day that I literally walked the Earth. So wild. Yes, so wild she was. So wild she IS.

I don’t call it my injurversary anymore. I call it my rebirthday.

It’s the day my life split into a before and and after. The same way there was life before my dad died, and life after. Life before my brother died, and after.

We all have these benchmarks in our lives. They’re usually marked by points of profound change. And whether we deem them good or bad, they’re still change. Pivoting points, at which we will never be the same.

Tomorrow is the day I lost one way of moving through the world, and slowly began learning another. Letting go of the old and embracing the new. Mourning what was, and stepping into what could be.

This year, I’ve been thinking less about what I lost (while still honoring the truth of that) and more about what I’m choosing. — Joy. Pleasure. Delight.

Not because life has been easy, and not to bypass what is real, but because these practices have become the way home to myself. They have become the reminder of magic. The link to the present. The conduit to our divinity.

I’ve learned that sharing our joy isn’t selfish. In fact, it’s downright generous.

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