Are you ready for Pleasure?
Welcome to decolonized sex ed for adults.
I help you unlearn the cultural misinformation so you can reclaim your erotic life.
I use a method that blends
sex science
embodiment practices
mystical lineage
To help you reclaim your pleasure and your body.
My approach
Sex Science
It’s important to remember that the clitoris wasn’t a fully mapped organ until 2005. For most of modern human history women’s sexuality was studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than male sexuality. A male “lite”, if you will.
This resulted in people expecting all bodies to react, respond, and desire the same way male bodies do. And if it doesn’t, well then it’s just wrong.
If you think this has an effect on how you feel about your body, you’d be correct.
I teach you what is factually true about bodies and help untangle the knots.
Embodiment
One of the most consistent frustrations I hear from people is their struggle with being present during wanted sexual encounters.
Embodiment is the practice of using your breath, your body movements, and your voice to tune into the sensations you’re feeling (interoception) to improve your sexual experiences.
Mystical Lineages
The foundation of pre-colonial sexuality is connection, expansion, and acceptance. Far less judgment. Far more pleasure.
Lineages like tantra provide a blueprint for increasing pleasure, presence, and honing seduction techniques.
1:1 Sessions
My sessions are personalized and tailored to
your starting point,
your goals, and
your desires.
They are curated, brave spaces where you will be supported, validated and challenged.
Individuals and couples are welcome.
About Me
Maria Rodriguez, Founder
I've been involved in sex education since my teenage years at Catholic school, where I handed out pamphlets about birth control to my peers even before my own sexual debut. I bristled at the controlling and limiting gender expectations taught by the Catholic Church, and that life experience profoundly radicalized me.
However, even before that, I was already challenging the status quo, making adults uncomfortable by demanding better answers to the gender double standards in my Latinx community. “Porque así son las cosas” ["Because that’s how things are"] was never a satisfying response for me.
I spent a long time stumbling, disconnected and without a template that felt right to me. Along that journey, I dug into pre-colonial cultural understandings of sex, gender, pleasure, and ritual.
Reconnecting with a long-lived, historical accurate but hidden version of sexuality has been the north star I didn’t know I needed.
"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion."
Bell Hooks
This work is for everyone
Especially for people who are frustrated with the state of their erotic life.
As Esther Perel says, “Inside of your sexual preferences lie your deepest emotional needs.”
If you want to have fulfilling, pleasurable, and satisfying sex, the work of understanding yourself, your desires, and what you bring to the experience is essential.
When you were born, the doctor or midwife most likely looked between your legs and said, “It’s a girl!” or “It’s a boy!” depending on what genitalia they saw there. And from that day forward, you were handed a script on How To Be a Human Girl or Boy, depending on your gender.
You’ve maybe been working really hard to live up to those expectations because, let’s face it, getting accolades and being validated feels nice. And somewhere along the way, you’ve realized that those scripts are less helpful than they first appeared.
You might even be frustrated and angry with the way your partner is doing Human Girl or Boy so well. So well that you may have lost sight of each other outside of the cultural scripts.
I’m here to help you work through the disconnect and really know each other as your full selves, not just who you are through your scripted expectations.