Meet my sex therapist, Aleks Trkulja artwork
Sex Talks With Emma-Louise Boynton

Meet my sex therapist, Aleks Trkulja

  • S3E22
  • 56:17
  • March 7th 2024

*TW: This episode discusses eating disorders and sexual assault.*

"If your experience of pleasure happens in your body, but you're in a body that you hate.... how are you supposed to access pleasure? You have to pick whether you're going to punish your body forever or if you're going to forgive it."

In this episode of the podcast, Emma is joined by her (former) sex therapist, Aleks Trkulija, to chat through some of the key issues they covered in the therapy room, including:

  • Should you have sex when you don't want to?
  • How do body image issues affect sexual function and desire?
  • Why does shame play such a prominent role in sex?
  • What are the most important things we should be unlearning when it comes to our relationship to sex?
  • What is a pleasure journal?!
  • And how can we improve the relationship we have with our bodies?

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Sex Talks With Emma-Louise Boynton

Sex is about so much more than just fucking. It's about our relationship to ourselves and to our bodies. It’s about how we experience gender and the power dynamics that come with it. It’s about our capacity for vulnerability and how willing we are to let others in.

Our relationship to sex tells us so much about who we are and how we show up in the world. So why don't we talk about it more openly?

In this podcast, host and founder of Sex Talks, Emma-Louise Boynton, sits down with a new guest each week to do just that. Opening up discussion on typically taboo topics, Emma-Louise explores issues around sex and relationships, gender and the role technology is playing in changing the way we date, love and fuck.

From writers, authors and therapists, to actors, musicians and founders, the podcast brings in voices from across the board to talk about sex.

If you want to attend one of the monthly LIVE recordings of the Sex Talks podcast at The London Edition hotel, book your ticket(s) here.