Dr. Lucie Fielding: On A Pleasure-Centered Approach to Trans Sexualities

About this episode

Dr. Lucie Fielding discusses a pleasure-centered approach to trans sexualities with Dr. Roger Kuhn.

In her work, sex therapist and author Dr. Lucie Fielding seeks to move trans sexualities from the margins of gender-affirmative clinical practice to centering pleasure and sparking creativity and empathic attunement within the client-provider relationship. In the latest expanded second edition of her groundbreaking book, Trans Sex, she offers new concepts such as gender-pleasure and solidarity to bring theory to practice and features contributing trans and gender expansive authors working at the intersections of sexuality and gender. * In this episode, CIIS Human Sexuality faculty and Trans Sex contributor Dr. Roger Kuhn has a conversation with Dr. Fielding exploring tools and strategies for trans and gender expansive folks and allies for circumventing limiting understandings of the erotic and opening a potential universe of pleasure that celebrates our polymorphous bodies. * This episode was recorded during an in-person and live streamed event at California Institute of Integral Studies on October, 9th 2025. You can also watch it on the CIIS Public Programs YouTube channel. A transcript is available at ciis.edu/podcast. To find out more about CIIS and public programs like this…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Roger Kuhn

Guest: Dr. Lucie Fielding

Topics covered

• trans sexualities
• pleasure-centered approach
• gender-affirmative practice
• client-provider relationship
• sexuality and gender
• tools and strategies for allies

Keywords

• trans sexualities
• pleasure
• gender-affirmative
• erotic
• polymorphous bodies
• sex therapy
• empathic attunement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: California Institute of Integral Studies

Books & works: Trans Sex

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