178: Fostering Eroticism + Pleasure while Living with Chronic Pain and Illness with Suzannah Weiss

About this episode

The episode discusses how to cultivate eroticism and pleasure while living with chronic pain and illness, featuring insights from guest Suzannah Weiss.

In this episode, I sit down with Suzannah Weiss to explore how eroticism and pleasure can be cultivated while living with chronic pain and illness. We unpack the cultural myths that normalize women’s suffering, how pain and fatigue impact libido and orgasm, and what it means to stay connected to pleasure when the body isn’t cooperating. An intimate, grounded conversation on listening to the body, redefining sex beyond performance, and reclaiming erotic agency in all seasons of health. In this episode you’ll hear: 00:00 Intro 02:50 Chronic Pain, Libido, and Erotic Truth 06:06 Eve’s Curse and the Myth of Women’s Pain 08:13 PMS, Power, and Cultural Backlash 16:08 Medical Gaslighting and the Cost of Not Being Believed 31:50 The Myth of the Elusive Female Orgasm THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Suzannah Weiss is a writer and psychotherapist focused on sexuality, relationships, and women’s empowerment. She is the author of Subjectified, a memoir-manifesto on ending objectification, and Eve’s Blessing, a personal, political, and spiritual exploration of reclaiming pleasure where women have been taught to accept pain. With over 8,800 published articles, her work has appeared in outlets such…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Cat Meyer

Guest: Suzannah Weiss

Topics covered

• chronic pain
• eroticism
• pleasure
• libido
• women's empowerment
• sexuality

Keywords

• chronic pain
• libido
• erotic agency
• women's suffering
• sexuality
• pleasure
• medical gaslighting
• female orgasm

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New York Times, The Washington Post

Books & works: Subjectified, Eve’s Blessing

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