Bodysex Education | Kirste Carlson | Activity https://education.bodysex.com/members/kirste27gmail-com/activity/ Activity feed for Kirste Carlson. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:46:53 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 098ef035c94a873a26a39f051869dee1 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Body Appreciation in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/body-appreciation/page/2/#post-10596 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:58:27 -0400 I’ve returned to chiropractic care.

I’m eating less junk and drinking more water.

I’m taking Laura’s course and I will do the “homework.

I will continue regular tai chi.

I will ride my bike and see if I can recapture the feelings of freedom and exhilaration that I remember from junior high.

Next month I’m going to South Dakota to m…Read more

]]> 0 802a177745ea4372a55aad1a2c435691 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Body Compliments in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/body-compliments/page/2/#post-10595 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:37:31 -0400 I am going to tell you what I want to be able to tell myself:

1) I’m so proud that I have regained my health and energy…

2) I’m ecstatic that I am reclaiming my mojo and ready to share it with my partner …

3) I can have a full body orgasm on my own pretty much anytime I want… going “slow by slow”

 

]]> 0 4abed3b6ad3ff8c959a5e43a43db45ae Kirste Carlson replied to the topic STI's: Sexually-Transmitted Infections in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/stis-sexually-transmitted-infections/#post-10594 Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:16:18 -0400 I have luckily avoided genital herpes and many of the other infections. I have occasionally had sores on my mouth which I carefully manage. At least once I had haemophilus, a very smelly one! I probably picked it up from a partner. All I remember is needing to make sure I didn’t stink in public.

Being a health care provider myself I have always…Read more

]]> 0 759e74fd02c608ef13b0ccbc5ccc9351 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Intentional Motherhood in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/intentional-motherhood/page/2/#post-10582 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:54:51 -0400 I’ve often described myself as a ‘poster child’ for happy childless women. I like the term intentional mother more.

]]> 0 e6119576591c00e9edb468785f2df9f4 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Two Sexual Revolutionaries in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/two-sexual-revolutionaries/page/2/#post-10581 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:50:26 -0400 Difficult to listen knowing how women lost the right to choose… I did not know Carol Downer’s name! What a warrior.  Looking forward to learning. I can hardly think about the overturn of Roe without wanting to scream. It makes sense but I never thought about women having to hide their gender to be fairly evaluated on law tests.
Personally I have…Read more

]]> 0 f10519c1885d658e26eed8903a167b00 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic My Menopause Experience in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/my-menopause-experience/#post-10562 Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:03:10 -0400 I’m embarrassed that I really don’t remember having any trouble going through menopause. Probably there was something and I don’t want to remember! Thankfully all is pretty good now. Dryness yes, but going to ask doc @ some topical estrogen cream.

 

 

 

 

 

]]> 0 0f4e32700019123342e8c631ca478202 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Sexuality and Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and Motherhood in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/sexuality-and-pregnancy-breastfeeding-and-motherhood/page/2/#post-10560 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:48:06 -0400 I never aspired to be a mother. Early on I recognized that I had been mothered very ambivalently and I didn’t want to pass that on. I have seldom regretted that choice.  My way to contribute to the future is to be the best therapist I can and to support my friends, neighbors, and coworkers who ARE moms. When people inquire whether I have ch…Read more

]]> 0 5c3d267b99480e8a65d578a7fd46a81b Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Menstruation Open Share in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/menstruation-open-share/page/2/#post-10557 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:37:27 -0400 Like said in the last post, I got through it. The pain was the worst of it. The PMS I barely remember. I probably drank alcohol to cope at first. I got sober in my 30’s and was kinder to my body, let myself rest and appreciate my womanhood and extra sensitivity. The one thing I’d like to change for the next generation is to celebrate the menarche…Read more

]]> 0 f2145f0feedc3999dba240b2de71d77c Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Honor and Self-Care During Menstruation in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/honor-and-self-care-during-menstruation/page/2/#post-10556 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:18:10 -0400 I’ve been in menopause/crone for quite a few years now. I surely don’t miss my period. Basically what I remember is getting though it… At first there were no NSAIDS yet and I would have to go to bed with the heating pad b/c of the pain. A few times it was so bad my mother would give me a shot of Jack Daniel’s to knock me out. Eventually m…Read more

]]> 0 c980a30a27f102e01fd08d770b9ee402 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Grateful for Body Change in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/grateful-for-body-change/page/2/#post-10555 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:57:17 -0400 I’m grateful to be alive and IN my body so much of the time now!

]]> 0 dead838d6e095ab6e192ac4942937b93 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Struggle With Body Change in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/struggle-with-body-change/page/2/#post-10554 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:29:30 -0400 I’m physically weak! I’m very ashamed to be in this situation. I stopped aikido (long story) which demanded a lot of up and down with the leg muscles and also let my Vitamin D go low. Subsequently I have ended up unsteady on my feet and have too much difficulty getting up from the ground once down. I fear becoming the woman on the ad with the…Read more

]]> 0 05272e09da987d2609cfe87b3a2e28cf Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Why Is Nudity Important in Bodysex? in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/why-is-nudity-important-in-bodysex/page/2/#post-10553 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:38:10 -0400 <div>Requiring nudity is perhaps the only way to test people’s readiness to trust the group to teach them. I don’t think it’s wrong for a vulva-haver to not be able to go there but that kind of anxiety/fear/shame however it does say something about the level of support the person will need to be relaxed enough to learn in that setting. A slower e…Read more

]]> 0 021c97a371f3b2c58f4d5cd265469262 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Your Disliked/Shameful Body Part in the forum Module 3: Bodysex is Focused on the Body https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/name-a-body-part/page/2/#post-10552 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:31:42 -0400 I do not like how my feet look– callused, ugly, toes with fungus, cracked heels! Until recently I was too ashamed to get a pedicure. I would go barefoot only when absolutely necessary.  I finally did it… ONCE, so far.

]]> 0 46b1647341b9c3e58b7d45125e53cf2f Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Betty's Life in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/carlins-interview-with-betty/page/2/#post-10516 Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:36:46 -0500 I’m not sure that anything I might hear about Betty could surprise me now! My main feelings about this incredible privilege of being so close to the women who knew her, experienced her, learned directly from her are gratitude, awe, and pride in what women can accomplish.
Every time I imagine her creating Liberating Masturbation in the analog w…Read more

]]> 0 330173affc7be0e7b0f7451b4367cc96 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Betty's Lectures in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bettys-lecture-at-chico-state/page/2/#post-10510 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:37:26 -0500 Chico State: Betty was so much ahead of her time! I so regret that I never heard her speak. I have to look up weather there was even a chance… When I grow up (or maybe just retire) I want to be able to give such an honest and entertaining recounting of my sexual history  (what I can remember anyway!)

Yale: Still in the vanguard! Still so very fu…Read more

]]> 0 9658a7497eae28153265be418174bc4c Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Betty's Process in Creating Bodysex in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bettys-process-in-creating-bodysex/#post-10508 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:40:36 -0500 The absolute best thing about Betty’s process is that she developed the rituals organically from suggestions that the women who were participating themselves made. There were times when she and Sheila would try something and it was pretty far out and then the women would balk and then Betty and Sheila would just keep going and try something e…Read more

]]> 0 1a27dd9060b536ad975b399106958cb5 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Betty at the NOW Sexuality Conference in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/betty-at-the-now-sexuality-conference/page/2/#post-10506 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:22:06 -0500 In my experience during those years two different yet related things were going on. One was  first that we who were outspokenly feminist did not want to scare women away by getting two personal. We didn’t talk so openly in those days, at least I didn’t. Even in the feminist circles that I was running in I don’t remember any explicit discus…Read more

]]> 0 110fbf74f612c119d1aabadd9215ebf6 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Betty's Art in the forum Module 2: Who is Betty Dodson? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bettys-art/page/2/#post-10477 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:29:32 -0500 I loved the video of Betty talking about her art over the years. A lot of those images I had not seen before! Current favorites are all the vulvas, so lovingly detailed… what skill and patience. Who knew there was so much variety? Hopefully someone has carried on documenting cunts in line drawings.

 

 

 

 

]]> 0 fb856b580f88536ba985d4b4a6ff2cd2 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Working Through Resistance in the forum Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/working-through-restance/page/2/#post-10462 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:27:24 -0500 <p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>What have I NOT resisted?!</span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>For some reason I think the genital show and tell feels the scariest. If/when I have the opportunity I hope I can go right after the leaders, just dive into the cold water!</span></p>

]]> 0 027db617ed8292fd48e057fd9903c291 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic What stood out for you while reading Sex for One? in the forum Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/what-stood-out-for-you-while-reading-sex-for-one/page/2/#post-10460 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:16:12 -0500 <p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><i>Page 74.</i></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″><i>…we were going to be in the nude. I could tell it was a threatening idea. I only wanted to play with courageous women.</i></span></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>I have more or less talked the bodysex talk since my early teens. These groups, if I end u…Read more

]]> 0 5262b528fea792bcd22b76489c69c702 Kirste Carlson replied to the topic Bodysex Documentary in the forum Module 1: What is Bodysex? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/bodysex-documentary/page/3/#post-10439 Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:08:37 -0500 So much coming up for me… past, present.. FUTURE??? Did I feel resistance?! Are you kidding me?!

I am 68years old. I have known of, admired, recommended Betty for years and consider myself a radical feminist. Until now I have lived my life personally and professionally but not so much sexually ‘walking the walk’.of life consistent with the…Read more

]]> 0 ab20d63daeefff4e56b42745788134df Kirste Carlson replied to the topic What is Bodysex? in the forum Module 1: What is Bodysex? https://education.bodysex.com/forums/topic/what-is-bodysex/page/3/#post-10415 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:59:02 -0500 Bodysex is a way for me to here to begin with my sexual self again and to reconnect with the power of the erotic. Its an opportunity to get back on a path that I more or less strayed from (into drinking & centering on male partners) when I was in my 20s.  I recently remembered that about 60 years ago (age @ 17)  I introduced masturbation to my h…Read more

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