Episode 6: Sex and Seduction with Marla Renee Stewart
Sex and Seduction with Marla Renee Stewart
I'm Kendall Merritt, your host, and the founder of Soul Saturations. We are here to deeply connect with soul centered sensuality and sexuality in relationships, business, and life so you can access your power and remember your true presence.
I have an amazing guest that I'm so excited to introduce all of you to today. We are being blessed with Marla Renee Stewart.
Marla has been studying human sexuality for about 20 years now. She has been studying since college and she grew up in California, got her BA in psychology and minored in human sexuality and LGBT studies then came over to Atlanta. She migrated over to the South and has been here ever since she got her master's in sociology with a gender and sexuality emphasis. Now she has her own sexuality education company called Velvet Lips, which helps people with building their sexual confidence and enhancing their seduction skills, their communication skills as well as their sex skills. She also runs a sex conference called Sex Down South andis going into its sixth year.
She also teaches at Clayton State University, which is about 20 minutes South of downtown Atlanta. Marla teaches sociology and women's and gender studies in the department of interdisciplinary studies. She also sits on the board for Spark Reproductive Justice, which is a reproach justice, organization aimed at helping black women and LGBTQ youth leadership. Marla has a lot of hats in a lot of places but ultimately her goal is around sexual liberation, particularly thinking about, marginalized communities and how they show up in the world and how they feel more sexually empowered to do the things that they want to do with their bodies and with their relationships.
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How does Sexual Liberation in marginalized communities affect how people show up in the world?
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How does intersectionality and interdisciplinary theoretical and political frameworks influence sexual education?
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How does Sex Down South bring together all of different communities in such an inclusive world?
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How can we arm ourselves with information to lead successful and sexually liberated lives?
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What does it mean to be a black person in non-monogamous, swinger, and kinkster communities?
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What are some of the high level definitions of: sex workers, polyamorists and open relationships, queer folks, trans folks, non-binary?
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How has queer language invaded hetero-normativity?
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Why is it important for you to expand your education and understanding of sexuality?
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Why is finding a sex educator, therapist, or coach helpful to shift shame and unpack your sexuality?
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How does religious trauma impact the authenticity of individuals?
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What’s the impact of invasive and offensive assumptions and conversations?
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How can we raise the awareness of gender and sexual studies to fully honor and claim our authentic truth?
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What is it like to live in the racism and homophobia, and transphobia of the south?
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Why does the South need so much transformation?
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How can we celebrate black joy despite all the world’s circumstances of what’s happening today?
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Why is your book The Ultimate Guide to Seduction and Foreplay a useful tool?
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What is the Seduction Learning Styles? How do people get seduced visually, orally, tactfully, kinesthetically?
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Why is seduction so important for both individuals and couples?
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What happens if you have an erotic mismatch with your partner?
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How can you make penetrative sex feel good?
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What if you get into a relationship with people who are not good lovers?
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Why does knowing who you are in your full authentic truth impact your sex life?
Memorable Moments:
- "When we can really love one another and bring everything together, it really is that sexual liberation movement and being able to bring the knowledge and the inclusivity for everyone is so important" - Kendall
- "We're socialized by our families, we're socialized by religion, by schooling and fighting or not fighting, but finding yourself in your authentic true self takes a lot of work" - Marla
- "Come as your full self, if you come as your full self, you will not be dissatisfied because your partner knows that that is the true you, and that there's not going to be a huge change." - Marla
Connect with Marla
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