HeyJaredPleasure Bound
Pleasure. Power. Peace. In every body.Pleasure Bound is a juicy, honest podcast about reclaiming joy, desire, and embodiment—especially in bodies shaped by disability, marginalization, trauma, grief, and profound change.Hosted by disabled storytellers Kelsey Peterson and Kate…
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Episode 16 - Deliciously Disabled: Andrew Gurza on Sex, Care, and Self-Worth (opens the original)
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In this episode of Pleasure Bound, we sit down with Andrew Gurza — host of Disability After Dark and a trailblazer in disability and sexuality advocacy. Andrew opens up about the origins of their podcast, hosting a world famous disability-led kink play party, navigating self-worth and self-doubt, the complicated realities of sex work and caregiving, and what it really means to long for genuine intimacy as a disabled person. This is a bold, funny, and deeply vulnerable conversation about desire,
Episode 15: Coming back to life: Sex after profound change (opens the original)
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Episode Description In this raw and vulnerable episode, The Pleasure Bound hosts dive into a topic they've never tackled before: what it was like to have sex for the first time after acquiring disabilities. Kate & Kelsey share deeply personal stories of disconnect, fear, trauma, and eventual reclamation of pleasure — from years of celibacy and to the empowering, and tender moments of reconnecting with their sexuality. Along the way, they explore consent and assault, redefining "promiscuous," nav
Episode 14 - From Mud to Lava: Gabriel Rodriek on grief, sex, and sound (opens the original)
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Gabriel Rodreick “Freaque” — musician, dancer, & creator behind A Cripple's Dance — joins the show for an unfiltered conversation about pleasure, disability, and creative reinvention. He traces his journey from a piano-playing, barefoot Minneapolis kid to a 33-year-old artist living with a C5 spinal cord injury, sharing how he rebuilt his singing voice, found his sound again and turned grief into art. The conversation moves through the vulnerability of A Cripple's Dance, the shame tangled up in
13. Don't be a Lady. Be a Legend - Reflections on the Pleasure Bound Journey (opens the original)
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Kate and Kelsey reunite for episode 13 of Pleasure Bound, reflecting on how far they've come since starting this journey together. They dive deep into the dance between pleasure and pain — from grief and chronic pain to redefining safety, boundaries, and self-worth. The conversation moves through vulnerability, disability and community, radical self-acceptance, and the courage it takes to share your truth publicly. They also open up about care, autonomy, and what it means to reclaim joy as the e
12. Where Shame Dies: Disability, Desire & the Radical Power of Being Fully Seen (feat. Trista Marie) (opens the original)
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12. Where Shame Dies: Disability, Desire & the Radical Power of Being Fully Seen (feat. Trista Marie) In this deeply moving episode of Pleasure Bound, Kelsey & Kate sit with author, model, and disability advocate Trista Marie to explore what it means to embody pleasure, sexuality, and self-acceptance in a body the world often refuses to see as desirable. Trista opens up about the origins of her book "Where Shame Dies," living with scoliosis and chronic respiratory failure, and the years of desen
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