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Welcome to Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley. I’m Gwenm, your transformational body, soul, and sex coach. This podcast invites you to an uncensored and authentic exploration of our humanity through the lens of Eros.
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The Black Feminine Paradox: Beauty, Erasure & Power (opens the original)
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Beauty opens doors. It also demands payment. Dr. Melanie-Penny Harrison — known professionally as Bella Maori —joins Gwenm Carsley for a raw examination of beauty: not as an innocent ideal or a matter of appearance, but as a machine that rewards, wounds, seduces, excludes, and keeps us hungry for the next hit of approval. Through her memoir, Ugly: Philosophy, Beauty, Absurdity, and the Black Feminine Paradox, Bella traces the contradictions she has lived as a Black woman, philosopher, filmmaker,
The Four-Year Fast : Why Men Fear Commitment and Abandonment (opens the original)
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Hakeem Bourne McFarlane on why men fear commitment and abandonment at the same time — and what that does to how they touch people. This conversation goes at the part his other interviews leave out. Before he met the woman he now calls his internal compass, he spent four years with no dating apps, no porn, and nothing sexually explicit on his feed. What does childhood grief have to do with who a man reaches for, and how? What makes a man and a woman devotional? Hakeem is the founder of the Choose
The Lost Art of Respect: Saving a Marriage Without Therapy (opens the original)
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70% of divorces are initiated by women — and most men never see it coming. Not because the signs were loud, but because they were quiet: fewer kisses, colder shoulders, a marriage that runs like a business and sleeps like roommates. Olivier Bessaignet spent twenty-five years and nine deep-diving relationships — including twelve years beside one of France's great Tantra teachers — learning what actually rebuilds desire when talking about it has stopped working. In this conversation, Gwenm and Oli
"I'm Fine" Is the Biggest Lie: Sacha Hughes on Grief, Pinot & Coming Back to the Body (opens the original)
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Sacha Hughes knows exactly what it costs to say "I'm fine" when you're anything but. Her twenties in London ran on recruitment, cocaine, pinot, and the kind of grief that doesn't knock — her mother, lost to cancer, and years of partying with the best of them while keeping the flat spotless, because as long as the kitchen sparkled she could tell herself she had it together. Then she picked up a pen. The result is Love, Grief & More Sex Than Pinot — a debut novel featured in Woman's Own, whose her
Sex Begets Sex: Does Desire Really Fade in Long-Term Love? (opens the original)
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Does desire really fizzle and fade in long-term relationships? Gwenm sits down with Caroline Hood, licensed clinical social worker, certified sex therapist, and author of Sex Begets Sex , who has spent more than 25 years challenging the cultural narratives around female desire. Fifteen years into her own marriage and, in her words, having some of the best sex of her life, Caroline unpacks why spontaneous sex was never actually spontaneous, why talking about sex is foreplay rather than a mood kil
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