In this episode of Good Girls Talk About Sex, we talked with Jessi Kneeland, a 31-year-old cis-gendered white woman who is bisexual, monogamous, and currently single. Jessi is a coach, speaker, writer, and altogether kickass person who is passionate about helping women to understand their bodies and their sexuality. She is the coach who has stood with me through my sexual exploration and reclaiming my body. You can find her online at www.JessiKneeland.com and on Instagram at @jessikneeland Here are some of the amazing moments she shared with us: 4:54 – The lesson Jessi learned at age 7 about what it meant to desire male attention 7:18 – The lessons she learned about body image in her young life 12:00 – How confusing it is for people who were assaulted as children and didn’t understand that it was assault at the time, and how important it is to give accurate language to those experiences 14:30 – The ways Jessi went about healing from childhood assault 16:45 – How detrimental it is to compare our trauma with other people’s trauma 21:18 – Jessi’s transition from feeling sexy to feeling sexual pleasure 23:40 – Practicing “vagina kung fu” 24:55 – When Jessi learned that what she thought was “great sex” … wasn’t 26:50 – The male body worker who helped Jessi recognize how her physical injuries were reflecting the emotional trauma she had been through 28:24 – Jessi offers an easy anatomy lesson on the muscles of the vagina 32:48 – The cultural narrative around women’s role in sex 35:52 – Jessi’s recommendations for great reading 37:30 – The Quick Five In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:   Book – Becoming Cliterate Book – Come As You Are Video – Jessi’s TEDx Talk Sex toy – The Womanizer The interviews for this podcast are longer than we have space to fit into an episode. If you’d like to hear the full, unedited version of this and all the other interviews in this series, become a community supporter at Patreon.   Host – Leah Carey (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, email) Editor – Gretchen Kilby Music by – Nazar Rybak