PLEASURE BY PAMELA - Female led Sex Work for Women with Pamela Madsen

Pamela Madsen is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator with a Master's degree in Education, and the founder and president of Back to the Body retreats, now in its fifteenth year. Back to the Body, the world’s foremost sexual wellness retreat, offers monthly women’s retreats held at locations around the globe, as well as at their expansive new Joshua Tree compound, established in October 2024. A pioneer in fertility and sex advocacy, Pamela was formerly the Founder and first Executive Director of The American Fertility Association. She is a veteran speaker, educator, and has been a columnist for The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and more. She has been called a “vagipreneur,” as well as an “OG in the world of sexual wellness” by Condé Nast Traveller, and has been featured on CNN, Sex with Emily, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, Buzzfeed, 60 Minutes, USA Today, and The New York Times. Pamela is also the author of Shameless: How I Ditched The Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure and Still Got Home In Time To Cook Dinner (Rodale, January 2011), and was featured in Orgasmic Leadership by Rachel Braun Scherl. She is a fearless advocate for women’s health and integrated sexuality who leverages her raw honesty and well-informed wit to help strip the stigma from women’s wellness, female desire and pleasure, body image, and infertility. In this POWER OF PLEASURE episode The Iconic Women's Sexuality activist and educator Pamela Madsen speaks with Jane Garnett about Women's Wellness, the importance of women's PLEASURE, and women's pleasure going mainstream. Pamela describes how women come online sexually at her BACK TO THE BODY retreats- now in Joshua Tree, and talks frankly and encouragingly about women's capacity for sexual pleasure across their lifespan as well as how feeling turned on exists in direct correspondence to business success, overall happiness, and sisterhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices