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\nAre you leaking sexual energy all over the place,\xa0at the store, gym, work, online?
\nCould you be using sex or porn to avoid shame, or avoid intimacy, or live up to some outdated model of a man?
\nCould you be using orgasm to self-soothe because you rarely received emotional soothing as a child?
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\nMark Groves is the founder of the popular and inspiring instagram page, Create The Love.
\nThis is a little different than most episodes of Men, This Way, in that Mark is a repeat guest and we\u2019re drilling down into a specific topic \u2013 essentially, how men use sex to avoid pain and what to do about it.
\nIt\u2019s a subject both Mark and I have a LOT of personal, painful experience in. We both used women, used sex, used porn, used orgasm to avoid a lot of underlying issues that just perpetuated disconnect and suffering in both ourselves and in our partners, even despite all the pleasure and good feeling that sex and orgasm and intimacy absolutely offer, too.
\nSince we both have also been on profoundly healing journeys around all this, awakening to and practicing what it takes to create healthy relationships, not just with another person, but with ourselves, and with our own full, rich sexual drives and desires, too, we decided to record an episode on this for you.
\nIt\u2019s filled with the life-changing insights and practices we both discovered on our respective journeys, including my experience doing a 30-day sex, dating, flirting, hunting, and hoping diet a few years ago, which profoundly shifted my relationship to sex, and intimacy, and really paved the way for the exquisite relationship I\u2019m in today.
\nDefinitely listen to the end of this episode of \u201cMen, This Way,\u201d where we give you our best practices for learning how to use sex, not as a crutch to avoid pain, but rather as potent fuel for creating more vitality and deep connection in your life.
\nAlright …
\nLet\u2019s dive …
\nSHOW NOTES
\n5:58 ~ Mark Groves\u2019 experiences with sex and emotional pain
\n12:08 ~ Seeking sex for emotional comfort
\n14:54 ~ Sex as validation
\n25:36 ~ Porn and its effects on men today
\n34:40 ~ Managing our sexual energy, and what draws from it
\n47:28 ~ Performance and validation
\n52:09 ~ The danger of making orgasm the point of sex
\n56:39 ~ Shame and sexuality
\n1:03:31 ~ Going on a sex diet
\n1:09:57 ~ Facing our pain, rather than avoiding it
\nOTHER LINKS AND RESOURCES
\nFind Mark @ www.MarkGroves.tv
\nThe Mark Groves Podcast
\n@CreateTheLove on Instagram
\nAlso … Do your own “Sex, Dating, Flirting, Hunting & Hoping Diet” @ www.BryanReeves.com/DatingDiet