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Is masturbation selfish?
Welcome to The Erotic Journal Challenge! If you’ve never participated, make sure to glance at the rules. This week, share your opinion: Is masturbation selfish? I recently read a post that posited that if you are in a relationship, masturbation is selfish, because it takes sexual energy away from the person you should be dedicating it to. Hmmm… I was intrigued by the topic, so I figured I would send it out to you for consideration. What do you think? NOTE: Please take a moment to read the rules. The Erotic Journal Challenge encourages writers to really dig deep and share some pretty personal stuff. So I want everyone to know that they…
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What are your thoughts on gender and sexual identity?
Welcome to The Erotic Journal Challenge! If you’ve never participated, make sure to glance at the rules. This week, consider your thoughts on sexual identity and gender. Take it any direction you’d like, but here are some questions that might help to get the thoughts flowing: How do you feel about gender roles as they apply to you? Do you believe in gender and sexuality scales? Labels? How were you taught or guided as a young person to embrace sexual identity and/or gender? (Or how do you guide your own children?) How has culture changed in regard to sexual identity and gender? And how has this affected you? What gender…
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Describe Your Lovemap
This #EroticJournalChallenge prompt will run for two weeks: Describe your love map. Lovemap: A developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover, the idealized love affair, and the idealized program of sexuoerotic activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in with that lover. – John Money Check out this article for more background. Love Map Guide I’m taking this prompt from Joan Mazza’s Exploring Your Sexual Self. According to Mazza, “Each of us has a unique lovemap…we each know what kind of people we find attractive, how we like to be approached and aroused, and the circumstances we find sexually alluring…we know what we consider…
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Explore your early memories of sex & sexuality
This week’s #EroticJournalChallenge prompt is: Explore your early memories of sexual experience & their impact on the sexual being you have become. When did you discover your body? What was your first experience with masturbation? First arousal? When did you learn about menstruation? Did that information prepare you for the actual experience? What was your first sexual experience like, and what emotions are attached to it? When was your first orgasm/ejaculation? What impact, if any, do you believe these first experiences have had on your adult sexual preferences and feelings? Go back as early as you feel comfortable, or consider a more recent sexual awakening. NOTE: Please take a moment…
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Explore your inhibitions
This week’s #EroticJournalChallenge prompt is: Explore your inhibitions… What were the first taboos or rules regarding sex/sexuality that you learned? What negative messages attached to sex have you encountered and absorbed? Have you ever felt guilt or shame, nervousness or apprehension about sex or desire? What experiences have you had that have either created or released your inhibitions? If you feel sexually inhibited in some way…where do you think those inhibitions come from? How can you let them go? Is there anything positive about having sexual inhibitions? NOTE: Please take a moment to read the rules. The Erotic Journal Challenge encourages writers to really dig deep and share some pretty…
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How did you learn about sex?
This week’s #EroticJournalChallenge prompt is: How did you learn about sex? What were your first questions about sex and gender, and who did you go to for answers? How did you react, and what were your feelings about the information? Did their answers satisfy your curiosity? Was the information correct? Or maybe you’ve covered this a lot on your blog and you’d rather focus in on how you learned about some element of sex as an adult? Or what you are currently still learning? NOTE: Please take a moment to read the rules. The Erotic Journal Challenge encourages writers to really dig deep and share some pretty personal stuff. So…
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Three Wishes
This week’s #EroticJournalChallenge prompt is: If you were given 3 wishes regarding your Sexuality/sex life, what would you wish for? NOTE: Please take a moment to read the rules. The Erotic Journal Challenge encourages writers to really dig deep and share some pretty personal stuff. So I want everyone to know that they are welcome and that this is a judgement-free zone. All writers are safe to share their beliefs and experiences. Journaling is a way to learn and grow and question and change, and we should all feel safe to explore ourselves with fear. CLICK HERE TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS/RULES #EroticJournalChallenge You can also see upcoming prompts on the main…
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What do you like most about your partner?
This week’s #EroticJournalChallenge prompt is: What do you like most about your current (or most recent) partner? Least? I couldn’t help myself. NOTE: Please take a moment to read the rules. The Erotic Journal Challenge encourages writers to really dig deep and share some pretty personal stuff. So I want everyone to know that they are welcome and that this is a judgement-free zone. All writers are safe to share their beliefs and experiences. Journaling is a way to learn and grow and question and change, and we should all feel safe to explore ourselves with fear. CLICK HERE TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS/RULES #EroticJournalChallenge You can also see upcoming…
