Menopause, Pleasure, and the Path to Body-Friendliness

Pamela Madsen ON: Menopause myths, the power of pleasure as medicine, and embracing body-friendliness over body perfection.

In this conversation, we talk about why menopause doesn’t have to pause your pleasure, how sexual wellness is essential to overall health, and the freedom that comes when we stop trying to “love everything” about our bodies and instead focus on body-friendliness.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.
Links & Resources:
🔗 Website: https://backtothebody.org/
📸 Instagram: @thepamelamadsen | @backtothebodyorg
📘 Facebook: Back to the Body
▶️ YouTube: Back to the Body

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