If you want the best sex of your life, you’re going to have to be vulnerable. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Join the Vancouver Fringe Festival for Their 40th Anniversary The beloved performing arts showcase is back this September on Granville Island. This is a lesson disabled queer author and therapist Kaleigh Trace first delivered to Canadian audiences when her book Hot, Wet and Shaking: How I Learned to Talk about Sex first hit bookshelves a decade ago.
Now she’s back with a 10th-anniversary edition that includes an updated introduction and chapters about her terminal cancer diagnosis. Trace, now dealing with that diagnosis, explores grief and her own mortality with the same openness, messiness, hilarity and beauty she brings to her exploration of sexual discovery and acceptance. Sex has many links to your health.
Beyond pleasure, partnered sex can improve sleep , and masturbation can reduce stress and blood pressure while boosting your immune system , and even reduce mortality . Hot, Wet and Shaking narrates Trace’s life, from when she was a small-town Ontario teenager desperate to lose her virginity as a means of achieving adulthood, to her years working in a feminist Halifax sex shop where she learned we all want to have better sex but often don’t know how — and are afraid to ask. “Nobody is born knowing how to have sex; we’re all figuring it out,” Trace said over a video interview from her therapy practice in Toronto.
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