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Anatomie Studio • 22nd March 2024

Notes from Talking Rope: Disability and Kink - Anatomie Studio

Anatomie runs regular “Talking Rope” sessions, in which the community is invited to discuss a variety of topics that relate to shibari. On Feb 25th, Rory Ropes facilitated a conversation around disability and rope. Please note, these are the views of...

Anatomie Studio • 22nd September 2023

When Rope Gets On our Nerves - Anatomie Studio

A few weeks ago, I had my first experience with nerve impingement during a tie. Considering I’ve been in ropes regularly for the last two years, and was first tied around six years ago, I am honestly surprised that this was my first time. As I always...

Anatomie Studio • 28th April 2023

Risk and Reward: Do you know your kinky risk profile? - Anatomie Studio

In our last blog post we explored safe words, and safe words can’t really be discussed without discussing risk and risk profiles. While I’d hazard a guess that a lot of people who are into kink and/ or shibari have a fairly high tolerance of risk, we...

Anatomie Studio • 24th March 2023

Should we Use Safe Words in Shibari? - Anatomie Studio

Part of kink 101 is learning about safe words. They’re such an important part of exploring safely. However, where shibari is concerned, does this translate?

Anatomie Studio • 24th February 2023

Into the Blues: when you drop like a hot potato - Anatomie Studio

A little while after I started exploring kink, I realised I would have a sort of “come down” after sessions. I didn’t usually notice it straight away, but a few days later it would hit. I’d start to feel sad and tearful. Sometimes I’d feel shameful...

Anatomie Studio • 23rd November 2022

Introducing The Wheel of Consent: When “Hell yes!” and “No way,” just aren’t enough. - Anatomie Studio

Consent has become something of a buzzword over the last few years, and rightly so, really. It’s super important in everyday life, let alone when you’re tying someone up.  While I am generally wary of “shoulds”, I firmly believe that anyone who...

Anatomie Studio • 28th October 2022

Kink Frenzy: When you say, "Yes!" to walking red flags (and what to do about it) - Anatomie Studio

When I started exploring kink and BDSM, it was literally all I could think about. Almost a decade later, I still experience this obsessiveness on occasion; usually when I discover something new, or explore something for the first few times. I also...

Anatomie Studio • 10th June 2022

What Skills and Qualities Should a Good Rope Teacher Have? - Anatomie Studio

In my past life I was a primary school teacher. I quit a few years ago to pursue other interests, but I always said that teaching was in my soul. And what do you know? Here I am, embarking on a whole other teaching journey: teaching shibari to...

Anatomie Studio • 11th May 2022

Not connecting with kink? You might be suffering from kink burnout - Anatomie Studio

I’ve been wanting to prioritise writing this blog post for a while but what do you know? I realised, as I began to write it, that I’m currently in the midst of my own burnout. Writing it has been a bit of a slog. It’s taken much longer than it should...

Anatomie Studio • 8th March 2022

Feel the fear and do it anyway: advice for people over 40 (from people over 40) in the kink scene - Anatomie Studio

Navigating the kink scene is generally a great mix of exciting and daunting. If you’re discovering your kinky side when you’re no longer a 20- or 30-something, though, there is a unique set of challenges that you might face. Here is our advice for...

Anatomie Studio • 21st February 2022

How to Approach your First Kink Event if you are Flying Solo - Anatomie Studio

Going to your first kink event can be pretty  intimidating, but what if you’re planning on going alone? Potentially even more nail-biting. You may have been thinking about it for some time, and conjuring up all sorts of scenarios in your mind –...

The5thhouse • 15th December 2021

Nine top tips on how to make fingering great again

Fingering… reserved for horny teenagers who haven’t had penetrative sex yet. Right? Wrong! Fingering is possibly the most underrated of sexual acts, and deserves an honourable mention.

Peaceful Dumpling • 21st July 2021

Why You Should Prioritize Sexual Well-Being & Pleasure As A Part Of Your Overall Wellness

When we think of health, we normally focus on things like diet and exercise, and occasionally branch out to meditation or mental health more generally. But do you ever consider sexual health and pleasure as part of your overall wellness? There are so...

Jo Divine • 11th June 2021

Unpicking my Shame Around Masturbation

Sexual shame runs deep in our lives at a societal level. Sometimes we are conscious of it, sometimes it’s so deeply internalised that we don’t know it’s there. It’s present in “purity culture”, in the idea of virginity itself, in the Madonna/whore...

Jo Divine • 18th February 2021

Sex and type 1 diabetes | Jo Divine

Sex and type 1 diabetes (t1d) are not often spoken about together, although I really think they should be. As someone who was diagnosed with t1d just as I was hitting puberty, it has been something that I’ve had to manage my whole sexually active...

15th January 2021

Recurrent Thrush : Why Does It Keep Coming Back? | Jo Divine

Have you ever had thrush? I have. And it isn’t pleasant; it’s itchy, uncomfortable and frustrating. It usually means I have to press pause on partnered sex, and often takes multiple doses of treatments to finally shift it. As someone who has type 1...

YouTube • 18th November 2020

Sex and T1 Diabetes

On World Diabetes Day, MJ from Jo Divine www.jodivine.com shares her personal experiences of living with type 1 diabetes, and how it impacts upon her sex life.

The view changes with each step • 18th November 2020

The View Changes with Each Step

The musings and ramblings of a 30-something trying to make sense of the world.