Are you having a problem with your sex drive? Well, try bringing some books into the boudoir. At least the erotic kind. This is the advice of Australian sex therapist Aleks Trkuljia.
“The reason why I think reading erotica is a wonderful way to prompt libido and desire is because it usually doesn’t have anything to do with screens, and it prompts your imagination and sense of fantasy,” says Trkuljia told News.com.AU.
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Aleks Trkuljia is the Director of The Pleasure Centre in Australia, and a certified Sex, Relationships and Body Image therapist who works with all gender and sexual identities. Her practice is sex-positive, and founded within intersectional feminist and queer theories. Aleks has specialty training in issues of sexuality, sexual function, relationships, body image, eating disorders, trauma and anxiety. She works in Private Practice, and works with sexual wellness brands to provide editorial articles, blogs, and content for Instagram and TikTok.
In an interview with InStyle, AleksTrkuljia also spoke about how shame of the act can adversely affect a person’s sex lfe.
“We’re all conditioned from day-dot to be embarrassed about our bodies and talking about sex – to not communicate our needs – and we’re implicitly shamed about components of sexuality,” she explained. “There’s a lot of institutionalized and systemic sex-negativity in our society that enables this large-scale attitude toward sex and sexuality.”
You’ve been conditioned to have sex in a particular way, but I encourage people to challenge that conditioning,” Trukjlua added. “You should be asking: does that fit your needs? And if it doesn’t, then we can change that. You get to decide what the repertoire looks like.”
The Pleasure Centre is a multi-disciplinary mental health service that offers confidential counselling, education, and support with one of our certified practitioners. It was established to provide sex-pos, sex education and support, “considering how limited such resources are in schools for many of us.”
