Pleasure Bound

Kelsey Peterson, Kate Steele

Pleasure. Power. Peace. In every body. Pleasure Bound is a juicy, honest podcast about reclaiming joy, desire, and embodiment—especially in bodies shaped by disability, marginalization, trauma, grief, and profound change. Hosted by disabled storytellers Kelsey Peterson and Kate Steele, this show blends vulnerable storytelling, cultural truth-telling, laughter, and lived wisdom to explore what pleasure really means—and how to access more of it on your own terms. We talk sex, yes—but also sensuality, nervous systems, self-advocacy, embodiment, and the radical act of loving your body as it is. Each episode offers real conversations, practical tools, pleasure practices, and experiments in joy. We unpack shame, ableism, toxic cultural narratives, and the stories we’ve been handed about whose bodies get to feel good—and then we rewrite them together. Pleasure Bound is a space for curiosity, collective care, softness, and spice. A place to say the quiet parts out loud, celebrate our differences, and remember that pleasure is your birthright. New episodes weekly. Come curious. Leave more turned on to life.

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    Episode 1: Coming Home to the Body

    Episode 1: Coming Home to the BodyWhat happens to pleasure when your body changes forever? In this opening episode of Pleasure Bound, hosts Kelsey and Kate—two quadriplegic women living full, sensual, complicated lives—introduce themselves, their stories, and the why behind this podcast. Together, they open an unfiltered conversation about disability, sexuality, grief, embodiment, kink, shame, desire, and the radical act of reclaiming pleasure in bodies shaped by trauma and paralysis. This episode reflects on life before and after spinal cord injury, the grief of losing familiar sensations, the cultural forces that desexualize or fetishize disabled bodies, and the courage it takes to re-enter pleasure—without comparison, without apology. Along the way, they explore kink, shadow work, adaptive tools, orgasm myths, brain-based pleasure, and why connection—not perfection—is the true medicine. This episode sets the tone for Pleasure Bound: a space for messy, erotic, hilarious, deeply human conversations about coming home to the body—again and again In This Episode:Meet Kelsey (C6 quad, dancer, writer, filmmaker, sensualist) and Kate (C5 quad, mom, triple Taurus, pleasure activist)Living in “two worlds”: able-bodied identity vs. life after paralysisGrief, desexualization, and the shock of how the world’s gaze changesWhy pleasure practices matter—especially in disabled bodiesThe difference between self-care culture and true embodied self-loveKink, shadow work, and why stillness can unlock new forms of intimacyFetishization vs. desire: navigating devotees and objectificationWhy orgasm is not the only (or ultimate) goalBrain plasticity, new erogenous zones, and adaptive pleasureHow comparison to your former body can block healingCreating pleasure practices that honor energy, capacity, and consentWhy community, storytelling, and curiosity are revolutionaryMentioned / Referenced:Move Me (film by Kelsey)DanceAbility MethodDisability After Dark (Andrew Gurza)Adaptive pleasure tools & sex education spacesMusic by Freaque  https://open.spotify.com/artist/6xmxsU99bvYcGrvdsw3pFk?si=GSH_oqRIRmyb-I9Y5_-hXQ Content Warning: This episode contains candid conversations about sex, disability, and trauma.

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Pleasure. Power. Peace. In every body. Pleasure Bound is a juicy, honest podcast about reclaiming joy, desire, and embodiment—especially in bodies shaped by disability, marginalization, trauma, grief, and profound change. Hosted by disabled storytellers Kelsey Peterson and Kate Steele, this show blends vulnerable storytelling, cultural truth-telling, laughter, and lived wisdom to explore what pleasure really means—and how to access more of it on your own terms. We talk sex, yes—but also sensuality, nervous systems, self-advocacy, embodiment, and the radical act of loving your body as it is. Each episode offers real conversations, practical tools, pleasure practices, and experiments in joy. We unpack shame, ableism, toxic cultural narratives, and the stories we’ve been handed about whose bodies get to feel good—and then we rewrite them together. Pleasure Bound is a space for curiosity, collective care, softness, and spice. A place to say the quiet parts out loud, celebrate our differences, and remember that pleasure is your birthright. New episodes weekly. Come curious. Leave more turned on to life.