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The relationship between sex and imagination

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Gina Gutierrez |

TED2022

• April 2022

Sex is as much mental as it is physical -- and imagination is the most powerful tool we have to expand our personal agency and capacity for pleasure, says sexual wellness storyteller Gina Gutierrez. The founder of audio-erotica company Dipsea, Gutierrez creates immersive audio stories designed to open up space to explore your desires and fantasies on your terms. She shares some tips to inspire your sexual imagination and bring joy, confidence and empowerment into your life.

Sex is as much mental as it is physical -- and imagination is the most powerful tool we have to expand our personal agency and capacity for pleasure, says sexual wellness storyteller Gina Gutierrez. The founder of audio-erotica company Dipsea, Gutierrez creates immersive audio stories designed to open up space to explore your desires and fantasies on your terms. She shares some tips to inspire your sexual imagination and bring joy, confidence and empowerment into your life.

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Visit DipseaStories.com/TED and explore the app for free for 30 days using the code TED.

About the speaker

Gina Gutierrez

Sexual wellness storyteller

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Gina Gutierrez founded a company producing original audio stories designed to help listeners tap into their sexuality more easily and comfortably.

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Dipsea

Dipsea is "the audio app transforming erotica" and has pioneered "a genre of its own," according to The New Yorker. Dipsea is where storytelling meets sexual wellness, and supports millions of listeners’ in their quests for pleasure, self-discovery, education and self-care.

Emily Nagoski | Simon & Schuster, 2015 | Book

Come As You Are

A comprehensive view into how culture has warped our expectations around sex and education has left us deeply underinformed about both our anatomy and our minds (women especially).

Audre Lorde | 1978 | Book

"The Uses of the Erotic"

A powerful essay that challenges Western masculine characterizations of the erotic as dehumanizing, and offers an alternative modality in which erotic becomes the ultimate guide for seeking excellence, aliveness and power.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Visit DipseaStories.com/TED and explore the app for free for 30 days using the code TED.