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The Erotic Realm podcast explores eroticism in all its forms, including the darker desires of BDSM and kinky sexuality. It’s mission is to humanise eroticism one erotic realm at a time.
In this special thematic episode, The Erotic Realm explores a recurring pattern from its first year of conversations: women who experience surrender not as weakness, but as a conscious, embodied act of power.
Drawing on stories from feminist slaves, sacred submissives, trans and queer women, and those reclaiming desire later in life, this episode reframes submission as choice — a form of erotic agency rooted in trust, embodiment, and self-knowledge.
This is the first in a limited series examining the major psychological and cultural themes that emerged across Season One. While later episodes will explore masculinity and other shared arcs, this episode stays firmly with women — and with the radical act of choosing to yield.
Feminist submission as agency, not erasure.
Yielding as trust, embodiment, and reclamation.
Women reclaiming power through conscious surrender.
Reflections drawn from the first year of The Erotic Realm.
Guest 1: #23 The Feminist Slave: Daphne’s Side of a 24/7 M/s Bond Episode here.
Guest 2: #28 Erotic Resistance: Politics of Pleasure & Submissive Power with Auntie Vice Episode here.
Guest 3: #17 Sex Magic, Shadow Work, and Sacred Kink: Magdalena on Leather, Pleasure, and Surrender Episode here.
Guest 4: #42 Ask A Sub: Lina Dune on Feminist Submission, CNC & the Art of Surrender Episode here.
Guest 5: #51 Feminist Submission, Masochism and Kink Education with AncillaL here.
Guest 6:#45 The Psychology of Erotica: Aurore on Writing Desire, Healing Shame & Feminist Submission Episode here.
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The Psychology of Desire Case File Series:
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The Female Orgasm Demystified | Psychology of Desire: Case File #3
My Erotic Journey: From Repressed to Expressed
The Shadow’s Playground: When Suppressed Desires Visit Us in Dreams
The Sole of Desire: Foot Fetish Origins | Psychology of Desire: Case File #1
What Your Erotic Dreams Reveal About Your Deepest Desires
The Secret Life of Your Desire
Why Your Desires Are More Normal Than You Think.
What If Everything You Know About Men and Women Is Wrong?
The Hidden Key to Lasting Desire: It’s Not What You Think
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