Sam sits down to chat with Joseph Kramer, a pioneer in somatic sex education, to discuss his 40-year journey in body-based work, starting with massage therapy in the 1970s.
Joseph developed and began teaching his approach to erotic massage during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco to provide a way of accessing pleasure and heightened erotic states without infection risk. This conversation traces how sexually, sensually and somatically induced altered states have shaped his life path and work, with a particular emphasis on sustained sexual arousal in self pleasure practice. He highlights the therapeutic benefits of erotic massage and non-ejaculatory self pleasure practice in potentiating the shift of troublesome patterns and contributing to personal growth and expansion.
A follow up conversation with Joseph will come in the next episode.
Joseph's work can be accessed through all the schools that still teach his work.
Celebrating the Body Erotic can be experienced through The Body Electric School.
US: https://bodyelectric.org/
AUS: https://bodyelectric.com.au/
Find out more about Sam and their work at www.integratingintimacy.com
The Interactive Erotic Educator Training is now taking enrolments for 2026. Find out more at www.intereros.com
Have an experience of somatic sex education in the comfort of your own home by signing up for queer erotic embodiment classes at www.queereroticembodiment.com
