Thanks, Will 🙂 I do appreciate the down to earth advice, I really do. And I think you are right with your observation “I’m not ashamed of it, but it is in my way”.

I am the kind of person who is much more comfortable with the abstract and gets a bit perplexed with the physical world. I have a tendency to intellectualize things, and not just experience them. I observe and analyze and think, think, think… There’s a socially conditioned shame attached to sexuality, but I also have a personal kind of shame attached to it. Or perhaps it’s not shame, but more of a confusion. To let go of the thinking part and get swept away by the feeling part is a bit scary and weird to me. So I do understand and appreciate the idea of truly enjoying the physical sensations. To not attempt control it, but to embrace it.