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The Erotic Realm

The Erotic Realm

By: Emma | Psychology of Desire
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The Erotic Realm is a top 10 podcast that explores eroticism in all its forms including the darker desires of BDSM and kinky sexuality- one erotic realm at a time.

Hosted by Emma, Sexologist and founder of Psychology of Desire, this series dives into the science, symbolism, and stories of sexuality. Each episode reveals how eroticism shapes identity, healing, and power.

Join Emma and discover the deeper layers of pleasure, shame, and transformation — and what your own desires might be trying to teach you.

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Episodes
  • #58 The Submissive Feminists: Women Who Choose to Yield Power

    #58 The Submissive Feminists: Women Who Choose to Yield Power
    Dec 23 2025
    Women can have power - and exchange it too.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.Thank you for being part of this journey to support it continuing Subscribe to the Psychology of Desire Substack here.Sign up to the Her Climax Code Masterclass here.Apply to be on The Erotic Realm podcast here.Interested in Kinky Speed Dating? ⁠⁠⁠Register Here.⁠⁠⁠The Erotic Realm now has it’s own merchandise! If you love the show and want to support it check it out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠psychologyofdesire.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to apply to be on the podcast. I'd love to chat to you.Thanks for listening!Stay perverted,EmmaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • #57 Peak Erotic Experiences: The Psychology of Desire — Part 1

    #57 Peak Erotic Experiences: The Psychology of Desire — Part 1
    Dec 19 2025
    The Erotic Mind & Why These Moments MatterIn this first episode of an end-of-year series, we explore more deeply the concept of peak erotic experiences—those rare, unforgettable moments of desire that linger long after they end and quietly reshape how we understand ourselves.Drawing on psychologist Jack Morin’s seminal work The Erotic Mind, this episode offers a psychological framework for understanding why certain erotic experiences feel transformative rather than merely pleasurable. Rather than focusing on acts, identities, or techniques, this series explores the inner architecture of desire: tension, risk, power, permission, and altered states of consciousness.The excerpts you’ll hear across this series are not full stories or performances, but distilled moments—glimpses into how the erotic mind works at its most alive.In this episode:What defines a peak erotic experience.Why orgasm or extremity alone don’t explain erotic intensity.Jack Morin’s psychological insights into desire, tension, and risk.How power, permission, and emotional exposure shape erotic experience.5 peak erotic experiences share by The Erotic Realm podcast guests.This episode is an invitation to listen slowly, psychologically, and with curiosity—not just to what is said, but to what shifts beneath it.Peak Erotic Experience 1: Erotic Realm Episode 3 here.Peak Erotic Experience 2: Erotic Realm Episode 4 here.Peak Erotic Experience 3: Erotic Realm Episode 7 here.Peak Erotic Experience 4: Erotic Realm Episode 8 here.Peak Erotic Experience 5: Erotic Realm Episode 9 here.Thank you for being part of this journey to support it continuing Subscribe to the Psychology of Desire Substack here.Sign up to the Her Climax Code Masterclass here.Apply to be on The Erotic Realm podcast here.Interested in Kinky Speed Dating? ⁠⁠⁠Register Here.⁠⁠⁠The Erotic Realm now has it’s own merchandise! If you love the show and want to support it check it out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠psychologyofdesire.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to apply to be on the podcast. I'd love to chat to you.Thanks for listening!Stay perverted,EmmaSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    23 mins
  • #56 Why I Built The Erotic Realm: Turning 40 & the Psychology of Desire with M

    #56 Why I Built The Erotic Realm: Turning 40 & the Psychology of Desire with M
    Dec 16 2025

    What happens when erotic curiosity, psychology, and lived experience collide?

    In this special solo episode, M reflects on turning 40 and one year of The Erotic Realm Podcast — sharing the personal, psychological, and erotic motivations behind creating a platform devoted to desire, power, and the erotic mind.

    In this episode, we explore:

    • Why desire is as unique as personality.
    • How power and eroticism shape identity across a lifetime.
    • Midlife as a psychological turning point, not a crisis.
    • What listening to hundreds of erotic stories has revealed.
    • Autism, kink, and why structure can feel safer than spontaneity.
    • How M became a Sexologist.
    • What's next for The Erotic Realm and the Psychology of Desire.

    Research article: "Comforting, Reassuring, and…Hot": A Qualitative Exploration of Engaging in Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission, Sadism and (Sado)masochism and Kink from the Perspective of Autistic Adults.

    This episode is both a celebration and a thesis — a reflection on what the first year of The Erotic Realm has taught me, and where the psychology of desire is heading next.

    Thank you for being part of this journey to support it continuing Subscribe to the Psychology of Desire Substack here.

    Sign up to the Her Climax Code Masterclass here.

    Interested in Kinky Speed Dating? ⁠⁠⁠Register Here.⁠⁠⁠

    The Erotic Realm now has it’s own merchandise! If you love the show and want to support it check it out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

    Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠psychologyofdesire.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to apply to be on the podcast. I'd love to chat to you.

    Thanks for listening!

    Stay perverted,

    Emma

    See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
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