Tickets: Free for Hearth members / £15 General Admission / £25 Ticket + Book / £10 Zoom Admission
About The Event
Part memoir, part cultural investigation, Emma-Louise Boynton will trace her journey from being unable to orgasm and battling a years-long eating disorder, to rebuilding her relationship with sex, desire and intimacy.
In conversation, Emma-Louise will interrogate the forces that teach women to mistrust their bodies and perform rather than feel their pleasure, from narrow ideals around desirability and sexist narratives about aging, to the policing of women's pleasure and the emotional alienation of app-based intimacy.
This is a personal, intimate evening designed to be as candid and unfiltered as the book itself. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so come ready to ask the questions you've always wanted to ask but perhaps never had the space to.
And crucially, Emma-Louise will share a clear and practical roadmap for rebuilding desire, confidence and connection.
Provocative, intimate and timely, Pleasure reframes women’s relationship to sex and embodiment, arguing that reclaiming pleasure is not indulgent, but essential.
Please note this event is exclusively for women.
Copies of Pleasure will be available to purchase and sign on the night.
📸 Event Photography: We may take photos or short videos during the event to celebrate our community and for promotional use. We’ll aim to give notice beforehand. If you’d rather not appear in any content, please feel free to let the photographer or content creator know directly.otos and videos may be captured for promotional use.
Emma-Louise Boynton
Writer & Broadcaster
Emma-Louise Boynton is a writer, broadcaster and the creator and host of the sell-out live event series and media platform, Sex Talks. Inspired by her own experience doing sex therapy, Sex Talks exists to engender more open and honest conversations around typically taboo topics: sex, gender and the future of intimacy. Emma previously worked as a producer for the BBC and Sky News and for Tina Brown's 'Women in The World Summit' in New York. She is also the co-founder of a female-focused creative production agency, Her Hustle. She is currently in training to become an accredited sex and relationship coach.
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