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Scenario

How past trauma affects consensual rough play

My partner wants to incorporate more physical roughness into our relationship but I associate that with violence and can't relax into it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Historical wounds create protective barriers that prevent access to healing through controlled intensity.

Your guide for this
Nas
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Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Physical play — rough-and-tumble?”

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