Food & Sex – Episode 1: Sexual Mayonnaise

A Body Curious Podcast with Jonn Close

Welcome to the first episode of Food & Sex, a Body Curious podcast series. I’m Jonn Close—somatic sex therapist, counsellor, and former international chef. In this unique series, I bring together my two great passions: food and sex.

In this debut episode, we explore mayonnaise as a surprisingly rich metaphor for intimacy, arousal, and connection. Like sex, making mayonnaise is all about timing, temperature, and trust—and when it breaks, it often reveals where things need attention.

🎙 In this episode:

• Embodiment and intimacy

• Somatic awareness and pacing

• Arousal, trauma recovery & sexual reconnection

• Shame, communication & play

• How food can help us understand sexual energy and self-trust

This episode includes a live kitchen demo—whisk in hand—as I reflect on how touch, presence, and attention shape both culinary and intimate experiences.

🔔 This episode contains adult themes and is intended for mature audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

Touch is one of the most fundamental ways we connect with others and express care, love, and support. It's an essential aspect of our well-being that impacts our emotional, mental, and physical health. In this blog post, we'll delve into the art of giving and receiving touch and explore how Embodied Counseling and Sexological Bodywork can deepen our understanding and mastery of this vital skill.

🔥 How Men Can Enjoy Sex, Intimacy & Pleasure Without Anxiety 😌

👉 Struggling with anxiety during intimate moments can be frustrating, but there are ways for men to overcome it and fully embrace the experience. 🌟 read more….

Communication during sex, intimacy, and pleasure is the cornerstone to achieving either an amazing or challenging close encounter.

The only thing between experiencing pleasure or not, is presence with yourself and others.

Many men feel that prostate cancer (often resulting in a proctectomy – prostate removal) is similar to a woman having a hysterectomy, somewhat like removing his manhood often with a feeling of being sexually desolate

sex is the same as exercise or any embodied skill; requiring regular engagement and commitment to maintain the fitness of the body and mind.

I have been fielding queries & working with men of all ages and orientations, encountering a variety of sex-related challenges, including not having sex, increased body dysmorphia, ejaculation control, erectile issues, and issues around how they use porn.

Why is this happening in healthy men of all ages?

Self-pleasuring, ejaculation control & choices

Learning how to be in control of your ejaculation and having a choice to ejaculate or not (in most cases) can be managed somatically naturally within the body, without the use of mind and body-numbing medications; the best thing is once you have mastered ejaculation control skills, you can be multi-orgasmic and have the choice to ejaculate or not.

You know there’s been lots of Covid ups and downs and how that has affected many men’s sexual intimacy and pleasure.

COVID-19 has changed the way we interact with others in almost every aspect of our lives, including intimacy and our sexual lives.

Dating and hookup apps are ablaze! I hear from men who are frantically seeking a connection, some are simply fishing while others are deep diving despite the potential risks of Covid 19.

Erotica illuminates sexual boundaries, demystifies what society tells us is obscene, and makes us human.