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How can more women allow themselves to experience sexual pleasure? That's one of the central questions in The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, a book published this month by public health researcher and journalist Katherine Rowland. Rowland explores why American women aren't happy with their sex lives — and what they can do about it. A landmark study from 1999 found that over 40% of women surveyed experienced sexual dysfunction — the inability to feel satisfied by sex. A contributing factor, noted the researchers, was the lasting psychological effects of sexual trauma. The Pleasure Gap The Pleasure Gap American Women & the Unfinished Sexual Revolution By Katherine Rowland The Pleasure Gap highlights how desire and the mind are linked for women. "Pleasure is inextricable from our social status, compressed and constrained by financial factors, by safety factors, by objectification," she says. We need to remove these barriers, she says, to experience sex with the "full freedom, expression, range and truth that we're endowed with." Rowland argues that it is possible for women to take charge and reignite their libidos. She talked to NPR about why fake orgasms are a cause for alarm, how much sex couples should have per week and "sexological bodywork." This interview has been edited for length and clarity. You take issue with some of the research that tries to quantify sexual frequency and the idea that once a week may be the "optimal" amount. So how much sex should we be having? Our national obsession with sexual frequency and the terrifying specter of dead bedrooms overrides the fundamental importance of sexual quality. There is no volume of sex that's more or less good. For whatever reason, researchers have embraced this idea that we should be having sex once a week — that it's enough to sustain relationships and that it keeps depression, heart disease and obesity at bay. But none of that research looks at how participants actually feel about that sex — other than feeling good that they can check the box for having done it. You interviewed more than 120 women for this book. Many in heterosexual, long-term relationships told you that sex was an act of drudgery and that they often did whatever it took to get the job done. This felt sad to me. I found myself feeling beaten down by the near ubiquity of stories of faking it in that context. We tend to treat faking it as such a jokey matter. When the media reports on studies that try and capture the percentage of women who fake orgasm during sex, it tends to be from a male perspective saying "ouch" — focusing more on the bruising of men's feelings that occurs when women are lying to them as opposed to concerns surrounding the fact that women aren't feeling good. That women are feigning their pleasure in order to hasten that experience along — I think we need to treat that with real alarm. We need to ask: What's going on in that women are engaging in spectacle as opposed to actually allowing themselves to feel sensation? How To Talk About Sex (And Consent): 4 Lessons From The Kink Community Shots - Health News How To Talk About Sex (And Consent): 4 Lessons From The Kink Community Your book explores how some women have a low desire for sex. How does this happen? Among the women who I spoke to, the persistent low desire was heavily associated with the idea that sex should revolve around penetration as the main course, with maybe a polite prelude of a foreplay, rather than thinking about sex as a broader universe of intimacy. It's the combination of a larger culture that privileges male sexuality over women's, a culture that doesn't teach women that pleasure belongs to them. A lack of anatomical self-knowledge. And feelings of sort of persistent danger and women being often censored and censured for expressing their desire. You push back against the idea that the female orgasm is mysterious and elusive, which is how the media has sometimes described it. What would be a more accurate way to understand the female orgasm? It's more like riding a bicycle. You learn how to do it. And what we see is that as women become more versed with what their body can do, orgasm becomes more readily achievable. The female orgasm tends to get wrapped up in these fuzzy terms like "elusive" and "hazy" and "mysterious" because women aren't encouraged to explore what actually feels good. But if they were encouraged to self-pleasure and explore in real, sincere ways by themselves and with their partners, I think they would find that there is a world of pleasurable sensation available to them. In your book, you say that the goal is for women to have a "profound sexual experience." What do you mean by that? It can mean a number of things, and I don't think it necessarily has to be a sexual encounter in terms of our often narrow understanding of sex. The women who I spoke to describe it to me as feelings of transcendence, of approaching sex not just as a way for getting off or feeling good, but as a portal into a deeper state of self-knowledge. They often use the word "spiritual" — the alignment of self, sensation and possibility. Pleasure so deep it felt like a homecoming, like they had been restored to themselves, to the depths of their potential. How can women regain control over their sex lives? The first thing to do would be to stop absorbing [unscientific] outside knowledge. There is such a rash of faulty information out there as a result of our lack of sound science and solid education. We've seen this proliferation of experts pandering to the lowest common denominator. Online, you'll find doctors who promise that by injecting more blood into the vagina, it will give it a face-lift that will bolster orgasmic potential. Or self-proclaimed "sexperts" who put on female ejaculation retreats. Those kinds of offerings often exist side by side with credentialed and validated interventions. The second thing is to get to know your body. I think the most powerful intervention that I documented in my book was the realm of sexological bodywork. Lubrication And Lots Of Communication: Navigating A New Sexual Life After Menopause Shots - Health News Lubrication And Lots Of Communication: Navigating A New Sexual Life After Menopause What is that? It's a somatic approach to sexual healing that can — but does not necessarily — include genital touch. There's a profound opportunity there for ethical violations, especially because it's not a regulated practice. But for some of the women who I spoke to, they've said that this was the missing link in understanding their bodies. Sexological bodywork practitioners facilitate your self-knowledge of your body, pleasure, comfort, boundaries, feelings of confidence and being able to articulate "no." For example, "No, I don't want you to touch me here" and "I don't want you to look at me here." This helps women ask why they feel this way — and get to a point where they can say "yes." For women in a relationship with a man, how can male partners do more to help? Men can — and should — play a central role in helping women fully engage with their desires and sensations. They can do this by being compassionate and nonjudgmental listeners. By creating an erotic atmosphere in which men and women's needs command equal importance, and by encouraging interactions that depart from the wearied script of male arousal and release. Just as society tends to overly complicate female sexuality, we oversimplify men's, and they also benefit from shifting dynamics around. Any ideas of how to do that? I spoke with a number of couples, and one shared a story that made a deep impression. They're both middle-aged and both are experiential sexuality educators, so in many respects they're versed in subjects like male privilege and the ways female satisfaction gets short shrift. But all the same, these issues were showing up in their intimate life. At the woman's request, they decided to make sex just about her — so that it flowed from her interest and followed the course of her arousal. She told him, she didn't care how he took care of himself, but she didn't want to be a part of it. They came to call these sessions "The Experiment." To their mutual surprise, it lasted for a whole year. As they recounted this experience, the woman thanked her partner for his generosity, and he immediately and firmly responded, "No, it was my pleasure." They both felt they had benefited from the woman's sexual growth and the shared opportunity to expand their erotic vocabulary.How can more women allow themselves to experience sexual pleasure? That's one of the central questions in The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, a book published this month by public health researcher and journalist Katherine Rowland. Rowland explores why American women aren't happy with their sex lives — and what they can do about it. A landmark study from 1999 found that over 40% of women surveyed experienced sexual dysfunction — the inability to feel satisfied by sex. A contributing factor, noted the researchers, was the lasting psychological effects of sexual trauma. The Pleasure Gap The Pleasure Gap American Women & the Unfinished Sexual Revolution By Katherine Rowland The Pleasure Gap highlights how desire and the mind are linked for women. "Pleasure is inextricable from our social status, compressed and constrained by financial factors, by safety factors, by objectification," she says. We need to remove these barriers, she says, to experience sex with the "full freedom, expression, range and truth that we're endowed with." Rowland argues that it is possible for women to take charge and reignite their libidos. She talked to NPR about why fake orgasms are a cause for alarm, how much sex couples should have per week and "sexological bodywork." This interview has been edited for length and clarity. You take issue with some of the research that tries to quantify sexual frequency and the idea that once a week may be the "optimal" amount. So how much sex should we be having? Our national obsession with sexual frequency and the terrifying specter of dead bedrooms overrides the fundamental importance of sexual quality. There is no volume of sex that's more or less good. For whatever reason, researchers have embraced this idea that we should be having sex once a week — that it's enough to sustain relationships and that it keeps depression, heart disease and obesity at bay. But none of that research looks at how participants actually feel about that sex — other than feeling good that they can check the box for having done it. You interviewed more than 120 women for this book. Many in heterosexual, long-term relationships told you that sex was an act of drudgery and that they often did whatever it took to get the job done. This felt sad to me. I found myself feeling beaten down by the near ubiquity of stories of faking it in that context. We tend to treat faking it as such a jokey matter. When the media reports on studies that try and capture the percentage of women who fake orgasm during sex, it tends to be from a male perspective saying "ouch" — focusing more on the bruising of men's feelings that occurs when women are lying to them as opposed to concerns surrounding the fact that women aren't feeling good. That women are feigning their pleasure in order to hasten that experience along — I think we need to treat that with real alarm. We need to ask: What's going on in that women are engaging in spectacle as opposed to actually allowing themselves to feel sensation? How To Talk About Sex (And Consent): 4 Lessons From The Kink Community Shots - Health News How To Talk About Sex (And Consent): 4 Lessons From The Kink Community Your book explores how some women have a low desire for sex. How does this happen? Among the women who I spoke to, the persistent low desire was heavily associated with the idea that sex should revolve around penetration as the main course, with maybe a polite prelude of a foreplay, rather than thinking about sex as a broader universe of intimacy. It's the combination of a larger culture that privileges male sexuality over women's, a culture that doesn't teach women that pleasure belongs to them. A lack of anatomical self-knowledge. And feelings of sort of persistent danger and women being often censored and censured for expressing their desire. You push back against the idea that the female orgasm is mysterious and elusive, which is how the media has sometimes described it. What would be a more accurate way to understand the female orgasm? It's more like riding a bicycle. You learn how to do it. And what we see is that as women become more versed with what their body can do, orgasm becomes more readily achievable. The female orgasm tends to get wrapped up in these fuzzy terms like "elusive" and "hazy" and "mysterious" because women aren't encouraged to explore what actually feels good. But if they were encouraged to self-pleasure and explore in real, sincere ways by themselves and with their partners, I think they would find that there is a world of pleasurable sensation available to them. In your book, you say that the goal is for women to have a "profound sexual experience." What do you mean by that? It can mean a number of things, and I don't think it necessarily has to be a sexual encounter in terms of our often narrow understanding of sex. The women who I spoke to describe it to me as feelings of transcendence, of approaching sex not just as a way for getting off or feeling good, but as a portal into a deeper state of self-knowledge. They often use the word "spiritual" — the alignment of self, sensation and possibility. Pleasure so deep it felt like a homecoming, like they had been restored to themselves, to the depths of their potential. How can women regain control over their sex lives? The first thing to do would be to stop absorbing [unscientific] outside knowledge. There is such a rash of faulty information out there as a result of our lack of sound science and solid education. We've seen this proliferation of experts pandering to the lowest common denominator. Online, you'll find doctors who promise that by injecting more blood into the vagina, it will give it a face-lift that will bolster orgasmic potential. Or self-proclaimed "sexperts" who put on female ejaculation retreats. Those kinds of offerings often exist side by side with credentialed and validated interventions. The second thing is to get to know your body. I think the most powerful intervention that I documented in my book was the realm of sexological bodywork. Lubrication And Lots Of Communication: Navigating A New Sexual Life After Menopause Shots - Health News Lubrication And Lots Of Communication: Navigating A New Sexual Life After Menopause What is that? It's a somatic approach to sexual healing that can — but does not necessarily — include genital touch. There's a profound opportunity there for ethical violations, especially because it's not a regulated practice. But for some of the women who I spoke to, they've said that this was the missing link in understanding their bodies. Sexological bodywork practitioners facilitate your self-knowledge of your body, pleasure, comfort, boundaries, feelings of confidence and being able to articulate "no." For example, "No, I don't want you to touch me here" and "I don't want you to look at me here." This helps women ask why they feel this way — and get to a point where they can say "yes." For women in a relationship with a man, how can male partners do more to help? Men can — and should — play a central role in helping women fully engage with their desires and sensations. They can do this by being compassionate and nonjudgmental listeners. By creating an erotic atmosphere in which men and women's needs command equal importance, and by encouraging interactions that depart from the wearied script of male arousal and release. Just as society tends to overly complicate female sexuality, we oversimplify men's, and they also benefit from shifting dynamics around. Any ideas of how to do that? I spoke with a number of couples, and one shared a story that made a deep impression. They're both middle-aged and both are experiential sexuality educators, so in many respects they're versed in subjects like male privilege and the ways female satisfaction gets short shrift. But all the same, these issues were showing up in their intimate life. At the woman's request, they decided to make sex just about her — so that it flowed from her interest and followed the course of her arousal. She told him, she didn't care how he took care of himself, but she didn't want to be a part of it. They came to call these sessions "The Experiment." To their mutual surprise, it lasted for a whole year. As they recounted this experience, the woman thanked her partner for his generosity, and he immediately and firmly responded, "No, it was my pleasure." They both felt they had benefited from the woman's sexual growth and the shared opportunity to expand their erotic vocabulary.

When you have a new relationship, how do you introduce your “freak” side to the other partner without scaring them? There are many vulnerabilities in sex, and you don’t always want to come on too strong. WEIRD SEXUAL FANTASIES Your sexual maturation is a lifelong pursuit of pleasure if you allow it. If what you desire continues to grow—with new fantasies and ideas exciting you—then you’re on the right track to a life of personal sexual development. What you want in your 20s and 30s differs from what might turn you on in your 50s and 60s. Sexual experiences are a never-ending gift. We can learn how to experience over 20 different orgasms. We can enjoy many types of dirty talk , from genital worship to fantasy stories. There is role play, toys, sex positions, making love in different places, or learning new techniques such as an Expanded Orgasm practice. We can try threesomes or go to sex parties—perfect for those with voyeuristic or exhibitionistic fantasies. Many folks enjoy light forms of bondage from Shibari (Japanese erotic rope play) to blindfolds and consensual impact play such as spanking. Sensation play is another burgeoning category of sex play that couples are loving. In the category of fetish, objects such as silk panties or body parts such as feet in high heels get cemented in our sexual response as arousing. If you’re worried that your particular desire is unusual, know that most people who embrace their sexuality have many fetishes and fantasies at any time. Once you move from missionary intercourse to sampling the smorgasbord of sexual delicacies, you will find many ideas that excite and ignite you. Remember to start small. Don’t disgorge your most unusual fantasy. Start with something that may be familiar. 

Maintaining Sexual Life with Cancer Whether you are married, partnered or single, a breast cancer diagnosis does not mean an end to a rewarding sexual life. While your life may undergo readjustment, the insight you gained from the experience of breast cancer may enrich your relationships and restore a joyous sense of your body. If You Have a Partner Rebuilding a sexual relationship with your partner after treatment may take time as you adapt to changes in your body and thinking. The way you as a couple cope with the sexual side effects of treatment sometimes depends on the emotional strength of the relationship before diagnosis. Talk to your partner about what feels good (or doesn’t) and about new activities you may want to try. Sharing your feelings and your sexual fantasies will help the two of you find new ways to be intimate. New Approaches Are Okay If you find it difficult to become aroused during sexual touch, these ideas may help: Try sexual aids such as vibrators. Read erotic stories together or watch erotic movies. Write your fantasies in a journal. Share them with your partner. Make smaller changes by setting the mood with scented candles or watching a romantic film before lovemaking. You may find some types of sexual activity painful. Talk about other options with your partner. Touch parts of your body you may not have explored before. You may be surprised to find they bring about sexual pleasure. Go Easy Studies show partners of women affected by breast cancer care most that their loved one is alive and feeling well. Cuddling, hugging and massaging each other are good ways for both of you to become comfortable again with touch. Such physical contact can rekindle desire. There may be ups and downs as you navigate your new sexual territory. It’s OK to resume sexual activity slowly and give yourself and your partner time to adjust.rent source.

Lots of people masturbate! Even if they don’t talk about it, it’s surprisingly common for individuals of any gender or age to do it. Unfortunately, masturbating has had a particularly difficult reputation over the years with a particularly strong negative-stigma associated with either pornographic or sexual addictions. Of course, if used in an unbalanced way or out of harmony with your own body, it could interfere with a relationship and significantly put a damper on enjoying sex with a partner. However, it can be very beneficial to a person’s health, mental well-being and relationships – if not done excessively. Here is a list of 5 benefits to masturbating: Encourages Blood Flow and Increases Over-All Health Masturbation helps to bring blood flow to the erectile tissue for both men (penis) and women (clitoris). Since the body works on a “use it or lose it” system, getting regular and maximal blood flow helps keep these arteries and tissues healthy and functioning at peak performance. If an individual does not have a regular sex partner, masturbation can be the easiest way to maintain sexual function. The increased blood flow during arousal is especially important for people over 50 and can be one of the best ways for women to prevent the severity of vaginal symptoms after menopause. Interestingly, female masturbation also seems to have the benefit of lowering the possibility of vaginal and urinary tract infections through clearing out accumulated bacteria in the vagina through a process called "tenting," a function during arousal where the uterus and cervix are drawn upwards, allowing room for the penis to enter. The obstetrician, Dr. Jacquelyn Paykel explains on her website that: "The process of tenting stretches and pulls the mucous within the cervix, allowing for a rise in acidity in the cervical fluid. This increases 'friendly' bacteria and allows more fluid to move from the cervix into the vagina. When 'old' fluid moves from the tented cervix, it not only lubricates the vagina but also flushes out unfriendly organisms that can cause infections." Reduces Stress, Decreases Menstrual Pain and Increases Your Pain Threshold Since orgasming releases oxytocin (as well as other happy-endorphins in your brain), masturbation can help people feel calm and relaxed. Masturbation also helps to lower blood pressure and decrease overall stress and anxiety. This relaxation can even be used to help people struggling with sleep disorders to fall asleep. It also turns out that masturbation specifically does something particularly interesting to your body – you’re less likely to feel pain. This has been particularly noted in menstruating women. A now-famous study from Rutgers University found that women who were self-stimulating with a specially designed vaginal toy became much more capable of dealing with pain as well as detecting it. While they were masturbating, the average pain-tolerance increased by 74.6% and their ability to detect pain increased by 106.7%. Strengthens the Pelvic Floor The pelvic floor muscles are the layer of muscles that support the pelvic organs and span the bottom of the pelvis. The pelvic organs are the bladder and bowel in men and the: bladder, bowel, and uterus in women. As you age, you naturally lose muscle tone – everywhere. Regular sex or masturbation works out your pelvic floor muscles, which prevents bladder weakness and aids in genitalia-function in women and prevents erectile dysfunction and incontinence in men. Reduces the Risk of Contracting Prostate Cancer A 2004 study found that men who ejaculated more than 21 times a month reduced their risk of prostate cancer by roughly 33%, compared to guys who only did it 4-7 times a month. In 2016, researchers followed up with the same group of guys and found that those who ejaculated 8-12/month, reduced their prostate cancer risk by 10%. Helps Guys Last Longer During Sex Sometimes guys don’t last long in bed simply because they haven’t had enough practice, either solo or with a partner. Regularly jerking off (3-5 times a week) may help extend your stamina. Masturbating an hour before a date will help give you more control. Train yourself by timing how long it takes you to orgasm if it takes 2 minutes for you to finish solo, then aim for three next time. With practice, it’s been reported that most men can double the number of strokes and the time taken within one month.

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by Meghan Morgavan December 07, 2018 The kind of bacteria found in probiotics has the potential to aid in a wide range of conditions including digestive disorders, allergic disorders and the common cold. But did you know they can also aid or prevent vaginal conditions like yeast infections, bacterial vaginosis, and HPV? To get the full picture of how your body might be impacted by bacteria and probiotics, let’s start with the basics. Here are four surprising things you might not know about your microbiome. 1. You Have 1,000+ Strains of Bacteria in Your Body - And Not Just in Your Gut For starters, a "microbiome" is any collection of microorganisms living in a given environment. You may have heard that there are good bacteria and bad bacteria, but you might not know that there are over 100 trillion good bacteria in your body at any given time. On average, the breakdown is about 85% good and 15% bad bacteria. Probiotics are a way of describing the good bacteria that occur naturally in many fermented foods such as yogurt, kombucha, and kimchi, and can also be found in over-the-counter dietary supplements. You may have seen these in the refrigerated section of your grocery store; oftentimes, probiotics are stored at a lower temperature because many of the bacteria they include are sensitive to heat and moisture. However, those packed in capsules and those that use freeze-dried bacteria do not need to be refrigerated. 2. You Have Your Own Unique Bacterial Biome, Unlike Anyone Else’s Like a thumbprint, we all host a bacterial ecosystem that is unique to each of us, resulting from a combination of many factors such as our diet, our environment, and what we interact with from day to day. New research reveals that our microbiome may even develop inside the womb, which means our mother’s bacteria would have been a major influencer of our own microbiome. This unique quality also means that you have the power to influence your microbiome. It is not a static entity; it is constantly changing, and everything from the foods and drinks you consume to your physical activity and daily stress levels can greatly impact the strength of your body's microbiome - including your vaginal microbiome. 3. Bacteria Aids Much More Than Digestion We hear most often about our “gut microbiome” and how much probiotics with millions of bacteria can aid in digestion. What may surprise many to learn is that these good bacteria don’t just live in your gut. Lactobacilli – one of the primary bacterial strains found in your intestines – are also prevalent throughout the urogenital tract which includes your kidneys, bladder, urethra, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, and vagina. You might be wondering: when Lactobacilli aren't aiding digestion, what do they do? Lactobacilli have the important job of making lactic acid, a key component to a healthy functioning vagina. Lactic acid stimulates healthy cervical mucus, and discourages the growth of unwanted bacteria, yeast, and viruses in your vagina. 4. Probiotics Can Positively Impact Your Vaginal Health If Lactobacilli already exist in your urogenital tract, what is the benefit of taking a probiotic? The answer has to do with the ways in which fluctuating levels of Lactobacilli can affect conditions that can arise when your natural defenses are down. For example, the presence of lactic acid helps keep the bacteria and overall ecosystem of your vagina balanced. And in turn, a healthy, balanced vaginal microbiome will help reduce the occurrence of the most common issues women deal with: yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis. Research also suggests the health of your vaginal microbiome may be tied to the transmission of HPV. Conditions that are affected by your vaginal microbiome: Yeast infections are characterized by itching and white discharge, and over 200,000 women in the U.S. are treated for this condition each year. According to a 2009 study, Lactobacilli can disrupt yeast biofilms and inhibit the growth of urogenital pathogens. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) – If you have BV, you may not know it because the condition is not always symptomatic. However, an estimated 3 million women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with BV each year, and those with symptoms may experience odor, itching, or discharge. A 2009 study says BV is a condition resulting from a lack of Lactobacilli as well as the presence of a variety of other pathogens. In addition, the most common treatment today for BV is to employ antibiotics such as metronidazole. While metronidazole may treat the symptoms of BV, it also wipes out the population of all bacteria in your vagina (both good and bad). Vaginal probiotics may assist in restoring the population of beneficial Lactobacilli in your body. HPV and cervical cancer – A recent study in Microbiome suggests that factors such as the diversity of bacteria in the vagina combined with the quantity of Lactobacilli can affect HPV acquisition and persistence, and the development of cervical pre-cancer and cancer. If you're considering trying a vaginal probiotic, we highly recommend giving BiopHresh a try. 📷 BiopHresh Vaginal Probiotic Supplement is the only true women’s Bio Matched™ supplement with four strains of probiotics found in the vaginal tract. BiopHresh helps restore healthy vaginal flora, promotes urinary tract health*, and lowers the pH of the vagina.*

For couples so eager to call it quits and throw in the towel on your relationship because everything isn't 'perfect'...here is some food for thought. Lifelong commitment is not what most people think it is. It's not waking up every morning to make breakfast and eat together. It's not cuddling in bed until both of you fall asleep. It's not a clean home filled with laughter and love making every day. It's someone who steals all the covers, and snores, it's slammed doors and a few harsh words at times. It's stubbornly disagreeing and giving each other the silent treatment until your hearts heal, and then forgiveness. It's coming home to the same person every day that you know loves and cares about you in spite of, and because of, who you are. It's laughing about the one time you accidentally did something stupid. It's about dirty laundry and unmade beds. It's about helping each other with the hard work of life. It's about swallowing the nagging words instead of saying them out loud. It's about eating the easiest meal you can make and sitting down together at a late hour because you both had a crazy day. It's when you have an emotional breakdown and your love lays down with you and holds you, and tells you everything is going to be okay. And you believe them. It's about still loving someone even though sometimes they make you absolutely insane. Loving someone isn't always easy, sometimes it's hard. But it is amazing and comforting and one of the best things you will ever experience. If you are blessed to have a wonderful partner in your life, then copy and paste the above, attach a picture of the two of you, and post it! I wanna see couples pictures of all my friends please!!! love y’all!!❤️ Kimberly Inga ChastainThe body content of your post goes here. To edit this text, click on it and delete this default text and start typing your own or paste your own from a different source.