Asexual Pleasure: Beyond the 5 Senses

What brings you sensory joy and pleasure in your life and relationships outside of a sexual context?

NOTE - This workshop was formerly titled "The Anatomy of Pleasure" and has been renamed for clairity.

About the Event

What is pleasure when it isn’t centered on sex?

This training expands conventional understandings of pleasure by exploring sensory experience beyond the “basic five senses,” offering a framework that is inclusive of Asexuality, Neurodiversity, Disability, and diverse relationships to embodiment.

Participants will explore a broader language of sensory experience, including pathways such as pressure, temperature, movement, and internal body signals, and examine how differences in sensory processing shape access to pleasure. Using a sensory framework that includes variations in sensitivity, registration, and patterns of sensory seeking and avoidance, this training invites a more individualized and embodied approach to understanding satisfaction.

Together, we will build a personalized “Pleasure Menu” that moves away from prescriptive ideas of what people should enjoy and instead centers lived experience, capacity, and context.

This space is designed for Asexual individuals, as well as clinicians, educators, and helping professionals seeking to expand how they understand and support pleasure in their work and lives.

While sexual pleasure may be included, it will not be privileged as the default or primary pathway.

Participants will also be invited to reflect on their own sensory patterns and assumptions about pleasure, creating space for more flexible, affirming, and context-aware approaches.

Non-sexual pleasure is expansive and can be a central focus our lives and relationships. Let's see what that can look like.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Describe at least four sensory pathways beyond the “basic five senses”
• Apply at least two strategies for building individualized “Pleasure Menus” based on sensory seeking and sensory avoidant patterns

This event is approved for 1.5 Live Synchronous AASECT CEs! (No CEs with the recording.)

AASECT CKA - B, C, D, & M

About the Format

This event will be on Zoom in the Meeting format where you can actively participate as much or as little as you would like either by coming off mute to speak or commenting in the chat. This event will be recorded and the recording will be available for those who register for 30 days following the event. Must attend Live for AASECT CEs.

About the Presenter

Aubri Lancaster (Bri/she) is an AASECT and ANTE UP! Certified Sexuality Educator. As a Greyromantic Asexual Jewish Femme, Aubri has lived experience and a connection to the Asexual and Aromantic communities that provides a unique perspective on the issues facing the changing landscape of sexuality and orientation. Aubri's services can be found at AceSexEducation.com including workshops, consulting, and training. She also offers free content on IG & TikTok at @AceSexEducation. When not working, Aubri spends her time with her spouse, her friends, her 9 year old, and her three adorable Chihuahuas.

This program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification. AASECT Individual CE Provider #26-0121-AL - You can review my Grievance Policy Here