Reclaiming The Innocence Of Pleasure

I woke up today thinking about the innocence of pleasure, and when it is that we lose our connection to it.

When we’re babies, no one tells us that our pleasure is indulgent, or that it needs to be rationed or controlled. As long as it’s not harming us in some obvious way, we are invited to explore and experiment and play without judgement.

Then somewhere along the way, that freedom is conditioned out of us. We’re told to be smaller, quieter, to follow a set of societal and relational rules we never had agency over.

And in that process, we lose something precious: our birthright to unapologetically delight in beauty, delicious sensation, and joy.

My Early Story

As a child, I experienced inappropriate touch. The touch was a violation, something I could not consent to. And yet my body responded in the beautiful way it was designed to—with arousal and pleasure.

Through secrecy and shame, I was taught that those experiences and my pleasure were something to hide.

At that time, I didn’t know myself as the Creator of my reality, or how that early conditioning would ripple out and shape my life. And so I unconsciously built a reality that mirrored those early, shame-led teachings.

I created life experiences that rose almost to the point of pleasure—then collapsed. Relationships where too much joy felt like danger. I trained my body to brace against what it most longed for.

The child in me thought she was doing the right thing. That she needed to suppress what brought her pleasure in order to protect herself.

Pleasure as Aliveness

Over the last fifteen years of participating in alternative lifestyles, and now having experienced a profound spiritual awakening, here is what I’ve discovered:

Pleasure is the divine speaking through the body—the same current that shows up as laughter, as curiosity, as awe, or erotic fire.

And even when I am at my most primal, vixen, dirty, erotic self, I am still innocent in my pleasure. Because innocence isn’t about being untouched—it’s about the purity of presence. The purity of sensation. The purity of intention when I let myself meet what feels alive in me without shame.

The Reclamation

Reclaiming the innocence of pleasure doesn’t mean denying my past. It means recognizing that those survival patterns aren’t my destiny.

It means choosing differently. Choosing to let pleasure mean what it always meant before the shame was layered on top: that I am alive, that my pleasure belongs to me, and that my body is precious and sacred.

The innocence of pleasure isn’t about erasing your erotic experiences. It’s about returning to reverence—meeting sensation as it arises without judgment, and letting yourself lean into what makes you feel alive with celebration instead of collapse.

Pleasure was never the problem. What shaped my behavior was the fear of it.

But I am the one who writes my pleasure story now. And I choose to write it as innocence, sovereignty, and divinity.

Coming Back to You

This reclamation is not only mine—it belongs to all of us.

So I’ll leave you with this self-inquiry:

✨ What are your earliest memories of pleasure? When was your relationship to it conditioned out of you? And what would it mean, right now, to meet pleasure with the purity of presence again?

Because here’s my deepest wish for you:

That you come to know the kind of aliveness I once couldn’t even imagine—heights I didn’t know how to ask for, but that opened the moment I chose to confront my stories.

That you discover the places where pleasure has been waiting for you, just beyond the edge of shame.

That you taste the beauty, freedom, and ecstasy that now move through my life daily—so rich they still take my breath away.

This is why I write. Why I share. Why I give. Because I want you to feel what is possible, too.

It’s also why I wrote my upcoming book, Forbidden Alchemy (releasing on 11/11)—to show you what happens when we dare to reclaim the innocence of pleasure, especially from the places we were told were too much, too dangerous, or too forbidden.

In sovereign pleasure,
-Sharon Marie Scott

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