MS Sexual Health
Helping healthcare practitioners & people with Multiple Sclerosis navigate the complexities of sexual wellbeing.
As A Healthcare Practitioner,
MS Sexual Health provides you with the extra support you need to address the complexity of sexual dysfunction in your patients’ lives, whether it stems from primary, secondary, or tertiary effects of MS.
As A Person with MS,
Multiple sclerosis can profoundly affect your sexual wellbeing. At MS Sexual Health, we see you as a sexual being and offer you the unflinching support you need to maintain or regain the power of pleasure in your life.
About MS Sexual Health:
Cara Griswold was diagnosed with M.S. in 1993 and knows first-hand exactly how much life can change with such a diagnosis.
Her work is guided by her lived experience of M.S., 25+ years of community activism, and specialized sex educator training.
She aims to inspire personal growth, healthy relationships, and empowerment for all people, focusing on folx with M.S., chronic illness, and disabilities, through a two-pronged approach.
Cara provides further education and training for healthcare providers so that they can better support their patients with MS, and additionally empowers individuals with MS with the radically honest support that they need to maintain or regain the power of pleasure in their sex lives.
Get Started with the MS and Sex Podcast
The MS and Sex Podcast discusses sexual wellbeing in a straightforward, sex-positive manner. From conversations on how ableism, sexism, racism, and other forms of oppression impact our sex lives, to identifying and creating the sexual experiences you desire, this podcast is an open forum for fostering the sexual confidence that allows us to create social change. Tune in to some of our latest episodes below!
My Goal as a Certified Holistic Sex Educator:
Awareness of sexuality and the interconnectedness of all bodies is an ultimate empowering experience. To thwart any sense of sovereignty this gives us and to maintain control, dominant systems use erotophobia, in all its forms*, as a potent tool of oppression.
Because any system of supremacy serves neither the oppressors nor the oppressed, Holistic Sex Educators invite people to reorient their relationship to sexuality in a way that values radical honesty with themselves and others and embraces the full spectrum of human experience, from pleasure to discomfort and pain.
My goal as a Holistic Sex Educator is to guide people to reconnect with their bodies and the world around them. This creates embodied individuals and respectful communities with the skills to create a culture based on justice, equanimity, and inclusion.
(*homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, body shaming, objectification, the infantilization of disabled bodies, demonizing/sexualizing of black and brown bodies, the rigid adherence to the mores of monogamy, and the vilification of alternative sexuality practices…)