As I’ve been saying for weeks now, it must be very, very hard to live in a sprawling Los Angeles mansion during California’s shelter-in-place orders. The richer a person is, the more space they occupy as a human being. Just try and imagine living with four people in an 8000-square-foot Brentwood estate, like Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk? If I were them, I wouldn’t be having sex either!
In a new Goop video entitled “How Do You Find Intimacy In These Uncertain Times,” Paltrow and Falchuk spoke to intimacy coach Michaela Boehm. At one point, Paltrow admits: “We’re lucky that we have a really solid relationship but we’re also in the house with the kids and it’s pretty close quarters.” Once again, that “close quarters” is Goop’s massive, 8000-square-foot property in the swanky Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Goop also wondered what she and Falchuk should do about sex, considering they’re “all in the house and you’ve got dogs, and work, and work from home.” Relatable! Boehm, however, warned Goop that “the female body when put under stress goes into survival mode,” meaning women won’t feel like having sex right now. Gender essentialism (and my questions about what “female bodies” look like to Boehm) aside, I’ll say for myself—I’m having the most sex of my life during shelter-in-place. Maybe my body just isn’t female enough! Boehm continues:
“Food, comfort and eating sweets to up the body fat; most women are reporting these are the things they want to do. They don’t want so much pleasure. Opening to pleasure leads to all others sorts of emotions. It’s fairly normal for women to have emotional response in the context of sexual pleasure and orgasm, crying, even anger things like that.”
How scientific! Boehm also advertises her “pleasure course,” which women can take when the boredom “kicks in” in a few weeks and they need to “engage with their senses.” If you want the budget option, skip to the end of the below video for a quick exercise you can do with yourself or whoever you please at an appropriate level of social distance, designed to cleanse your pores (or something) of “built up trauma’ in the body, and to activate our ‘native self-cleaning mechanism.” [Daily Mail]