About The Baths
An allegory. A long time coming.
Modern women invest in therapy, in fitness, in serums that cost more than rent. Meanwhile our pleasure keeps getting quietly deprioritised. Not because we aren’t interested, but because the right spaces no longer exist.
For millennia, women and femmes all around the world gathered in bathhouses to spill secrets, shed shame and speak the truth, without expectation or over-explanation. Now we’re taking the space back.
The Baths is an immersive exhibition and social pleasure platform for exploring the depths of our intimacy. A day of curiosity, connection and conversation hosted by experts across the spectrum of sex and sexuality.
OUR FOUNDER
Hi, I’m Laura (she/her). Raised in religious communities, I grew up internalising sexual shame, and have spent years quietly unlearning it. If I’m honest, I'm still unlearning it.
I know what it feels like to be curious but unsure where to begin. To wonder if everyone else somehow got a handbook. To want conversations about pleasure that feel thoughtful, warm and completely normal.
I can count on one hand the number of rooms I’ve been in where women talked about pleasure like it was just…normal. Not a confession. Not a joke to soften first. Not something you bring up after the second glass of wine and immediately look around thinking: Shit, can we actually talk about this? So I went looking for a room that reflected that.
Somewhere curious instead of intimidating. Warm instead of clinical. Playful without taking itself too seriously. A place where you didn't need to know all the right words before walking through the door. I couldn't find the room I was looking for. So I'm building it.
And I’ve had a little experience along the way. I've spent 15 years building communities and global events, including New York Comic-Con, PAX Australia, Star Wars Celebration and Oz Comic-Con. I'm also a SexTech School graduate and host a happy hour that brings together SexTech founders and sexologists.
If any of this feels familiar. I hope you’ll Meet me at The Baths, where you’re invited to come as you are; curious and ready to see where it goes.
x Laura
The Pleasure Council
Meet The Baths Pleasure Council: a small, founding group of women and femmes from different backgrounds, identities, and areas of expertise.
Laura Lee (She/Her)
Laura is a psychologist & sexologist with over 18 years experience in clinical practice and coaching. She is the Director of Blue Space Psychology where she provides individual psychological and sexual therapy.
In addition to clinical practice Laura provides supervision, professional consultation and workshops to healthcare providers, and is a sought-after speaker and trainer.
Laura‘s work has been published in the Journal of Positive Sexuality, where she explored how communication impacts sexual desire & satisfaction.
Her extensive experience, academic research and practical insights, coupled with her warm and authentic communication style, establish her as a highly respected voice in the fields of psychology and sexuality.
Laura’s drops of knowledge:
Sexual communication · Sexuality in long term relationships · Sexual desire · Non-monogamy · Sex and trauma · Sex and body image · Sexuality and aging (especially menopause)
Taylor Neal (She/They)
Taylor Neal is a Somatic Sexologist, educator, writer, multidisciplinary artist, and founder of SomaPoetica, a somatic therapy and sexual wellness practice dedicated to helping people cultivate deeper, more compassionate relationships with their bodies, sexuality, intimacy, and emotional wellbeing.
With a background spanning somatic sexology, harm reduction, disability support, gender-based violence prevention, movement education, dance, and visual art, Taylor brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to their work. Grounded in the belief that healing, pleasure, and self-understanding begin in the body, they draw together movement, creativity, and social care to support deeper connection with self and others.
Through workshops, speaking engagements, and community education, Taylor is passionate about making conversations around embodiment, pleasure, and sexual wellbeing more accessible and empowering.
As a member of The Pleasure Council, Taylor brings a trauma-informed, accessibility-conscious, and embodiment-focused perspective to advancing conversations around pleasure, sexuality, and wellbeing.
Taylor’s drops of knowledge:
Somatics/embodiment · dance/movement · sexology · harm reduction · disability support · sex education · SWer support · facilitation
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