- Mar 30
5 Sex'perts Reveal the Surprising Secret to Feel Sexy at Any Age or Size
- Trina Read
- The Pursuit of Pleasure Podcast
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Here’s a lie we’ve all been sold. That sexy is something you look like.
It’s a size. An age. A specific outfit, lighting, or the right angle in the mirror. And if you don’t have those things, or you’ve lost them, or you never felt like you had them to begin with, then sexy is just not available to you right now.
That is complete nonsense.
Sexy is not a look. It’s a feeling. And feelings don’t come from the outside in. They come from the inside out. The problem is that most of us have spent so long looking outside ourselves for permission to feel attractive that we’ve completely lost touch with the part of us that already knows how.
So I asked five Sex’perts one question. What actually works? Not the surface-level stuff. The real, lasting, embodied kind of feeling sexy that doesn’t evaporate the moment you take off the lingerie or get a bad comment or catch yourself in a harsh light.
What they shared stopped me in my tracks.
Reclaim Sexy With Your Girlfriends
Caitlin’s answer might surprise you because it has almost nothing to do with a romantic partner.
For her, feeling genuinely sexy most often happens with her female friends. Getting dressed up together. Dancing. Doing makeup in the mirror and hyping each other up, even if they’re not going anywhere. That particular kind of feminine energy, women celebrating each other, is something she thinks is deeply underrated as a source of confidence and attraction.
As Caitlin puts it,
“I want to reclaim sexiness for the girls. I want my friends to feel sexy when they’re with me, and I feel sexy with them. I think that might be a life hack in terms of feeling attractive, sexy, and great in our bodies.”
There’s something about being truly seen and celebrated by other women that hits differently than any compliment from a partner. If you’ve let those friendships slide, this might be your sign to call your girls and make a plan.
Stop Performing. Start Inhabiting.
Tilly goes straight to the root of why so many women feel disconnected from their own sexiness.
Her take? We’re performing sexy instead of actually feeling it. We’re chasing that quick hit from new lingerie, from a compliment, from someone’s attention. And those things feel good for a moment but they don’t last, because they’re coming from outside rather than within.
Real sexiness, Tilly says, is embodied. It comes from inhabiting yourself fully, knowing what you want, being present in your body instead of managing it from a distance. And you can’t force your way there. Pleasure and aliveness don’t respond to effort. They respond to safety and presence.
“Feeling sexy doesn’t come from what you put on your body or what you’re wearing. It actually comes from how deeply you inhabit your body.”
The practice she recommends is deceptively simple. Slow down, take a breath, and just ask yourself what’s actually here right now. Not what should you be feeling, but what are you actually feeling? Building that relationship with your own sensation is what makes sexiness something you carry with you everywhere, not something you have to go looking for.
See Yourself Through Desiring Eyes
Leah shares something personal here, a shift in perspective that genuinely changed how she sees herself.
She stopped looking at her body through her own critical eyes, and started imagining how she looked through the eyes of someone who truly desired her. Someone who found her luscious and gorgeous and wanted her. That simple reframe? It worked.
“When I started to see myself through the eyes of someone who desired me, I was suddenly gorgeous. But if I was looking at myself through my own eyes, I would pick myself apart.”
Her second tip is just as powerful. Drop into your five senses. Taste, sight, touch, smell, sound. Your senses are a fast track back into your body and out of your head. What’s the feeling on your skin right now? What do you smell? What’s the sound of your own breath? That kind of sensory check-in can shift you from analytical and disconnected to present and sensual in just a few minutes.
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Find Your Shakti
Dr. Willow brings a perspective that’s both ancient and completely practical.
She talks about Shakti, a Sanskrit word for sexual essence and energy, and her point is this. We’ve been taught to wait for someone else to ignite us, to turn us on, to make us feel alive. But that power has always been inside us. The work is learning to access it yourself.
For Dr. Willow, that starts with clearing the mind. Because when your head is full of noise, stress, to-do lists, self-criticism, you can’t feel anything in your body. She uses breathwork, movement, or chanting to drop out of her head and back into herself. From there, she taps into what she describes as Kundalini energy, that serpentine aliveness that rises up the spine.
“What’s actually really sexy, it doesn’t matter what body you’re in, what shape you’re in, or what form you’re in. What’s most sexy is a woman who can feel sexy in her body.”
The sexiness, she says, is always there. It’s just underneath the layers, the fatigue, the stress, the heavy weight of life. The practice is de-layering, not adding more on top.
Your Pelvic Floor Is Part of This Too
Jana brings something to this conversation that nobody else is talking about. And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it.
Feeling sexy in your body has a physical component that most women are completely unaware of. The pelvic floor. Those 14 muscles in three layers that live within your pelvis aren’t just about bladder control. They are directly connected to your capacity for pleasure, sensation, and yes, orgasm.
When those muscles are too tight, which Jana says is most of us thanks to years of being told to just do kegels, or too weak, the body literally can’t fully receive pleasure. You’re either chasing the feeling or too tense to let it land.
“Every single beating heart that lives in a woman’s body is able to orgasm. We just need to understand, and that’s where when I learned that 90% of pelvic floor dysfunction is a fitness issue and not a medical issue, it’s about getting oxygen-rich, nutrient-rich blood to the pelvic floor.”
The idea that this changes with age, that pleasure is just supposed to fade? Jana calls that exactly what it is. A crock. Your body is designed to serve you until your last breath. That includes your sensual and sexual life. Understanding the why, she says, is what lights women up and gets them taking action.
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What All Five Are Really Saying
Read these five perspectives back and a single thread runs through all of them.
Feeling sexy is an inside job.
It’s not in the mirror. It’s not in a compliment. It’s not in a new outfit or the right lighting or finally losing those last ten pounds. It’s in how present you are in your own body, how well you know yourself, how willing you are to inhabit yourself fully, including the parts you’ve been taught to hide or fix or apologize for.
None of these experts are asking you to be different. They’re asking you to come back to yourself.
So pick one idea from this list. Just one. And start there.
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Meet Our Featured Sex’perts
Caitlin V, Intimacy and Relationship Coach
Tilly Storm, Women’s Pleasure, Confidence, and Sexuality Coach
Leah Piper, Relationship and Intimacy Expert, Founder of More Love Works, Tantra and Somatic Coach, Co-Host of Sex Reimagined
Dr. Willow Brown, Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Taoist Sexology Expert, Co-Host of Sex Reimagined
Jana Danielson, Pelvic Floor and Perimenopause Expert, Founder & CEO of Cooch Ball
