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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Progressives & Conservatives: Would you date/have sex/partner with someone with opposite political views? Answer the poll here: linkinbio.mymodernintimacy.com/bio

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Propaganda I’m not falling for as a clinical and forensic psychologist, and sex therapist: • monogamy is best • men have higher desire • casual sex is bad • sex is a relational duty • “good” people don’t like “dirty” sex • all kink comes from trauma • a person’s value changes by their # of partners

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Make no mistake, the women who were sent to space today were not a demonstration of female empowerment. That was a demonstration of male power (wealth and virility) in the same way a pimp leverages women’s sexuality to prove his dominance. They were props, not promises. #blueorigin

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Can you spot the problematic perspective(s) inherent in his post?

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Sexism is a tool of fascism. It teaches compliance and obedience to everyone, of all genders, at the identity level, and primes the human mind to defer to an authority instead of their own truth.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Seeing how EM is acting in public makes me so worried about any woman or child who has ever lived with him in private.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Emotional and relational maturity (i.e.: regulated nervous systems and empathy) are true benchmarks of effective leadership. Without both, all that is left is the tyranny of being subjected to someone else’s psychodramas and trauma re-enactments.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Helping out a student at Maastricht University with a research study. take this survey now: maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If the Republican Party wants “more babies,” why is just watching and listening to them the most effective form of birth control? (For legal purposes, this is a joke. Please use contraception to prevent pregnancy).

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If sex and gender were indeed binary, there wouldn’t need to be laws to enforce it.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Friendly reminder that enforcing a gender binary is one the key steps in installing fascism.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The fires in LA are not a punishment from a deity. LGBTQIA+ folks are not mentally ill. Women are not household appliances.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Modern men, To be a better ally to women, here are few things you can do: 1) Read feminist writings and listen to feminist podcasts 2) Pay for women’s labor, emotional + physical. 3) Learn to regulate your emotions + your nervous system. 4) Talk with other men about it all and call out misogyny.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Here are my 2025 Predictions: - Unprecedented number of heterosexual divorces - Birth rate will drop - Sex toy sales will ⬆️ - Digital sexual experiences will ⬆️ - Kink/BDSM and non-monogamy practices will ⬆️ to subvert conservatism - Analog hobbies will ⬆️ - Sex experts will be heavily censored online

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

“Sex with a minor” = rape of a child I wish MSM would stop minimizing this behavior.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The person of the year ought to be Gisele Pelicot and every other SA survivor.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

You’re allowed to feel frustrated if the current political climate is wreaking havoc on your sex life.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

There is no such thing as “withholding” sex. No one is entitled to sex with another person. If they are not having sex, there is no desire. Instead ask, what happened that there is no longer desire? Repair or address that. That can help partners move back into a place where desire lives again.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Please stop saying things like “masculine energy” and “feminine energy.” It’s re-packaged patriarchal propaganda funneled through pseudo spirituality.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A common theme I hear from women I work with is that men do not want an experience WITH them, they want an experience OF them. Read that again.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Told my husband we didn’t need couples therapy, and everything was fine in our relationship because I was happy with how things are in the relationship. #womeninmalefields

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Men with unresolved trauma cling to patriarchal power with greater fervor, to combat the feelings of vulnerability that occurred during the original trauma, and the feelings of powerlessness that arise during emotional states (that they beleive they should not feel) they cannot control or regulate.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If it really were about keeping women and girls safe, there wouldn’t be a roster of accused sexual predators leading the party.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Things we could be doing now, instead of *gestures wildly*: Feasting Fucking Laughing Loving Learning Listening Growing Sharing Building Repairing Creating The grieving is real.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Want to stock up on feminist reads? Here is a short list: Feminism is for Everybody - bell hooks Entitled - Kate Manne The Authority Gap - Mary Ann Sieghart Rage Becomes Her - Soraya Chemaly The List of Shit that Made Me a Feminist - Farida D. We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A 4600% increase in misogynistic content online in the past week 😔 Embolden by the election results, misogynistic men are becoming more brazen and desperate in their attempts to prove their masculinity through sexually aggressive thoughts, language and behavior. womensagenda.com.au/latest/your-...

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'Your body, my choice': 4,600% spike in comments promoting gendered violence post-election

Millions of people on social media are engaging in content from far-right “manosphere” influencers using misogynistic, violent language, including the trending phase “your body, my choice”.

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Dr. Kate Balestrieri @drkatebalestrieri.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hey everyone, first post here: Algorithm, connect me with folks who are into: - Psychology and mental health - Sex positivity and sexual liberation - Anti-oppression work - Gender equity and intersectional feminism - Bodily autonomy - Egalitarian relationships - Making noise and good trouble

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