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Elmo's World" is full of wonder and curiosity, cooperation and kindness. Who other than the fuzzy, red Muppet would ask babies how to do things? Karen Yates: Yeah. Let's give a hand here! [applause] So that was really cool, because I was feeling all groovy with my favorite thing, and I thought about my computer issues, and my head got all like, "Ehhhh," but then I moved the groovy thing into my computer issues. And all of a sudden I was like, "Hey, computer issues! I'm dancing with my laptop. Awesome." So any final words about taking that out into the world? Diane Long: Is it a problem that penetration is not accessible, that that's painful? If that's not so much an issue, then how do we expand pleasure in different ways?

Elmo Painter: Yeah. And that's where the empowerment piece comes in. Because when you can bring communication, when you can bring a little bit of, "I know that I like this one thing,..."

RASCOE: Or the explanation could lie in the Muppets' origins in the "Mad Men" era as advertising pitch puppets. For the next part of this exercise, think of something that happened within the last few days -- maybe the last two days, like 24 to 48 hours -- that was irritating, or irksome, or just like blah! We're not working with any trauma right now, or triggers. We're just, like, somebody cut you off in traffic, or you just missed the bus, or you stubbed your toe, or, you know, your pet went potty on the floor, or your human pet went potty on the floor, or you know, something that was just irksome, is kind of what we're going for. Think of something like that. And now, notice how your body responds. Notice your breath, your heartbeat, your muscles, your attention, any of those emotional sensations. So, that practice that we just did is called pendulation. Where you think of something that's really resourcing, and really like, "Ahh." And allowing your body to respond, and allowing your body to come to a sense of peace, and a sense of "Yes." Like putting your body in safety and yes and comfort. And that allows for more activating work. So when I'm doing trauma work with somebody, we first we go into comfort, we go into safety, orient to safety, we orient to the softness and calmness of something serene, or something cute, or something nice that happened, so that that person can access the fact that they can have these nice feelings. And then it makes it safer to go into more activating stuff. So you just felt into your authentic yes, and some authentic no.

KEVIN CLASH: (Singing, as Elmo) La, la, la, la. La, la, la, la. Elmo's World. La, la, la, la. La, la, la, la. Elmo's World. RASCOE: But an old "Sesame Street" clip resurfaced this past week and has people wondering, does Elmo have a shady side? to Elmo] You're a somatic therapist, I'm a somatic sex educator. What does "somatic" mean? [laughs]FRED ROGERS: That there are things inside them that are OK to talk about. They should know that there is a full array of emotions in life, and all of them are fine. It's what we do with them that matters.

Karen Yates: Right. Because if you identify one thing, then I'm positive, you're gonna identify another thing. Right? RASCOE: That's Muppets creator Jim Henson and his puppets from a coffee campaign that ran from 1957 to 1961. And, of course, the Muppets also had a nighttime show. MAHNA MAHNA AND THE SNOWTHS: (Singing) Mahna mahna (ph). Mahna mahna. Do, do, do, do, do. Mahna mahna. Do, do, do, do. Mahna mahna. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Mahna mahna. For more info on Elmo Painter, go to our show notes. And thanks for listening. [music] Next week, we talk with writer Meg Weber about her BDSM memoir, and publisher Sienna Saint-Cyr about their press' consent-based erotica. Thank you for listening. If you know someone who might be interested in this episode, send it to them. Do you like what you heard? Then give us a nice review on your podcast app. You can follow us on social media @wildandsublime, and sign up for newsletters at wildandsublime.com. I'd like to thank associate producer Julia Williams and design guru Jean-Francois Gervais. Theme Music by David Ben-Porat. This episode was edited by The Creative Impostor Studios. Our media sponsor is Rebellious Magazine, feminist media at rebelliousmagazine.com.Karen Yates: Yeah, it's totally real small steps by small steps, right? So it sounds like the first thing you do is kind of just orient them to just the idea of pleasure kind of across the board. It's not necessarily a sexual pleasure. Karen Yates: So like, what's this culture piece -- beyond oppression, cultural oppression, which is everywhere. So should we be surprised Elmo can be salty? No. He got into it with Jimmy Fallon on "The Tonight Show" in May 2011. Sunny days” turned dark when Kevin Clash, the towering puppeteer who has voiced Sesame Street’s cherished furry, red monster for 28 years, was forced to take a temporary leave of absence when a 23-year-old man claimed to have had a sexual relationship with him at 16. Clash maintained that his accuser had already turned 18 by the time of their liaison, and he was vindicated Tuesday when the unidentified accuser recanted his claim, saying that it was, indeed, “an adult consensual relationship.” RASCOE: Now, there could be some high-minded motives behind Elmo's moods. As Fred Rogers told Terry Gross in 1984, one of his goals as a children's broadcaster was to assure kids...