I didn't think that I would come back here either, but I have a personal experience, or journey if you will, that I want to share with you Mark that I hope will maybe have you understand her relunctance or "block" as you call it and the curiosity.
When I married Cobalt I was ignorant and a prude about certain aspects of sexuality or "kink" as some call it here
. He, being a very sexual person, exposed me to many different ideas and I did explore them through reading, internet and books, because I was curious. However, my level of curiosity didn't match my comfort level. Because of a past relationship, I was totally against porn (mags, vids, etc.) He wanted to discuss what I was discovering because it interested him. At times, I felt as if he were pushing me to try things out and I wasn't really sure if I was ready or interested. I needed my time alone to discover if I was interested in trying some things, I needed to gather the information at my own speed without him trying to give me the information from his perspective. At times I felt pushed into things that I wasn't sure I was comfortable with in order to please him. His persistence (in my mind and in his he was only helping me over my block) at times made me mad and I would go into the "damned if I will do it for you" mode.
What he did do eventally, after I explained to him what I was feeling, was leave me alone about my explorations. He lets me find things, "research" and then if I am interested I bring it up. He does occassionally bring up an idea or shows me something on the internet that interests him, but he leaves it up to me to decide if I want to explore that.
He doesn't have a mission to give me all the information, or to help me over my hump or increase my comfort level. He lets
me do that. And that is what I suggest you do with your friend. Give her the places, books, mags, where the information is at and let her explore on her own and explore
alone where she isn't hovered over. Let her discover for herself and satisfy her own curiosity by herself for now. Oh, you can be there if she has questions, but just answer the question or perhaps point her to a source for information.
Does she have her own internet connection? If she does, just give her this site address and let her explore it on her own by herself for now without hovering over her or being in the same place as she is. Let her grow on her own, but be there for her when she has questions.