Latest / Untraditionally Lala / An Unlikely Affair: The Positive Side of Porn with Dr. Ian Kerner
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hi Amber, Hi Lola, Welcome to an Unlikely Affair. Hello,
- 0:09Speaker 1: my loves, We're back with an unlikely affair.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Hi Amber.
- 0:13Speaker 3: I always hate when you're through my screen. I know,
- 0:17Speaker 3: I know you look hot today by the way I do. Yeah,
- 0:21Speaker 3: I'm trying.
- 0:23Speaker 2: I'm really trying.
- 0:24Speaker 4: I figured what if I FaceTime avoid today, I'm gonna
- 0:27Speaker 4: need him to finally see me with a face on
- 0:29Speaker 4: instead of just always in a bed.
- 0:33Speaker 3: I don't know why, yeah, but you're beautiful either way.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Well, you gotta let him know. Here's the thing.
- 0:37Speaker 4: I always say, you need to FaceTime them when you're
- 0:41Speaker 4: like in your unwind moment, no makeup on, because it's
- 0:45Speaker 4: better for them to see you that way for like
- 0:48Speaker 4: the first time and then glamed out because they're like,
- 0:52Speaker 4: oh shit rather than oh shit.
- 0:57Speaker 3: You know.
- 0:58Speaker 4: I'm like, here you go, this is me in my
- 1:01Speaker 4: truest form. If you're not attracted to it, I suggest
- 1:05Speaker 4: you go bye bye.
- 1:07Speaker 2: No, you're good, It's all good. You're good too. How
- 1:10Speaker 2: are you this morning? Fired the fuck up? Let's go baby, Yes,
- 1:17Speaker 2: room room.
- 1:18Speaker 3: I'm like, I didn't even have a full cup of
- 1:20Speaker 3: coffee and I'm ready to like.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Start launching grenades.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Oh Yeah, the cockroaches are alive and fucking well at all.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. I know what is that?
- 1:33Speaker 3: I posted something the other day and it said my
- 1:36Speaker 3: personality is mother Teresa or somewhere between mother Teresa and motherfucker.
- 1:42Speaker 3: So now every day I want you to say, is
- 1:45Speaker 3: this my mother Teresa or is this motherfucker? I say,
- 1:49Speaker 3: I'm that.
- 1:50Speaker 4: Well, today's a great day to be that, especially because
- 1:52Speaker 4: we're like talking about sex. I love that we're having
- 1:55Speaker 4: a sex therapist who's a man, because I've had sex
- 1:58Speaker 4: therapists on in the past, back when it was give
- 2:01Speaker 4: them La la, and it's always female, which is great, Like,
- 2:05Speaker 4: I too could use a few tips and tricks. And
- 2:09Speaker 4: you know, she said the number one thing that women
- 2:11Speaker 4: needed was lube, and I was like, wow, I thought
- 2:13Speaker 4: I was good in that area, but you know, like
- 2:16Speaker 4: God given lube, but apparently I need the man made
- 2:20Speaker 4: as well because it's life changing and it is.
- 2:22Speaker 2: So today I'm super excited.
- 2:24Speaker 4: Okay, So I have to tell you one thing before
- 2:26Speaker 4: we before we jump into the episode.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Right, I've never been in this situation before.
- 2:31Speaker 4: So I've been single for four and a half years, right,
- 2:36Speaker 4: and like when I started dating you, and I have
- 2:38Speaker 4: talked about this. I kept attracting men who would like
- 2:41Speaker 4: love bomb me and then disappear, and I was like, oh,
- 2:43Speaker 4: we got to do some work because we're attracting people
- 2:46Speaker 4: who are not good for you and toxic. So finally,
- 2:51Speaker 4: as we talked about on the last episode or maybe
- 2:53Speaker 4: a couple ago, I was like, this is the year
- 2:56Speaker 4: that I'm going to open myself up and be open
- 2:59Speaker 4: to putting my guard down and welcoming love because I
- 3:01Speaker 4: deserve that. So I'm talking to this guy and he's
- 3:06Speaker 4: quite a bit younger than me, and we're trying to
- 3:08Speaker 4: figure out when we're going to see each other. So
- 3:11Speaker 4: we're like on FaceTime, trying to coordinate schedules whatever, and
- 3:15Speaker 4: he was like, you know, you could come out here
- 3:18Speaker 4: or I'm more than happy to come out there. I
- 3:20Speaker 4: just don't know what your situation is. And I was like,
- 3:22Speaker 4: like living situation and he goes, yeah, because I know
- 3:25Speaker 4: you have kids, and I said yes, as you know,
- 3:28Speaker 4: like I share one, but my other is like here
- 3:32Speaker 4: full time, full time resident baby and he goes yeah,
- 3:37Speaker 4: he goes, I can get a hotel. I just don't
- 3:39Speaker 4: know if I would be ready to meet your kids.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Yet like I think that might be weird so soon
- 3:45Speaker 4: when I tell you, I wanted to jump through the
- 3:48Speaker 4: phone and fuck him up, as if you would have
- 3:52Speaker 4: the luxury of meeting my children, and as if you
- 3:55Speaker 4: would even have a say and whether you do, like right, right, right.
- 4:00Speaker 2: So that's age too. He's young. He doesn't know.
- 4:04Speaker 3: His brain's not fully developed yet. Twenty seven, not even.
- 4:08Speaker 4: Twenty he's not even twenty seven, Like he just barely lot.
- 4:10Speaker 3: Of his Lawsah, I'm sitting here and I'm like, don't laugh,
- 4:17Speaker 3: turning red.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Is he still breastfeeding? I would breastfeed him. He's so high.
- 4:23Speaker 2: I know you would.
- 4:24Speaker 4: He's so high and fucking big and just sexy.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Anyway, Oh, I love this for you.
- 4:31Speaker 4: But I could tell he was trying to backtrack sort
- 4:34Speaker 4: of because like you, you could feel my energy.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Shift, like in my head. I was like, fuck this guy.
- 4:38Speaker 2: I'm never speaking to him again.
- 4:41Speaker 4: But I wanted to like relax and take I was
- 4:46Speaker 4: having an out of body experience, right, And I'm like, okay,
- 4:49Speaker 4: the intention. I've been talking to him for a little bit,
- 4:52Speaker 4: and I know his intention. He's more than happy to
- 4:54Speaker 4: have uncomfortable conversations, real honesty and again, I don't know
- 4:59Speaker 4: him super well, but I had to focus on the
- 5:02Speaker 4: intention behind it, right. But I like as after he
- 5:06Speaker 4: said it, I started like laughing in a passive aggressive way,
- 5:10Speaker 4: and I was like, you and I have only been
- 5:13Speaker 4: talking for a little bit, and although I think you're
- 5:16Speaker 4: a wonderful person so far, I would never allow you
- 5:20Speaker 4: around my kids. I was like, I, ah, no way, priorities.
- 5:25Speaker 4: They are my number one. I am very protective of them.
- 5:30Speaker 4: You would never be welcome around them. And I think
- 5:33Speaker 4: he was like, like you could tell his mind was
- 5:36Speaker 4: going like never is a strong, a very strong word
- 5:39Speaker 4: which I love to throw around. I'm like, I'll never
- 5:43Speaker 4: date a man ever again. And here we are talking
- 5:44Speaker 4: about a man. But I've never experienced that before where
- 5:47Speaker 4: we have to have that conversation.
- 5:49Speaker 3: I mean, I think what I'm hearing from you is
- 5:52Speaker 3: that you went into mama bear mode. You know, like
- 5:55Speaker 3: your kids will always be your priority. When you're a
- 5:58Speaker 3: full time single mom and you have your kids the
- 6:00Speaker 3: majority of the time, how do you mix this in?
- 6:04Speaker 3: How do you find time for sex life, how do
- 6:06Speaker 3: you go out on dates? How do you juggle all
- 6:08Speaker 3: of these things?
- 6:09Speaker 2: I don't know. I didn't have the answer.
- 6:11Speaker 3: I wish someone would tell me the answer because I'm
- 6:13Speaker 3: still trying to figure it out.
- 6:14Speaker 2: But it's hard.
- 6:15Speaker 4: It's very hard. And we continued the conversation. He was like,
- 6:21Speaker 4: you know, I've never talked to a woman or been
- 6:26Speaker 4: with a woman who has kids before, so I think
- 6:29Speaker 4: I would struggle to find my place again. He's very young,
- 6:32Speaker 4: and he was like, you know, when I think about it,
- 6:35Speaker 4: I would think that, like I see myself in the
- 6:38Speaker 4: father role. But if they're not my kids, but I'm
- 6:41Speaker 4: in a father figure role, there's a boundary because I'm not.
- 6:45Speaker 3: The actual dad. And I was like, you have to stop.
- 6:48Speaker 3: I was like stop. I was like, I'm not.
- 6:51Speaker 4: Looking for anyone to fulfill a father figure role. In fact,
- 6:54Speaker 4: I'm actively trying to get rid of father's That's why
- 6:58Speaker 4: I have any donor. Like the whole point of having
- 7:02Speaker 4: a donor baby is so that this conversation doesn't need
- 7:06Speaker 4: to be had.
- 7:06Speaker 3: Don't worry about it, right, right, don't worry about it.
- 7:10Speaker 3: I had that conversation the other day. I literally told someone,
- 7:12Speaker 3: I said, listen again, I'm not looking and this wasn't
- 7:16Speaker 3: the chef, this was someone else. I'm not looking for
- 7:19Speaker 3: a dad for my kids, Like I had this dynamic
- 7:23Speaker 3: when I was dating the guy after. I wasn't there
- 7:25Speaker 3: too parent. I was there to be like an extra
- 7:30Speaker 3: support system in any way. I don't want to parent
- 7:33Speaker 3: anyone's kids. I'm good and I don't want anyone at
- 7:35Speaker 3: the end of the day, no one telling me how
- 7:38Speaker 3: to raise my kids. That is my biggest pet peeve.
- 7:42Speaker 3: If you want to put something in the freaking suggestion box,
- 7:45Speaker 3: I'll consider it, but I don't need you intervening. I
- 7:48Speaker 3: don't need you to tell me what I'm doing right
- 7:51Speaker 3: or wrong. It's like, I'm good, Thanks buddy, Thanks buddy,
- 7:55Speaker 3: Thanks buddy.
- 7:56Speaker 4: It's the one area in my life where I'm like,
- 7:59Speaker 4: I'm crushing this, so kindly, fuck right off.
- 8:04Speaker 2: Yeah, right, right right.
- 8:06Speaker 4: There's a lot of areas in my life where I'm like,
- 8:09Speaker 4: a lot of tweaking could be done. Motherhood, I fucking
- 8:12Speaker 4: got this, yeah for to do for today.
- 8:16Speaker 2: You never know that could change.
- 8:18Speaker 3: No one's perfect, No one has a manual on how
- 8:20Speaker 3: to raise kids. It's it's this is all. We're just
- 8:23Speaker 3: doing the best we can. And I'll tell you something,
- 8:25Speaker 3: We're doing a really good damn job.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:28Speaker 3: Yeah, So too. It's not perfect, it's not linear. It's
- 8:31Speaker 3: a lot of growing pains, and whenever tsually is different.
- 8:35Speaker 4: The moment you think you're crushing it with one, you
- 8:37Speaker 4: have a second, and they require a whole new set
- 8:39Speaker 4: of parenting skills that you're like, holy shit, how did
- 8:42Speaker 4: this happen?
- 8:42Speaker 2: Who are you? I don't know what to deal how
- 8:44Speaker 2: to deal with this situation.
- 8:46Speaker 4: It's a constant, but I just it was very interesting
- 8:51Speaker 4: to venture into this new phase where I'm having those conversations,
- 8:57Speaker 4: and you know, I rounded back on it because then
- 9:00Speaker 4: I started taking it as a personal attack on me,
- 9:03Speaker 4: and I was like, I just have to ad like
- 9:05Speaker 4: we had been talking now we were off this subject,
- 9:07Speaker 4: and I was like, I just it's kind of bothering me.
- 9:11Speaker 4: Do I strike you as the type of woman that
- 9:14Speaker 4: would just bring a man around my.
- 9:16Speaker 2: Kids like that?
- 9:17Speaker 4: And he was like no, I wasn't trying to say that.
- 9:22Speaker 4: There was no winning for him in that. Here's the thing.
- 9:24Speaker 3: I think that you just got triggered and you did
- 9:28Speaker 3: something you paused, which was fantastic. You composed yourself and
- 9:33Speaker 3: you said it in a kind but firm way back
- 9:35Speaker 3: to him, and if he respects you then he would
- 9:39Speaker 3: be okay with that, right, And how whatever way you
- 9:42Speaker 3: want to lead, Are we still talking to this guy
- 9:45Speaker 3: or do we put him to the side?
- 9:46Speaker 2: Did we bench you?
- 9:47Speaker 4: We didn't bention him because I could throughout the rest
- 9:51Speaker 4: of the conversation there were little things that he was
- 9:53Speaker 4: saying where I could tell that his intention was not
- 9:57Speaker 4: He wasn't trying to offend me, you know. And there
- 10:02Speaker 4: are times where I say things and people focus on
- 10:05Speaker 4: how I said it, and I'm like, I really wish,
- 10:07Speaker 4: I really want you to know the intention behind it.
- 10:08Speaker 4: So if I'm going to I have to practice what
- 10:10Speaker 4: I preach. The rest of the conversation was lovely. He's like,
- 10:15Speaker 4: very easy to talk to. I dig him. It's like
- 10:19Speaker 4: the plus and the minus are the same thing. I'm like,
- 10:21Speaker 4: the plus is he's young. I'm like, the negative is
- 10:26Speaker 4: that he's young. They are just things that life experiences,
- 10:31Speaker 4: no matter what career you're in, and like the life
- 10:33Speaker 4: that he gets to live and see, you just don't
- 10:38Speaker 4: have the life experience that I.
- 10:40Speaker 2: Have quite yet.
- 10:42Speaker 4: And he's very intelligent, but a book cannot teach you
- 10:47Speaker 4: life experience.
- 10:49Speaker 2: So no, he's not on pause. He's not on pause. OHI, well,
- 10:53Speaker 2: I love this.
- 10:54Speaker 3: I can't wait to continue the conversation. But I'm very
- 10:58Speaker 3: excited because we have a guest that I've been wanting
- 11:00Speaker 3: to talk to. I finished one of his books and
- 11:03Speaker 3: now I'm halfway through another book, and it's doctor Ian Kerner,
- 11:07Speaker 3: and he's a licensed psychotherapist. He is a nationally recognized
- 11:12Speaker 3: sex therapist and a New York Times best selling author. Okay,
- 11:17Speaker 3: the title of his book, are you ready for this?
- 11:19Speaker 2: Yeah? Tell me?
- 11:20Speaker 3: It's called The First One is she Comes First?
- 11:23Speaker 2: Cum No?
- 11:29Speaker 3: And then yes, love that? And then his newer book
- 11:33Speaker 3: is so tell Me About the Last Time You had Sex? Okay,
- 11:36Speaker 3: And that's more about intimacy. It's I'm super excited. This
- 11:39Speaker 3: is going to be a great conversation. Did you read
- 11:41Speaker 3: the coms first? Of course I did, obviously, obviously, And
- 11:46Speaker 3: that was more I took it as more of a
- 11:48Speaker 3: like biological scientific kind of approach. This one, this newer book,
- 11:52Speaker 3: So tell Me About the Last Time He Had Sex,
- 11:54Speaker 3: is more of a guide to relationships and like, let's
- 11:59Speaker 3: I want to diving because I have so many questions
- 12:01Speaker 3: for him, and I love a male's perspective.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Oh, I've never had one so let's get him in here.
- 12:06Speaker 4: Let's get him in here, bring him at Toronto.
- 12:10Speaker 5: Hey, how are you good?
- 12:12Speaker 2: How are you good? We're so excited to have you.
- 12:16Speaker 4: I have to be honest, I've never had a male's
- 12:19Speaker 4: perspective on a lot of these topics, which I guess
- 12:23Speaker 4: is strange. I guess maybe when you're in an intimate
- 12:26Speaker 4: partnership you should be having these conversations. Hence, maybe why
- 12:29Speaker 4: I'm not in a relationship because all the important shit
- 12:32Speaker 4: I don't talk about.
- 12:34Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think that you have to
- 12:37Speaker 5: be communicating in relationships. You know, I just watched I've
- 12:40Speaker 5: been watching heated rivalry and the things people are everyone's
- 12:43Speaker 5: talking about it. But the thing I like most is
- 12:46Speaker 5: the way they are talking about sex, not just the
- 12:49Speaker 5: sex being hot, but what feels good, what doesn't. I
- 12:53Speaker 5: love that it doesn't hinge all around intercourse the way
- 12:57Speaker 5: heterosexual sex does, and they engage in all these what
- 13:01Speaker 5: I call outer course activities. So yeah, I think it's
- 13:04Speaker 5: a great example of the importance of communicating.
- 13:07Speaker 4: You just said exactly what I have been trying to
- 13:12Speaker 4: Sometimes my brain is working but my mouth can't catch up.
- 13:16Speaker 4: What you just said is exactly how I felt about
- 13:19Speaker 4: heated rivalry. So thank you for saying that, because you
- 13:23Speaker 4: just nailed it absolutely.
- 13:25Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. I think anybody who wants to learn
- 13:27Speaker 5: how to talk about sex, how to be creative about sex,
- 13:31Speaker 5: how to let sexuality simmer, how to maintain interesting sex,
- 13:36Speaker 5: go watch that show and get entertained.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree, I agree.
- 13:40Speaker 3: And you know something, So I read your first book,
- 13:43Speaker 3: She Comes First, and I learned so much about the clip,
- 13:49Speaker 3: and I learned so much about my own biology that
- 13:54Speaker 3: I didn't know that it has eight thousand nerve endings.
- 13:57Speaker 2: Is that correct?
- 13:58Speaker 5: That is right, Amber, You got clitterate.
- 14:01Speaker 4: From what I experienced last night. That sounds absolutely correct. Yeah,
- 14:06Speaker 4: that sounds right on.
- 14:10Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 14:10Speaker 5: I mean, you know, so many men are still ill clittering.
- 14:15Speaker 5: They don't understand that the clitterists is the powerhouse of
- 14:18Speaker 5: female pleasure. It has external parts that we're all used
- 14:22Speaker 5: to that get stimulated, but there are also internal parts
- 14:26Speaker 5: that wrap around the entrance to the vagina which actually
- 14:29Speaker 5: make intercourse feel good and feel stimulating. Without the clitterists,
- 14:36Speaker 5: there is no real feeling around sex because vaginas are
- 14:41Speaker 5: meant to deliver babies, right, you don't want more sensitive
- 14:44Speaker 5: nerve endings deep inside the vagina. You don't want to
- 14:47Speaker 5: experience more pain or more sensation. So yeah, the Clitterist
- 14:52Speaker 5: is an amazing organ and I wrote that book over
- 14:57Speaker 5: twenty years ago and it's still a very powerful part
- 15:00Speaker 5: of my work, which is getting couples, heterosexual couples, men
- 15:04Speaker 5: and women to take a more female centric approach to
- 15:08Speaker 5: sex and to prioritize outer course all the things that
- 15:13Speaker 5: are not intercourse.
- 15:15Speaker 2: And I love that.
- 15:25Speaker 4: How does that land with a man? Usually when they're like,
- 15:28Speaker 4: oh wait, she's a part of this.
- 15:30Speaker 5: Too, you know, some men are a little threatened. Some
- 15:37Speaker 5: women are too. People like to think that penis and
- 15:41Speaker 5: vagina intercourse is the be all and end all and
- 15:44Speaker 5: organize all of their sexual events around that. I actually
- 15:49Speaker 5: meet many men, believe it or not. I meet many
- 15:52Speaker 5: men who want to be literally focused. They love going
- 15:57Speaker 5: down on their partners, they want to do more of it.
- 16:00Speaker 5: It's a very vulnerable sexual behavior and it's actually a
- 16:03Speaker 5: lot of women who are sometimes resistant to receiving that
- 16:08Speaker 5: kind of stimulation and want to try and just focus
- 16:12Speaker 5: on intercourse. So I've been surprised over the years around
- 16:16Speaker 5: the open mindedness of men to take this feedback and
- 16:21Speaker 5: some of the rigidity of women. But I think it's
- 16:24Speaker 5: also like, you know, we have genital self esteem issues.
- 16:27Speaker 5: We men. We worry about the size of our dicks
- 16:30Speaker 5: and how long we're going to last and how long
- 16:32Speaker 5: we can keep it up. And I think women have
- 16:34Speaker 5: their own set of issues around sexual self esteem.
- 16:39Speaker 2: That is so true, Like it's my biggest fear.
- 16:44Speaker 4: I'm like, when you start talking to someone and you're like, oh,
- 16:47Speaker 4: this is great, and then I go, oh, no, we're.
- 16:49Speaker 2: Gonna have sex. Fuck?
- 16:51Speaker 4: What does that mean? What does that mean exactly? Because
- 16:53Speaker 4: Amber and I are are both sober. I have a
- 16:58Speaker 4: little over seven years.
- 16:59Speaker 2: You're a year and a half. Amber a little over
- 17:02Speaker 2: a year and a half. Yeah, amazing, So thank you
- 17:04Speaker 2: very much.
- 17:05Speaker 3: So we also when we start to date, like that
- 17:09Speaker 3: social lubricant has gone as well as that.
- 17:12Speaker 4: You know, for me, the alcohol kind of put me
- 17:15Speaker 4: into my sexy and I was uninhibited and I was
- 17:18Speaker 4: down for the cause. Like you want me to eat
- 17:20Speaker 4: an ass, I'll fucking eat an ass.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Now I'm like a wait or what?
- 17:24Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 17:26Speaker 5: You know, I work with a lot of sober people
- 17:31Speaker 5: and it is an issue. How do you disinhibit how
- 17:34Speaker 5: do you relax into sex when you're used to using alcohol,
- 17:39Speaker 5: you know, because anxiety is the enemy of arousal. And
- 17:43Speaker 5: the more we can do to get ourselves aroused, the
- 17:46Speaker 5: more you're going to be willing to eat ass again,
- 17:48Speaker 5: the more things that sound disgusting actually sound scrumptious once
- 17:53Speaker 5: we're aroused, you know. But I do agree it's a challenge,
- 17:58Speaker 5: and I think that's where setting setting comes into a
- 18:01Speaker 5: lot of comes into it and feeling very comfortable, very
- 18:06Speaker 5: emotionally safe with someone. I think, being connected to your
- 18:11Speaker 5: erotic self, and I think with a partner, maybe being
- 18:16Speaker 5: able to engage in the psychological aspects of sex, you know,
- 18:20Speaker 5: the fantasy parts of sex or the you know, Like
- 18:24Speaker 5: I see couples who won't talk about sex during sex,
- 18:29Speaker 5: and then I'll see that same couple. I've worked with
- 18:31Speaker 5: so many couples at dinner having a dinner, and you
- 18:34Speaker 5: should see them the way they're like, Oh, try this,
- 18:37Speaker 5: taste this, open up, baby, come on, come on, you
- 18:40Speaker 5: have to try it. Please. I'm like, they're having more
- 18:43Speaker 5: sex out at dinner than they're having, you know, sex
- 18:47Speaker 5: at home. So it's also about engaging the language of sex.
- 18:51Speaker 3: I love what you said in your new books, So
- 18:53Speaker 3: tell me about the last time you had sex. It's
- 18:56Speaker 3: the yes and dot dot dot and you fill in
- 19:00Speaker 3: the blank of I want to have sex tonight, yes,
- 19:05Speaker 3: and I'm going to start a bath first, or yes,
- 19:07Speaker 3: We're going to go to dinner first. Like all that
- 19:09Speaker 3: for play that's outside of the bedroom, and that starts
- 19:13Speaker 3: there even it's like a thirty second connection. Can you
- 19:15Speaker 3: talk a little bit more about that, because I really
- 19:17Speaker 3: really admire and love that approach to getting comfortable to
- 19:21Speaker 3: get to the point of where you're having in a course.
- 19:24Speaker 5: You know, I think that's so important, especially for women.
- 19:28Speaker 5: You know, male desire, there's been a lot of research.
- 19:32Speaker 5: Men experience spontaneous desire, meaning like guy sees like a beautiful,
- 19:37Speaker 5: sexy woman that sexual cue immediately metabolizes and he feels
- 19:42Speaker 5: like a move to like want to consume right. Women
- 19:47Speaker 5: also experience lust and can also experience spontaneous desire, but
- 19:51Speaker 5: more often than not experience what's called responsive desire, meaning
- 19:56Speaker 5: desire isn't the first thing you feel. It's like the
- 19:59Speaker 5: third desire warms up, desire simmers, Desire needs an environment.
- 20:05Speaker 5: You know, there's a difference between like a hot start,
- 20:08Speaker 5: we're gonna rush through the door and throw each other
- 20:11Speaker 5: on the bed, versus like a warm start that's nurturing,
- 20:15Speaker 5: that's connecting. And listen, hot starts are fun. I love them,
- 20:20Speaker 5: but warm starts are the reality of our lived lives.
- 20:24Speaker 5: And so guys, really again, that's where we have to
- 20:27Speaker 5: change our mindset. So to your point about like yes,
- 20:31Speaker 5: and Amber, I will tell couples, you know, let's say
- 20:35Speaker 5: you're gonna have sex on a Friday night, that's your
- 20:37Speaker 5: date night. When you wake up in the morning, live
- 20:40Speaker 5: your life like you want to get to the sex.
- 20:43Speaker 5: I'm not saying you have to change your day, but like,
- 20:45Speaker 5: take care of yourself, go to the gym, shut off
- 20:48Speaker 5: your phone, plan a super sexy date night, help with
- 20:52Speaker 5: the chores. If you're in a relationship, make your place
- 20:55Speaker 5: you know safe and make a setting and like prioritize
- 20:59Speaker 5: this that you want to get to. But to your point, Amber,
- 21:03Speaker 5: it's all about building you know that connection.
- 21:06Speaker 3: Right. I loved what you said about like the hot start,
- 21:11Speaker 3: which is obviously very fun, and like I love being spontaneous,
- 21:15Speaker 3: but if you think about you know something that is
- 21:18Speaker 3: going to last and be your normal.
- 21:21Speaker 2: I think if it's it's quick.
- 21:25Speaker 3: And spontaneous all the time, then how do you ever
- 21:28Speaker 3: get like that kind of has to be something that's
- 21:31Speaker 3: on a whim, because then I find that men they
- 21:35Speaker 3: want more and at some point I'm tapped out. I'm like,
- 21:37Speaker 3: I can't get any fucking kinkier and more spontaneous, Like
- 21:40Speaker 3: I'm looking, can you just like touch me and in
- 21:43Speaker 3: a nice way instead of like slapping my ass?
- 21:46Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 21:48Speaker 4: I like the softness. People may not think that, but
- 21:52Speaker 4: I do.
- 21:53Speaker 3: Do you find from a biological standpoint that women post
- 21:58Speaker 3: having babies that changes on a like the desire to
- 22:02Speaker 3: have sex changes because it's a biological thing, or they're
- 22:06Speaker 3: just exhausted and stressed and their priorities have kind of shifted.
- 22:09Speaker 3: Because I'm sure you've seen a ton of couples that
- 22:12Speaker 3: the wife doesn't want to have sex because she's doing
- 22:14Speaker 3: all the chores and dealing with the kids totally.
- 22:18Speaker 5: And I think those men that come home and want
- 22:20Speaker 5: sex should get on the floor and play with their
- 22:23Speaker 5: kids and change a diaper and clean and you know,
- 22:26Speaker 5: join in the activity and make it feel like a
- 22:30Speaker 5: shared family experience. You know. Look, sex changes over the
- 22:35Speaker 5: life cycle, and I'm getting up there in years. I've
- 22:37Speaker 5: been married for twenty five years, and I've been through
- 22:40Speaker 5: some health issues and we've had two kids, and sex
- 22:43Speaker 5: definitely changes over the life cycle, and there are hormonal shifts,
- 22:47Speaker 5: but really it's about making space for sex and for
- 22:53Speaker 5: romantic love in your lives, maintaining that erotic threat. So
- 22:58Speaker 5: let's say you're a mom and you're changing diapers and
- 23:01Speaker 5: you're picking up puke and your dad and you're running
- 23:04Speaker 5: errands and you're both stressed out. You don't have to
- 23:07Speaker 5: jump in bed to have sex, but you can have
- 23:10Speaker 5: what I call like just like an erotic charge, like
- 23:13Speaker 5: a moment with each other that reminds you, hey, I'm
- 23:16Speaker 5: in a sexual relationship. Here, we have sex. We might
- 23:19Speaker 5: not be having sex right now, but this is a
- 23:22Speaker 5: sexy sexual relationship. So I work with a lot of
- 23:26Speaker 5: couples who have just had children on sort of not
- 23:30Speaker 5: just restarting sex, but almost like having like sex two
- 23:34Speaker 5: point zero, like new sex, better sex.
- 23:38Speaker 3: Well, I love that to keep the mindset even though
- 23:41Speaker 3: we're not having sex right now, I am in a
- 23:43Speaker 3: sexy relationship. Oh my gosh, you're a fucking genius. I
- 23:48Speaker 3: love every our listeners are going to gain so much
- 23:51Speaker 3: from this. You have no idea do you find Because
- 23:54Speaker 3: we live in a world that so many women and
- 23:57Speaker 3: men are on SSRI or some sort of antidepressant, how
- 24:03Speaker 3: is that affecting the chemistry and the sex life of
- 24:07Speaker 3: a real relationship.
- 24:08Speaker 2: Because some of these, some of these completely kill your
- 24:11Speaker 2: sex drive.
- 24:12Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean millions of people are on SSRIs. The
- 24:16Speaker 5: long term effects overall don't get studied. But especially we
- 24:21Speaker 5: know that almost anybody who's on prozac, zoloft, lexaproach, they're
- 24:25Speaker 5: going to experience sexual side effects. Their desire is going
- 24:29Speaker 5: to be diminished, their arousal is going to be diminished.
- 24:32Speaker 5: In a woman, that might mean that sex actually feels
- 24:35Speaker 5: different and is more painful because there isn't as much
- 24:38Speaker 5: lubrication and for both, orgasms are going to be delayed,
- 24:43Speaker 5: sometimes nonexistent, or sometimes really muffled. So you know, going
- 24:49Speaker 5: on an SSRI is a big decision. Now. Some people
- 24:53Speaker 5: are in such bad relationships or have so much stress
- 24:57Speaker 5: or anxiety that going on the SSRI helps them reduce
- 25:01Speaker 5: that stress and anxiety and they can focus on being sexual. Look,
- 25:07Speaker 5: where there's a will, there's a way. Ultimately, sex is
- 25:10Speaker 5: not about being spontaneous and having that hot start. It's
- 25:15Speaker 5: about two people meeting with their willingness at the same
- 25:18Speaker 5: time and really leaning into that kind of let's start
- 25:23Speaker 5: putting ourselves through the motions, let's start simmering. And I
- 25:27Speaker 5: work with lots of people who are on SSRIs, and
- 25:30Speaker 5: there are pathways to mitigating some of those effects and
- 25:34Speaker 5: finding a path to arouse it. But make no mistake,
- 25:37Speaker 5: it's debilitating. And really really question before you need to
- 25:42Speaker 5: go on that SSRI and how long do you really
- 25:45Speaker 5: need to go on it? And can you sometimes take
- 25:48Speaker 5: a break from it, you know, things to think about.
- 25:51Speaker 3: I had that experience on zooft and I had a change.
- 25:56Speaker 3: But before I changed, I went and saw a you know,
- 26:00Speaker 3: hormonal doctor and she's like, Okay, you don't want to
- 26:02Speaker 3: go off of it, let's do there's a nose spray.
- 26:05Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, that you could take.
- 26:08Speaker 3: I forgot the hormone that it releases, but she's like,
- 26:12Speaker 3: it gives you, like within thirty minutes, you better be
- 26:15Speaker 3: in the bedroom because it will just turn you on
- 26:16Speaker 3: really quickly. I was like, I don't want to be
- 26:18Speaker 3: shoving anything on my nose now spraying when I won
- 26:20Speaker 3: want to have sex.
- 26:21Speaker 4: So it was the thing that you spread up your
- 26:24Speaker 4: nose was to get you horny and ready to roll.
- 26:30Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was it effective, It was, it was
- 26:34Speaker 3: very effective. I actually had to get it from Organ.
- 26:36Speaker 3: There's only like a couple of pharmacies in the United
- 26:38Speaker 3: States that will actually do it, and this particular one
- 26:41Speaker 3: came out of Organ.
- 26:42Speaker 2: It was great.
- 26:43Speaker 3: And listen, I'm young. I don't think I need I
- 26:46Speaker 3: needed that, so I just stopped and I actually just
- 26:48Speaker 3: changed medications. I ended up going on Pristige that's better,
- 26:51Speaker 3: which gave me my sex drive back. So I just
- 26:53Speaker 3: want everyone to know and I want everyone that's listening
- 26:55Speaker 3: to know that, like, there's there's solutions, and sometimes it's
- 26:59Speaker 3: a cocktail, and sometimes it's just simply saying, hey, not
- 27:02Speaker 3: being afraid to go to your gun or your family
- 27:05Speaker 3: doctor or your psychiatrist and said, listen, this is not
- 27:07Speaker 3: working because I, like you say in your book, sex
- 27:12Speaker 3: is a primal need and it's something that we need
- 27:14Speaker 3: to take care of and participate in. And I want
- 27:18Speaker 3: women to know that there are alternatives out there.
- 27:21Speaker 2: I love that.
- 27:22Speaker 5: Yeah, amazing. I'd love to know more about that spray.
- 27:27Speaker 5: I work with people on trying to just work on
- 27:31Speaker 5: the issues that are creating the anxiety or the sadness
- 27:34Speaker 5: that's creating the need for those SSRIs and I like
- 27:38Speaker 5: to try and get people off of medications that are
- 27:40Speaker 5: going to be debilitating. I do think that sex is
- 27:44Speaker 5: an essential part of life. I mean, I think it's
- 27:46Speaker 5: the difference between somebody being a best friend and being
- 27:50Speaker 5: a lover, between being a bed mate and being a roommate.
- 27:54Speaker 5: And I think it's everyone's existential right to experience pleasure
- 27:58Speaker 5: and their sexuality.
- 28:00Speaker 4: Sess with this episode, by the way, we had a
- 28:11Speaker 4: lot of people right in and they've got some They've
- 28:15Speaker 4: got some questions for you. So the first one is
- 28:17Speaker 4: how early into dating should you talk about your sexual
- 28:19Speaker 4: desires with a partner?
- 28:22Speaker 5: You know, I think I think you should start talking
- 28:26Speaker 5: pretty early about sex. I think you should get in
- 28:29Speaker 5: the habit of talking about sex the way you would
- 28:31Speaker 5: talk about friends, the way you would talk about family,
- 28:35Speaker 5: you know, Lalla. So many of us grow up in
- 28:39Speaker 5: sex negative homes, you know, where sex was not modeled
- 28:42Speaker 5: for us. It was not you know it, it was
- 28:45Speaker 5: a taboo. It's a forbidden Very few of us grew
- 28:48Speaker 5: up in sex positive homes. Most of us grew up
- 28:51Speaker 5: in sex avoidant homes. That's where I grew up, in
- 28:53Speaker 5: a sex avoidant home. It wasn't like anybody was particularly negative.
- 28:57Speaker 5: They just didn't talk about it. It was never the
- 29:00Speaker 5: conversation that came up. So I was launched into the
- 29:02Speaker 5: world of sexuality not knowing how to talk about sex.
- 29:07Speaker 5: And then suddenly you're with a partner, You're with a lover, Like,
- 29:10Speaker 5: that's where you need to start developing the vocabulary and
- 29:13Speaker 5: early on you know. Yes, So if you're sitting across
- 29:18Speaker 5: the table from someone you find sexy, someone that you
- 29:21Speaker 5: think you might want to have sex with, whether it's
- 29:24Speaker 5: casual or may develop into romantic love. Yeah, have a
- 29:29Speaker 5: sense of sexual self esteem, sexual self worth. Talk about
- 29:33Speaker 5: what you like, what you don't like, what works for you,
- 29:36Speaker 5: what doesn't, and what you need.
- 29:38Speaker 4: Oh I love this because that was Actually I'm so
- 29:41Speaker 4: glad someone asked that because I am newly launching myself
- 29:45Speaker 4: into the dating, the dating world, and for a very
- 29:49Speaker 4: long time it was like I was not having sex
- 29:52Speaker 4: at all. I was planning to have a baby via donor.
- 29:54Speaker 4: I was pregnant for nine months. Then I'm postpartum, and
- 29:58Speaker 4: then it was like, you know, I just want to
- 30:01Speaker 4: have sex, like no strings attached. So when when you're
- 30:04Speaker 4: put in that situation, it's like both parties know the drill.
- 30:07Speaker 4: Sex is the only thing that needs to be spoken
- 30:09Speaker 4: about now that I'm venturing into like I'm open to
- 30:13Speaker 4: love and giving someone my time and affection. I don't
- 30:17Speaker 4: quite know when that conversation should be had.
- 30:22Speaker 5: Yeah, So I like to say that lust is the
- 30:25Speaker 5: seed of love. It doesn't always grow into romantic love.
- 30:28Speaker 5: Sometimes lust just becomes lust, as you were saying. But
- 30:31Speaker 5: sometimes you plant a seed and you're like, holy shit,
- 30:34Speaker 5: this is this seed is actually blossoming into something. Start
- 30:40Speaker 5: the conversation. You know, it can actually be the first
- 30:44Speaker 5: time you have sex. You can during sex you could
- 30:46Speaker 5: say try, you know, try this, or that feels really great,
- 30:50Speaker 5: or I love this about you, or move this way
- 30:53Speaker 5: a little bit, or ouch that hurts. I remember, honestly,
- 30:57Speaker 5: when I was having sex with my wife for the
- 30:59Speaker 5: first time, like, you know, twenty five twenty six years ago,
- 31:02Speaker 5: she would tell me ouch, ouch that that hurts a
- 31:05Speaker 5: little bit, or or this way or you know, if
- 31:08Speaker 5: she didn't have an orgasm, she didn't have to fake it,
- 31:11Speaker 5: and she was honest about it and like, no big deal.
- 31:14Speaker 4: That's when you know you're comfortable, if you're like, you know,
- 31:17Speaker 4: I didn't get off that time, instead of faking it. Oh,
- 31:21Speaker 4: that is the worst feeling. Does anything good ever come
- 31:24Speaker 4: from telling your partner how many people you've had sex
- 31:26Speaker 4: within the past.
- 31:27Speaker 5: Well, I can tell you that a lot of negative
- 31:30Speaker 5: stuff does come with it. You know, people feel like
- 31:33Speaker 5: my partner has you know, in men, People feel like, oh,
- 31:36Speaker 5: she's had more sexual experience than I did. She knows more.
- 31:41Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to really perform. That performing creates an
- 31:45Speaker 5: anxiety that then creates a reptile unpredictability, and then that
- 31:49Speaker 5: guy can't perform at all. So I don't think, you know,
- 31:52Speaker 5: I don't think it's worthwhile to talk about partners in
- 31:56Speaker 5: terms of numbers and quantity. If you want to talk
- 31:59Speaker 5: about qual if you want to talk about, you know,
- 32:02Speaker 5: some partners that you've had, I think that that's fair game,
- 32:06Speaker 5: you know, to I think we should know each other's histories.
- 32:09Speaker 5: I mean, I sit across the table from my wife
- 32:12Speaker 5: and I know almost everything about her, you know, except
- 32:16Speaker 5: what she writes in her journal. And I know what's
- 32:18Speaker 5: going on in her life and in her mind, and
- 32:21Speaker 5: I know what's happened in her history.
- 32:23Speaker 2: Okay, I love that because I do like to parade
- 32:27Speaker 2: my list around.
- 32:29Speaker 5: Well, just I hope that, But that could intimidate you know.
- 32:34Speaker 2: You know, you just say, I've had a lot of experience.
- 32:36Speaker 4: Here's the with the as you with the age range
- 32:39Speaker 4: I'm going for right now, just based off of how
- 32:42Speaker 4: much older I am, I've got more experience.
- 32:44Speaker 2: So let me teach you some things.
- 32:47Speaker 5: What are today's pornified world? You have to the guys
- 32:51Speaker 5: do not know what real sex looks like. They know
- 32:54Speaker 5: what porn sex looks like.
- 32:56Speaker 2: That's another big fear of mine.
- 32:58Speaker 3: I've lived through that. I lived through that for eight years.
- 33:01Speaker 4: You and me both, What are the positive and negative
- 33:04Speaker 4: impacts free access to pornography has done to us as
- 33:08Speaker 4: humans and our sex lives?
- 33:09Speaker 2: We were just talking about this. What have you seen
- 33:13Speaker 2: in your career?
- 33:14Speaker 5: So I am both you know, I can go both
- 33:18Speaker 5: ways on porn. I have a spectrum of feelings, you know.
- 33:22Speaker 5: On the negative side, I do think that younger people
- 33:27Speaker 5: at younger ages are watching porn and that's how they're
- 33:31Speaker 5: learning about sex because guess what nobody else is teaching them,
- 33:35Speaker 5: And so I don't think young people should be exposed
- 33:39Speaker 5: to porn sex as their first model of what sex
- 33:43Speaker 5: should look like. I also have men who come in
- 33:48Speaker 5: who feel like excessive porn news has given them a
- 33:53Speaker 5: reptile disorder, and they'll say, I watch so much porn
- 33:57Speaker 5: now I can't get it up. Porn fucked up my brain. Actually,
- 34:01Speaker 5: porn didn't fuck up his brain. What's fucking up his
- 34:05Speaker 5: brain is he doesn't know how to actually be with
- 34:08Speaker 5: a real person. Porn is easy, Porn is junk food.
- 34:12Speaker 5: Real sexuality is complex and it requires attunement. So I
- 34:18Speaker 5: think that there's some negatives to porn, but I also
- 34:20Speaker 5: think there's a lot of positives. I mean, Amber, you said,
- 34:24Speaker 5: what does somebody do after they've had a kid? You know,
- 34:27Speaker 5: in those weeks. It's true that you probably won't be
- 34:31Speaker 5: having sex for eight or twelve weeks, you know, and
- 34:35Speaker 5: who knows where you ended up in the third trimester.
- 34:38Speaker 5: So porn can be a very legitimate form of self pleasure.
- 34:44Speaker 5: I tell couples all the time who want to sort
- 34:49Speaker 5: of add some arousal into the sex at the beginning
- 34:53Speaker 5: to get going to engage in psychological stimuli. A lot
- 34:57Speaker 5: will choose to watch porn together.
- 34:59Speaker 2: I was going to to ask you about that. Yeah,
- 35:02Speaker 2: like you think that that's fine.
- 35:03Speaker 4: If a couple is like, let's watch porn together, you
- 35:06Speaker 4: think that that's a healthy thing to be doing.
- 35:08Speaker 5: I actually do, in large largely, I really do, because
- 35:11Speaker 5: that's a couple. First of all, they're very open minded,
- 35:15Speaker 5: and they're willing to do that and willing to share
- 35:17Speaker 5: that without feeling judged by what they selected. And ultimately
- 35:22Speaker 5: it can be stimulating, just like watching a sexy movie
- 35:25Speaker 5: or a sexy show. And look, let's speak true in
- 35:28Speaker 5: long term relationships, it's sometimes is hard to keep that charge,
- 35:32Speaker 5: that sexiness. So we owe it to our relationships to
- 35:36Speaker 5: find ways to get into that warm start and get
- 35:39Speaker 5: into the sex right.
- 35:41Speaker 3: Well. Also, now we're gonna have to combat AI porn
- 35:45Speaker 3: because that's really changing the world.
- 35:47Speaker 2: Don't you have to pay for that?
- 35:49Speaker 4: I fully enjoy porn, hubb I'm just letting you guys know.
- 35:54Speaker 4: But just like I don't want to do this twenty
- 35:56Speaker 4: minute thing, get to the good shit. I got five minutes,
- 35:59Speaker 4: five fucking minutes.
- 36:00Speaker 3: I mean, I've definitely fast forward a lot of a
- 36:02Speaker 3: lot of the beginning.
- 36:04Speaker 5: Yeah, I also like to recommend ethical porn, which is
- 36:07Speaker 5: porn that you usually have to pay for. But it's
- 36:10Speaker 5: kind of like like there's fair trade coffee, there's fair
- 36:13Speaker 5: trade porn. You know that the actors weren't exploited, there
- 36:17Speaker 5: is consent STI testing, so you know, wait, it's to their.
- 36:22Speaker 4: Own Okay, throw it onto the list of subscriptions. My
- 36:28Speaker 4: business manager is going to be thrilled. Why are we
- 36:31Speaker 4: hearing that gen Z isn't using condoms?
- 36:37Speaker 5: Oh my god, what do you think about that? I
- 36:40Speaker 5: you know, what's your first response to that? Because I
- 36:42Speaker 5: actually know So I know a lot of gen Zers
- 36:47Speaker 5: who actually are very concerned about STIs and concerned about
- 36:51Speaker 5: unwanted pregnancy and do use condoms. I also know a
- 36:54Speaker 5: lot of gen Z women who are on birth control
- 36:57Speaker 5: and will forego a condom even if there's a possible
- 37:00Speaker 5: ability of an STI, so.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Which is crazy to me.
- 37:03Speaker 4: So, going back to what you stated about how there
- 37:06Speaker 4: were three different types of household households with sex, I
- 37:10Speaker 4: grew up in a very open households. Some of my
- 37:14Speaker 4: listeners think my family's very weird, But I figure if
- 37:17Speaker 4: I can talk about this shit to a stranger. I
- 37:19Speaker 4: can certainly talk about it to the woman who pushed
- 37:22Speaker 4: me out of her vagina. So I always knew that, like,
- 37:28Speaker 4: the best case scenario is you get pregnant, right all
- 37:32Speaker 4: the other shit that sticks around that you don't want
- 37:35Speaker 4: use a fucking condom. I've always said you can hoe around,
- 37:40Speaker 4: but you've got to be an educated hoe. This sends
- 37:42Speaker 4: me into a full on panic to think that people
- 37:48Speaker 4: of this age range are not wrapping it up.
- 37:52Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think women feel a sexual pressure to
- 37:55Speaker 5: concede because any guy will tell you that it feels
- 37:58Speaker 5: better to have sex with out a condom. But you know,
- 38:02Speaker 5: so what, there's other ways. I mean, sex is still super,
- 38:05Speaker 5: super pleasurable.
- 38:06Speaker 2: There's so many different kinds. Go to Costco.
- 38:09Speaker 4: They come in bulk, the thin there, the wrist kinds
- 38:13Speaker 4: that climb on rocks like there's no reason why you
- 38:18Speaker 4: shouldn't be putting a condom on. I want to shake
- 38:20Speaker 4: these people. That is so dumb to be like, well,
- 38:22Speaker 4: I'm on birth control, so all is good. Not all
- 38:25Speaker 4: is good. I remember in the seventh grade they they
- 38:28Speaker 4: pulled up this like basically, what is that thing where
- 38:32Speaker 4: there's like circles and it connects everyone. You know, I'm
- 38:36Speaker 4: thank you, thank you talk to And it shocked me
- 38:40Speaker 4: to be like if this person has been with me,
- 38:42Speaker 4: but they've been with all of these people and I've
- 38:44Speaker 4: been and it connected all of us.
- 38:46Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god. So I always practice
- 38:51Speaker 2: safe sex with the condom and birth control.
- 38:54Speaker 5: And you know what, the fact that you're sober is
- 38:57Speaker 5: amazing because I think more than likely you may be
- 39:00Speaker 5: acting with men who moderate or are sober, or you're
- 39:04Speaker 5: more connected into a sober environment because rates of unwanted
- 39:08Speaker 5: pregnancy and STI highly correlate with you know, drinking and disinhibition.
- 39:15Speaker 5: And so I think, you know, you're lucky you're in
- 39:18Speaker 5: a and maybe are you in a sober sex environment
- 39:21Speaker 5: or to some extent or.
- 39:24Speaker 2: Yes, I would.
- 39:26Speaker 4: I would say that no one has, No one is
- 39:30Speaker 4: an alcoholic. I get very worried about being involved with
- 39:34Speaker 4: men who are also in the program because, as you know,
- 39:36Speaker 4: I'm a single mom. I have to worry about my
- 39:38Speaker 4: own sobriety. I don't want to worry about yours. So
- 39:42Speaker 4: I prefer you come into my life and just have
- 39:44Speaker 4: a healthy relationship with alcohol.
- 39:47Speaker 2: If I could have it that way.
- 39:50Speaker 4: But I'm sure there were many times where in my
- 39:53Speaker 4: drinking years I was stupid and didn't you know, practice.
- 39:58Speaker 5: Its okay, we don't need to use a condom exactly.
- 40:01Speaker 5: So that's what you do when you're a little You know,
- 40:03Speaker 5: there's a difference between non consensual sex and unwanted sex.
- 40:09Speaker 5: Unwanted sex can actually be consensual. I'm drunk, I'm a
- 40:12Speaker 5: little drunk. Okay, let's not use that condom. I wake
- 40:16Speaker 5: up the next morning. Fuck, I can't believe I let
- 40:20Speaker 5: that happen. But yeah, you let it happen.
- 40:22Speaker 2: I know, love to plan be back in the day,
- 40:25Speaker 2: love to plan be.
- 40:27Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, stop. You know this is who I am.
- 40:30Speaker 3: I'm an overshare. Can a lack of sex have negative
- 40:34Speaker 3: health impacts?
- 40:35Speaker 5: So you're not going like, look, I think that sex
- 40:39Speaker 5: is a vital need. I don't think it's a need
- 40:42Speaker 5: like food or water. If you don't get food or water,
- 40:45Speaker 5: eventually you're gonna die. If you don't get sex, you
- 40:49Speaker 5: know you are you're not going to die. But I
- 40:54Speaker 5: think you're going to be missing out on a key
- 40:58Speaker 5: aspect of relation. And let me just say, when I
- 41:01Speaker 5: talk about sex, I'm not talking about intercourse. I'm just
- 41:05Speaker 5: talking about whatever feels really sexual to you or wherever
- 41:10Speaker 5: it gets you to pleasure. So they like to say
- 41:16Speaker 5: that sex has health benefits, but you know, there are
- 41:19Speaker 5: no real studies like, oh, sex is going to help
- 41:21Speaker 5: me lose weight, or it's going to clear up my skin.
- 41:24Speaker 5: I mean, you know, papers love to publish those kinds
- 41:27Speaker 5: of stories. So I don't think sex is going to
- 41:30Speaker 5: help you necessarily live longer. Being in a great relationship
- 41:35Speaker 5: that has great sex might help you to live longer.
- 41:39Speaker 5: And I don't think not having sex is going to
- 41:42Speaker 5: kill you.
- 41:52Speaker 2: Is it true?
- 41:52Speaker 3: Because I've had quite a few men talk about that
- 41:57Speaker 3: if they don't if they don't have sex frequently or
- 42:02Speaker 3: jack off, that it builds up toxins in their body.
- 42:07Speaker 3: They have to get rid of the toxins that doesn't
- 42:11Speaker 3: turn into something that is unwanted, like a like a poop,
- 42:15Speaker 3: you don't go.
- 42:17Speaker 5: You know, there is there are some studies that show
- 42:20Speaker 5: that masturbation is associated with prostate health. There's no real
- 42:26Speaker 5: guideline around it. But you know, I would say that,
- 42:29Speaker 5: you know, masturbation is can help with prostate health. But
- 42:33Speaker 5: you know, guys love to sort of say, oh, if
- 42:36Speaker 5: I don't release, I have you know, blue balls. I'm
- 42:39Speaker 5: in this state of you know, arousal intention. The truth is,
- 42:43Speaker 5: guys get turned on very quickly. We turn on we
- 42:47Speaker 5: see something and we have to turn ourselves off. So
- 42:50Speaker 5: it's just about sort of surfing those waves.
- 42:53Speaker 2: Okay.
- 42:54Speaker 3: I wonder how that translates for women, Like what's the
- 42:57Speaker 3: equivalent of blue balls for women?
- 42:59Speaker 5: Well? Women, And you know what's interesting is if you
- 43:01Speaker 5: look at male sexuality versus female sexuality. During sex, blood
- 43:07Speaker 5: goes into the male genitals very quickly, creates that you know,
- 43:12Speaker 5: strong erection and that propulsion, propulsive ejaculation. Blood goes in
- 43:18Speaker 5: quickly and blood leaves quickly, right, so men can go
- 43:22Speaker 5: up here, have their orgasm and come you know, right
- 43:25Speaker 5: back down here, and they have a refractory period a
- 43:27Speaker 5: period of time before they can have sex again women again,
- 43:31Speaker 5: And this is the beauty and the power of female sexuality.
- 43:35Speaker 5: For women, blood flows into the genitals much more slowly,
- 43:39Speaker 5: meaning yes, we a have to spend a lot more
- 43:41Speaker 5: time on connecting and arousal and foreplay and things that
- 43:45Speaker 5: feel good. But after orgasm, blood does not leave the
- 43:49Speaker 5: genitals quickly. For women, it stays there, so women can
- 43:53Speaker 5: go into this sort of warm plateau phase, and some
- 43:57Speaker 5: women like to have more sex from there and have
- 44:01Speaker 5: another orgasm. Women have sort of an unlimited capacity for
- 44:06Speaker 5: orgasm if you just want to sort of ride that
- 44:09Speaker 5: curve of orgasm into the warm state back into orgasm.
- 44:14Speaker 5: So blood flows out of the female genitals more slowly,
- 44:17Speaker 5: but ultimately men and women, you know, within a few minutes,
- 44:21Speaker 5: will all land in the sort of the pre arousal
- 44:24Speaker 5: stage of sex.
- 44:27Speaker 3: Did he answer your question, Amber, Yes, I know this
- 44:30Speaker 3: guy who stays hard for fucking hours and he's super young,
- 44:34Speaker 3: and I'm like, this is fucking crazy, Like literally, we'll
- 44:38Speaker 3: get off and within seconds it'll be ready to go again.
- 44:42Speaker 2: He's like a dream man.
- 44:43Speaker 5: Anyway, And how new is the sex?
- 44:47Speaker 2: Very new? And he's like utill iPhone. I hope my
- 44:49Speaker 2: mom doesn't listen. He's like twenty four, right, twenty four.
- 44:54Speaker 5: There you go. Younger guys shorter refractory periods sometimes can
- 44:58Speaker 5: get hard again right away, and new sex with someone
- 45:02Speaker 5: who's hot and sexy will get them right back up again.
- 45:06Speaker 4: Well, there we go, twenty four. That's the where I
- 45:09Speaker 4: want to be is in terms of age.
- 45:11Speaker 3: Oh Jesus, twenty four, I can't with you. So one
- 45:16Speaker 3: of the things that I'm finding not twenty four, but
- 45:20Speaker 3: like guys that are in their forties and fifties that
- 45:24Speaker 3: are taking all this testosterone, what is a long term effect?
- 45:28Speaker 3: Because I imagine it can't be good. But maybe I don't know.
- 45:32Speaker 3: I'm not the doctor, you know.
- 45:34Speaker 5: I'm not sure that I'm not a urologist. There haven't
- 45:36Speaker 5: really been What I mean is that from what I've read,
- 45:39Speaker 5: there haven't really been long term studies of testosterone. We
- 45:44Speaker 5: live in a culture where doctors love to say, because
- 45:47Speaker 5: of pharmaceutical companies, you can stay on this for life,
- 45:50Speaker 5: and we really don't know a lot of men out
- 45:53Speaker 5: there who have low libido and go on testosterone. It's
- 45:57Speaker 5: not actually the testosterone that was the problem. It's it's
- 46:00Speaker 5: other things. So so stosterone can be great. Like I'm
- 46:04Speaker 5: working with some guys who really have chronically low libido
- 46:11Speaker 5: and they feel a lot of lust or want for
- 46:14Speaker 5: their partners, but they can't. They just don't feel a
- 46:17Speaker 5: lot of lust or want but they did in the beginning,
- 46:20Speaker 5: or they want to. They're into their partners, and so
- 46:23Speaker 5: sometimes testosterone can move the needle. I think it's biologic.
- 46:28Speaker 5: Sex is biological, it's psychological, it's you know, it's relational.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot going on.
- 46:35Speaker 3: I found the nasal spray, so I was taking this
- 46:38Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, and now I realize, like during
- 46:41Speaker 3: that period, I think I was heavily in the family
- 46:44Speaker 3: core system battling, So you can only imagine that my
- 46:49Speaker 3: sex stri was not so exciting. So it was actually
- 46:54Speaker 3: an oxytocin nasal spray.
- 46:56Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oxytostin nasal spray.
- 46:58Speaker 3: That's really interesting is this is a quick acting so
- 47:02Speaker 3: you want to use it within minutes of sexual activity.
- 47:06Speaker 3: It was one hundred units spray one to two sprays
- 47:08Speaker 3: into each nostril immediately before sexual activity. That's that's sexy.
- 47:14Speaker 5: That is really interesting. You know, like oxytocin in spray
- 47:17Speaker 5: form is becoming more popular. I haven't had a lot
- 47:22Speaker 5: of experience with it, amber so your experience is great
- 47:25Speaker 5: to know. I mean, oxytocin helps to Oxytocin is the
- 47:31Speaker 5: cuddle hormone. It's the it's the connecting hormone. It's a
- 47:34Speaker 5: hormone that helps with arousal. So I could see that
- 47:37Speaker 5: and it would be short acting.
- 47:39Speaker 3: It works, you guys, I am not joking. It's like
- 47:43Speaker 3: you become a rabbit. I used it and I was like,
- 47:47Speaker 3: and I actually threw it away because it had expired
- 47:49Speaker 3: when I moved out to Montana, so I was actually like,
- 47:51Speaker 3: do I need But I'm good now that problem has
- 47:55Speaker 3: been solved. But yeah, that was one of the things
- 47:57Speaker 3: that my doctor prescribed me and I actually got from
- 48:00Speaker 3: a compounding pharmacy and organ cool.
- 48:03Speaker 5: I'm going to ask an MD I work with, who's
- 48:06Speaker 5: an obgyn and she's really into this stuff and she
- 48:11Speaker 5: works we work with a lot of compounding pharmacies as well,
- 48:13Speaker 5: so thank you for that. I'm going to bring this
- 48:16Speaker 5: up with her and see if we can make it
- 48:17Speaker 5: part of our potentially part of our treatment plan. And
- 48:20Speaker 5: I'll get her feedback and she probably knows everything about it.
- 48:23Speaker 5: So if there's anything should you guys should know about it,
- 48:26Speaker 5: I'll let you know.
- 48:26Speaker 2: Yeah, please do I would love that. Yeah, we want
- 48:28Speaker 2: to follow up with our listeners for sure. Yeah.
- 48:31Speaker 3: Well, the listeners were thrilled about this episode. I just
- 48:35Speaker 3: have a couple more questions. What can a wife do
- 48:39Speaker 3: to spice things up besides toys?
- 48:42Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, toys on their own are not inherently spicy.
- 48:46Speaker 5: They're just devices. You know, same with like handcuffs or
- 48:51Speaker 5: little you know, anything that's like BDSM or kinky or
- 48:56Speaker 5: kink light, Like those are just accessories. They're prop It's
- 49:01Speaker 5: what do we psychologically imbue them with, right, So you
- 49:05Speaker 5: know it's sexy, Like if you wake up and tell
- 49:09Speaker 5: your guy, you know, I had a super sexy dream
- 49:12Speaker 5: about you last night, Like I don't know what my
- 49:15Speaker 5: unconscious was up to, but you know, boy, where we
- 49:18Speaker 5: getting it on in some unusual original ways, like hopefully
- 49:23Speaker 5: you spice someone's interest in you thread it through the day.
- 49:26Speaker 5: I guess what I'm trying to say is psychological arousal
- 49:31Speaker 5: is as important as physical arousal. There have been studies
- 49:34Speaker 5: that show that women can fantasize their way to orgasm
- 49:39Speaker 5: without touching themselves. Men can get very powerful erections just
- 49:43Speaker 5: by sitting in front of porn for seven minutes or
- 49:47Speaker 5: looking at someone sexy or thinking about someone sexy. So
- 49:50Speaker 5: think about bringing more psychological arousal into the relationship, which
- 49:55Speaker 5: maybe requires a little more vulnerability.
- 49:58Speaker 3: I've actually seen YouTube videos of women orgasming just by
- 50:02Speaker 3: doing breath work, working with a sex therapist.
- 50:04Speaker 2: That was fascinating.
- 50:06Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it is wild for I think it's all
- 50:09Speaker 4: about the mental state, Like I have to feel very comfortable,
- 50:12Speaker 4: I have to like create the fantasy. I think it's
- 50:15Speaker 4: all about like the muscles within the vagina as well
- 50:18Speaker 4: that you should constantly be working out. And yeah, there's
- 50:23Speaker 4: I think what I love about this episode the most
- 50:27Speaker 4: is all of the things that we've touched on that
- 50:29Speaker 4: have everything to do with the sex that exists before
- 50:37Speaker 4: the actual sex that I think so many people forget about.
- 50:43Speaker 4: It's all about just the the penis entering the vagina,
- 50:49Speaker 4: and there's so much more that goes into all of it.
- 50:52Speaker 5: Yeah, I was working I worked with a couple who
- 50:57Speaker 5: hasn't had they haven't had sex in two months, but
- 51:00Speaker 5: they feel like they're in a very sexy sexual relationship.
- 51:03Speaker 5: They have sexual confidence in themselves and each other. And
- 51:06Speaker 5: then I was working with a young couple that had
- 51:08Speaker 5: moved in during COVID and they were having sex five
- 51:11Speaker 5: times a week or four times a week, and the
- 51:13Speaker 5: guy was like, I don't feel like we're in a
- 51:15Speaker 5: sexual relationship.
- 51:16Speaker 4: Wow, you know, so that is mind blowing because mentally
- 51:21Speaker 4: they're not in sync.
- 51:23Speaker 5: Yeah, he didn't even realize they were having She's like,
- 51:26Speaker 5: what do you mean we're not in a sexual relationship?
- 51:28Speaker 5: We had sex four times and he's like, really, I
- 51:31Speaker 5: don't remember that. And when I started to talk to him,
- 51:34Speaker 5: talk to them, It's just there was no erotic thread.
- 51:38Speaker 5: There was nothing connecting a sexual event to the next
- 51:41Speaker 5: sexual event. There was no eroticism in the air. Right.
- 51:45Speaker 3: That's why I think I always when people say, oh,
- 51:49Speaker 3: you shouldn't have sex until you've hit the three month
- 51:52Speaker 3: mark of dating, I see, and I get that perspective, right,
- 51:56Speaker 3: and I respect that. But my thing is, what if
- 51:59Speaker 3: you don't have sexual chemistry, what if there's no or
- 52:03Speaker 3: what if there's issues in the bedroom, Like you're going
- 52:06Speaker 3: to waste three months of your life of like building
- 52:09Speaker 3: this thing and then all of a sudden it's the
- 52:11Speaker 3: biggest ledgew You're like, oh, that's trumans of my life
- 52:14Speaker 3: that I'm not going to get back.
- 52:16Speaker 5: Yeah. I agree. I mean, hopefully you pick someone that
- 52:19Speaker 5: you really have physical and sexual attraction with and you
- 52:22Speaker 5: feel a heat just at that level just sitting across
- 52:26Speaker 5: from each other. Now, the question is, you know, what
- 52:29Speaker 5: do you do with that chemistry? And can you actually
- 52:32Speaker 5: dance together sexually?
- 52:34Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, thank you.
- 52:36Speaker 3: Amen.
- 52:37Speaker 5: Hey, so I have a patient in my waiting room.
- 52:39Speaker 4: We love that because that's how we're going to sign up.
- 52:42Speaker 4: If you have a patient in your waiting room.
- 52:44Speaker 2: Thank you. I love that much. We are so appreciative
- 52:47Speaker 2: of you joining you got it.
- 52:49Speaker 5: This was great, and stay in touch and good luck
- 52:51Speaker 5: with everything.
- 52:53Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Have a great day. Bye, bite
- 52:57Speaker 2: you guys.
- 52:57Speaker 4: That was doctor Ian Kerner and I just he just
- 53:01Speaker 4: made me so happy.
- 53:02Speaker 3: I'm so happy as well.
- 53:04Speaker 2: That was really good. I gained a lot from that. Yeah.
- 53:09Speaker 4: And can I tell you you said you have a
- 53:12Speaker 4: g spot inside your vagina. If my clit doesn't get
- 53:16Speaker 4: the love it deserves, there's nothing happening for me.
- 53:20Speaker 2: Really.
- 53:21Speaker 3: Yes, we bounce each other out. We have something to
- 53:23Speaker 3: teach each other.
- 53:24Speaker 4: I don't want to be fucked like a jack rabbit,
- 53:27Speaker 4: you know, like give me something, you know.
- 53:32Speaker 2: Warm up the bean a little.
- 53:34Speaker 3: The tiny but mighty I learned that it's tiny and mighty.
- 53:40Speaker 1: Oh.
- 53:40Speaker 4: I want to get a Chihuahua and name her clit
- 53:44Speaker 4: because she'll be tiny, but mighty oh.
- 53:46Speaker 2: I literally do that.
- 53:49Speaker 4: Darling or clitoris kind of like Dolores, I love that.
- 53:55Speaker 2: I can't.
- 53:56Speaker 3: I can't, I can't.
- 53:57Speaker 2: That was that was amazing.
- 53:59Speaker 4: What was your most favorite part that he told you
- 54:02Speaker 4: you shouldn't wait three months to fuck someone.
- 54:07Speaker 3: I don't need permission, not anymore. We all love a quickie. Okay,
- 54:13Speaker 3: that's that's a midday quickie could be nice, but like
- 54:16Speaker 3: also taking the time, taking it slow, and really connecting
- 54:19Speaker 3: with your partner, like really connecting with your partner in
- 54:22Speaker 3: a way that's just not like hurry up and let's
- 54:25Speaker 3: get it over with.
- 54:26Speaker 2: I feel like.
- 54:26Speaker 3: There's something really like sexy and this ebb and flow
- 54:32Speaker 3: that I like about what he said about around all.
- 54:35Speaker 2: That I do too.
- 54:36Speaker 4: I feel like that podcast was very helpful for this
- 54:39Speaker 4: stage that I'm getting into, where it's it's beyond just
- 54:42Speaker 4: like hey, we're having sex and that's where it starts
- 54:45Speaker 4: and ends, and creating this dynamic of like true intimacy.
- 54:50Speaker 4: So I loved everything that he said. I hope that
- 54:52Speaker 4: he wasn't turned off by me talking about eating ass.
- 54:55Speaker 3: I can't help but just be La la at all times.
- 55:00Speaker 3: You fucking crushed it, amber thank you. No, but he
- 55:03Speaker 3: has seen everything. Okay, my god, he lives in New
- 55:06Speaker 3: York City. Do you know the ship? By the way,
- 55:07Speaker 3: have you ever seen the show Billions?
- 55:09Speaker 2: Of course I have.
- 55:10Speaker 3: Okay, do you know the wife who's like this button
- 55:13Speaker 3: up therapist and her husband who's the day You know,
- 55:17Speaker 3: these are two people that you would think would would
- 55:19Speaker 3: have very vanilla sex or even sex at all. Those
- 55:23Speaker 3: scenes where she gets her leather boots out and she
- 55:27Speaker 3: gets the whip and I'm like, oh my god, I
- 55:31Speaker 3: love this show. That show was so hot.
- 55:34Speaker 2: I mean it was still good. Me too, Me too.
- 55:37Speaker 2: I've been wanting to do.
- 55:38Speaker 3: Wait, there's one more thing that I have to clear
- 55:39Speaker 3: up because I've been reading a lot of.
- 55:43Speaker 2: Comments and stuff. Okay, what the heck did you mean
- 55:47Speaker 2: by I can go Brad or Angelina?
- 55:49Speaker 3: Can you explain that to me and everyone who doesn't
- 55:52Speaker 3: understand that because you have cleared like there's a storm
- 55:55Speaker 3: out there around.
- 55:55Speaker 2: This, you know, I really I did not think that
- 55:58Speaker 2: it would be like that.
- 55:59Speaker 4: I don't don't know why. Maybe I'm an idiot. As
- 56:03Speaker 4: most people know, I have hooked up with women before.
- 56:06Speaker 4: I have a deep love and appreciation for beautiful women.
- 56:10Speaker 4: I find that I have a type when it comes
- 56:12Speaker 4: to women. I do not like labels. I do not
- 56:16Speaker 4: consider myself bisexual. There are other people who you may
- 56:19Speaker 4: ask and they label me that, which is totally fine
- 56:23Speaker 4: if that makes anyone feel more comfortable by putting a
- 56:25Speaker 4: label on me. The only two labels that I will
- 56:28Speaker 4: ever wear with pride are independent and mother.
- 56:30Speaker 2: That is it. That's where it ends. So could I
- 56:35Speaker 2: cook up with a woman? Yes?
- 56:37Speaker 4: Do I see myself in a romantic partnership where we're
- 56:40Speaker 4: intimate and life partners?
- 56:42Speaker 3: No? But again I always go back to I also
- 56:45Speaker 3: didn't see myself having a baby va sperm donor, so
- 56:49Speaker 3: I'm just open to whatever.
- 56:50Speaker 2: Honey, I love it. I love it great.
- 56:53Speaker 4: Michelle had people congratulating her. I was like, oh fuck,
- 56:56Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. I thought this was going to be
- 56:58Speaker 4: like a cute friend's moment, and then like we love housewives,
- 57:01Speaker 4: like let's use the Kyle Richards line. But I do
- 57:04Speaker 4: find Michelle extremely sexy. I've told her, I'm like, if
- 57:06Speaker 4: you if you were into that, Hi.
- 57:12Speaker 3: So she's your type, I would say, if you were
- 57:13Speaker 3: gonna like she would be.
- 57:16Speaker 2: Everyone has a type.
- 57:17Speaker 4: Everyone has a type. Yes, everyone has a type. And
- 57:20Speaker 4: I don't usually like blondes, but I mean, I masturbate
- 57:23Speaker 4: it to you, so who the fuck knows.
- 57:25Speaker 2: I'm just an enigma. I love that wrapped in a
- 57:28Speaker 2: riddle and cash all right, I love you so much.
- 57:34Speaker 3: Ill you.
- 57:35Speaker 2: That was the best. I will call you later. Great,
- 57:38Speaker 2: let's do it all right?
- 57:39Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to another episode of an Unlikely Affair.
- 57:42Speaker 4: I hope you guys gained a lot start texting your
- 57:45Speaker 4: husbands and your wives saying how fucking horny they make you,
- 57:50Speaker 4: and I'll catch you tonight, baby.
- 57:52Speaker 3: Bye bye everyone,