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Boyfriend Edition #3: Everything You Need to Know About Men's Pumps with Mike Kohl · Libido Lounge

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Desire can be just a 100% physical for men without any emotional or even mental attraction
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or desire for it.
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The men generally feel the need to be, like, respected.
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So if women men women are disrespecting the men, then that that desire would just turn off.
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And so what can happen is this vicious cycle where all of a sudden, man touches her, and in
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her mind, she's like, oh, crap.
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I don't have time for this.
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And then he gets hurt, and then she winds up not touching him as much because she's worried
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that that is gonna give him the signal that she's interested.
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Could you say it like this?
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Because I'm feeling, you know, this is making me feel a little disrespectful and very small.
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It creates that tension that we can okay.
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Coming in, like, we're coming back, pulling in.
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That that is also that's a like a enhances the connection, if you wanna call it.
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You said that the impact of respect on desire.
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And you said even more impactful on desire is respect, maybe even more than love.
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So the more that people are actually having sex and actually being intimate, the more when
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those small breaches happen and and you communicate about them, the more easily your
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body is actually able to say, okay, we talked about it.
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And so that subtleness, think, can happen at so many different levels of like trying to reach
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other signals even our long term relationships around like, is this on the table?
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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome back to another episode of the lounge.
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I'm doctor Diane, your libido doc and board certified sexologist, and I am here today for
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another boyfriend edition for you guys.
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This is my boyfriend, my partner, Mike, and we're gonna I'm gonna be asking a series of
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questions today.
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We're gonna be talking about desire, talking about male desire, what gets in the way of male
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desire.
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We're gonna be talking for the ladies things you should need to that would be helpful to
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know about male desire.
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We're gonna be talking about ways to keep your engine revved up during hard stressful times
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and so much more.
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And you know, I wanna start by saying this was a fun experience to start to put this together
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with Mike because when we sat down to talk about some of the questions that we wanted to
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talk about live and what we thought would maybe be helpful for you guys, it actually ended up
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being we we sat down one day to just film, and then we ended up shutting the cameras off.
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And we ended up having pouring a glass of wine and sitting down and with cameras off, just
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having a really big exploratory talk on these types of questions.
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So I just bring this up because it would it created a what happened was a really cute date
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night out of it.
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And I bring this up because some of the questions that I'm asking here, I think are
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useful to to take note of because these are questions that actually stimulate a really
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great conversation between us.
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And I think it's just a good opportunity when we're talking about long term relationships and
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finding ways of creating newness and novelty.
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One of the best ways I think is through curiosity and questions.
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And so I invite you guys, if you like these questions, to take note of them, to write them
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down, to maybe bring them to date night with your partner and see what kind of fun
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conversation stirs up.
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Because the other thing that happens when we talk about sex is usually that is a great way
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of getting turned on.
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So this can be part of your date night as far as just, you know, just exploring emotionally,
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but also part of turning, you know, turning each other on.
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So without further ado, I wanna introduce you guys back.
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You guys met him once before, a couple times before in other boyfriend episodes, but here's
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Mike, so welcome back, my love.
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Excited to jam out the truth.
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Yeah, I'm excited you're here too.
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So, you know, it's interesting, and you've heard me talk in our own personal life as well
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as on the show around desire and around females.
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And so from a standpoint of females, like, one of the things that I feel like I would wish
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more men would know is things like for women going slow is really important, for women the
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clitoris is so incredibly important.
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In fact, what's so interesting even about the vagina is that the posterior two thirds of the
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vagina don't even have touch receptors, they only have pressure receptors, meaning they
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don't have near the nerve endings as as areas like our clitoris, so they don't respond to the
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same types of stimulation.
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So depending upon what's happening with penetration, there is a wide variety of
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sensation.
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This is why for many women thrusting like three times superficially before going deep or nine
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times superficially before going deep can add to a lot of pleasure because that superficial
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thrust is really getting into that front third of her vagina where she has a ton more of touch
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sensors.
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And so these are examples of the things that like I just wish that more men would know
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around desire and around arousal and around the female body in general because I think it would
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just create for a better bidirectional lovemaking experience.
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So, you know, in thinking about to just, you know, past, you know, not just our relationship
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but like past lovers and people, you know, women you've experienced life with, is there
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any sort of like pattern where it's like, wow, yeah, if if women understood this about desire,
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if they understood this about sex, if they understood this about just love making intimacy
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in general that it would really help you.
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Is there anything that you can think of in that regard?
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Yeah.
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The first thing that comes to mind is men, like myself, is we are the desire comes much
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quicker.
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We don't have we don't need the the foreplay.
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I think probably most women would understand that.
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And just that just just having memories of the past even when somebody, you know, like, just
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touches me on the back, kinda like, oh, yeah.
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She wanted me.
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You know?
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It's this is happening.
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So just having that memory of the past.
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And the the other side of it, I think what can really reduce desire for men, the men generally
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feel the need to be, like, respected.
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So if women if men women are disrespecting the men, then that that desire would just turn off.
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So men generally respect is probably, you know, maybe in some in some instances, more important
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than love.
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So that's the the growth here.
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Those are the two biggest things.
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Oh, and then as for stress, that may it's it's unpredictable because sometimes stress can
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reduce it, but a lot of times, stress is just a that it has no impact, even amplified the
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desire.
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It can.
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Depending on if it's, a longer term chronic stress that can that can reduce it, but stress
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in the moment can just amplify that.
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You know?
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Maybe you just whatever's happening, it it it had no impact on desire.
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So I think it's different for women in that case.
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Okay.
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You're giving me lots of follow-up questions here.
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So I'm gonna go a couple of different directions that we talked about pre filming.
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So one is so it's so it's interesting because you mentioned foreplay, and one of the things
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you said was that men don't need foreplay as much as women, which is a common belief.
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So but it's interesting because when I read surveys that have been done on this, what
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surveys have shown is that men also feel like foreplay is too short on like commonly, and
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that men on average want eighteen minutes of foreplay, and women on average want nineteen
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minutes of foreplay.
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So this is what we've seen.
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I've seen in some surveys is that we're actually closer here than we may realize.
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So in your experience, like like, do you still feel like maybe it's not necessary for, like,
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that true, like, arousal, but for you, where is, like, the value and, like, where is the
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priority of still having foreplay?
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Okay.
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Biggest thing there are certain instances where foreplay would definitely you know, let's say
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things are happening more fee on a frequent basis.
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Foreplay would definitely be very useful to kinda rev things up.
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But I think then for me, the number one value of foreplay is more of relaxing.
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Like, just just it's from a performance perspective, just relaxing a bit to kinda,
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like, be more present and, you know, sustain yourself during during the lovemaking.
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So I think that's probably the number one thing for foreplay that that helpful for for me
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personally or well, I suspect for most men.
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And foreplay in a way also there's a like, a call it a a psychological dance that you could
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you could imagine, kinda give it the the the it creates that tension that we can okay.
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Coming in, they go coming back, pulling in.
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That that is also at a like, enhances the connection, if you wanna call it.
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So that's pretty much my biggest takeaway for that.
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So it sounds like it's less of the the foreplay is less of, like, that need for the arousal,
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but yet there's still this foreplay for other purposes like lasting longer and and creating
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more of, like, being in the moment, that sort of thing?
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Correct.
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That pretty much just enhancing the experience the shared experience we're having when during
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lovemaking or pre lovemaking.
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Then another question I have is because you mentioned initial my initial question, you
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mentioned, like, oh, back touching and like how sometimes that's like all it takes is to get
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turned on.
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So here's my question because I think women know this a lot of times, and here's a scenario
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that I think happens for men and women a lot where she may feel like she's like really in
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overwhelm from life and sometimes unfortunately for women, it can sex can just end up on the
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checklist of, you know, obligatory type of things.
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I gotta check that off, which is a whole another can of worms that we've talked about on
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this show and we'll talk about again.
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But for sake of simplicity, let's just say that that a woman is feeling there's that sense of
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obligatory sex and so what can happen is this vicious cycle where all of a sudden man touches
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her and in her mind she's like, oh crap, don't have time for this.
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And she's retracting because she's so worried that if she touches him that he's automatically
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gonna go there and she's like, I don't have time for this, it's, you know, not on my to do
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list.
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And so what can happen in this really common dynamic is that, you know, he touches her or
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she I'm sorry, she touches him and then he starts going, you know, towards her and she's
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like, no.
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And then he gets hurt and then she winds up not touching him as much because she's worried that
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that is gonna give him the signal that she's interested when she's just trying to tenderly
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touch him and show love.
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And so this is I think one very common dynamic that leaves the couples not only having less
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sex, but also having less like physical touch and intimacy because of this like subtle push
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pull of like, are they in, are they in, are they not, and you know, and like, you you and I
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even have like nights where it's like, we go to bed and we're so tired and like, we're like
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really want, you know, really wanna make love, And like both of us are like, you know, like, I
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don't know.
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I don't know.
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And then we wind up making love and sometimes we'll talk afterwards around like, well, I
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didn't know if that was gonna happen.
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Right?
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And so that subtleness I think can happen at so many different levels of like trying to reach
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other signals, even our long term relationships around like, is this on the table or not?
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So do you have any thoughts?
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Like like, let's say you came up and or let's say I came up and touched your back, but I'm
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not really in the mood and you, like, get that as a signal where I'm like, oh, let's do it.
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But I'm like, I'm so exhausted.
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I can't I can't do that.
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Like, how in that scenario would I best would I best respond to you and say like, oh, yeah.
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I still, you know, I still wanna give you love and affection, but tonight's maybe not a good
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night for me or something like that.
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How would how would how would I handle that well where you're not gonna then pull back and
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get rejected?
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Yeah.
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And this is in our case, I think our communication skills are pretty oh, it's pretty
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it's not it's pretty solid.
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It's really solid.
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And just really trying to read no.
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It's not when you're with somebody long enough, you can kinda start reading the signal.
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You know, I have my own signal.
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So I'm kinda like, ah, it definitely happened with me.
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It just even though if he touched me, removed me.
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We trying to engage it.
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I'm like, okay.
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I guess Mike is not definitely up for tonight.
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So it a lot of it is just it I'm trying to imagine that it's this happened organically for
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us.
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Maybe no.
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It may not be for other couples.
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I just wonder if it needs to be expressed ahead of time.
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Okay.
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Just because I do that, you know, it doesn't always mean you know, if you feel like it if
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you feel like I don't know to call this.
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In a way, this helped our love language is touch for for both of us.
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So we just appreciate the touch no matter what.
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Now that may not be the case for other couples, and that may that may need to be kinda like, if
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you can find the your your own love language and one person touching the other is not and
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just it they can create it just trying to understand and communicate with both both
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parties what the intentions are.
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Just so you can kinda understand each other's nonverbal cues besides touch.
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It could it may not for some people, it may not maybe I'm trying to imagine that if buying a
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gift, oh, man.
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This is actually turning me on so much and, you know, or I just buy a new gift.
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It doesn't it doesn't connect.
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So I think this is where we, like I said, brought the touch is just very easy for us
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because we both had that love language and just and the communication started really the
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biggest thing I can think of for couples.
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Yeah.
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I I agree.
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I mean, I think a lot of times these things happen, and then it's almost like, okay.
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Well, that was awkward, and I gave you the subtle signal, and you didn't, and then it gets
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pushed under the rug, and, you know, and never talked about again.
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And I think that's one of the things is like then it just creates the pattern and people are
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on those loops versus like that pattern interrupt of like, okay, let's have a check-in
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end of the day and say like, that felt weird.
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What was that?
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Like, not make the other person wrong about it and just like, hey, wanna understand.
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And then I think as any you know, anytime as couples, we get to form these agreements.
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And so maybe there's an agreement then that gets formed around like, okay, well, you know,
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if I touch you like this, this, you know, means I want you that way.
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If I touch you like this, this just means I'm loving or, you know, just throwing out ideas
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here.
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Or it's, you know, sometimes it's simple, like sometimes we'll actually like just say like,
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are we gonna have sex today?
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Like, you you got it in you today?
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Know, sometimes we'll even like name that or I'm like, you know what?
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I think I just need a a chill night tonight or like, yeah, we're gonna prioritize this for
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sure.
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So I do think like just like not making it weird to just like name, like, let's just talk
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about this if this is on the table to see so we can get on the same page.
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Yeah.
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I would biggest thing I agree.
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Just talking it out.
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Just reflecting on path, how we handle it.
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Just if it get there are moment I think it's a outro.
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There are moment things are gonna just gonna get awkward.
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We're all human.
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We all have our weird moment.
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And just, like, not make up a deal that, you know, something might be a bigger deal, but
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then that's worth talking it out.
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It's even more important.
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Okay.
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This, you know, okay.
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This is a pattern, your partner.
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Okay.
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This is there's certain pattern to avoid in terms of making things weird.
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It just but just talking it out and just bring it bring it like I said, naming it, that will
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go a long way in terms of just closing that gap, I would say.
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Yeah.
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But so
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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My next question is back to our, you know, desire conversation.
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So and just helping understand differences between men and women.
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When we're talking about desire, I wanna know like how much of it feels like physical,
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mental, or emotional.
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Because I would say for me, I've never actually done a survey on this for women, but I would
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say for me, it's almost equally all three.
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Like there's a real physical thing happening, but there's also like something in my mind and
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there's also my emotional body.
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It's not, you know, strongly.
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And if one of those things gets shut down, which is typically most commonly my physical
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body, which I think it is for most women where it's like it's like not coming from the arouse,
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from the desire, from like the body changes, right, the physical body shuts down.
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And I would say the other big shutdown is like mental, but the emotional desire is probably
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like the strongest of all the desires for me because there's that that pull towards like
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that closeness and connection as like a, I would say, primary mover, primary motivator.
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So do you feel like from you for you with desire, like, are all three of those things,
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like, physical, mental, emotional pretty equal?
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Like, what's, you know, what's going on there, you know, more from the man's side?
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Sure.
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Initially, it's almost always physical.
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And then as you
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Like like, a 100% physical, really?
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Or
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Okay.
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Sure.
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I mean, sure.
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The very initial that like, the the immediate attraction, you know oh, yeah.
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Desire can be just a 100% physical for men without any emotional or even mental attraction
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or desire through it.
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Now as you start getting to know something, you have a relationship, the emotional mental
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components can grow.
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You know, it's it's variable.
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Physical will always have the dominant, you know, the desire trigger, if you wanna call it.
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And then I'll stay emotional probably second.
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I'll maybe give it a time, maybe 30% at you know?
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Like, wow.
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That's like a feeling love, being in connection, and or something you do for me and
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something and then the mental part, it it I could probably throw it in at 10% for me, by
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the way.
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I've had to name the number.
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I mean, it it it fluctuates over time.
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So okay.
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So you mentioned, like, different stages of the relationship.
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But, like, what about different stages of life?
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Like, have you noticed, like, okay.
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Because you're 50 now, and so compared to 20.
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Right?
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So, like, you know, 20, like, you know, libido and desire and drive back at 20.
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Does it have those numbers changed at all?
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Was it like, you know, is that any more or less, like, emotional driven now compared to
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before?
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Or would you say that's, like, been, like, fairly consistent, you know, ish throughout
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life?
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Tricky question.
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I'm just from my dating experience, I'm just trying to remember my twenties.
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It's just in like, some people had a long relationship.
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I I like a couple.
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It wasn't really long in general until in my late twenties.
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So but I also can I would say it's somewhat consistent, but as you mature, your emotional
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attraction is more available to you?
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So with the trigger, it's pretty visible.
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But emotional is definite, though.
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It grow it and grows over time.
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Okay.
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So it sounds like there's probably not, like, a huge age related difference there then.
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Correct.
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I would say not a huge, but it's definitely grown.
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I'd like to back and I can imagine the next 50.
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The emotional could easily grow even further.
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That's just my prediction.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That makes sense.
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That makes sense.
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So I wanna talk too about tools for desire and things we, you know, we use to increase desire.
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So so a few different things.
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Right?
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So flirting, you know, sexting.
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Right?
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So there's obviously some of that, obviously to you and I.
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But then there's other tools as well.
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And so one of, you know, one of the tools that we've been incorporating in are the penis
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pumps.
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And so, you know, with these, I think that one of the coolest thing about these penis pumps in
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this company, which we'll have in the show notes for you guys, links and coupon codes.
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But I think one of the coolest things about this company is that they are there's a lot of
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different sizes which allows you to fit properly for girth because what a lot of the
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companies are doing is they're putting instead of giving you sizes like this, they're building
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it, they're doing it like one size and they put a gasket at the bottom.
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And when they put the gasket at the bottom, the problem is it's cutting off blood flow.
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But they do it to get the suction for the pressure and so you can get like short term
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benefits but because you're cutting off the blood flow in order to get that section, you're
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not going to get like the long term benefits.
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And that's what we're really looking for here is long term how to keep the tissue healthy.
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So I think this is just in my like professional opinion, I think this is like like a tool that
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as we age everybody needs, you know, needs some.
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They make them for the clitoris as well.
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So I think as women we need to be doing this too because it is inevitable that we are going
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to see blood not flowing in the same way as we age.
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It inevitable for everybody.
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And whether there's like any sort of imbalance that is showing up in sex life, the question
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too is not just about fixing the problem, but the question is about optimizing.
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And so in order to actually maintain, you know, good erections, in order to get blood to the
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clitoris to maintain pleasure, what's amazing about these products is they they are
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researched and scientifically proven to be able to do this.
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And even the research they're doing on these has been shown to really reverse things like
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mild ED.
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So that's really exciting.
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So, you know, what is what would you say are your favorite things about the the penis pump
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so far?
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Well, first off, I just wanna say that I was extremely skeptical because I if you the movies
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I've ever seen, like the Odd and Power, the first movie, know, they made fun of the penis
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enlarger pump.
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You know?
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And then one warranty card is signed by Austin Powers.
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So so there's a lot of skepticism, and I sort of gave it you know, to work with it, and I was
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surprisingly, wow.
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It's actually effective in terms of the the the size and, you know, girth and length and the
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blood flow.
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It's more for the noticing the difference of actually the blood flow down the under down the
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region there.
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And so it's it's definitely a tool.
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I could totally see other couples can be useful for trying to, you know, enhance their own
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lovemaking experience from whether it's a size or blood flow issue they have.
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So
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Yeah.
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Amazing.
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Thank you.
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Yeah.
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It's I think they're really cool.
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It's like if people are having ED, it's like there's a level where it's like you're not even
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able to maintain an erection.
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You can put a cock ring here and like slide it down so that once you get pumped up, slide it
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down over the penis to hold the blood there.
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And so I just think it's an amazing tool if with couples are like, if they're struggling
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like that to have support where they can still stay bonded and passionate and all of that.
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Well, this has been so delightful.
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I think my final question for you in this episode is is back to something you said in my
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initial question for you, which was when I asked you about what you wish women understood,
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you said that the impacts of respect on desire.
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And you said even more impactful on desire is respect, maybe even more than love.
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So like, do you I'm gonna throw you a curveball here too, but you think because I think there's
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like obvious things that like happen, right, where, you know, where men feel disrespected.
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Right?
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So obviously like cheating on somebody or like saying something like mean or harmful in front
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of friends or feeling like, you know, kind social disrespect, those really obvious things.
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But, you know, can you think of, like, any sort of subtle areas or subtle ways that men that
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might be a common way that you or other men have felt disrespected that would be good for
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us women to understand, like, the impacts of?
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Yeah.
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Great question.
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There sorry.
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It depend a lot of the time, there's a a just it could be couple of things happening here.
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I'm trying to separate.
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Now it could be one story that you have about something.
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So for example, if you if let's say a woman was saying made you feel like you're number two.
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It's just subtle.
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We're not even, like, you know, meant to be, oh, yeah.
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He Joe over there are definitely better than you.
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You know?
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Kinda like it depends on that partner and your story that men may have.
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You know, I'm I'm not number one.
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That could be misinterpreted.
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Right?
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That that's where the communication comes in or just having a good just I think that that
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really just understanding of human your human dynamic, the relationship that you're in and
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different state.
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But so if you're with somebody and just then make him make make him feel like he's number
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two in a very subtle way that that can definitely trigger a sense of disrespect.
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So it's not a it's a combination of the two, really.
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So I'm trying give another example.
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Jeremy, it's just, like, anything that's, oh, yeah.
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You didn't clean the kitchen.
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The dishes good enough.
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And just kinda like little criticism or little put down over time.
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They compound over time.
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If it if it if it gets too long, and that's where, again, I'm, like, I'm circling back to
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having communication being the like, airing it out.
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By the way, when you said that that it wasn't could you help me?
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Could you give me constructive?
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Could you say it like this?
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Because I'm feeling you know, this is making me feel a little disrespected.
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And it's very small.
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You may and they the other person may not even mean to disrespect it, but just those little
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things that could add up over time.
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So
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Yeah.
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That's that's awesome.
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And I, you know, it's like, it's definitely interesting that you brought up this, like, not
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number one thing because I think that happens for women as well.
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They I don't think we would maybe as classically use the word disrespect, but that
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idea of not being number one around like it's maybe more like safety that comes up of not
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feeling as safe and feeling more vulnerable, which when we don't feel as safe and we feel
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more vulnerable in a bad way, there's good vulnerability and bad vulnerability.
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But if we the vulnerability is coming from not feeling safe, then it's very difficult for us
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to connect, you know, to connect intimately.
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And the, you know, I think your comment around like the the tiny criticisms, you know, it's
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also really important because we are you know, I know like we are constantly I mean, I
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wouldn't say constantly, but like I would say constantly aware is is the way to use
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constantly of like like those small little impacts and wanting to correct them, you know,
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right away when it's not you know, when they aren't big deals.
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And the other thing that brings up for me that I think I wanna mention here is this concept of
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trust adaptability.
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So trust adaptability is all about our ability.
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It's it's a way that we are able to easily forgive small breaches.
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So when, you know, when Mike's talking about, hey, oh, this small little criticism, you
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didn't clean the kitchen well enough, or, you know, these small little things, Well, one, we
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wanna communicate about them and and talk about them.
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And then two, the other component is like we can't hold on to them because that's the stuff
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that just puts tiny little nicks into the relationship.
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And with trust adaptability, it's all about the ability to forgive those small things easily.
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And what's interesting is studies have shown that orgasms and oxytocin that we release
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during orgasm helps improve our trust adaptability.
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So the more that people are actually having sex and actually being intimate, the more when
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those small breaches happen and and you communicate about them, the more easily your
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body is actually able to say, okay, we talked about it, We're on the same page.
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We love, care, and respect each other, and we're not gonna hold we're gonna forgive that
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one, and we're not gonna hold it in our memory so it doesn't continue to bring up.
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You know, because sometimes we can't even talk and communicate, I think, as humans, but if
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we're still holding onto it, then when the next thing happens, it's like, oh, remember that
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thing?
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And we go back and we hold onto it and we even if we talked about it, we can still not
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forgive.
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And so I just think that's an important thing to realize, right, because, you know, I I think
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some of the motivation for sex from the masculine and feminine is is very different.
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I think there's some similarities.
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Like, I think ultimately, all humans have some drive towards pleasure.
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And so I think we showed that, but I do think another thing that is sometimes motivational
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for for women, for both, you know, both genders, but for women is realizing like, oh,
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right.
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When we do this, that actually this actually allows us to forgive each other easier, to
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actually, move past these small things.
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And I think that's a huge reason why we see that sex and intimacy is a huge factor in
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determining whether couples stay together in their long term, you know, committed
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relationships or whether they get separated, you know, go there to break up or get divorced.
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So thank you so much for being here with me today, my love.
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Welcome.
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It's a great touch with you.
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Yeah.
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Lots of fun.
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And everybody, as always, remember anything we talk about you can find in the show notes.
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