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Cannabis, Sex, and Breaking Old Myths with Amanda Moser · Libido Lounge

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  Who's smoking cannabis?
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  Because I had a lot of people that were police officers, that were surgeons, that were people
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  in occupations that you not did not necessarily think were smoking weed on a daily basis, if at
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  all.
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  Hi.
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  My name is Amanda Moser.
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  I am a sexologist and cannabis researcher, and I published a nationwide study on how cannabis
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  influences your sex.
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  Males would actually have a more difficult time or actually an inability to achieve or maintain
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  an erection.
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  Out of eight eleven participants, we did have close to fiftyfifty male female.
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  And the males were actually saying that cannabis made their sex better too and did not
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  negatively impact their ability to achieve an erection, maintain an erection, or have an
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  orgasm.
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  Research will compare cannabis with alcohol.
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  Alcohol research, it comes to the human sexuality world, shows that alcohol makes you
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  make choices that you would not necessarily make specifically in sexual settings.
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  Everyone's different.
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  Everyone's body chemistry is different.
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  Everyone reacts to cannabis differently.
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  What might work for you and kind of where to start?
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  But ultimately, there's not gonna be a one size fits all approach for this.
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  You gotta take that maybe prior to your If you are smoking a joint, that hits a lot faster but
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  also kinda leaves your system faster as well.
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  Hey, everybody.
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  Welcome back to the lounge.
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  I'm so excited to bring Amanda Moser on to speak to you guys about her research.
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  I got introduced to her by somebody you have heard from recently on the show, doctor Suzanne
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  Mulfill, who is a cannabis researcher like Amanda.
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  And I've learned that Amanda's research has gone on for many, many, many years now.
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  So I wanted to get Amanda on this show too because we're gonna like to spell some myths.
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  Like some of the things Amanda was telling me about ahead of time around the research around,
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  hey, cannabis does not have to kill a man's sex drive.
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  Cannabis does not have to be this thing that is making it difficult for a man to achieve
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  erection and all these things that we heard from this research that's very old and very
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  outdated.
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  So we're gonna really talk about what's going on with the UpToDate research, the cool studies
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  she's been doing, and why for both female and male alike, cannabis can be an amazing tool to
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  bring into your your health and your sexual practices to really drive yourself to this
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  point where you are experiencing pleasure and joy and connection and all the beautiful things
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  about intimacy on healthy steroids.
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  So welcome to the show, Amanda.
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  Hi.
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  Thank you for having me.
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  Thanks for being here.
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  So let's, you know, let's go back to like the origin story, right?
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  So this is a pretty unique thing and and like myself being in, you know, the sex research
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  research world, it's like some of these things we do are kinda taboo.
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  It's like they're out of mainstream.
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  It takes a lot more effort to get work into the world when we choose certain things.
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  And you chose two things.
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  You chose sexuality, which is already a tough topic, you know, with, you know, getting past
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  censorship and all that.
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  And then you chose cannabis, and you decided to take two of these really challenging things
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  from a standpoint of getting this workout to the world, and combine them.
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  So what was the motivation?
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  How did you how'd you really get here?
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  Yeah.
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  So I remember being a young girl, and I'll never forget, my next door neighbor had a book
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  that her mom got her.
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  She was about two years older than me.
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  So I haven't received such a book like this, but it was a book on puberty.
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  And they had little drawings to kinda illustrate what's gonna happen, what's going
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  on.
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  And I always remember being really fascinated by this book.
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  And I remember my friend showed it to me as like a joke, like, look what my mom got me,
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  like could you believe And I I'll never forget, I remember being like, oh my, that's actually
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  like really cool and I wanna know more about it.
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  But when you're young, how do you tell anybody of like, I wanna know more about the most taboo
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  topic that a child could bring up.
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  So kinda started there, and then I really thought that it was just gonna be, I don't
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  know, some sort of like side project.
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  Like, I'm gonna grow up, I'm gonna have a big girl job, and then maybe on the side, I'll, I
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  don't know, read a book or write a book on this really cool topic.
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  And it wasn't until I got to college, and I took what was actually only an elective course,
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  but it introduced me to the academic realm of human sexuality.
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  And I I'll never forget.
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  I at the end of class, I went up to the professor, and I was like, oh my god.
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  This is a thing.
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  This is something that I've had a secret interest in, and it was never in a sexualized
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  thought process.
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  It was always out of curiosity.
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  It was always out of knowledge seeking.
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  And after I talked to that professor, he truly took me under his wing to find out he's one of
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  the a very prominent human sexuality professor.
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  Of course, little me didn't know that at the time.
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  Right?
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  Obviously, it makes more sense now that we were, you know, using his textbooks that he had
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  written for his class, and that how a lot of courses use his textbook for class.
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  And so anyways, you know, and that's how I got into human sexuality, and then it wasn't until
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  grad school, where I started thinking more about the scientific fields of cannabis, and
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  this was another evolutionary moment for Amanda, because once again, I was in a place
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  where I did not truly think that people didn't take that seriously.
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  Right?
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  Like people didn't research this.
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  People didn't have a job that had anything to do with the science seeking knowledge based,
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  you know, of this topic.
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  And it it was once again like, oh my god.
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  People are studying this.
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  People are researching this, like actual professionals, not just like stoners on the
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  street.
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  Right?
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  There were actually business professionals studying cannabis, and its benefits and uses.
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  So I saw an island of cannabis science.
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  I was on this island of human sexuality, and I was like, how can I make a bridge and combine
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  the two?
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  And that is how I did a nationwide study on how cannabis impacts your sex.
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  So what was your I'm curious,
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  what was your like hypothesis and thought going into this?
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  Like did you was it an initial hypothesis of, oh, yeah, there's gonna be some level of help
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  and support with human sexuality and support with intimacy?
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  Do you think, especially based upon some of the earlier studies, did you think you would
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  disprove that?
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  Or what was kind of that initial, like hypothesis and thinking around that?
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  So going into it, I knew anecdotally, keyword there, that cannabis can make your sex better.
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  Word on the street said, you smoke a joint before having sex.
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  It would be mind blowing.
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  And then I tried to see if there was research on it, and there wasn't.
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  And so someone had to step up to the plate to to scientifically see if cannabis does affect
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  your sex, and if so, in which way positively or negatively.
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  I was really hoping that word on the streets was correct, and I was really hoping that
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  that's what I would find, because even as just a sexologist, I very much focused on sexual
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  pleasure, and the orgasm inequality gap, and how we how women are not having as pleasurable
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  sex, or having as many orgasms as our male counterparts.
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  And I was out I was outraged.
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  So Yeah.
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  You know, I definitely come from a pleasure based background, and I was hoping that word on
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  the street was was right, and that cannabis made sex better, and that's ultimately what I
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  did find.
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  So I'm curious, so is there anything that you found in your results that was completely
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  shocking to you, that was just like a surprise result that you couldn't, you know, in some
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  ways, couldn't have anticipated?
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  Yeah.
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  So the very limited research that I had to base my hypotheses off of and research questions
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  were saying that males would actually have a more difficult time, or actually an inability
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  to achieve or maintain an erection.
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  So that's kind of what I predicted my studies to show as well.
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  However, I was thoroughly impressed.
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  I was surprised.
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  I was happy to show that that is not necessarily the case.
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  Out of 811 participants, we did have close to fifty fifty male female, and the males were
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  actually saying that cannabis made their sex better too, and did not negatively impact their
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  ability to achieve an erection, maintain an erection, or have an orgasm.
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  Yeah.
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  I think that's really gonna be surprising for a lot of people because I know there's, like, a
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  ton of bloggers online and these sorts of things that are writing the opposite, probably
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  based upon those earlier studies.
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  So not saying that their information was quote unquote wrong, just that that's what happens in
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  science.
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  We get new studies out like yours, and it's like, oh, maybe we were not right about this.
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  So I think that's gonna be a very surprising thing.
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  And so offline, you had mentioned the masters in Johnson studies and, you know, the the
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  masters in Johnson, it really, I think was like the foreground for what is even still being
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  taught today in medical school about arousal and human sexuality is still rooted in their
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  work.
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  So can you tell us a little bit about their work and tell us a little bit about how the
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  study that you did, did it did it like disprove any of the the earlier work from them at all?
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  Yeah.
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  So I knew from my human sexuality backgrounds that Masters and Johnson were, like you said,
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  pioneers in what they discovered, what they found, and we are still using it today.
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  I found it so instrumental for my research, because I took the Masters and Johnson
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  framework.
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  So looking at sexual desire, looking at orgasm.
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  Right?
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  And and seeing how cannabis influences each of those stages.
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  And I broke it up into not just orgasm phase, but intensity of orgasm, the ability to orgasm,
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  how many times you can orgasm, and see how cannabis affects that.
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  So then I'm curious, like, did you because there's, you know, cannabis is such a wide
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  world.
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  Right?
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  There's a zillion different types of strains.
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  Like, they're always, like, cross, you know, pollinating them.
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  So now there's even more strains every year that comes out.
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  It's like this really, you know, artistic thing is this becoming.
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  And beyond that, there's obviously a ton of different ways that we can ingest cannabis.
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  So how did you in your studies, like like, actually, say include or not include certain
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  strains, or you know, what was kind of the inclusion criteria around, you know, those
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  types of things?
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  Sure.
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  So my research was a nationwide online survey.
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  So you can kind of think a little bit about, you know, how I recruited, or maybe what the
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  participants did for the research.
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  For inclusion, you just had to be over 18 years old, and you just had to have used marijuana at
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  least once, with or without sex involved.
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  Because part of the Masters and Johnson framework, and a good thing a good way that I
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  like to reframe it is it doesn't need to involve another person.
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  So when you think of masturbation, your body's still going through that Masters and Johnson
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  framework of desire and orgasm and resolution with or without somebody else there.
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  So that's also why that was not a criteria.
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  Yeah.
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  So like, so I was just looking
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  at like the strains, as well as, yeah.
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  So then like, when you were, you did this survey, I'm curious, were people reporting on
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  what strains they were using for the research?
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  Or was it more just like, hey.
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  Go out.
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  Use cannabis.
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  You know, answer these questions.
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  Report back.
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  And did your, you know, your research really find that no matter what type of cannabis
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  people were using, that the majority found, you know, the the improvement in their arousal, and
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  their orgasms, and their erections, and all those things?
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  Yeah.
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  So it's really hard to study specific strains, because strain called Northern Lights here in
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  Denver, Colorado, is gonna be genetically different than a strain called Northern Lights
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  in Oregon.
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  So I did not wanna depend on strain type, and a lot of people don't know if they're smoking a
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  sativa or an indica, because if you don't if you don't live in a legal cannabis state, then
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  you're just getting weed from Joe Schmo down the road, and he might not always know if it's
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  in indica or sativa.
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  But what I did look at was, are you mostly smoking flour?
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  Are you mostly smoking dabs?
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  So specifically, I looked at forms and methods.
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  Mhmm.
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  The forms being the type of cannabis, flour, dabs, edible, etcetera.
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  Method being, are you smoking it in a joint, in a pipe, in a brownie?
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  What does that look like?
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  And I can say that majority of participants did say that they smoked cannabis daily, that they
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  smoked cannabis for both recreational and medicinal purposes, that they prefer flour, and
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  that here's the big thing, is that it does not affect their sexual decision making.
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  So a lot of times, research will compare cannabis with alcohol.
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  Right.
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  Alcohol research, when it comes to the human sexuality world, shows that alcohol makes you
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  make choices that you would not necessarily make, specifically in sexual settings.
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  Now back to our show.
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  So for instance, you might not be worried about STIs or protection for that.
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  Same with birth control.
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  Right?
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  Same with maybe who you are engaging with.
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  That's for alcohol.
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  And for cannabis, we have found that it does not affect their sexual decision making.
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  They are still wearing condoms to protect against pregnancy or STIs.
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  They are knowing who to, who they are having sex with.
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  Right?
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  They're not blacking out.
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  And if anything, it was showing that they are having more increased intimacy with these
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  sexual connections, instead of blackout drunk sex that was someone you don't even remember.
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  That was not the case at all.
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  That's a really, really, really cool finding that, you know, that people are going to be
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  altered in the state, but be altered in a way that, hey, they're gonna make the same
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  decisions whether or not they get high.
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  You know?
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  And I think that's a really important distinction.
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  So then I hear you on most people who are using flour.
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  Were you did you find that other methods of ingesting cannabis, like edibles or like
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  dabbing, like you mentioned, were they still getting relatively the same results or just
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  wasn't as many people using those methodologies?
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  Or did you see any differentiation in the results depending upon, like, that type of
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  delivery method?
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  That data has not been published.
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  Okay.
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  Are you going to publish it, or who knows?
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  You know, off the record, I have collected so much data that I, and from so many
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  participants, that I could have so many, like, spin off studies from you.
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  Right.
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  Right?
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  So, like, we at one point were talking about, let's just do a demographic, study on seeing
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  who's smoking cannabis, because I had a lot of people that were police officers, that were
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  surgeons, that were people in occupations that you not did not necessarily, think were smoking
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  weed, on a daily basis, if at all.
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  Right?
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  There was another finding that we saw.
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  We had a large population of just people over the 65.
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  So we actually also talked about doing a spin off study on gerontology, and how cannabis
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  affects that population.
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  I can tell you that we looked at the different forms and methods, but none of it was
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  scientifically significant Sure.
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  To report on.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  And when I hear that, and, you know, for I think for our listeners, it's like to me that
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  just says like, you know, this is something that you're interested in trying, then you can
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  be open to the different ways of the delivery system, and see how they impact you.
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  Because that's another thing that I've seen in the, you know, these various methodologies is
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  they do affect each every individual's different.
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  So, you know, my my hypothesis if you ran that data would be finding that, you know, one
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  person say, oh, yeah, edibles work best for this.
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  And another person's gonna say, oh, yeah, smoking a joint works best for this.
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  That's my personal hypothesis because I just think we are so wired so differently and and
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  medications affect us in a unique way.
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  So that's what I would say to our listeners on that.
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  Now Absolutely correct.
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  Mean Yeah.
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  When I talk to individuals or couples, whoever, on how can they utilize cannabis in the
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  bedroom, with the best way.
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  Right?
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  Like, people come to me and say, what's what's the number one thing?
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  And unfortunately, it does base on person to person.
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  Everyone's different.
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  Everyone's body chemistry different.
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  Everyone reacts to cannabis differently.
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  I can tell you that there are some tips and tricks for utilizing cannabis, and things that
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  I have definitely, helped teach people on what might work for you, and kind of where to start.
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  But ultimately, there's not gonna be a one size fits all approach for this.
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  Yeah.
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  That makes perfect sense to me.
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  I wanna ask you, my next question is kinda grounded in one of the things I have talked
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  about on this show before is the libido code.
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  And the libido code, which you guys can find at libidocode.com, is a is a methodology of
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  actually analyzing for what your unique turn odds and turn offs are.
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  And one of the five different archetypes that when you take the libido code quiz that people
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  will get is a send what I call a sensei.
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  So the sensei is the the type of person that is really turned on by the five senses.
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  So this is the type of person that, you know, might be making out, and they're gonna maybe
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  interrupt the make out section to go put on their fur perfect music and get the light
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  lighting right because not because they're trying to interrupt the moment, because they
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  know so much that this is going to enhance their experience.
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  Right?
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  And so one of the things you had said offline, Amanda, was in some of your research that you
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  had found that that there was an impact on the five senses, and it studied some about that.
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  And so in my mind, I'm like, oh, this would be, you know, useful for everybody, but especially
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  useful for those that have taken the libido code quiz and actually have realized that, oh,
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  I'm a sensate.
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  So can you tell us a little bit more about what you learned around cannabis and its impact on
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  the five senses?
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  Yeah.
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  So my research looked at three main umbrellas, we can call them.
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  So we looked at how cannabis affects your sexual functioning, how it affects your sexual
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  satisfaction, and how it affects your sensuality.
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  Because my thought process was was that you use your senses a lot during sex.
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  And if that's the case, let's see how cannabis impacts that.
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  So I found that cannabis positively increases your taste and your touch.
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  Which, if you think about, I think are probably the two main senses that you might use during
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  sex.
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  So I thought this was really, really exciting, because if you think about it, if you are
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  engaging in cannabis before sex, and your taste gets enhanced, well, you know, your partner
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  might really like that, as well as you would too.
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  And then same for touch.
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  Like, people reported saying that when they are touched, it's a it's a lot more electrifying,
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  and it feels more intimate, and there's more of that emotional connection.
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  And so it's really exciting to show that cannabis does increase your taste and your
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  touch.
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  I'm curious too because I, you know, when I think about cannabis and pleasure.
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  Right?
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  I think that so many so much of the time with sex, especially for women, but but for men too,
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  so much of the time though I think with sex, it's easy for the mind to wander.
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  Right?
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  Like and that's something people have heard me say repeatedly on this show is, like, the
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  capacity to experience pleasure is related to the capacity to be present.
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  And so it's so easy, right, for the mind and the busyness and the overwhelm of our first
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  world life that we have here in The United States.
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  It's so easy for the mind to, like, wander to the grocery list or whatever else that we
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  really, really don't wanna be thinking about during our pleasure intimate moment.
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  So did you, you know, did you study at all too?
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  Because I'm thinking when, okay, we're experiencing that touch.
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  Right?
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  That tactile sensation and cannabis is helping with that.
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  In my mind, one of the methodologies behind what could be happening there is that cannabis
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  can help us maybe just be a little bit more present in the moment.
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  So then that, like, that touch that was happening, our mind is more focused on that
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  versus, hey, I'm all over the place.
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  So did you do you think there's anything like that going on?
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  Like, do you can you comment at all based upon what you've you've studied?
• 25:31
  Absolutely.
• 25:32
  I think that there are different components.
• 25:35
  I think there's a mental component, and then a physiological component that both could be
• 25:41
  potential answers to your question.
• 25:44
  For mentally, yes, I agree that I did have participants state that cannabis helps them be
• 25:52
  in the moment is the big quote that I kept seeing.
• 25:55
  They they feel like they are not absent minded.
• 25:59
  They are very much present right there in the moment.
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  But then you look on a physiological level, and we also know that cannabis is a vasodilator.
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  So with that, that could also theoretically maybe impact touch, and how it might feel a
• 26:17
  little more electrifying, but also why you might get more turned on with cannabis, because
• 26:24
  your genitals have, a lot of blood flow, and when you incorporate a vasodilator, that is,
• 26:32
  you know, that is best case scenario for a lot of people for ultimate pleasure and
• 26:37
  satisfaction.
• 26:38
  So there's different ways to look at it.
• 26:42
  And did you find anything as far as then timing?
• 26:44
  Because when you're bringing up vasodilator, then I'm like, oh, yeah.
• 26:47
  Great.
• 26:47
  That's like the blood flow you're saying.
• 26:48
  That's an erection for men.
• 26:50
  That's all the, you know, erogenous zones that we need blood flow as women too.
• 26:54
  So all of those are getting their circulation.
• 26:56
  Did you find that people reported that timing mattered at all?
• 27:00
  Like, oh, it's important to, you know, start doing this twenty minutes before we wanna be
• 27:05
  intimate, or was that not really part of it at all?
• 27:08
  The big thing with that is dependent on which form and or method you're using.
• 27:14
  Right?
• 27:14
  So if you are wanting to use an inedible to enhance your sexual pleasure, you gotta take
• 27:22
  that maybe an hour or two prior to your sexual engagement.
• 27:28
  If you are smoking a joint, that hits a lot faster, but also kinda leaves your system
• 27:35
  faster as well.
• 27:37
  But I also love to advocate for if both you and your partner want to use cannabis to enhance
• 27:44
  both of your sex, I I think it's a great time for foreplay to incorporate cannabis into the
• 27:51
  act foreplay.
• 27:52
  I think foreplay is so underrated, and more people need to be excited about foreplay
• 27:58
  instead of thinking of it as like a chore.
• 28:01
  And I really think that incorporating cannabis into your foreplay can really spice things up a
• 28:08
  little bit.
• 28:09
  Yeah.
• 28:09
  Yeah.
• 28:10
  It's I think foreplay is absolutely one of the most underrated parts about, and and even some
• 28:16
  of the surveys have shown that the average amount of time that women and men are having
• 28:22
  foreplay is between four to seven minutes, and that that the average amount of time that men
• 28:27
  want foreplay is eighteen minutes, and women want foreplay is nineteen minutes.
• 28:31
  So everybody is feeling like we're just not getting enough of, you know, of this of this
• 28:36
  foreplay.
• 28:37
  So I think it's a really good point.
• 28:39
  Is there anything that we have not covered today about your research, about everything
• 28:45
  that you're doing in, you know, with this research in the world, about your discoveries,
• 28:50
  that you feel like, oh, we've got to say this today.
• 28:53
  I can just do a quick recap on what we Sure.
• 28:57
  Just in case I missed anything.
• 28:59
  So I did find we're gonna start with sexual desire.
• 29:03
  That is, you know, how much you want sex.
• 29:06
  How how bad do you want it?
• 29:08
  Are you aroused?
• 29:09
  Are you gonna be aroused in the near future?
• 29:11
  And I did find that cannabis does increase your sexual desires, so you want to have sex more.
• 29:18
  It also increased your ability to orgasm.
• 29:22
  So achieving orgasm was much easier for a lot of people.
• 29:26
  And when you did orgasm, I found that cannabis actually increases that intensity.
• 29:32
  So not only are you more likely to orgasm, but when you do, it's gonna be much stronger, and a
• 29:38
  lot of people say full bodied.
• 29:40
  Then we also look at orgasm frequency.
• 29:43
  How many times are you able orgasm in one sit in one sitting, one sitting, I did find that
• 29:51
  cannabis does increase orgasm frequency.
• 29:54
  So people are having multiple orgasms, specifically women or those with vulvas.
• 30:00
  So also talking about how the sexual functioning, those stages and phases happen
• 30:07
  whether or not you're with a partner, and that did show with my results that you also have
• 30:12
  increased pleasure while masturbating.
• 30:15
  So that's great.
• 30:16
  We don't even need somebody else.
• 30:17
  We can have the same amount of pleasure just from ourselves.
• 30:22
  For males and erections, we did talk about how cannabis did not show any inability to achieve
• 30:30
  or maintain an erection, quite the opposite.
• 30:32
  They were able to have an erection, hold an erection, and orgasm with just as much
• 30:38
  intensity as women.
• 30:40
  Females did not necessarily have a change in lubrication.
• 30:45
  I was actually very surprised about this, because you think of cannabis as making you
• 30:51
  have cotton mouth, as the stoners like to say, or rye mouth.
• 30:56
  Right?
• 30:57
  So I thought, well, if cannabis makes your mouth dry, it might make me down dry, you know,
• 31:04
  it make me dry down there too.
• 31:08
  And that was not the case.
• 31:10
  So that was another thing that I was pleasantly surprised to see.
• 31:15
  Yeah.
• 31:16
  Thank you.
• 31:16
  Great synopsis and really great research.
• 31:19
  I really appreciate you bringing this to the world.
• 31:22
  Can we put a link to your study in the show notes?
• 31:24
  Is that is that possible?
• 31:26
  Amazing.
• 31:27
  Amazing.
• 31:27
  Yeah.
• 31:28
  We'll we'll put that, you guys, in the show notes study from Amanda so you guys can read
• 31:32
  through these, you know, all of these stats and all this information if you guys are
• 31:36
  interested.
• 31:37
  And thank you so much.
• 31:38
  Thank you so much for being here.
• 31:40
  Thank you for this amazing work you're doing in the world.
• 31:42
  It's I love when, like, old past research gets debunked and we get to, you know, be on top
• 31:48
  with the latest things, and think you did a really great job debunking those things and and
• 31:53
  looking at this.
• 31:53
  So thank you so much for all of that and for bringing this to us today.
• 31:57
  I really appreciate you.
• 31:58
  Thank you.
• 31:59
  And thanks again for having me.
• 32:01
  It's been a lot of fun.
• 32:02
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• 32:02
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• 32:03
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