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EP401 - A Little Behind: Exploring Anal Play and Pleasure

Welcome to episode 401 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to be speaking with Dr. Evan Goldstein. In this conversation, we discuss his new comprehensive book on anal sex ‘Butt Seriously’, safe practices for anal engagement, the impact of diet on anal health, and the exploration of anal orgasms.

Dr. Evan Goldstein is the leading anal health expert in the United States, founder of Future Method, and one of the few surgeons in the world whose practice, Bespoke Surgical, is dedicated to treating and restoring the human butt. He holds a perennial spot on the list of top doctors for the New York metro area, and Crain’s New York Business lists him as one of its notable LGBTQ+ leaders and executives. 

He has been featured in national publications including GQ, Well+Good, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Out, and Shape; is a popular podcast guest; and in demand as a speaker for both medical and sex-positive industries.

In this episode, you will hear:

·      Understanding Anal Sex Myths

·      Anatomy and Safe Practices

·      Exploring Anal Play

·      Fisting and Safety

·      Diet and Hygiene for Anal Health

·      Hemorrhoids and Anal Sex

·      Anal Orgasms and Prostate Stimulation

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Welcome to episode 400 of the Sexology Podcast! Today, I'm thrilled to be speaking with Susan Morgan Taylor. In our conversation, we delve into the sexual polarity that draws partners together, highlighting the significance of embodying and shifting between masculine and feminine energies. We also explore ways for couples to reconnect, focusing on the importance of conscious intimacy practices and effective communication, including the idea of 'sacred dialogue'.

Susan Morgan Taylor graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1998 and soon after became a licensed massage therapist. However, her true calling lay elsewhere. In 2008, she began formal training in alternative energy healing and the intuitive arts, leading her to a new path as a spiritual teacher, somatic sex therapist, and intuitive healer. Susan's journey was filled with challenges, mistakes, and growth. Her friend and mentor, Teresa Tingle, played a crucial role in her development, providing guidance that went beyond classroom learning. By 2008, Susan was working professionally as a medical intuitive and spiritual guide.

In 2011, Susan earned a master’s degree in Professional Counseling and pursued sex therapy, building a successful practice in Austin, TX. After ten years, she transitioned to focus solely on intimacy and somatic sex coaching for couples and individuals, continuing her dedication to healing and personal growth.

In this episode, you will hear:

·      Understanding the Loss of Sexual Charge

·      Reviving Sexual Polarity

·      Embodied Intimacy Practices

·      Creating Space for Passion

·      The Dance of Desire and Communication

·      Clarifying Sexual Intentions

·      Navigating Oral Sex Preferences

·      Blowjob Tips for Enjoyment

·      Cultivating Self-Pleasure

·      Reigniting Passion in Relationships

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Welcome to episode 391 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to be speaking with Magda Kay. In this conversation, we discuss the differences between sex and intimacy, the significance of mindfulness and energy work in Tantra, and Magda's experiences in tantric communities. Magda also emphasizes the importance of genuine connection and communication in relationships, alongside practical advice on incorporating tantric rituals into daily practice.

Magda Kay is an Intimacy Expert, Tantra Teacher & Conscious Relating Coach, author, and founder of the School of Intimacy. More than 10 years ago she quit her corporate job, and embarked on a journey that led her through ashrams, yoga training, Tantric communities, and ceremonies. 

Through hours of daily devotion and practices into her deepest parts, facing the wounds and fears, and it also revealed her highest calling: to share and teach others how to access their deepest desires and ability to create transformative intimacy in their lives. Her work combines the gifts of the East and the West, a blend of Tantric and yogic philosophies with psychology and human behavior.

In this episode, you will hear:

·      Magda's Journey to Tantric Teaching

·      Overcoming Sexual Challenges

·      Exploring Tantric Communities

·      Intimacy vs. Sex

·      Understanding Tantra

·      Western Perception of Tantra

·      Energy and Enlightenment

·      Tantric Practices for Couples

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Welcome to episode 301 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to welcome Dr. Albert Wong back to the podcast. In this episode, we discuss the common mistakes couples in long term relationships make around sex, how you can listen to your body to know your needs and ways in which you can give compassionate feedback. 

Dr. Albert Wong is the Director of the Trauma Certificate Program at Somatopia and and the former Director of Somatic Psychology at John F. Kennedy University.  

A leading educator in the field of somatics, he trains students in somatic psychology, healing trauma, and the mind-body connection through his online platform, Somatopia, and maintains an online private practice centered around somatic psychology. 

In this episode, you will hear: 

• What do people mean when they say, “my partner is bad in bed”? 
• Common mistakes couples in long term relationships make around sex  
• The ingredients needed to improve a relationship  
• Recommendations for rituals you can incorporate into your relationship  
• How you can listen to your body to know your needs 
• Understanding the importance of communication  
• The importance of being selfull 
• Ways in which you can give compassionate feedback 
• Analyzing the practicalities of feedback  

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Welcome to episode 300 of the Sexology Podcast! Today is a special episode where Dr Nazanin Moali answers your questions around desire discrepancy, improving an unhealthy open relationship, overcoming performance challenges and how pornography can cause erectile dysfunction.  

Dr. Moali also reflects hosting Sexology Podcast for five years and how the podcast has changed Dr. Moali as a clinician. 

In this episode, you will hear: 

• Analyzing a desire discrepancy between a couple  
• Ways to manage differences in sexual drive between partners 
• Understanding your baseline desire  
• Overcoming challenges of remaining present during sex 
• The importance of mindfulness for better sex 
• How you can use sensate focus touch  
• Create rituals before having sex  
• How you can seduce your partner in a way they like  
• Overcoming the challenges of open relationships 
• Identifying the red flags of an unhealthy open relationship  
• The importance of creating co-consent for an open relationship  
• Understanding the need for your own privacy & boundaries  
• Looking at how pornography can cause erectile dysfunction  
• Does porn only affect erectile dysfunction when watched or can audio only porn do the same thing? 
• Understanding that porn is not real life and is an unrealistic expectation of how your actual sex life will be  
• Managing your sexual fantasies alongside porn through masturbation  
• Reflecting on hosting Sexology Podcast for five years 
• How the podcast has changed Dr. Moali as a clinician  

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Welcome to episode 299 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to welcome Stefani Goerlich back to the podcast. In this episode, we discuss how Stefani became interested in writing her book Praise for The Leather Couch, the misconceptions around dominance in the bedroom and how people get more turned on when there is consent. 

Stefani holds a Masters in Social Work from Wayne State University, where she specialized in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She has over fifteen years’ experience in working with poly/kinky individuals, swingers, commercial sex workers, and child and adult survivors of sexual trauma including human trafficking. 

Stefani has served as a guest lecturer on minority sexual communities at Northwestern University and is a frequent conference presenter on topics related to Kink Aware Practice and consent. An award winning author, she currently working on her second book entitled The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients. 

In this episode, you will hear: 

• How Stefani became interested in writing her book Praise for The Leather Couch 
• The misconceptions around dominance in the bedroom  
• Looking at dominance v domestic violence  
• Analyzing the consent issues in Fifty Shades of Grey  
• Looking at the different types of dominance, sadism, topping, BDSM, etc.  
• How do people discover what kind of dominance they like and don’t like  
• Understanding the importance of consent  
• How people get more turned on when there is consent  
• The importance of communication and clear understanding 

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Welcome to episode 298 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to welcome Nicoletta Heidegger to the podcast. In this episode, we discuss dealing with erotic conflict, exploring other relationship types such as polyamorous and figuring out when’s the right time to end a relationship. 

Nicoletta Heidegger is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#110256) and sexologist practicing in Los Angeles, California. 

Nicoletta received her BA in Psychology from Stanford University, her MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, and her Masters of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University.  

She sees therapy clients virtually and at her unique ranch office in Los Angeles, where she offers sex therapy, outdoor sessions, and Equine Facilitated (also called Equine Assisted) Psychotherapy and Learning. Nicoletta also creates weekly content via her growing hit show Sluts and Scholars: a sex positive, shame-free educational podcast. 

In this episode, you will hear: 

• Dealing with erotic conflict  
• Discovering your partner likes something sexual you’re not interested in 
• What to do when your partner reveals they have a fetish to you 
• How to communicate if your partner revels a different sexual side to you 
• Exploring other relationship types such as polyamorous  
• The different types of modality people can explore 
• Looking at equine assisted therapy  
• What we can learn from equine assisted therapy 
• Figuring out when’s the right time to end a relationship 

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Welcome to episode 297 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to welcome Dr. Tom Murray to the podcast. In this episode, we discuss the way in which over control gets in the way of great sex, understanding the issue of forced celibacy and exercises you can do to improve your sex life. 

Dr. Tom Murray, author, international trainer, educator, and couples and sex therapist-supervisor, is a widely sought-after expert in sexuality and intimate relationships. For 20+ years, Murray has worked with everyday folks to embrace their weirdness, shed labels and shame, lean into anxiety, and build better and stronger relationships. 

Murray has appeared in numerous venues, including the Huffington Post and The Daily Mail, as well as radio, television and podcasts, including the Practice of Being Seen and Shrink Rap Radio. 

Murray directs A Path to Wellness Integrative Psychiatry. He authored Making Nice with Naughty: An intimacy guide for the rule-following, organized, perfectionist, practical, and color within the line types. 

In this episode, you will hear: 

• How Tom became interested in this subject area 
• The way in which over control gets in the way of great sex 
• Why sex needs mystery 
• The pressure we put on ourselves to be “Sexually perfect” 
• Recommendations for dealing with an over developed desire to control things 
• Analyzing the monogamous agreement 
• Understanding the issue of forced celibacy 
• The pleasures of mutual masturbation 
• Looking the issues around the “Neutral Face” 
• How you can learn to better show your emotions 
• Exercises you can do to improve your sex life 

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Welcome to episode 296 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to welcome Mary Jo Rapini to the podcast. In this episode, we discuss the difference between intimacy and sex, analyzing intellectual intimacy and how you can gain better access to your emotions. 

Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC is a psychotherapist specializing in intimacy, sex and relationships. She lives in Houston, Texas and maintains a private practice as a relationship, intimacy/sex psychotherapist. 

Rapini is a renowned lecturer, author and television personality. Currently, you can find Mary Jo on Fox 26 Houston with her segment on healthy relationships on Mondays and “Ask Mary Jo” on Thursdays. She has been a contributor on air for CNN’s Prime News and has been on CBS Up to the Minute, Fox National Morning News, Montel, Steve Harvey, the Today Show and Dateline.  

Rapini contributes and writes a love/relationship expert page for Your Tango. She also contributes to magazines including Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Playboy, First, Seventeen, Teen, Redbook and Self. She has written for Huffington Post and the New York Times. 

Rapini is the author of Is God Pink? Dying to Heal, and a co-author of Start Talking: A Girl's Guide for You and Your Mom about Health, Sex or Whatever and Re-Coupling; a Couple’s 4 Step Guide to Greater Intimacy and Better Sex. 

In this episode, you will hear: 

• Looking at the difference between intimacy and sex 
• Understanding the different types of intimacy  
• How you can gain better access to your emotions 
• The importance of not rushing to find solutions if you’ve been emotionally hurt  
• Analyzing intellectual intimacy  
• How you can manage different religious and political beliefs in a relationship  
• The difference between physical and sexual intimacy  
• How men and women engage differently with intimacy 

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Welcome to episode 295 of the Sexology Podcast! Today I am delighted to welcome Jenny McGrath to the podcast. In this episode, we discuss her study Transnationalizing Purity, understanding purity culture and how purity shows up in the bedroom for adult women. 

Jenny McGrath (She/Her) MA, LMHC, is a somatic psychotherapist, movement educator, and researcher based out of Seattle. She works primarily with white, cisgender women who grew up in fundamentalist Christianity who are healing from religious sexual shame and sexual abuse. She researches purity culture and its impact on individual and collective bodies.  

Her current study, Transnationalizing Purity, looks at the intersections of those socialized within purity culture and their decisions to do development or ministry work internationally.   

She recently released an online course, Embodied Sexuality, that offers comprehensive teachings about the impact of purity culture as well as sex education that most folks who grew up in abstinence only education never learned.  

In this episode, you will hear: 

• Insights into Jenny’s recent study  
• Understanding Transnationalizing Purity  
• Looking at Jenny’s story of purity and the impact it had on her  
• The common themes that emerged from the study  
• Looking at the experience of going on purity missions  
• Understanding purity culture  
• The role that shame plays around purity culture 
• The consequences women face for breaking their purity  
• How purity shows up in the bedroom for adult women  
• Looking at sexual embodiment 
• Learning to tune into your body and be curious   

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