175. “Don’t Say Pleasure” - A Talk With A Sex Toy CEO

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Soum Rakshit is the Co-Founder & CEO of award-winning sexual health company, MysteryVibe. Their mission is to make sexual health accessible to all – across all ages, genders & orientations. From his research & experiences over the past 2 decades, Soumyadip deeply understands that a major challenge in most people’s lives is keeping the ‘mystery’ alive in a long term relationship. This is especially the case after major life events like childbirth, menopause, cancer treatment or surgery. That’s why he decided to combine his defense electronics expertise with medical experts to create devices that address major sexual health issues like ED, dryness & pain during intercourse. At the same time, working closely with sexual health experts, his team has been at the forefront of researching & developing content that act as catalysts for people to start much-needed conversations to reignite their sex life. How did you get into sex toys? How he told his parents he went into a sex toy company. Only 1 in 4 people will see a doctor for their intimacy issues. “Pleasure is seen as a vice” Main barrier to selling sex toys when all social media bans sex. How does vibratory therapy work? Sexual health and how it is often overlooked when it comes to pre- and postmenopausal women. Are sex toys getting too complicated? What to do? How to maintain a sense of mystery in a long-term relationship. Advice for women in bringing a vibrator into the bedroom with a partner. https://mysteryvibe.com/ Rullo JE, Lorenz T, Ziegelmann MJ, Meihofer L, Herbenick D, Faubion SS. Genital vibration for sexual function and enhancement: best practice recommendations for choosing and safely using a vibrator. Sex Relation Ther. 2018;33(3):275-285. doi: 10.1080/14681994.2017.1419558. Epub 2018 Jan 4. Did you get the You Are Not Broken Book Yet? https://amzn.to/3p18DfK Join my membership to get these episodes ASAP when they are created and without advertisement and even listen live to the interviews and episodes. www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology to re-educate your brain and help you live your best love life.
0:11.4	And I'm your host, board certified female urologist, Dr. Kelly Casperson.
0:17.5	Hey friends, today I have a treat for you.
0:19.6	I have Dr. Somm, who has a PhD in engineering,
0:22.5	who's a co-founder and CEO of the award-winning sexual health company Mystery Vibe. Their mission is to make
0:28.4	sexual health accessible to all, all ages, genders, and orientation. Thank you so much for coming on today.
0:35.3	Thanks so much for having me. So you're from originally from India,
0:39.5	and as you were talking, your Indian culture, it's very good to be a doctor or an engineer.
0:44.4	So you went the engineer route. But then how did you get into the sex toy route and how was
0:49.8	telling your family about that career change? Was that okay? Okay, that's a long, long story.
0:57.5	I do love medicine, but I was very scared of cutting people and blood.
1:01.5	I thought, I'm not going to make it.
1:04.5	Even if I get in, I'll probably never pass my exams.
1:07.5	So I went down the biomedical route, and my PhD was in biometrics, which is looking
1:12.1	at iris. So working with ophthalmologists and in the defense area, so recognizing people,
1:18.2	looking at eyes. But that was 20 years ago, a really long time ago, when biometrics was very
1:23.5	nascent and became a little company and sold that company in 2009 and to a US defense
1:29.5	company. So it's used in lots of defense applications. So then what happened was I ended up
1:35.1	working in Deloitte and counterterrorism as a result of my work, but I wasn't really doing anything
1:40.3	related to the medical world then. So I really wanted to get back to it. And then one of
1:46.8	the areas we always talked about is recovering from major life events like childbirth. From a
1:52.2	sex perspective is how do you get back into having intimacy? How do you get back to that mystery in
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