179 - Healing From Sissy Porn and Gender Dysphoria with Shane Cole

Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Sasha and Stella welcome Shane Cole to the show for a riveting exploration of the intricate layers of male gender dysphoria. Shane's journey offers a powerful narrative of recovery, highlighting the unpredictable pathways of healing and the integration of both masculine and feminine aspects of identity. This important conversation uncovers the intricate and often misunderstood dimensions of gender dysphoria in males and the complex psychological impact of porn addiction.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.
0:04.3	And I'm Sasha Ayyad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.
0:08.4	And this is Gender, a wider lens, a podcast dedicated to the shifting concepts around gender in our contemporary culture.
0:16.0	Through in-depth interviews, personal stories, and psychological exploration, we seek to open up the discourse around this hot button issue.
0:25.0	Join us as we look at gender from a wider lens.
0:31.0	Howdy Stella?
0:32.0	How's it going Sasha? How's Stella? How's it going, Sasha? How's life? Life is good. I've been thinking a lot about gender dysphoria in males. Some people might have seen I made a video about it recently and today's
0:45.9	episode of course just raises more interesting points and experiences for us to
0:51.9	chew on. You know, you and I have recorded an
0:55.0	episode about gender dysphoria and males. I don't know if it will be out yet by
0:58.9	the time we do this, but we already have several ideas for a part two and so our conversation with Shane Cole today is just going to hopefully give listeners a lot of food for thought because we believe there are just many complex layers to this
1:15.6	experience.
1:16.6	Yeah, I think Shane Cole's story highlights the fact that if you think you know about AGP and if you think you know about male gender dysphoria, listen to this and come back to us because actually there is so much we don't know.
1:30.0	There is so much uncharted territory, not only with anything to do with autokinophilia,
1:36.8	but also to do with male gender dysphoria and gender dysphoria in general.
1:40.8	The hyper fixation seems to be the full on issue and everything else is where that comes from is arguable.
1:48.8	And people have, I think, really, really tried extremely hard to narrow this complex issue and it will not be narrowed because it's actually incredibly complex and
2:00.0	Shane's story shows how complex it is.
2:02.8	Yeah.
2:03.9	So Shane, people will notice, you know,
2:07.3	unlike a lot of other young men who struggle
2:09.9	with gender dysphoria, he was actually socially very very successful. He was an
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