210. Desire, Mindfulness, and Better Sex - With Dr. Lori Brotto

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Better Sex Through Mindfulness – Dr. Lori Brotto Dr. Lori Brotto is a psychologist and Director, UBC Sexual Health Laboratory Canada Research Chair in Women’s Sexual Health Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UBC Executive Director, Women’s Health Research Institute “Sex is not just a deficiency in a hormone” – KJC Dr. Brotto tells us how she started her sex research career by studying rats. Do stressed out rats want sex? “Stress is antisexual” – Dr. Brotto “So many people don’t even know that they are stressed.” - KJC Dr. Casperson tells her story about finding mindfulness How Dr. Brotto discovered mindfulness for helping manage pain, anxiety, and desire Mindfulness During sex. How anxiety and depression affects our sexuality. And mindfulness can help! We talk about medications for low desire in women. Filbanserin specifically. Beliefs are key! We discuss the role of beliefs on our sex life. Mindfulness helps us “see” our beliefs more. Anorgasmia – how common it is and what is the most common cause. How to suss out asexuality versus low desire. Obligatory sex – how to navigate discrepant desire. The myth of penis and vagina sex and why it excludes so many people. Mindfulness for sexuality after prostate cancer. The role of communication with your partner. Do they even want your erect penis? https://www.loribrotto.com/ Better Sex Through Mindfulness https://amzn.to/42bchpj Better Sex Through Mindfulness Workbook: https://amzn.to/42abTYc https://www.instagram.com/drloribrotto/ https://www.cancersexnetwork.org/ https://www.drannekatz.com/ 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.
0:16.3	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I am so excited. This is a BFD that I have Dr. Lori
0:21.6	Brotto on today. We're basically neighbors because she's in Canada and I'm on the like
0:25.9	northern tip of the United States. She's a psychologist and director of the UBC, which is the University
0:31.8	of British Columbia in Vancouver, Sexual Health Laboratory. And she's a professor in the
0:36.0	Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at
0:38.0	UBC and the executive director of the Women's Health Research Institute. Dr. Brato, thank you so
0:43.4	much for coming on. It's such a pleasure to be here. I always tell my story of how I got here.
0:48.4	And I say, I read the books and I went to the conferences. And your book is one of the books that I
0:52.8	read back in the, you know,
0:54.3	three years ago and I knew nothing about sex medicine. I'm holding this up right now. Better
0:57.9	sex through mindfulness, how women can cultivate desire. And it's so good. And like I, you know,
1:03.5	podcast people can't see this. But I have like all these little marks in here from years ago when I was
1:08.6	like, yes, yes, yes. This is what it's about. Because sex is not just
1:13.3	like a deficiency in a gene or just a deficiency in a hormone or like that reductionist
1:19.3	theory that doctors really love because it's in textbooks and we can put it on a multiple
1:23.5	choice test. So can you, I'm so excited you're here. Thank you. Oh, thank you. That's,
1:28.9	that's a great intro. I love it. Can you tell us a little bit about your background? Like,
1:32.9	how did you become interested in researching sexuality and sexual health? Definitely. So I most definitely
1:39.9	did not sign up to be a sex researcher on Career Day. I kind of fell into the field by accident.
1:46.5	I was an undergraduate studying biological psychology and knew that I loved research.
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