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You Are Not Broken

229. Sex Med Advocate and ISSWSH President - Sue Goldstein

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Sex Med Advocate and ISSWSH President - Sue Goldstein Sue Goldstein is an AASECT certified sexuality educator and certified clinical research coordinator. She serves as clinical research manager and program coordinator for San Diego Sexual Medicine  Thanks to our sponsor Sprout Pharmaceuticals addyi.com/notbroken  Thanks to our sponsor Uber Lube 10% off, Code NOTBROKEN  uberlube.com  She is current president of ISSWSH (International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health)  Her story of your career in sexual education and sex med.  Pain associated with oral contraceptives.  There should never be pain with sexual activity.  We pick apart “doing menopause naturally”  We discuss PGAD Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder and the role of education for people and providers. Language matters.  We talk about menopause and pain with sex after menopause.  Is low sex drive the “tip of the iceberg” for testosterone?  We discuss testosterone, SHBG and bioavailable testosterone and explain how this works.  What is a vajay-jay?  The importance of using correct words for our anatomy.  Why we love ISSWSH.  Why Sue hates the concept that “women are complicated”   The combo platter of aging PIV intimacy – we need to approach both partners to address the issues.   Sue shares her experience with HSDD  We discuss the issue with delayed ejaculation.   “The educated woman is the empowered woman” – Sue Goldstein   https://www.isswsh.org/ ISSWSH’s Education website https://www.prosayla.com/   Book about vulvas: Petals by Nick Karras   Sue’s Book: When Sex Isn’t Good https://amzn.to/3OKyMMk   Did you get my “You Are Not Broken” Book Yet? https://amzn.to/3p18DfK Listen to my Tedx Talk: Why we need adult sex ed   Join my NEW Adult Sex Ed Master Class: https://www.kellycaspersonmd.com/adult-sex-ed  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

0:07.6

psychology to re-educate your brain and help you live your best love life. And I'm your host,

0:12.3

Ford certified female urologist, Dr. Kelly Casperson.

0:16.3

Hey, everybody. Welcome back. I'm so excited today to have Sue Goldstein on. Sue Goldstein is the current president of Ishwish, which I talk about probably on every single episode.

0:26.1

She's an ASEC certified sexuality educator and certified clinical research coordinator.

0:30.8

She serves as the clinical research manager and program coordinator for San Diego sexual medicine.

0:35.9

Thank you so much for talking to us, Sue.

0:38.1

Kelly, what a treat. I'm so excited to be here. I've just, it's been a long road.

0:44.2

Well, I mean, you have really been at the forefront of seeing female sexual medicine get started

0:50.4

and then take it to where it is today. And, you know, as the current president of

0:54.3

Ishwish, I'm sure you will only have, like, hopes and dreams for the future of what,

0:57.9

what you think it can be. I do. And what most people don't know is when Iswish started,

1:02.7

I was there helping out, but I wasn't yet working in the field. But I had the benefit of being

1:08.1

married to the man who was really the leader of the field, really pushing it forward. And so together we started this wish. And I've always believed that education

1:16.0

is empowerment. So when we recognize that I personally had sexual dysfunction, I was a menopausal

1:21.8

woman, and I had HSDD, hypoactive sexual desire disorder. And as I was getting treated, I recognized that so many

1:29.2

women had problems similar to mine and were not aware. At the same time, I had a very close friend,

1:34.2

who was also a patient of my husband's, who had a very complicated, a lot of problems with

1:39.0

sexual dysfunction. And we, as former teachers, we both said education is so key. And so we sat down and we wrote a book.

1:45.9

And while some of the information in there is a little about a date now, because we have

1:49.8

medications that weren't available at the time, the idea that women need to advocate for themselves,

1:55.4

that women need to find out what's going on, and that it shouldn't be shameful to talk about

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