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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

304 - Zhana Vrangalova (Sex Researcher and Educator)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Zhana is a NYC-based sex researcher, writer, and educator. She has a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University, where she studied how different aspects of sexuality (especially casual sex/promiscuity and mostly heterosexuality) are linked to health and well-being. Currently an adjunct professor at the NYU Psychology department, Zhana teaches the first Human Sexuality course this department has offered in a long, long time.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Tchango.

0:02.3

Hello boys and girls, this is Uncle Chris.

0:32.2

I'm going to be your podcast for this afternoon, this morning, this evening or tonight or today.

0:38.7

I don't know.

0:39.7

Whatever time it is there, that's what time it is.

0:43.1

And the guest this week is Janna Van Gogh-Lova, who was from Macedonia originally, came to

0:51.5

the US.

0:52.5

I think she said in high school maybe, or maybe for university, has a PhD in psychology

0:59.3

from the great Cornell University and upstate New York.

1:02.4

I've spent many happy times at Cornell.

1:06.2

When I was at Hobart as an undergrad, my best friend went to Cornell.

1:10.0

I used to hitchhike down there all the time, lived in Truman's Berg for a while, which

1:14.9

is sort of halfway between Geneva and Ithaca.

1:19.6

If you know the finger lakes, you know what I'm talking about.

1:22.9

There was a restaurant called the Rung Govian Embassy.

1:25.2

I used to wander into coming down from LSD trips that I was on in that area sometimes.

1:34.2

Yeah, lots of good memories, some beautiful parks around there, gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.

1:43.0

Yeah, anyway, so Janna is a fascinating person.

1:47.0

She focused, I guess, her research dissertation and a lot of what she's doing now, where she

1:53.0

teaches at NYU in New York is focused on how people experience casual sex.

2:01.6

So the question of how casual sex fits into our nature as a species and to our psychological

2:11.6

repertoire as individuals in the modern world, into relationships and so on and so forth.

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