Welcome to sex body and soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the body agency, and on this show,

we talk about the marvel that is our bodies and souls, what they can do and what we need to thrive.

You out there, listen up. We have some pretty hard but juicy conversations here, and you need to hear this.

Let's go. Have you ever thought about

how to improve your sex life? Well, our next guest, Dr. Emily Jameer, is a sex and relationship

therapist and USA Today best-selling author of Anatomy of Desire, Five Secrets to Create

Connection and Cultivate passion. Emily speaks nationally and internationally

to many audiences, including educators, mental health professionals, executives and corporate groups.

Her expertise has been featured in Oprah Magazine, CNN, USA Today, NBC, and many more.

She offers online workshops as part of her mission to make her knowledge accessible to everyone.

She also hosts a very popular podcast, Love and Libito, and is an award-winning columnist

for Healthy Women and psychology today.

Emily, welcome to the show. Great to see you. Good morning, Kate. I am so thrilled to be here

with you today. Well, we're going to be talking about one of my favorite subjects, and that is

sexual desire. I think that desire kind of makes the world go around,

and many of us don't know how to get it or do it well. But first of all, I'm absolutely

fascinated. You've written this great book, and I know you're a girl out of Texas. Why does a girl out of Texas suddenly become, first of all, an incredible writer, but also somebody who really wants to help people with their sexual connections?

Yeah, thank you.

So, I mean, for sure, what a time to put out a book about great sex historically.

You know, it's funny, if we go way back, I think that I was giving sex advice long before I was qualified to do so.

I grew up in kind of a small conservative town and was very fortunate in the house I grew up and sex was not taboo. My father was an

OBGYN. I heard him talk about everything on the phone with his patients. And they gave me

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