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Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

52: Stages of Sex

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

Cloud10

Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 β€’ 1.9K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 14 January 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sex follows a specific pattern from initiation to resolution. Understanding these stages helps to 'know where you are'. Join sex therapist and author Laurie Watson and psychotherapist Adam Mathews as they lead you through the stages of sex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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freshest streaming service. Hello again and welcome to 4-play radio sex therapy. I'm your host certified sex therapist

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Lori Watson, author of Wanting Sex Again, and blogger at Psychology Today and WebMD.

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And I have with me Dr. Adam Matthews, my co-host who's a couples therapist psychotherapist

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and president of NCA MFT. Foreplay is dedicated to helping couples keep it hot.

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Each episode we cover an aspect of sex that impacts your sex life and something that you can relate to.

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And if you have a comment or a topic that you'd like us to talk about, we'd love to hear from you.

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Please send them to us at info at forplay RST.

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Thanks for listening now on to today's topic.

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Okay today we're going to talk about the four stages, actually five stages of kind of the sexual

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experience.

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We're going to talk about desire, arousal, orgasm and resolution and connection.

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Yeah, I add connection in there.

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We're going to add connection as our fifth and actually our first stage.

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And you brought that up, Adam, because I was talking more about a linear model which was

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older masters and Johnson's and you brought up the newer model which includes

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