#96 Sex, Relationships and Chronic Illness (and Pain) With Dr. Lee Phillips

Shameless Sex

Amy Baldwin

Self-improvement, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Education

4.3 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we chat with Dr. Lee Phillips about chronic illness and chronic pain and how they affect sex and relationships. Dr. Phillips shares tools such as sensate focus, as well as ways partners can support their loved ones with chronic illness. We also answer a sex question: Great sex during an affair...should I leave my husband? About our guest: Dr. Melvin L. Phillips, Jr., is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with a private practice in Washington, DC where he treats chronic illness and sexual dysfunction, as well as the author of the upcoming book Sex and Love When You Are Sick, due to release in late 2019. He is a speaker and has lectured on topics including preventative services, anxiety and stress management, caregiving stress, depression in the elderly, mindfulness and cognitive strategies for chronic pain, ethical decision making, and the assessment of mental disorders. To learn more visit www.drleephillips.com

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0:00.0	I'm Amy, Sex Educator, Sematic Sex and Relationship Coach, and Sex Shop Owner.
0:04.8	And I'm April, VP of an International, High-End Pleasure Products Company,
0:08.7	and Boss Queen Sex Toy Mogul. We're best friends who make our own rules about who we are as
0:13.9	sexual beings. With everything from how to be a badass in the bedroom to top tips for bringing
0:18.5	your relationship to the next level, we have something just for you. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!
0:25.8	Don't forget to head on over to our website at shamelesssex.com for more. And for 15% off of some of our
0:36.0	favorite sex toys, we use coupon code ShamelessPp in all caps at purepleasureshop.com.
0:43.8	Well hello everyone! Hey everybody! Take three! Take three! This is our third intro.
0:49.8	Yeah. Only because April used someone's name on the last one. I know. And we don't use names.
0:55.3	So we were saying that we were just featured in Cosmo and men's health magazine. Shout out to Emily.
1:02.8	We definitely need to give Emily more. So shout out to Dr. Emily Morse. If you don't listen to sex
1:07.8	with Emily, you gotta check out just one or two episodes. She has 100. She is our inspiration.
1:14.7	And she's a bite-sized piece of amazing. Yeah, she is. She's tiny. And she's part of the reason why
1:20.8	we are where we are because we went on her show and got inspired to do our own show. And I think
1:25.4	she's probably the reason why we were recommended is one of the number one episodes to listen to in
1:29.2	podcast world, forum in men's health. Was it just podcast or sex podcast? Sex podcast. I think it's
1:33.9	sex podcast. It was something to improve your bedroom style. So that was kind of exciting. Well
1:40.4	hopefully this episode will help you to improve or at least be inspired. In terms of improving maybe
1:46.5	in person, we are teaching in person in a couple of weeks. We're teaching at Blue Booth Teak in
1:51.5	Salt Lake City. This is on March 15th. We love Salt Lake City. By the way, I bought a cool line
1:56.4	head backpack there once, which you should definitely bring with you because I don't think you want it
2:00.0	once. I just gave it away. Oh, damn it. Do you know why? Why? Moving nightmares.
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