Better sex please: how to reboot your libido in midlife
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Physical, emotional and hormonal changes can all play havoc with your sex life. To find out how to get back in the pleasure zone, Lorraine and Trish talk to Dr Shahzadi Harper about vaginal health, libido boosts and favourite sex toys.
Plus: When we do and don’t need to parent boys and girls differently, the best glow products for luminous skin, learning French and revisiting the culinary peculiarities of 70s dinner parties
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Disclaimer: all advice in this podcast is based on your own experiences. Please seek professional medical or expert advice if you think you have any of the conditions or issues discussed in this episode
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| 0:00.0 | Trish, why am I looking at your hands? |
| 0:02.4 | What's going on? |
| 0:03.4 | Oh dear, let me just adjust the one of my two screens. |
| 0:07.7 | I've gone a bit technical. |
| 0:08.7 | Oh, that's better. |
| 0:09.7 | Have you? |
| 0:10.7 | Why? |
| 0:11.7 | Sort like you? Well, it's the can't I can't see anything on it and I can't be bothered to put |
| 0:16.1 | my contact lenses in so I've kind of plugged you into a big |
| 0:20.7 | own a meter screen as well as candy vision. |
| 0:24.1 | Massive. Can you see all the wrinkles now? |
| 0:26.7 | I can see everything in close up and it's it's ten times more lovely than it normally is. |
| 0:31.7 | Can I just say? It's not. It's just to make you feel younger than me, isn't it? |
| 0:35.5 | Oh, I don't know. When you saw those hands, I'm sure you didn't think that. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello! Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. I'm Trish Helpin and I'm Lorraine Candy and we're on a mission to tackle all the big and small issues that affect women at this stage of our life. |
| 0:58.0 | From insomnia to mind and body wellness, HRT to sex drive, careers and relationships relationships and as always the challenges and joys of |
| 1:05.6 | parenting teams. In today's episode we're going all the way exploring the ups down |
| 1:11.1 | sideways and in-betweens of mid-life sex. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes, we have the fabulous Dr Shazardi Harper joining us to talk about the physical and hormonal issues that can affect our sex lives at this life stage. |
| 1:24.1 | You may remember Shizadi from Series 1 of the podcast when she came on to talk about |
| 1:28.0 | HRT and we promise you she will be equally as helpful and enlightening on this topic too. |
| 1:34.0 | We're also going to be talking about when we do and don't need to parent our teenage girls |
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