Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan. I'm your host and today we're

going to talk about sex and so my favorite topics. Over the weekend you guys might have

seen I shared a bit. I attended a workshop hosted by the Sexual Health Alliance whose

events and programs are intended to help build communities, spark dialogue and encourage

collaboration. So it's not only for clinical psychologists and LPCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, but

it's also for just anyone that wants to help educate themselves around sex. So they have

like diverse professionals and people that are just sex nerds. Basically they also provide

certifications with asexed. So if you want to become a certified sex therapist or educator

or counselor you should definitely check out their website at sexualhealthaliance.com.

And so today we're going to be talking with the host of that workshop. He's a research

fellow at the Kinsey Institute and author of a new book. Tell me what you want, the science

of sexual desire and how it can help improve your sex life. Dr. Justin Leigh Miller received

his PhD in Social Psychology from Purdue University. He's received three different awards,

the certificate of teaching excellence from Harvard where he taught for several years.

He's a researcher and a scholar who's published more than 40 academic works to date including

a textbook titled The Psychology of Human Sexuality which is now in its second edition and

it's used in college classrooms around the world. His research focuses on so many amazing

topics and we'll get into some of them today. Some of them include casual sex, sexual fantasies,

sexual health, friends with benefits. He's got some really interesting ones that he's working

on now that we're definitely in a talk about. And his studies have appeared in so many different

media outlets from CNN to the late show with Stephen Colbert to all kinds of different

academic sexual journals. And he also, I mean the list goes on. He's really doing stuff

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