EP78 - How Diet Culture Is Ruining Our Sex Lives w/ Monica Karpinski of The Femedic

Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Laura Thomas

Wellness, Bodypositivity, Plantbased, Nutrition, Medicine, Health, Vegan, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Nutritionist, Dontsaltmygame

4.8 • 807 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode I'm talking to Monica Karpinski, founder of The Femedic, a platform for discussing taboo topics in women's health. We talk about the parallels between diet culture and the narratives around ‘successful sex’ and how both are systems of control and oppression. How the mainstream portrayal of sex as being predominantly about men’s pleasure takes away from the control and ownership of female bodies - much like dieting does. How narratives around sex teach women to take up less space and not ask for the things we want or need, a lot like, you guessed it... diet culture. Monica and I also talk a bit about our own formative experiences and some of the weird ideas we had about sex as teenagers, and also some really embarrassing shit that happened to me when I was in high school. It’s actually mortifying.

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0:00.0	She's got the expert guests to help you feel your best.
0:06.4	Shats down what diet shed.
0:08.4	You shouldn't bother wet.
0:10.4	Get all the real talk from the plant-based talk.
0:14.4	Feeling good's in the frame.
0:16.4	Now on Don't Salt My Game.
0:20.2	No, don't salt my game. Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. No, don't salt my game.
0:22.5	Hey guys, welcome to Don't Salt My Game.
0:24.6	I'm Laura Thomas.
0:25.4	I'm a registered nutritionist, specializing in intuice of eating, weight inclusive, and non-diet nutrition.
0:30.8	We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health, food, body positivity.
0:37.0	And today's guest is here talking about women's
0:39.7	health and feminism and how diet culture might just be ruining your sex life. So I wanted to thank
0:47.0	you guys for being patient with me over the past few weeks while I've been super inconsistent
0:52.0	with social and with podcasts. So most of you will know that I'm getting
0:57.1	married in three weeks. It's three weeks on the day that this episode comes out. I'm also editing my book
1:05.6	and some of you will know that my dad passed away recently. So I've been up in Scotland to be with my family.
1:13.9	And I just wanted to thank you all for the supportive messages and your condolences.
1:19.5	It's been a fucker of a month. Anyone who has written a book planned a wedding or had a family
1:26.7	member die will know that those are all
1:29.0	major headfucks individually. But when they all happen all at once, that's like some next level
1:37.6	shit hitting the fan. So thank you, Universe, or whatever, for that. I have got the CAM app saved to the shortcuts on my phone.
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