Esther Perel: Science & sexuality
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2013
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Esther Perel's career gets an unexpected boost from the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal. Every week the Story Collider brings you a true, personal story about science. Find more here: http://storycollider.org/ Or subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-story-collider/id396452781?mt=2 Psychologist Esther Perel is recognized as one of the world's most original and insightful voices on couples and sexuality across cultures. Fluent in nine languages, the Belgian native is a celebrated speaker sought around the globe for her expertise in emotional and erotic intelligence, work-life balance, cross-cultural relations, conflict resolution and identity of modern marriage and family. Her best-selling and award-winning book, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic, has been translated into 24 languages.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt like. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, |
| 0:26.5 | where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:30.3 | This week's story is from Esther Perel. |
| 0:33.1 | The story was recorded in May 2013 at the Bell House in Brooklyn |
| 0:37.3 | as part of our three-year anniversary. |
| 0:43.5 | I get a phone call from Ingleberg Bergen, which is a German pharmaceutical company, and they're asking |
| 0:56.5 | if I would be willing to have lunch with them because they want to discuss with me phlebancerin. |
| 1:01.0 | Flibencerin is the female Viagra. It's the medication that actually did not pass the FDA |
| 1:08.0 | test last year, but was supposed to give women renewed desire for sex. |
| 1:13.6 | And I have to decide if I want to endorse this medication, and where I stand on the matter, |
| 1:20.6 | and I'm thinking, how did I get to have lunch paid by a pharmaceutical that wants me to decide if I think a good pill, |
| 1:29.3 | which by the way it's not a pill you take once an hour before, |
| 1:32.3 | it's a pill you have to take all the time, |
| 1:34.3 | and all it does is make you want to have sex one time more per week, |
| 1:38.3 | but more importantly, what's more important even about that |
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