I wish sexuality was more useful. That is as it is, you know, I think of sex or when I see,

you know, talk to patients in this space. It's like when they go to have sex, they put on

serious face. You know, they can't talk too much because they got to do the thing and, you know,

however they think they need to interact to be a good lover or whatever that may be.

I think, God, that is such a limited perspective on what sex and sexuality is.

You know, it's not in the past, right, just for reproduction.

I think we're beyond that.

You know, we're at least to, it's important for most romantic relationships.

That's great.

You know, don't dispute that. But we're not yet to the point of saying, and, you know, it's that response is useful. It's useful in the world.

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I'd love to welcome everybody back to our latest episode of Homegrown Humans,

where I get to check back in with a researcher and academic Nicole Prousy,

who I feature strongly in Recapture the Rapture.

I consider her one of the bravest and most innovative researches in the realm of sexual physiology,

psychology, and healing that's potentially doing work today.

So the last time we got to chat was offline in preparation for research for the book

probably a couple of years ago now.

And we're now getting to come full circle and actually get to have a conversation that we

get to share with others.

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