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The first thing that I do with clients is I tell them that we're going to go slow.

Because there are three things that most clients do not talk about in

therapy and those are religion, politics, and sex.

There's this like whole world underneath people's clothing that no one talks about.

Are science in some ways is catching up with people's existences?

I'm Megan McDonough and you're listening to Scientific American science quickly.

This is part one of a four-part fascination on the science of pleasure.

In this series we're asking what we can learn from those with marginalized experiences. To get to the bottom of BDSM find the female

orgasm and illuminate asexuality. In this episode we'll discuss new ways to question your

sexuality according to science that draws from feminism and queer theory.

But first let's get real basic.

Tell me when I say the word sex or sexuality, you, what comes up?

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