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So we're back here with Freya India and we,

Stella had a great question that she wanted to touch on so can you introduce the topic

Stella? Yeah so the SSRIs an awful lot of young people an extraordinary amount of

people I shouldn't say young people, are taking SSRIs, another anti-anxiety medication,

antidepressants and it's got a huge impact on people's libido and then at the same time there's an awful lot of young people

arguably they're you know they're they're identifying as a sexual but also I work with quite a lot of

them and I find that they don't really seem to be experiencing a strong sexual awakening.

You know what I mean? And I'm thinking it's evidently linked because I know the older people who say,

God, my libidio's shot since I started taking those.

But they had the before world and the afterworld,

while the young people didn't have the before world

to compare the libidos.

I think it's huge, and I've seen you have spoke about it.

Yeah I think I think there's a lot of young people well first of all we're having

less sex than previous generations.

And there's a rise in a sexuality,

so especially young women saying that they're asexual.

And not just like lack of sexual feeling but like lack of romantic feeling.

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