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Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

S13E5: The Game of Desire w/ Shan Boodram

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Social Sciences, Sexuality, Science, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.7910 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

What makes someone sexually desirable? We're digging into it all with certified sexologist Shan Boodram as we talk about keeping the desire alive at all stages of a relationship. We discuss what creates chemistry, how flirting is just communication with sparks, and what it means to embrace all the changes that come into your sex life. Follow Shan at @shanboody and check out Shan's work at https://www.shanboodram.com/ and get a copy of The Game of Desire today! Follow us @dateablepodcast. Check out our website for more content, virtual live show dates, and merch. Join the Sounding Board at https://www.dateablepodcast.com/soundingboard Thank you to our partners for this episode: Drizly: Use the code SPICE5 for $5 off your order of beer, wine or liquor by going to https://drizly.com or downloading the Drizly app BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of online therapy at betterhelp.com/dateable with the code DATEABLE Lugz: Get 30% Off Full-Priced footwear (Excludes Sale Section) at https://lugz.com/ with the code DATEABLE Cover art Photography Credit: Larry Wong #lwongphoto Dateable is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at frolic.media/podcasts WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The dateable podcast is an insider's look into modern dating that the

0:04.8

Huffington Post calls one of the top 10 podcasts about love and sex. On each

0:09.5

episode we'll talk to real daters about everything from sex parties to sex droughts, date fails to diaper

0:15.3

fetishes, and first moves to first loves.

0:17.8

I'm your host, U.S.U.

0:19.4

Former dating coach turned dating sociologist.

0:22.0

You also hear from my co-host and producer Julie Craft Chick

0:25.2

as we explore this crazy dateable world.

0:28.1

Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of

0:33.6

dateable a show all about modern dating in a time of COVID. I mean no that's not

0:40.6

what our entire podcast is about but we are dating in the time of COVID right now.

0:46.0

It's about modern dating, and that's where we're at, right? Modern trading took another turn,

0:51.2

as it always gives us those twists and turns.

0:53.7

Always keeps us on our toes.

0:55.6

Oh yeah it does.

0:57.6

But we are stoked this week because we have some dateable listeners coming to San Francisco.

1:04.9

They're doing a little meet up from all over the country actually as far as the East Coast

1:10.7

and Julie and I are meeting up with some of them for dinner tomorrow night.

1:15.0

That's going to be so fun to see everyone in real life.

1:18.0

It's amazing. So it's a group from the sounding board and some of them have been talking since March.

1:25.0

Yeah. In happy hours, virtual happy hours in our Facebook group we started doing

1:31.0

happy hours. It was actually Swanee, one of our moderator's ideas to do happy hours.

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