S2 Ep3: Dr Anand Patel

Sex Power Money with Sara Pascoe

Sara Pascoe

Comedy, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week Sara talks to Anand Patel, a doctor specialising in sexual function, working with health care professionals and the public to challenge views, reduce embarrassment and improve understanding.

[Trigger warning: eating disorder discussion]

Dr Anand Patel is a GP based in inner London and also works at the Centre for Men’s Health on Harley Street treating sexual dysfunction and testosterone deficiency. He is a committee member of the British Society for Sexual Medicine and secretary to the Primary Care Testosterone Advisory Group. He has worked in television, including decoding sexual desires on Channel 5s My Secret Sex Fantasy and most recently I co-hosting The Pleasure Podcast, focusing on sex, relationships and intimacy.

Dr Anand trains doctors to think about sexual function as both symptom and health issue affecting people physically and psychologically, and hopefully gives them the tools to talk about sex openly and supportively with patients. He doesn't just talk about why sexual problems can happen, but what effect they can have and how we can practically support people into making positive changes - this is often where sex toys comes in!

His background as a school teacher and head of PSHE means he recognises some of the challenges young people face these days with the impact of social media, online dating and pornography changing sexual expectations and behaviours. He's also working with MaSC (Men and Social Conditions) to create up a porn addiction workshop for those gay men who have been affected by pornography and social media, reducing the pleasure they take in sex themselves and the negative view they have of their bodies and the unattainable images of others.

Basically Dr Anand really wants people to enjoy their bodies without shame and maintain healthy sexual relationships.

Resources:

The fabulous College of Sex and Relationships Therapists who work to support people with relationship issues and/or sexual problems. You can find a therapist near you for a confidential discussion.

You may also be able to access psychosexual therapy via your local sexual health clinic and/or be referred by your GP. Unfortunately services might be more limited in access due to COVID19.

In London, the Albany Trust is a charity offering some low cost counselling and has a special interest in supporting LGBT+ people.

London Friend is a charity that supports LGBT+ people with a variety of services but particularly mental health services especially those struggling with drug addiction.

The Sexual Advice Association is a charity who have produced a website and free app that allows you to complete sex quizzes/questionnaires about sexual dysfunction for you OR for your partner! It then suggests what the likely problem might be and links you to useful information leaflets and resources.

I’ve found Gary Wilson very interesting on porn’s effects on people.

More about the shaky bridge study mentioned in the episode.

Find Dr Anand Patel's podcast The Pleasure Podcast here.

Sara's book Sex Power Money is out now in paperback!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Sex Power Money with me Sarah Pasco.
0:12.2	My guest today is Dr. Anand Patel. He's a very, very interesting man and
0:17.8	exceptionally clever. Anand is a proper doctor. He qualified in 2000 at King's College London. He's a GP partner in
0:26.2	London and he also specialises in male health and male sexual medicine.
0:33.1	And that is so good at his job.
0:34.4	He teaches trainee doctors in sexual function
0:37.4	as part of his program director role, educating them
0:40.2	to become GPs, and he speaks locally and nationally with the British
0:44.2	Society of Sexual Medicine. So he's absolutely so knowledgeable about all of the
0:50.1	things that I am interested in and he also co-hosts the pleasure
0:54.1	podcast if you've never listened to it I'd really recommend it they interview all
0:58.8	different kinds of people about their relationship with sex and to pleasure and the kind of
1:04.0	sex education they received and it's absolutely fascinating and wonderful.
1:08.8	Thank you so much for speaking to me, Dr Anam Patel.
1:15.0	I am so excited to learn about your job, but first of all, I wanted to ask,
1:22.0	what is your official job title?
1:25.8	I've got a few jobs because you can never have too many.
1:30.0	You always want to achieve as much as you can I think if you're an immigrant or
1:33.4	some of immigrants it's all about trying to attain a level where you feel
1:37.9	comfortable amongst the whiteness I think. Really? But I think I would have
1:42.3	thought that was reversed because they're like, oh, they come over here, they still have many jobs. Some of them have got seven or eight.
1:50.0	Yeah, I think part of that is about the fact that you you feel you don't fit in so how do you
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