S7 E5: Stop faking orgasms and fix your sex life with Dr Karen Gurney

The Food Medic

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Dr Hazel is joined by Dr Karen Gurney a clinical psychologist and psychosexologist. Karen is the Lead Psychologist for a busy central London NHS clinic specialising in sexual wellbeing. She is also director of The Havelock Clinic, an independent multidisciplinary sexual problems service. As part of her mission to educate, inform and challenge widely held ideas that harm people’s sex lives she did her first TEDx talk and wrote the bestselling ‘Mind The Gap: the truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life’ in 2020. She is passionate about translating sex science outside of the therapy room and uses her Instagram platform @thesexdoctor and online workshops to reach a wider audience.

This episode covers:
- Why is sex still taboo?
- How much sex is normal?
- Female pleasure and the orgasm gap
- Faking orgasms are doing you a disservice
- The sex drive myth
- Masturbation and sex toys help not hinder sex
- Using mindfulness for better sex
- The secret sauce to a good sex life in the long term

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0:00.0	Sharing intimate photos of her without her consent.
0:02.8	Unwanted touching, unwanted comments, unwanted moods.
0:06.4	Controlling what she can and can't wear.
0:08.4	Controlling who she can and can't see.
0:10.1	Threatening her.
0:11.3	Enough.
0:12.3	This is abuse.
0:13.8	If you think it's wrong, act on it.
0:16.3	Call it out. Show support.
0:17.8	Report it.
0:18.8	There are many ways you can safely tackle violence against women and girls.
0:23.1	Find out how at gov.uk slash enough.
0:26.8	If someone is in danger, call 999.
0:31.1	Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Food Medic Podcast.
0:35.1	I'm your host, Dr. Hazel.
0:38.1	And today we're going to be talking about all things sex and desire.
0:42.1	You might be thinking, well, what does sex have to do with our health or nutrition
0:46.6	because you are the food medic aren't you?
0:48.6	Well, on this podcast we cover all aspects of health
0:51.2	and our relationships and sex life are also integral to that.
0:55.5	We don't learn much about this at school and as adults we're expected to learn
0:59.6	through experience in hearsay, but that also means there's loads of myths
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