Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Food Medic podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Hazel.

And today we're going to be talking about all things sex and desire. You might be thinking, well,

what does sex have to do with our health or nutrition because you are the food medic, aren't you?

Well, on this podcast, we cover all aspects of health,

and our relationships and sex life are also integral to that.

We don't learn much about this at school,

and as adults were expected to learn through experience and hearsay,

but that also means there's loads of myths and misconceptions around sex,

and I think it still remains a taboo.

For this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Karen Gurney, who's a clinical psychologist and psychosexologist.

Such a mouthful.

Karen is a lead psychologist for a busy central London NHS clinic specialising in sexual well-being.

She's also director of the Havlock Clinic,

an independent, multidisciplinary sexual problem 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 future proof your sex life in 2020. So in this episode, we

explore some of the gaps in our knowledge when it comes to sex and desire, including the orgasm gap,

which is the fact that heterosexual couples, men are having far more orgasms than women, female

sexuality and how we can have better sex for life. Lots of the questions in this episode were

actually submitted by you guys through Instagram. So listen closely in case your question comes up.

I mean, I'd love to start by just asking you a little bit more about yourself, who you are, what you do, and what you're passionate about. So I'm a clinical psychologist and psychosexologist and I work part-time for the NHS, managing sexual problem services and part-time for the Havelock Clinic,

which is an independent sexual problem service in London, which essentially means I spend most of my

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