Setting the Curtains on Fire in the Bedroom with Dr. Nicole McNichols
When Reality Hits with Brittany Cartwright
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4.1 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Brittany sits down with renowned “Sex Professor” Nicole McNichols to talk honestly about intimacy at every stage — from postpartum body confidence and dry spells in long-term relationships to dating after divorce, sex on the first date, and the difference between situationships and friends with benefits. Dr. Nicole shares research-backed advice on communication, emotional connection, and how to stop overthinking in the bedroom so you can build healthier, more satisfying relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to another episode of When Reality hits. |
| 0:19.2 | I have a very amazing guest for you guys today who I am so excited about. |
| 0:25.3 | This is Dr. Nicole McNichols. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, Brittany. |
| 0:30.2 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 0:31.9 | Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:33.8 | So I did a story on my way here. |
| 0:37.0 | And at first I tagged because I was like a sex therapist. And then I said, |
| 0:42.3 | number, and then I said America's number one intimacy professor. Which one do you prefer being called? |
| 0:47.8 | No, I own the title of sex professor because I'm just about destigmatizing this word and this idea. And I know oftentimes |
| 0:57.7 | on social media, we try to get around it by saying intimacy, but I'm here just to give you |
| 1:04.2 | honest, frank information. So let's just call it sex professor. Sex professor. So we're going to |
| 1:09.6 | do both of them together. |
| 1:11.6 | Combine the two. |
| 1:12.6 | Perfect. |
| 1:13.9 | All right. |
| 1:14.5 | I'm going to read a little bio about you so our listeners know what's going on. |
| 1:20.0 | This is Dr. Nicole McNichols. |
| 1:23.0 | She is an internationally renowned human sexuality professor, author, and speaker whose groundbreaking |
| 1:28.5 | course, the diversity of human sexuality, is the most popular in history of the University |
| 1:34.3 | of Washington enrolling over 4,000 students annually. That is amazing. And you have your new book |
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