Sexual Agency - with intimacy expert Susan Bratton
Breaking Down Patriarchy
Amy McPhie Allebest
4.9 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Amy is joined by publisher and sex educator Susan Bratton for a tell-all discussion about sex under patriarchy, the power of pleasure, and practical steps towards liberation in the bedroom.
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Susan Bratton is co-founder and CEO of two companies serving the direct-to-consumer intimate wellness space. She is a manufacturer of supplements and a publisher of online courses focused on having a great relationship your whole life long. Her expertise is in ageless sexuality, sexual biohacking, libido supplementation and sexual regenerative therapies that roll back the clock on aging. She is a sought-after speaker from the stage, has been on countless podcasts, radio shows, and television segments worldwide. Her weekly email newsletter has nearly a half a million readers. And she is beloved as the "trusted intimacy wellness expert to millions 💋."
Susan believes that shame-free, frequent sexual pleasure is every man and woman’s birthright.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McThee-Alovest. Five years ago, I read the book The Feminine |
| 0:07.4 | Mystique by Betty Friedan for the first time. The book was published in 1963, and it was nothing |
| 0:13.3 | short of revolutionary, helping to launch the second wave of feminism in the United States. |
| 0:18.8 | You're probably familiar with Fredan's main points. Perhaps you |
| 0:22.4 | remember chapter titles, such as The Problem That Has No Name, The Happy Housewife, Heroin, |
| 0:29.1 | the Crisis in Women's Identity, and The Forfeited Self. I talked about many of these chapters |
| 0:35.2 | on my episode on The Feminine Mystique in season one. |
| 0:38.1 | But one chapter I didn't talk about in that episode was called The Sex Seekers. |
| 0:44.2 | And one thing that shocked me about the feminine mystique that I didn't mention on the podcast |
| 0:49.0 | was the number of times Fredan talked about women's orgasms. |
| 0:53.4 | For me, at the time I was reading it, I couldn't really |
| 0:56.6 | see how women's orgasms were related to women's liberation. And also, I thought that that was |
| 1:02.8 | way too taboo of a topic to discuss on breaking down patriarchy. Fast forward to today, |
| 1:08.1 | and women's sexual health is one of the most important topics that I think about and talk about, and I am convinced that it is integral to women's overall health and thriving, and yes, to women's liberation from patriarchy. And it also leads to men's happiness, too, by the way. So I am thrilled to welcome Susan Bratton today, who is known as an |
| 1:29.1 | intimacy expert to millions and is a champion and advocate for all those who desire intimacy and |
| 1:35.1 | passion for the whole life long. Welcome, Susan. I am so excited to have you here today. |
| 1:40.4 | Amy, I'm super psyched to be here. I may be the most excited guest you've ever had because, boy, have I been talking about how to jettison ourselves out of the cultural miasma around patriarchal sexuality? |
| 1:57.5 | I mean, everything we see is through the male lens, through what feels good to the penis, |
| 2:05.2 | not to, and I'm going to throw a word out right away, because I find this to be a really good |
| 2:09.5 | word for having conversations about sexuality. For women's genitals, you know, a lot of women call |
| 2:16.2 | it the vagina. And I feel like that's |
| 2:20.1 | a patriarchal word because the vagina is actually a Greek term that comes from the word sheath. |
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