Show 976: Intimacy and Eroticism (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Why do couples who love each other often experience diminished desire? Relationship expert Esther Perel says that achieving intimacy sometimes removes the mystery that makes sex so exciting.
Keep the Spark:
Drawing upon her decades of experience as a couples and family therapist, the author of Mating in Captivity tells how to keep the spark alive even in dedicated relationships. How can we learn to desire what we already have?
This Week’s Guest:
Esther Perel is a couples and family therapist and author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, translated into 25 languages. She serves on the faculty of The Family Studies Unit, Department of Psychiatry, New York University Medical Center and The International Trauma Studies Program at Columbia University. Her website is www.estherperel.com
*This week’s show deals with adult sexuality. Although it is not graphic, listeners should be advised that it may not be suitable for everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:30.9 | Perhaps you've heard about emotional intelligence, but what do you know about erotic intelligence? |
| 0:37.9 | Why is it so important? |
| 0:40.1 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:50.2 | Many loving couples who've been together for a long time |
| 0:53.6 | report that their sex lives leave a lot to be desired. |
| 0:57.5 | Why is it that excitement and eroticism so often disappear with domesticity? |
| 1:03.2 | Estab Perel is a couples and family therapist. |
| 1:06.6 | She'll share insights from her book, Mating in Captivity, Unlocking Erotic Intelligence. |
| 1:13.4 | How can we learn to desire what we already have? |
| 1:17.3 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out the secrets on how to maintain desire in long-term relationships. |
| 1:25.2 | First, this news. |
| 1:35.8 | In the People's pharmacy health headlines, men don't have to fear taking testosterone if they need it, according to a new study. |
| 1:39.1 | Experts have worried for years that testosterone therapy might increase the risk for prostate cancer, but an analysis of 250,000 medical records from Sweden |
| 1:48.0 | shows that men who had been prescribed testosterone for more than a year |
| 1:52.2 | were no more likely than others to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. |
| 1:56.7 | In this group of Swedish men, |
| 1:58.6 | those who had taken testosterone actually appear to have a 50% lower risk |
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