The Connection Between Pleasure, Performance, and Recovery with Sexologist Chantelle Otten

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week on the WHOOP Podcast, WHOOP Global Head of Human Performance, Principal Scientist, Dr. Kristen Holmes, sits down with Chantelle Otten, world-renowned psycho-sexologist, author, and advocate for evidence-based conversations around sexual wellbeing, mental health, and relationships. Chantelle and Dr. Holmes break the taboo around sex in this episode, promoting a more holistic view of sexual health, highlighting the importance of intimacy, desire, and emotional regulation. This episode...

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0:00.0	Great sex can be built.
0:01.4	Aim for pleasure, not performance.
0:03.7	Learn how to be vulnerable.
0:05.4	Vulnerability is a superpower.
0:07.3	It's going to create such a beautiful life for you, the people around you.
0:12.4	And, you know, if you have younger people that you take care of,
0:15.8	it's going to create a great foundation for them to also have a better life.
0:19.8	And then again, come back to curiosity and just have some fun.
0:27.2	Chantal Otten, welcome.
0:29.4	Thank you.
0:29.9	Thanks for having me.
0:30.6	I'm so excited to thank you.
0:31.9	I know.
0:32.0	I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
0:34.1	So you are a world-renowned psychose-sexologist. Sexologist. Sexologist.
0:41.5	Psycher, not psychotic. Not psychotic. Psychology. So the biggest sexual organs, sexologist. It is a bit of a mouthful, though, isn't it?
0:49.1	Amazing. So tell us what that is. It's just a very fancy word for a sex therapist.
0:55.5	You know, you can be a sexologist in multiple different domains.
0:59.0	So I used to be in research and I used to study mainly like menopause and sexuality and gynecological concerns and sexuality.
1:08.5	And yeah, when I lived in the Netherlands, you know, a lot of my work there was
1:12.5	based off femme health and women's health as well. And then when I moved back to Australia,
1:19.6	around age 26 or so, I decided to open my own clinical psychology, well, sexology practice
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