Welcome to Deconversion Therapy after hours. No, it's just me, Karen, and Bonnie has the episode off, but I'm going to bring you something extra

special today, and that's an interview with Dr. Eric Sprenkel. So hold on to your earbuds.

You might not want to share this one right away with their friends. Who knows? Maybe you will.

Here we go. Okay, I have Dr. Eric Sprinkle here,

and I saw you on social media, I guess. You do some posts that make me laugh. And so I'm like,

who's this? And then you talked about jerking off a lot.

Who is this?

I do.

And then you had doctor in front of your name.

And someone from academia, myself, I'm like, I must know.

So tell me a little bit about yourself.

Where are you located and what do you do for a living?

Yeah, I'm a professor of clinical psychology at Minnesota State University in Mancato.

And I also run the Or Melissa co-director of the Sexuality Studies program there.

So my area of specialty within clinical psych is everything to do with sexual health.

Okay. So is this like, was it HBO that did the program about studying sexual health where they

just pretty much watch people have sex? Come on, I need to know this first of all. Oh, the Masters and Johnson show.

Yeah, that's certainly not my kind of research. I don't think that can, that passes IRB approval at many

institutions anymore. Yeah, most of my research, I think all of it, with the exception of a couple of

porn studies that I did that did have individuals come come into a room by themselves, watch pornography, and then fill out

questionnaires afterwards. But yeah, most of my research has just been survey type of research.

No, no observations of such a behavior.

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