The Neuroscience of Sexual Desire – With Emily Nagoski
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
// R E A D Y • S E T • R E S E T
This episode is all about how your experience with sex is not hormone-dependent, it is actually dependent upon your brain.
Emily Nagoski is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestselling Come As You Are and The Come As You Are Workbook, and coauthor, with her sister, Amelia, of New York Times bestseller Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. She earned an M.S. in counseling and a Ph.D. in health behavior, both from Indiana University, with clinical and research training at the Kinsey Institute. Now she combines sex education and stress education to teach women to live with confidence and joy inside their bodies. She lives in Massachusetts.
In this podcast, we cover:
- Is our perception of sex programmed at a young age?
- How sexuality works in your brain
- Why desire is not a significant part of the "great sex" formula
- How to communicate wants and needs with a partner
- Why women can struggle to have an orgasm
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Please note the following medical disclaimer: By listening to this podcast you understand that this video is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice. Always seek the guidance of your doctor with any questions you may have regarding your health or medical condition.
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| 0:00.0 | pleasure is the measure of your sexual well-being. It's not about how much you crave it. It's not about how often you do it or where or who with whom or in what position or even how many orgasms you have. It's whether or not you like the sex you are having. If you like the |
| 0:16.7 | sex you are having you are doing it right. I am a woman on a mission that is dedicated to teaching you just how powerful your body was built to be. |
| 0:27.0 | I like to do that by bringing you the latest science, the greatest thought leaders, and applicable steps that help you tap into your own |
| 0:35.2 | internal healing power. The purpose of this podcast is to give you the power back and |
| 0:40.9 | help you believe in yourself again. My name is Dr. Mindy Pells and I want to thank you for |
| 0:46.0 | spending part of your day with me. On this episode of the Reseter podcast, we are going to talk about sex, but we're going to talk about |
| 0:55.8 | it from a whole different angle. So hopefully you guys know I'm a geek for science and I desperately want to |
| 1:04.6 | understand the human body as deeply as I can and science has so many gifts for us. |
| 1:09.8 | So I recently came across this incredible book called Come As You Are, and it's written by Emily |
| 1:18.7 | Nagowski and she is an expert in the |
| 1:25.0 | is an expert in the neuroscience behind sex. |
| 1:30.0 | So what's so fascinating to me is that when we talk about sex, especially when we're talking about it around |
| 1:37.4 | metabolic women, is we're talking about hormones and the loss of testosterone and the hormonal changes. |
| 1:43.0 | But what you're going to learn in this podcast |
| 1:45.0 | is that your behaviors around sex, |
| 1:48.0 | your sexual appetite, your experience with sex |
| 1:52.0 | is not hormone dependent. It is actually dependent upon |
| 1:56.6 | your brain and your brain has different messaging that it's dealing with it has different priorities and when you learn |
| 2:06.0 | how to line your brain up with your greatest sexual desires you can have an incredible time, not only having sex with a partner you've |
| 2:16.9 | maybe been with forever, but you can really redefine sex for yourself. So on this episode I bring you Emily |
| 2:25.6 | Nagowski. We talked the science of sex. We talked about our attitudes around |
| 2:30.8 | sex. We talked about oh this was really cool we talked about our |
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