The One About Having Better Sex With Dr. Lori Brotto

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast episode, we debunk some myths about sexual desire, illuminate the impact that chronic stress can play in women’s low desire, and discuss Dr. Brotto’s research which found that mindfulness can help manage chronic stress and improve desire. Dr. Lori Brotto aims to place emphasis on pleasure-focused (rather than dysfunction-based) language for women with low sexual desire. Dr. Lori Brotto,PhD, is a clinical psychologist, sex researcher, and Canada Research Chair in Women's Sexual Health. She is a member of various sexuality organizations and an associate editor for Archives of Sexual Behavior. Brotto writes a monthly column called Health Advisor for the Globe and Mail and has been featured in the New York Times, the Walrus, Chatelaine, Dan Savage’s Savage Lovecast, and many other outlets. She lives in Vancouver, BC.
Dr. Lori’s Book, Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire is available here.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:06.0	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,
0:11.0	Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed
0:16.4	in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired,
0:22.4	get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.
0:30.3	Welcome back. This might be the juiciest and most informative podcast we've ever done.
0:37.5	If you have followed me online for a while, you know that I've been seeking this conversation
0:42.5	out for some time. And just so happened to kind of land in my lap right while I'm in Langley,
0:48.3	BC right now. So please welcome Dr. Laurie Brado. Did I say that right? Brado? You sure did.
0:54.6	Oh, amazing. Okay. Introduce yourself. Tell us what you do. Tell us who you are.
1:01.7	Okay. So I am Laurie Brado. I'm a sex researcher, Canada Research Chair and Women's
1:06.3	Sexual Health. That means that the federal government pays me to understand women's sexuality.
1:11.5	And I'm the executive director of the Women's Health Research Institute. And essentially what we
1:16.0	do there is we support much of the research on women's health across the province. Okay.
1:21.2	Whatever STEM do into wanting to work specifically in it's the psychology of it's not even just like
1:27.5	women's sexual health. That's almost like a totally different external thing. We're talking really
1:31.2	internal stuff here. Yeah. How did it stem that you really were like, this is it? This is what I
1:37.1	want to work in. So I most definitely didn't, you know, go to career day in ninth grade and say,
1:42.3	oh, I'm going to be a sex researcher. That would have been cool as hell if you did. That would not
1:45.8	have been my upbringing. I've been a really, really strict, a conservative Italian Catholic upbringing.
1:51.1	But I've always loved research. And so I started volunteering in a research lab and actually what
1:56.4	we were doing was we were studying rats. And we were studying the effects of medications on
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