Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,

and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. If there is one topic I know our listeners love based on the downloads that

I've seen over the years, it's they like to hear and talk about sex. Sex is a topic that is both

wildly feeling taboo. It's also a part of our lives. It's a part of

our human being and our makeup and our society. And yet we don't know how to talk about it all

the time. So I have a sex and relationship expert on today. Dr. Tammy is here to join us. She is

a speaker and author who works with couples. She's also the founder of an

Integrated Sex Therapy Institute and has been a licensed sex and relationship therapist for over 30 years. Tammy,

welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. So it is 2025. What is on many people's minds when it comes to sex? Because a few years back,

I remember mid-pandemic, the big question was, am I having enough sex? Everyone thought,

we're all going to be at home. We're going to have so much sex. And people were like,

wait a second, that's not happening as much as we expected. Now it's a few years later.

It's 2025. What are you seeing in your line of work that

people are talking about when it comes to the realm of sex? I know that's such a spectrum,

but anything that you've noticed that is like really starting to become a little bit of a pattern

that people are chatting about, asking questions about, being curious about, and then we'll get

into some other questions.

Yeah, I mean, it's a great question.

What I've seen, I think the first thing, just anecdotally, in my practice and in my talks

with other therapists, you know, I give trainings and do retreats for couples. The number one question I get is, you know,

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