The Science of Erotic Altered States | Biohacking Sex : 1382
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This episode explores how intimacy, desire, and erotic states function as powerful tools for healing, nervous system regulation, and personal transformation. You’ll learn why certain forms of conscious erotic play create genuine altered states of consciousness, not through substances or external compounds, but through the body’s own internal chemistry. This conversation reframes sexuality as a core aspect of health, performance, and emotional resilience rather than something separate from personal development or spirituality.
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Kimi Inch is a somatic therapist and educator with over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of intimacy, conscious kink, trauma healing, and embodied self awareness. Her work centers on helping individuals and couples access deep states of connection and healing through structured, consent based practices that engage breath, sensation, power dynamics, and presence. She is known for creating safe, grounded spaces where people can explore desire in ways that support lasting nervous system regulation and authentic self expression.
Together, Dave Asprey and Kimi explore how erotic experiences trigger specific neurochemical responses including oxytocin, serotonin, endorphins, and adrenaline, and why this internal cocktail mirrors the effects of many psychedelic and somatic healing modalities. They discuss surrender, safety, attunement, and aftercare as essential components of integration, and why unexpressed desire often leaks into leadership, relationships, and performance in destructive ways.
You’ll Learn:
• How erotic states create real altered states of consciousness through internal neurochemistry
• Why intimacy can function as a powerful form of nervous system regulation and trauma healing
• The difference between conscious desire and compulsive behavior
• How surrender, safety, and attunement reshape emotional and relational patterns
• Why suppressed desire leaks into work, leadership, and relationships
• What makes healthy power dynamics healing rather than harmful
• The role of aftercare and integration in long term transformation
• How erotic intelligence connects to vitality, authenticity, and human performance
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Dave Asprey is a four-time New York Times bestselling author, founder of Bulletproof Coffee, and the father of biohacking. With over 1,000 interviews and 1 million monthly listeners, The Human Upgrade brings you the knowledge to take control of your biology, extend your longevity, and optimize every system in your body and mind. Each episode delivers cutting-edge insights in health, performance, neuroscience, supplements, nutrition, biohacking, emotional intelligence, and conscious living.
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Keywords: conscious kink, erotic healing, intimacy and healing, altered states of consciousness, somatic therapy, nervous system safety, erotic intelligence, surrender and intimacy, power dynamics psychology, trauma and embodiment, aftercare and integration, neurochemistry of intimacy, oxytocin bonding, endorphins and pleasure, consent based intimacy, asking for what you want, suppressed desire, authenticity and intimacy, biohacking intimacy, Dave Asprey intimacy, Kimi Inch Biohack
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Trailer
1:25 - Altered States Through Kink
4:41 - Learning to Receive
12:17 - Play Parties Explained
19:31 - Life Force Energy
26:40 - Desire vs Compulsion
28:23 - The Kidnapping Session
35:53 - Aftercare and Integration
45:35 - Bedroom = Life
52:50 - CEOs and Surrender
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| 0:00.0 | I just think healing is way more fun when orgasms are involved. |
| 0:04.0 | And I talk about the work of a specific somatic therapist, turn to dominatrix, |
| 0:09.0 | who's led thousands and thousands of people to reconnect with intimacy in a different way. |
| 0:14.0 | Using things like impact play, or using things like bondage and restraint, |
| 0:18.0 | release chemicals in our brain, serotonin and adrenaline. |
| 0:21.4 | That chemical cocktail is what creates the altered state of consciousness without needing |
| 0:26.0 | the outside plants. |
| 0:27.4 | I had this man, he had a desire to be kidnapped by powerful Amazonian women. |
| 0:32.4 | We kidnapped him on the street, threw a bag over his head, and threw him into a trunk of a car. |
| 0:37.4 | I let him know, but this time into a trunk of a car. I let |
| 0:37.7 | him know, but this time, you have to ask for everything. And he cried the whole time. And at the |
| 0:43.7 | end of the scene, he was sharing like, wow, if I can ask for what I want here, why can't I ask for |
| 0:49.2 | it anywhere? Honestly, like, I truly believe if we had more freedom here and more liberation here, there'd be a lot less war. |
| 0:57.4 | You're listening to The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
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| 1:47.4 | The truth is simple. |
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