We need touch. We need it for our development. We need it for our emotional physical health.

Especially if your social distancing together, you know, there is the power of the 22nd hug.

The longer that you hug someone and hold onto them, the more physical benefits we're going to have.

Look into his eyes. They're the eyes of a man obsessed by sex.

Eyes that mock our sacred institutions. Betrubize. They call them in a fight on days.

You're listening to Sex with Emily. I'm Dr. Emily and I'm here to help you prioritize

your pleasure and liberate the conversation around sex. Today's show we're answering your

questions. We've got your calls and your emails and I've been hearing so many of you so I just

wanted to get into it. Some questions we're answering is how do you get back out there and

date when you're newly sober? How to bring the excitement back into a sexless relationship?

And how to introduce new techniques and toys into the bedroom? Oh, but first I'm going to tell

you about what I've missed the most during COVID the last year and give tips how we could get more

in touch with ourselves and our relationships. All right, intentions with Emily. For each episode,

let's start off by setting an intention. So when you're listening, what do you want to get out of

listening to the episode? How could this episode truly help you? I do it for every show and I

encourage you to do the same. My intention is to prepare you to enter into healthy relationships

in this new world and also how to get rid of the people and situations that no longer serve you.

All right, everyone. Enjoy the show.

Before I get into your questions, it's been a year since lockdown started and so I've been

spending time thinking about what I've missed and how I'm going to show up in this very changed

world, specifically how it relates to human interaction. So there's a few things that I've

been thinking about that are helping me prepare for it. I feel like they're going to benefit you as

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