242: Come as you are with Emily Nogaski

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, midnight

b"Welcome Dr. Emily Nagoski, PhD, fellow podcaster and award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller, Come As You Are: the surprising new science that will transform your sex life.\\xa0\\n \\xa0\\n Dr.Nagoski's mission is to help\\xa0us\\xa0live with confidence and joy in our bodies! Together,\\xa0Emily, George and Laurie want to help people have a healthy view of sex and\\xa0challenge people's assumptions about\\xa0what they\\xa0believe and where they get stuck. We all see\\xa0EFT\\xa0as a way to help couples deal\\xa0with the difficult feelings around sex where we often are anxious about hurting our partner's feelings or fearful of being found sexually inadequate.\\n \\xa0\\n To help us understand desire, Emily tells us about where to find our brakes\\xa0(all the good reasons not to be turned on... potential threats) and accelerators (everything we think, believe, imagine & touch, taste, smell, hear that has sexual connotations.)\\xa0 Fun topics in this podcast: look at your genitals! (if you want to make friends.)\\xa0She and George talk about the\\xa0complicated relationship men have with their penises.\\xa0Nagoski uses a hedgehog visualization to gracefully accept our feelings around sex. Ever wonder why your body may be turned on but you really don\\u2019t want sex? Emily shares the concept of non-concordant sex \\u2013 when our body\\u2019s arousal and subjective sexual feelings don\\u2019t align.\\n Please help support our podcast and get a 10% discount on Uberlube's fabulous lubrication - Uberlube.com/Foreplay\\n Find Emily!!!:\\n book - Come As You Are\\n workbook -The Come as You Are Workbook new book!! - Burnout: the secret to unlocking the stress cycle podcast - the feminist survival podcast 2020\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"