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Sex and Psychology Podcast · 510 episoder · Side 11 af 17
In the previous episode, we talked about sexual desire discrepancies, which occur when partners want different amounts of sex in a relationship. In th...
In long-term sexual relationships, partners aren’t always on the same page about sex. This is normal. However, when a sexual desire discrepancy become...
From Albert Einstein to James Joyce, it turns out that a lot of revered historical figures had fascinating intimate lives and a proclivity for kink. S...
It turns out that for as long as humans have been having sex, they’ve been having pretty kinky sex! So let’s talk about our kinky history. In today’s ...
In recent years, the term “ethical non-monogamy” has gone mainstream. But what does it actually mean to be ethically non-monogamous? That’s what we’re...
Interest in polyamory is on the rise. Google searches for it have been increasing for years, it’s increasingly being discussed in the popular media, a...
It is hard to believe, but we recently reached episode number 200 of this podcast! So how do you celebrate 200 episodes of a sex show? I decided to pu...
Humans are wired to feel good when we get the kind of touch that we want. But when we can’t get that, it’s bad for both our physical and psychological...
One of the keys to maintaining healthy, long-term romantic relationships is physical intimacy. I’m not just talking about sex, though. For many reason...
Let’s talk about sexual fantasies! In today’s show, we’re going to explore what people fantasize about doing sexually—and how that varies around the w...
Sexual fantasies are fascinating! There is so much diversity and variability in the way we envision these scenarios, so let’s talk about it. Today, we...
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes when porn is filmed? There’s a lot more that goes into it than you might think! In today’s show,...
Over the last decade or so, many of the conversations about porn taking place in the popular media have shifted to the topics of ethical porn and femi...
While it might be tempting to assume that people who cheat aren’t in very satisfying relationships, it turns out that even people who are very happy a...
Imagine a woman wanders around a college campus and asks 100 different men at random whether they’d have sex with her. Now imagine a man wandering aro...
In 2017, the world’s first sex doll brothel opened its doors. Since then, several others have opened up in major cities around the world. These broth...
Modern sextech is rapidly changing the way people gratify their sexual and intimate desires. Sex dolls, sex robots, and chatbots are starting to becom...
In the United States, a whopping 89% of teens now have smartphones. Parents give their kids these devices for numerous reasons, with safety being at t...
When people today look back at popular films and TV shows from decades past, they are often completely aghast at the sex scenes. Through our modern le...
Picture a married heterosexual woman who is having an affair. Why do you think she’s engaging in infidelity? It is purely about sex and pleasure? Is i...
Rates of infidelity have risen over the last half-century; however, if you break the data down by gender, it turns out that men’s rate of infidelity h...
Asexuality is a broad umbrella term that refers to individuals who do not experience sexual attraction to others, or who only do so under rare or limi...
Where does a person’s sexual orientation come from? Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of studies have attempted to answer this question. This research sugg...
Some adults feel highly distressed about their porn use. In most of these cases, the root cause of the problem can be traced back to shame or moral co...
Research on pornography’s effects points to a fascinating paradox: the people who report the most problems stemming from porn use are often the ones u...
The growing anti-porn movement has fueled the rise of an entire industry centered around selling people on the idea of masturbatory abstinence. Often ...
How does porn affect us? And are people becoming “addicted” to it? Today, we’re going to begin a four-part series on the science of porn to better und...
Although the Southern United States is often seen as a bastion for conservative sexual values, it has a very deep and rich sexual history worth explor...
Until 1960, sodomy was illegal throughout the entire United States. While this technically made oral and anal sex illegal for everyone, these laws wer...
Nationally representative surveys of North American adults have found that about 1 in 5 people say they’ve been in a sexually open relationship at som...