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Sep 2022
32m 19s

EP300 - Between the Sheets: Desire Issue...

Dr. Nazanin Moali, Ph.d, Psychology Of Sex | Couple Therapy | Sex Education
About this episode

Welcome to episode 300 of the Sexology Podcast! Today is a special episode where Dr Nazanin Moali answers your questions around desire discrepancy, improving an unhealthy open relationship, overcoming performance challenges and how pornography can cause erectile dysfunction.  

 

Dr. Moali also reflects hosting Sexology Podcast for five years and how the podcast has changed Dr. Moali as a clinician. 

    

In this episode, you will hear: 

  

  • Analyzing a desire discrepancy between a couple  
  • Ways to manage differences in sexual drive between partners 
  • Understanding your baseline desire  
  • Overcoming challenges of remaining present during sex 
  • The importance of mindfulness for better sex 
  • How you can use sensate focus touch  
  • Create rituals before having sex  
  • How you can seduce your partner in a way they like  
  • Overcoming the challenges of open relationships 
  • Identifying the red flags of an unhealthy open relationship  
  • The importance of creating co-consent for an open relationship  
  • Understanding the need for your own privacy & boundaries  
  • Looking at how pornography can cause erectile dysfunction  
  • Does porn only affect erectile dysfunction when watched or can audio only porn do the same thing? 
  • Understanding that porn is not real life and is an unrealistic expectation of how your actual sex life will be  
  • Managing your sexual fantasies alongside porn through masturbation  
  • Reflecting on hosting Sexology Podcast for five years 
  • How the podcast has changed Dr. Moali as a clinician  

 

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Transformative Power of Sensate Focus 

https://sexologypodcast.com/2019/01/08/sensate-focus/  

 

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