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Dhru Purohit

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Maybe it's a new technique.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Maybe it's a better understanding of your body.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Maybe it's introducing a sex toy, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

All of these things that can just โ€“ maybe it's having sex in a different room or at a different time of day or โ€“

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

before you go out for that huge eight course meal, not afterwards, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

So if there are these sort of smaller ways that you can improve pleasure, that's going to bring back that desire.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But what's also important, again, goes back to this idea that

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

If we don't want to have sex with ourselves, we're not going to want to have sex with another person, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Meaning if you've lost attraction, if you're not feeling sexy because you're burnt out or because you have resentments in the relationship that you haven't

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

been able to address with your partner or because you feel sort of overall stuck in life.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

You know, again, we tend to think that our sexual desire exists in this siphoned off area of our life that's not tied into that.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

But all of those different sources of joy and pleasure, if they're not being

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

fostered, you are at risk for losing that passion and zing in life, right?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

And so it's, am I really losing attraction for my partner?

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Or is it just that my central nervous system is completely over-activated

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

I feel stuck, I'm a little bit resentful of my partner, but don't know how to tell them because society has taught me that I should just be putting up with how I feel and not raising my voice at all.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

It's just sort of digging into what are those other factors that have nothing to do with your partner at all, but really are more about yourself.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Exactly.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

Exactly.

Dhru Purohit Show
7 Wildly Underrated Benefits of Sex and Pleasure: From Cognitive Health to Confidence with Dr. Nicole McNichols

And that's precisely what I'm trying to say is that it's those forms of micro novelty.