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Dhru Purohit

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
23311 total appearances

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

And who at 50 can say she's honestly having the best sex of her entire life.

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

So first of all, I really want to give a message to women that you can be having incredible, passionate, connected sex, even if you have three kids and you've been married for 20 years.

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

It is just about having the tools that society so far has been denying you.

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

So that is really...

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

You know, I mean, in terms of who I am, though, I am a so I'm a human sexuality professor.

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

I am a I teach at the University of Washington.

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

I have the largest class in the history of the university.

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

It's pretty popular.

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

It's pretty popular.

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

Although, to be fair, you know, it is sex.

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

It would I'd have to be doing a pretty bad job if it wasn't popular.

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

But it's 1,200 students a quarter, 700 in person, 500 online.

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

And so that means that one third of the University of Washington undergraduates takes my course.

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

And my perspective, right, I have a PhD in psychology.

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

And so my perspective in this class is that I need to be giving you what the research says, right?

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

So I am devouring journals like the Journal of Sexual Medicine, like the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the Journal of Sex Research, as well as going to conferences and talking to people who are at the absolute cutting edge in this field that many of us aren't getting access to, right?

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

That I think people need to hear from.

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

And if you look at sort of what's happening, I think, in the sexual space in general, it's a lot of people who are putting forth opinion that's not necessarily backed by science.

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

And what happens with that is when we teach people something based off of our opinions around a topic that is so stigmatized like sex, it just feeds forth a lot of misinformation.

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

And so I just, I feel like I'm here to dispel all of the myths and all of the misinformation that so often floods this space and really delivers sort of inadequate advice.