Dr. Nicole McNichols

Mel, if you take all of my advice today to heart, I am going to give you a roadmap to having amazing, incredible sex.

And it's not going to be the kind of sex that you see in porn or the kind of sex that you see on shows, on TV, or that makes you feel like, oh my God, that's just an unattainable goal.

It's going to be the kind of sex that feels not only pleasurable, but authentically connected to who you are as a person.

And I just want to tell anyone who's listening to this podcast, this podcast episode is for you.

If you're in a 20-year marriage, if you are finding your way back to each other but don't quite know how, if you are newly single and trying to figure out what sex and dating are like now that you're in this new world,

phase of your life.

If you are having okay sex, but you just have this sense that it could be a bit better, I want to really be able to speak to all of those people and tell them that I can give you the science-backed tools and roadmap toward cultivating a truly pleasurable sex life.

Wow.

It is.

It truly is.

And this is actually such an incredibly burgeoning experience.

area of research because it's become so clear just how exhausted people are, how exhausted women especially are.

You have so much going on in your life between a career, your family, the two dogs, the people who are all depending on you.

And I think, and this is a message especially for women, we're so socialized to be taking care of other people and to be

attending to other people's needs.

And I'm telling you that this is about reclaiming something that you really deserve and that is within your reach.

A great sex life is not something that is just reserved for people who are in new relationships or have a certain sexual chemistry that's determined from the very start or that are single and

have actually real time to give to it, there really are some basic simple habits that we can talk about that will change your state of mind and allow you to achieve the type of sex life that you want that you just may not know how to get to yet.

Well, I'm so glad you brought that up because we tend to think of sex as something that's just a treat, right?

If you even look at the language that we use around it, it's you get lucky or save room for dessert.