Dr. Nicole McNichols
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 Jun
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It's letting go of these ideas of perfection and normalizing, you know, maybe you feel a little bit different in your body.
It's going to take a little bit of time to get back.
But in terms of this anxiety around casual sex and dating culture...
I want to speak to that specifically because we are in now, you know, I describe it to my students as a culture of chill.
It's literally a time when it is very cool to not have, you don't want to
catch feelings, quote unquote, right?
We don't want to come across as being needy or as codependent, right?
We have all of this language around what is a very basic human need, which is to simply be made to feel like our needs matter.
And so when you're looking at casual sex,
and hookup culture in general, right?
It helps to first know that it is possible to have wonderful casual sex experiences, right?
It is possible, you know, when we look at the literature, you know, we do see that absolutely.
In fact, if you're even just looking at, you know, younger people where the majority of casual sex research has been performed on, that, you know, there are about a third of people who report having great casual sex, right?
About a third who report that it's meh, kind of good, kind of bad, meaning they felt it was exciting, it was pleasurable, but they just kind of felt maybe a little disappointed in themselves or they felt a little bit, you know, not great about the whole experience.
It felt maybe a little empty and disconnected.
And then there's a whole third of people who felt like it just was a really crummy experience.
Look, I think like a quarter of 40-year-olds I just read are now single.
And if we look at the average age of marriage, it's 31.
We have a lot of people in the population who are trying to navigate singlehood and casual sex and may not be ready for a long-term relationship.
And so the question becomes, can we look to the data and try to understand what predicts a really positive, pleasurable, exciting sexual experience versus one that leaves you feeling empty and maybe a little bit shook, right?
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