Dr. Rachel Rubin

If no one actually rolls up their sleeves and writes that IRB and writes the protocol and gets the funding and actually does the work, the research will never get done.

So we can complain all we want, but you need human beings doing the actual work, which is not easy.

And it

It's not funded.

The NIH is not funding orgasm research, right?

And so the people who fund research, sexual health is going to be the last thing that gets funded.

I love that quote of the NIH doesn't care about your orgasm if you're a woman.

if you're, even men, they don't particularly care about men.

Actually, I will say, and I'll defend, we have a long way to go in men's health too and men's sexual health too.

There is so much we don't know about orgasm for all beings.

There's so much we don't know about ejaculate.

There's so much, there's so many questions we have.

And actually, even in the urology space, we've got erectile dysfunction and penile implants and that algorithm, it's pretty, you know, well-established.

There's

But the rare conditions, so I take care of a lot of rare male sexual dysfunction, what we call the weird and the wacky, the zebras, the complicated things, no one's taking care of these people either.

And no one's studying it to the level that we need to be studying.

All the sexual side effects of a lot of these medications that we're using, no one cares.

And actually, these are the men who come to my clinic and they wait...

months and months to see me and they come from all over the world and they are dismissed just like women are.

They're the only patients who understand what women with sexual dysfunction or women with menopause or women with pelvic pain, they understand because they are also dismissed by the medical community.