Dr. Wendy Walsh

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We're Out of Time · Dr. Wendy Walsh: The Science of Love, Sex & Modern Relationships · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

You mentioned sex.

For some people, sex is a drug because of the dopamine, right?

Well, not just dopamine, norepinephrine, vasopressin, oxytocin.

It's a big bonding hormone.

Guys have oxytocin too, right?

It is so wonderful, those natural drugs and often the best drugs that we have.

But people also have trouble withdrawing or tolerating not having those drugs available to them all times.

Yeah.

The high supply sexual economy we're in.

Okay.

You remember Eco 101 from college when something

rises in supply the price drops when something is hard harder to obtain lower in supply the price goes up so right now uh you know up until 1962 when the birth control was invented and it really wasn't used mainstream until the late 70s early 80s or mid 70s i would say um

For women to engage in standalone sexual relationships was a very high-risk game for them.

Also, their bodies emit so much oxytocin during sex, they risk falling in love with a bad boy.

They risk, because of our unique biology, getting an STI, and they risk contracting an 18-year case of parenthood.

right so because of condoms and the birth control pill women were able to attain a kind of sexual freedom and also economically they started to make more money they didn't need to depend on men they could enjoy sex for sex's sake so what happened to the price of sex well in 1950 the price of sex was six months of courtship that's the average time from meeting till marriage and a date at an altar that

what men had to do to obtain sex, six months of courtship and a date at the altar.

By 1980, we had something called the three date rule.

If he paid for three expensive dates, then it was safe to have sex with him.

Today, the price of sex has dropped to the barrel bottom price of one sometimes not well-worded text, you up?

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