Esther Perel
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5,077 appearances
21 recordings
15 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Jun
Esther Perel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not just something you sit and you're going to experience pleasure at 11 or 30 at night when you've done your whole list of chores.
No, that is the thing that has stayed very much the same.
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I think what has changed, because I'm really curious about that too, so many things have changed.
Mating was written for couples who were asking, how do you sustain desire in the long haul?
What is the relationship between love and desire?
Why does good intimacy not guarantee good sex?
But the question was, how do you keep it alive?
Today, so much of the work is about how do you get it started.
Yeah, yeah.
That dulls the desire.
That basically, you know, the comfort, the efficiency, the optimization, the maximization, that whole machine is killing the bedroom.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it is going against all the things that actually fuel desire.
So that's the big difference.
Another big difference is what you asked before.
If you had your first experience at 25, it's a very different story than when you've started at 15 and you meandered through the channels of love and desire.
And when you arrive at 25, it's a whole different thing.
The dating is not nearly that charged.
And you don't have to have intentional.
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