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Max Lugavere

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5543 total appearances

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The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

I mean, like, you know, you're a doctor.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

Like this is what you do.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

You teach courses.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

But, you know, sometimes I find conversations about sex.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

Like there's this โ€“

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

desire to shoehorn it into like this like overly academic framing where sex should be kind of like messy and it's like not, it can be complicated and.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

How'd you get into this?

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

That's amazing.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

And the course ended up becoming wildly popular.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

Wow.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

That is so cool.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

So I mean, there's all this interest, obviously, from younger people.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

But isn't there, I mean, I've heard or I've at least seen the suggestion that younger generations like Gen Z, they're having less sex actually than generations past.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

What do you make of that?

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

Do you think that porn is a net negative or net positive to society?

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

stopping porn is going to solve all your problems because it's not it's more saying what's the underlying issue here that's leading you to seek something out like that and that's preventing you from seeking real deeper solutions to your problems yeah i would totally totally agree with that sentiment i think that it's very similar to for example sugar yes i mean you can have a healthy relationship with with sugar even though there's no such thing as a biological necessity for

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

added sugar.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

I mean, if you have a healthy relationship with food, you can eat a little bit of sugar here and there.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

You can use sugar as a way to fuel your workouts, your high intensity workouts.

The Genius Life
548: The Science of Improving Sexual Pleasure and Intimacy | Nicole McNichols, PhD

But then obviously, because of the nature of the environment today, some people are going to be exposed to sugar and it's going to become their out to whatever stresses they're feeling to, you know, to whatever.