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Nicole McNichols

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
656 total appearances

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

You are.

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

You're rewiring your brain's neural circuitry to crave more sex.

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

And it's the same thing with movement.

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

If you're used to getting a lot of movement, working out, getting steps, whatever your movement looks like, and suddenly you're on bed rest for a few days, you're going to feel antsy compared to the person who's kind of the couch potato and doesn't really feel like movement is a regular part of what their body needs.

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

So it's the same thing.

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

You just kind of get used to what your body wants.

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

feels good doing, what it's used to, we are all complete suckers for familiarity, right?

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

We want to fall into familiar habits.

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

So sometimes again, it's not that you have to force yourself to have sex the way you need to force yourself to eat healthy or force yourself to go to the gym, but to a certain extent, it is a skill set, it is a habit that when you develop, it does build desire simply by being part of your regular schedule.

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

Yes.

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

Thank you.

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

You know, it's really about understanding that desires change and bodies change.

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

And it's just sort of a constant effort to communicate and try new things.

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

And, you know, I think part of it is we hear about this idea of novelty all the time, right?

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

And how important novelty is.

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

And people...

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

can kind of feel like that's an unattainable goal because when we think of novelty, we think like, oh my God, does that mean I need to go to a sex store and get handcuffs or get a whip or get a whole dominatrix get up?

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

And for some people, that might be amazing.

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

I talk all about how you can do that if you want to in my book.