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“When it comes to talking about the birds and the bees, there’s one thing most parents can agree on: Instilling your children with a healthy sense of sexuality is important.”
“Being in a relationship with someone who’s disinterested in sex can feel incredibly lonely. A discrepancy in desire is more common than most people realize, though. What’s the best way to address it with your spouse?”
“Come to think of it, I don’t remember ever wondering what sex therapy was or who it’s for but after my conversation with somatic sex therapist, Elizabeth McGrath, I realized I could have saved a million sessions with my therapist and a lot of time and money if I just would have started with someone like her. “
“''Dan'' seems at first to perfectly embody that popular object of scorn these days in San Francisco: the privileged tech worker. He's a developer-turned-manager at a thriving startup, the type of guy you would expect to see dodging protesters at a Google bus stop or evicting low-income tenants in order to build his dream condo. But beyond that veneer of untouchable privilege, there is a soft underbelly. He's a 40-year-old virgin, and his troubles with women are bad enough that he's sought out a sex therapist for help.”
“Every couple is going to go through a time of mismatched libidos. Here's how to get back in sync and bring back great sex for the both of you.”
“Peter Thiel said we tolerate the Bay Area because ‘people there don’t have much sex’. Has the city that hosted the summer of love entered a winter of celibacy?”
“From hormonal fluctuations to sheer exhaustion, changes in your relationship to body image struggles, there are plenty of reasons your libido might have taken a nose-dive after having children.”
“Today on the podcast, I'm joined by Elizabeth McGrath, author of The Couples' Kama Sutra. She explains the origins of Kama Sutra, how to break out of your sex routine, how to overcome sexual shame, gendered expectations and much, much more. “
“Faking orgasms is no way to live your life…Faking it may stroke your partner’s ego in the moment, but in the long run, sex therapists say you’re both losing out. Below, six reasons to stop pretending you’re sexually satisfied.”
“Some say that “size matters” but maybe that’s a load of rubbish after all. Elizabeth McGrath, a San Francisco/Bay Area somatic sex therapist, revealed that sex with a micropenis can actually lead to more pleasure and be beneficial for both parties.”
“A study published in The Journal of Sex Research looked at survey data of 40,000 cohabitating and married couples and found that, while only 14 percent of survey participants reported engaging in anal sex in the last year, 30 percent said they had taken part in anal stimulation. And, yes, anal-oral sex, otherwise known as anilingus, is a part of this growing experimentation. But why?”
“It’s common knowledge that more men than women watch porn. But just how many women actually watch or browse porn is something of a mystery. “I think more women watch it than talk about it or admit to it,” says Elizabeth McGrath, a sex therapist in the San Francisco Bay area.”