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ITSP Magazine: Securing bridges Podcast

9/7/2022

Very well mind: best online sex therapy programs

8/31/2022

"Sex therapy and the discipline of sexology are specific academic and clinical disciplines that require a vast amount of medical, physiological, psychological, and relational knowledge to practice without harm. Sex Therapy never involves nudity, sexual behaviors in session, or physical contact with the Sex Therapist. The fact that most states allow anyone to describe themselves as a “sex therapist” can make online sex therapy feel odd, or even unsafe, for some clients. Clients want to know that a clinician is a qualified, competent, ethical mental health provider who’s able to meet their unique needs."

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Men's Health: Here's What Fluid Bonding Means—and the Benefits and Risks for Your Sex Life

8/15/2022

“[Fluid bonding] can take the form of penetrative or oral sex without out barrier—such as a condom or dental dam—or even reserving certain porous sex toys—such as jade dildos, leather floggers, etc.—for use with one specific person,”

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Disability After dark: interview with stefani goerlich

8/13/2022

Stefani Goerlich gets very real- and very personal- about her experiences with emergency medicine, chronic pain, hearing impairment, and feeling "disabled enough."

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giddy: Why Do We Enjoy Being Humiliated During Sex?

8/5/2022

"Our brains process physical and emotional pain in much the same way, by releasing cortisol and endorphins..For people who want that same physiological reaction without the experience of pain/intense sensation, humiliation play can be a way to get them there."

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Yahoo!Life: What’s it like to talk about your open marriage on TikTok? Here’s how one couple pushes past the 'negativity.'

7/8/2022

There isn't just one reason people engage in a non-monogamous relationship. While some feel that being in love with one person exclusively feels like an "arbitrary constraint that limits their capacity for love and relationship," Goerlich says, other couples face different factors, be it a life event that “makes sexual intimacy difficult” for one partner, or simply “mixed desire” in relationships.

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Mic.com: How to ask for abortion assistance at work

6/29/2022

“App-based services have some pretty significant data privacy concerns,” Goerlich says. “This is not a time to discuss your abortion care needs on those platforms.”

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Mic.com: Why is this allegedly sentient CHATBOT MAKING ME SO EMOTIONAL?

6/19/2022

“Can we tell the difference between actual emotion and emotional mimicry? Does the difference matter?...The real question that LaMDA provokes, then, is about how we respond to emotion — not whether or not emotion is “real.”

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mic.com:"DOPAMINE DRESSING" IS OUR NEW POST-PANDEMIC SALVE

5/9/2022

“The hypothalamus controls our sexual behaviors, emotional responses, internal temperature, appetite, etc. and the combined impact of subtle changes in these various functions could absolutely be interpreted as ‘pink makes me feel happier,’” for example,”

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The detroit Jewish News: Jewish Therapist Focuses on Helping Religious Couples Get More Satisfaction in Their Relationship

5/2/2022

“Some of my favorite people to work with are religiously conservative young couples who are Jewish, Christian and Muslim, who get married very young because that’s the only way to morally explore their sexual desire for one another... Then they realize they don’t know what to do or were not as sexually compatible as they believed.”

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