Enter The Freud

Meta Dating or dating in the metaverse is not just dating apps on virtual reality steroids. We are potentially for the first time looking at how we date and why we date. Dating in the Metaverse exposes unconscious and conscious limitations in how we think. This looking glass reflects back into the unknown architecture of our very existence.

With each passing year, Americans are having less and less sex. Why is this? We look at sexuality in American culture and explore reasons for our change in sexual behavior and dating. We talk about how sex and relationships have changed across history.

From moral righteousness to feminist outrage, hookup culture gets around. Why is this concept captivating peoples minds and infiltrating bedrooms? We psychologists must know. This actually becomes an examination of male sexual development. Peer pressure often leads to young guys first sexual contact. How does this make room for onset of Hookup Culture? To hookup, or not to hookup: that is the question.

Is the exchange of money for sex a path towards freedom or a window into psychopathy? Sugar babies and sugar dating claim to be an "honest" alternative to conventional relationships. Sugar Daddies might be looking for sex, love, and affection eventually landing in an internet scam for the elderly. Platforms like Seeking Arrangements have a dark side stranger than prostitution. What is the psychic impact of having a short lived career based on selling sex and companionship? Is there really a healthy way to sell sex?

Dr Douglass and Dr Thompson explore the new norm in dating and romantic relationships: the "situationship." We talk about what this term means and why situationships have become so common. We talk about relationships in contemporary times and how we have departed from traditional relationship norms.

Openly expressing sexuality goes beyond the bedroom into voyerisom. Onlyfans provides the platform for women to get praise and money directly from anyone with an account. Explore potential psychiatric reasons for this behavior and see if your psyche can handle the sexology of Onlyfans.

Humans need meaning and direction in life, perhaps more than anything. In modern times, we project this need, unconsciously, on a wide range of things--many of which are not up to the challenge. Many great tragedies have their roots in the human's blind, urgent search for a deeper meaning in life.

We explore this minefield: Unplanned pregnancies, single mothers, the woman's right to choose, dead beat dads, pre-marital sex, children's need for their fathers, the culture of idealizing motherhood. We explore the controversial idea that, like relationships and sex, having a child should require two yes-es, not just one. Abortion, sex, consent, raising children and the culture of blaming men and assuming women are victims and angels--these are the subjects of this conversation.

What is Mass Formation Psychosis? Dr. Malone, Joe Rogan, and some guy from Belgium get deplatformed for talking about it. Two psychologists examine the validity of this phenomenon. Mass formation psychosis is a new term that is not a real diagnosis and has never been used in research. It does clearly point to a real aspect of mob mentality and social psychology.

Is the term trauma being misused or over-used? Is there truth to the saying "if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger"? Or do we need to avoid trauma at all costs and provide safe, sensitive healing to people's trauma? Dr Thompson defines trauma and differentiates it from difficult experiences that make a person stronger.