What does it mean to be non-binary?

How about gender fluid? And queer?

Why does language matter?

How can we reconnect with our bodies?

How can we liberate ourselves from gender roles in the name of more pleasure?

How can we effectively communicate our needs to partners?

Non-Binary Gender & Sex Therapist-Turned Coach, Rae McDaniel joins us to answer these questions and more.

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Finding Pleasure in Liberation: Gender, Body Image & Communication

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You're listening to the sex with Dr. Jess podcast, sex and relationship advice you can use tonight.

0:15

Welcome to the sex with Dr. Jess podcast. I'm your co host Brandon. We're here with my lovely other half Dr. Jess.

0:22

Hey, today we are talking about gender. So we're going to go over some terminology talk about gender roles and how they affect pleasure and sex and relationships. And so a lot of pressure right around gender, I would think kind of growing up you had expectations as a boy what you're supposed to do what you're not supposed to do, even as a man, you're an adult man now, right,

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right. Yeah, I've been told I'm physiologically an adult man. Yeah, you're still a boy.

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Okay, but so much pressure. I didn't I mean, certainly for women. I just feel like the pressure kind of comes from all angles. And it you know, it happens in the bedroom, in the living room, in the boardroom, all across the board. And so we're going to be talking with Ray McDaniel, who's going to just help us to unpack some of the the messaging and maybe make some small changes for happier lives and better sex and before we welcome ray to the conversation, I want to give a big shout out to TS see and intimately you so intimately you is the show that I host in partnership with TSC it airs on Citytv Fridays at midnight in Canada and if you'r...