Mating Matters Podcast

Do Sex Lives Retire- It's hard to see your grandparents as sexual beings but sex is possible throughout a lifespan. Dr. Mary Claire Haver specializes in menopausal medicine, and female reproductive health, as well as female sexuality across a life span. We are breaking it all down!

Gay Dating- Why is America becoming so gay all of a sudden and how has this impacted dating, mating, and relating? In this episode Gay Dating, we interview Dr. Leslie Celis a LatinX, bilingual, nonbinary, licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles.

The Female Orgasm- In this episode we break down why women evolved to have orgasm. We interview Philosopher of Biology, Dr. Elizabeth Lloyd. She is a faculty scholar at the Kinsey Institute for research sex, gender, and reproduction at Indiana University. Her book, The Case of the Female Orgasm exposed an antiscientific bias for all the explanations for the Female Orgasm.

Schizophrenia, Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture- About 20% of Americans suffer from mental illness. 50% of us will be diagnosed at one point in our lifetime. Is this a genetic flaw or a traumatic event? Why did we evolve to have mental illness? It doesn’t seem to help reproduction or does it? We talk to Dr. Kevin Volkan, a professor at California State University Channel Islands, and he is talking Schizophrenia, Science, Psychoanalysis, and Culture.

With more successful women in the workplace, it is harder for women to "date down." Men are now controlling the mating market place and it is teaching women how to react more like men. Is catching feelings bad? We talk to the owner of a website that teaches women to be more slut secure. Misha Bonaventura of Bonobo network helps people make sex positive connections in a non monogamous world. Let's talk Slut Secure

We are talking fetishes and fantasies of the sexual minority. Los Angeles based Marriage and Family Therapist, Nicoletta Heidegger talks sexual minorities and gives us a greater understanding.

The Neuroscience of Attachment. We are talking to Dr. Omri Gillath, a professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas. He has spent over 20 years doing research. What motivates human behavior when it comes to attachment, giving care, and sexual mating? Dr. Omri and Dr. Wendy explain it all!

Humans are very social creatures! In order to have all this cooperation in society, we have to smile and be cheerful to let others know we are friendly and not part of the opposite tribe. What is it isn't how we truly feel? We are talking to Dr. Whitney Goodman a psycho therapist out of Miami Florida. She is the author of Toxic Positivity, keeping it real in a world obsessed with being happy. We are getting into Toxic Positivity.

Why do females live on way past the age of reproduction? Science answers all. Let's talk Darwin's Golden Girls!

We are looking at Battle of the Sexest. The battle is real and can sometimes be dark and dangerous. Unfortunately the majority of perpatrators are men. It is a rare and very specific kind of man according to Dr. David Buss, an Evolutionary Psychologist and the author of the book When Men Behave Badly.  It is deeper and way more prevalent than we could even know.