Our Better Half

Our guest, Aleece Fosnight, talks with Rosara, Sabitha, and Jane all about lube. Lube with sex toys, silicone-based lube, water-based lube, CBD and lube, parabens in lube, queer sex and lube, anal sex and lube. She even breaks down osmolality.

She's from Ashevile, North Carolina and she's an AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, Certified Sexuality Counselor, and Supervisor. She has been a Physician Assistant for the past 10 years providing all-inclusive comprehensive sexual and reproductive health, basic urologic care, and gynecological care to people of all generations.

Join us for an informative and fun conversation about lube! If you'd like to find out more about her practice you can contact her here.

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Our guest this time is Jessica Badonsky, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with about 20 years of experience in the wellness space. For the last decade, her focus has been as an intimacy and erotic power coach at Private Parts of Wellness. Jessica is a holotropic practitioner, which means that she considers all parts of her clients. She is a parent of 3 amazing children, partner of a veteran, and constant student of emotional intelligence, sex, sexuality, intimacy, science, wellness, consciousness, psychedelics, and movement.

To find out more, please visit her website, and follow her on instagram

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Our guest this time is Dr. Ateret Gewirtz, a Certified Sex Therapist, senior faculty member at the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa, and the director of the Science of Sex Research Lab. Dr. Gewirtz explores with us why older adults have sex, why sex may be better as we age, what health professionals need to learn, and why we need to change the images of aging bodies in online dating sites.To access her extensive and impressive research discussed on the show, please click here.

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Our guest this week is Elizabeth Dell, the founder of Amorus, the digital intimacy app for partners. She's a certified sexuality educator with a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley.

Elizabeth is a serial entrepreneur who has built five successful companies, and a longtime film producer, producing multiple indie features, including Destination Wedding, starring Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. She is the Chair of the International Committee for the Producers Guild of America (PGA).

She is with us to talk about Amorus, a new app she built that is safe, welcoming, and inclusive for secret, sexy, delicious conversations. Available for free. You can find out more about Amorus and how to get connected here!

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Dr. Rosara Torrisi has always loved to talk with clients about sex toys and sexual health aides. Then, in January of 2021, she opened That Drawer, an eritic boutique, sexual health supply and gender expression gear shop. Listen in as Rosara talks with her co-host Dr. Jane Fleishman about the wonderful world of sex toys that will warm you up this winter– just in time for Valentine's Day!

In this episode, we talk about the following products and people:

The luxurious Sensory Brush from Sexual Healing

The important OhNut for avoiding sexual pain

The diamond BumpHer from Banana Pants

The open sleeve Pulse Duo from Hot Octopuss

The extraordinary Kelly Gordon at Hot Octopuss

Our amazing sponsor and the best lube for older adults, Uberlube (and don't forget your listener discount!)

The fun and friendly Starsi from Cute Little Fuckers

The brilliant sexologist Joan Price

The pulsating Sundaze from Fun Factory

The warming anal Tilt from Lora DiCarlo

An outstanding medical sexuality educator, Dr. Gretchen Frey

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Our guests today are two extraordinary people who have tackled the issues of bisexuality, biphobia, and bi-visibility: Lani Ka'ahumanu and Dr. Sarah Jen. Lani was the strategic political architect of the early bisexual movement in the US and co-editor of the acclaimed, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Dr. Sarah Jen is a researcher who focuses on older adults and bisexuality. It's a fascinating conversation about history and current realities and we think you'll really get a sense of the issues bisexual older adults often have to contend with. If you'd like to read more, you can access the book Lani edited with Loraine Hutchins here and the article Sarah wrote with Rebecca Jones here.

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Lena Queen, our guest this week, is a clinical social worker and an intersectional LGBTQIA+ and poly supportive life coach, psychotherapist, and kink-aware sex therapist. She is interested in healing the erotic self through somatic sexology. She helps adolescents, individuals, couples, and others heal and improve their overall personal and sexual wellness. Her work has tremendous application to older adults. If you are interested in her beautiful perspective on healing the whole self through somatic sex therapy, you can reach Lena on her website or Twitter.

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Our guest this week is Dr. Anne Katz, a certified sexuality counselor and author of a multitude of books on cancer and sexuality. Her latest book, Woman Cancer Sex (2nd ed.), is an accessible and comprehensive resource for women living with and surviving cancer as they navigate sex and sexuality.

Women who survive cancer remain sexual beings despite the challenges of cancer treatment, and they often have nowhere to go with their questions and concerns. This text interweaves stories from clinical practice with evidence-based tips and interventions for a range of physical and emotional side effects resulting from cancer and its treatment.

Anne describes the experiences of women with a particular kind of cancer and a variety of related problems, including loss of libido, physical pain, body image issues, depression, and struggles communicating with a partner and health care providers.

Please join us for Anne's insights and experience. You can find our more about Anne Katz here. And here's the link to Sabitha Pillai-Friedman and Jina Ashline's article on disenfranchised grief.

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Our guest today is Dr. Gretchen Frey. Her specialty is Obstetrics and Gynecology. She graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School in 1985 and fulfilled her residency at the University of Colorado in 1989. She was on the faculty as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She began her obstetrics and gynecology practice in Littleton, CO in 1989 and gradually became more interested in integrative medicine. She practiced office-only gynecology from 2010 until 2019, and is now retired from clinical practice. ​During her years of practice, Dr. Frey developed special expertise in menopausal medicine. This included prescribing a wide variety of hormonal preparations including compounded bioidentical hormones. ​Another area of interest became the treatment of sexual difficulties, including low desire and vulvar pain syndromes. Sexual pain syndromes can be challenging to diagnose and treat. She often found that a team approach utilizing several providers with different skills provides the best chance of success. Dr. Frey is now retired from clinical practice and increasing her activities in her "encore career" as a sexuality educator. We hope you enjoy this excellent conversation!

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Our guest today is a journalist and sex writer, Michael Castleman. Michael has covered sexuality and sex therapy for 47 years. He is the world's most popular sexuality writer. His twice-monthly blog on PsychologyToday.com, "All About Sex," launched in 2009, has amassed more than 53 million views. The free Q&A site he has published since 2010, GreatSexGuidance.com, has attracted 2 million more. His two previous sexuality guides—Sexual Solutions (1980) and Great Sex (2004)—have sold more than 600,000 copies.

Michael Castleman has answered more than 12,000 sex questions from people of all ages and sexual inclinations around the world. In addition to his Q&A site, he spent 10 years (1997-2007) answering sex questions from customers of Xandria, then a major sex toy marketer, and five years (1991-1995) answering the sex questions submitted to Playboy's "Advisor" column. He has also answered questions for WebMD and several other Web sites, magazines, and call-in radio shows. For more, visit his Wikipedia page.

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