Let’s talk about food and sex and dismantle diet culture. Food and sex have so much in common and so many of us (Jess included) consider food an important component of our core love languages. Lisa Davis, author of Clean Eating, Dirty Sex: Sensual Superfoods and Aphrodisiac Practices for Ultimate Sexual Health and Connection, joins Jess and Brandon to discuss the ways in which the foods we eat affect our sex lives. We discuss:

What foods have been shown to benefit sexual health?

Why you may not want to “ditch” foods, but rather focus on new additions

How diet affects metabolism

How to rice cauliflower

How diet can affect erectile dys(function)

The power of flavonoids

The concept of “cheat days"

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The Good Sex Diet

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

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Welcome to the Sex with Dr. Jess podcast. I'm your co-host Brandon Ware, here with my lovely partner, Dr Jess.

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Hey! Hey! Happy to be here today. We're gonna be talking about my favourite topic.

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Dogs?

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No and not sex either.

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No?

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Food.

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That's very true. It is your favourite topic.

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It is and we are joined by author of clean eating, dirty sex. Lisa Davis. Lisa, Thanks for being here.

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Oh, thank you so much for having me.

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Now, your latest book is part memoir; part lifestyle guide; part cookbook. It's about clean eating and dirty sex. I like... I think I like both of those things. Sometimes, I like to eat dirty as well but tell me what made you write this book in the first place.

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Well, I wanted to write about something that I could relate to and I should point out that the book is not about dirty sex. I. It It really is just a play up the word clean. And I was really hoping that would come across. But it's funny. There's so many people who are like I don't. I'm not into that. I'm like well it's just a pun but the book is so about improving your sexual health so, when I was growing up I ate dirty just mentioned dirty eating a moment ago. I mean I hit girl scout cookies and I would eat as much junk food as possible. My friend's house because my grandma was a health food nut. She passed it down to my mom and I just really struggled to eat well for a while. Uh... And so I wanted to talk about something that I struggled with and then I also had an unhealthy relationship with sex. Uh... I was awkward girl who can ever get a date and I was skinny and uncoordinated and not only was I pick last in gym but, they fought over who got stuck with me. And I went to school with the same kids from when I was six till I was eighteen. So it's like you you get you know how you get boxed in and you're always seen a certain way and so I- internalize that and then at eighteen. I suddenly had like a really nice figure out of nowhere and I started dating and sleeping around ...