The Soft Science

The Soft Science

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The Soft Science episodes

  • Your Pain Is Not Up for Debate

    Medical trauma isn’t always a procedure. Sometimes it’s disbelief.

    In this episode, we talk about what happens when women are cast as unreliable narrators of their own bodies—and how to reclaim the story. From birth injury dismissal to neurodivergent ableism, this is about power, authorship, and refusing to let someone else define your pain.

    You are not a faulty narrator.

    11 min
  • AI Relationships: When Therapy Meets the Algorithm

    Sam Altman says 2025 is the year people start using ChatGPT for their emotional lives — to process relationships, rehearse hard conversations, and even find comfort.

    So what happens when your clients start doing therapy with an algorithm?

    In this crossover episode of TwoX Labs x The Soft Science, Dr. Erika Miley breaks down:

    🧠 What AI actually is (and isn’t) — and why it can sound empathetic without ever understanding you.
    💬 How clients are turning to AI for emotional support — and what needs that really meets.
    ⚠️ Why therapists must start asking about AI use the same way we ask about coping skills.
    🛑 What harm reduction looks like when AI becomes part of the therapy process.
    🧩 How professional associations need to protect the field — before insurance companies decide AI can replace human care.

     

    This episode is for therapists, clients, and anyone trying to navigate the messy new frontier where care meets code.

    32 min
  • Welcome to The Soft Science

    Where pleasure is data, shame gets dissected, and your executive dysfunction is just another reason to question everything you've been told.

    I'm Dr. Erika Miley—licensed therapist, clinical sexologist, professor, and your favorite neurodivergent bisexual MILF with a brain that won't shut up and a mouth that refuses to cooperate (ask any teacher I've ever had).

    This space is for:

    • The curious and the kinky
    • The overstimulated and the over it
    • Women over 35 who are done playing small

      • We're talking about sex without purity politics, trauma without making it your whole identity, and desire without a single apology.

      Because here's what I know: So many of us are living in bodies that were never taught to rest, feel, or want. We're out here raising kids, running businesses, surviving late-stage capitalism, and trying to remember what turns us on besides iced coffee and morally grey book boyfriends.

      The Soft Science is where we unpack all of it—your mental health, your sexual health, and everything in between. No shame, no bullshit, just research-backed real talk for women who are ready to reclaim their pleasure.

      Previously known as Sex Talk with Erika Miley—now evolved, expanded, and even less filtered.

      Let's get into it. 💋

       

      3 min
    • Do we know what women want? | Interview ft. Dr. Meredith Chivers

      Does research in sex tell us what women want when it comes to pleasure? Dr. Meredith Chivers shares her 20 years of research. Join me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/sextalkwitherikamiley

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      21 min
    • Beyond Satisfied ft Kenneth Play

      Episode 155: Kenneth joins us today to give us a deeper understanding of sexual pleasure and take us through some parts of his book, Beyond Satisfied: A Sex Hackers Guide to Endless Orgasms, Mind-blowing Connection, and Lasting Confidence, with his unique way of using highly directive images in his course. Click here for full show notes.

      27 min

    About The Soft Science

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    I’m Dr. Erika Miley (Dr. E) — licensed therapist, clinical sexologist, professor, and your favorite neurodivergent bisexual MILF with a brain full of research and a mouth that doesn’t know when to stop.