Sex Drive: The Dirrrrrrty Science

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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">This episode is all about how your experience with sex is not hormone-dependent, it is actually dependent upon your brain.</span>

<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Emily Nagoski i ...

Evolutionary psychologists have long argued that women’s sexual behavior is driven by hormonal changes that occur throughout the menstrual cycle, including everything from their desire for sex to their partner choice. This has fed the popular idea that hormones are really the ...

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It turns out that many of the things we think we know about sex aren’t entirely true. So let’s set the record straight and explore what we do and don’t know about sex and the human body.

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