It's nice to get a massage. You feel relaxed, all the stress melts away, you sometimes fall asleep on the table and they have to poke you with a stick to get you out of there. It can be a euphoric experience with your body releasing endorphins in response to the massage, leaving you dizzy and happy as a clam. Apparently, there are people that offer a "happy ending" after one such massage, which makes for an even happier clam, which involves manual or oral stimulation of the genitals. Huh. You learn something new every day, right? Our guest today performs such work and also has a lot to share about sex education, race, and polyamory.

About out guest:

Chris has chosen to remain anonymous, but we were glad he could share his story with us. He is a sex worker and sex educator and, well, anonymous, so don't ask any more questions!

About us:

We are now livestreaming episodes on youtube a week before the podcast episodes come out. If you just can't wait to listen, check us out at our new YouTube Channel.

Visit us at: www.aboutsexpodcast.com

Get marriage therapy and sex therapy in the St Louis area with Angela Skurtu LMFT M.Ed, a Licensed Marriage and Sex therapist. You can talk to her about sex or other therapy needs at: www.therapistinstlouis.com

Also, we have facebooks and twitters and all that crap, but if you read this far i seriously doubt you have time to read any more.

Facebook:

Angela Skurtu LMFT, M. Ed, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist

Joshua Skurtu

How can I love thee? Let me count the ways... Three? Is that all? I probably need to do better than that. Let me see, there is poking, rubbing, spitting. That's love, right?

Luckily, I'm married to a sex therapist. I'm sure she can help. This week we talk about being married to a sex therapist and we also cover how sex therapists can help us talk about sex.

About our Guest: 

Monica Houttuin, LCSW, CST at Counseling Rediscovering Connections

Monica is a Couples and Intimacy Specialist, Certified Sex Therapist and Educator.

She works in private practice in Union Missouri and specializes working with couples struggling with issues of sex and intimacy.  Her area of expertise is reviving sexual injury from affairs and helping couples make adaptations to their sexual connections as a results of chronic illness or just the regular effects of long term relationships and living a long life together.

Monica  earned her Master's Degree From Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri with an emphasis on Family Therapy and Mental Health.  Upon completion of that degree, she earned a Certificate in Sex Therapy from the University of Michigan. Combining those credentials with many  years of experience intense Clinical Supervision, she earned her certification as a sex therapist through the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). She has pursued advanced training in research proven effective methods to treating couples such  approaches for couples therapy, including Crucible™ Couples Therapy and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT) and Gottmann Methods.

Find her at:  

https://www.crcmo.com/

https://jumpstartyourhearts.com 

monicahouttuin.wordpress.com

www.facebook.com/CounselingWithMonica/

twitter.com/monicahouttuin

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Get marriage therapy and sex therapy in the St Louis area with Angela Skurtu LMFT M.Ed, a Licensed Marriage and Sex therapist. You can talk to her about sex or other therapy needs at: www.therapistinstlouis.com

References:

https://www.omgyes.com/en/how-it-works#/pricing

Many people make it to adulthood without having any proper sex education. Some parents even will wait until the night before the wedding and then pull them aside for a quick chat about the birds and the bees.

Really.

Many states in the US also allow for medically innacurate sex education and this leads to a lot of misinformation and shame around sex, including clitoral orgasms, penis and labia sizes, common sexual dysfunctions and more. Find out about this and a whole lot more in this week's episode of the About Sex Podcast.

Statistical Reference:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/08/sex-education-requirement-maps_n_5111835.html

Your body is changing all the time. Once, you were but a babe, hairless and just a squishy pile of giggles and dirty diapers. You grew to become a child, then a teenager, with new hair everywhere and an awakening of your sex life, and then on to adulthood. But the last stage can be just as exciting. Sex in your older years may come with some new challenges, but the happiest seniors have a strong sex life and find ways to work around the aches and pains. Find out more in this week's episode of About Sex.

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www.therapistinstlouis.com

Some mental health workers have been treating patients for sex addiction with abstinence. This can wreck a marriage and there is no empirical evidence for the diagnosis or any of the treatments out there. To put it bluntly, they are shooting blindly into a forest trying to hit a target that may not even exist. Find out more in this week's episode of About Sex.

Episode 29

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Get marriage therapy and sex therapy in the St Louis / Ballwin Missouri area with Angela Skurtu LMFT M.Ed at:

www.therapistinstlouis.com

We all want to be the perfect lover. The perfect romantic idealization of a Don Juan. The perfect knight in shining armor. We want our lovers to remember our passionate moments with a fire deep inside them. But most of us will settle for our lovers just remembering we even had sex.

For some it may seem to come easy, but the reality is we have to work at it. We have to talk and learn and find a way to not only please ourselves, but give unending pleasure to our sexual partners. Find out more in this week's episode of About Sex.

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www.aboutsexpodcast.com

Get marriage therapy and sex therapy in the St Louis area with Angela Skurtu LMFT M.Ed at:

www.therapistinstlouis.com