Sexual Health, Libido, and Orgasm: What Medicine Missed with Dr. Kelly Casperson
4/21/20261 hr 7 min
In this episode of unPAUSED, Dr. Mary Claire Haver sits down with Dr. Kelly Casperson, a urologist, author, and host of the podcast “You Are Not Broken”. Dr. Casperson trained in a specialty that treats both men and women, which gave her an early and clear view of the gender gap in sexual healthcare. That disparity became the driving force behind her work, her two books You Are Not Broken and The Menopause Moment, and her clinic, the Casperson Clinic. Together they cover the full landscape of what women were never taught, what medicine has missed, and what actually works for female sexual health, libido, desire, and sexual dysfunction in midlife. The conversation gets straight to what most women were never told: that the orgasm gap between heterosexual men and women has not improved in decades, and that the silence around female sexual health has never been about a lack of science. It has been about a lack of priority. Guest links: Kelly Casperson, MD Kelly Casperson (Instagram) Kelly Casperson (YouTube) You Are Not Broken (Apple Podcasts) Books: “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female,” by Alfred Kinsey “You Are Not Broken,” by Kelly Casperson, MD To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsKelly Casperson· Guest0:00
If you're not thinking about sex in a way that is, you know, pro-sex, that impairs your sexual health, too. So biggest sex organ is the brain. Dopamine pathway is super interesting, 'cause dopamine is released on pursuing something found to be rewarding. Why is that important with sex? You can't take me out to dinner and feed me cold chicken and mushy broccoli and then say, "Well, why don't you like food, Kelly?" Well, I don't like m- mushy broccoli. You c- I, I can't desire something that's not rewarding to me. And so, so many women... And this was very interesting. So, uh, a male researcher, I was interviewing him for my podcast about women's sexual health and desire, and he knows a lot about this, and I'm like, "Wait, hold on. You're assuming women are having sex worth desiring." And he's like, "Well, yeah." And I'm... A- a- at that moment, I was like, whoa, that's such a male-centric way to think about sex, 'cause you're having desirable sex, right? These women are having mushy broccoli sex and feeling beat up about it, 'cause they don't desire sex.
Mary Claire Haver· Host1:04
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