The Soft Science

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.
This show is for the curious, the kinky, the overstimulated, and the over-it.
We’ll talk about sex without purity politics, trauma without turning it into your whole personality, and desire without apology.
Because here’s the thing: so many of us — especially women — are living in bodies that were never taught to rest, feel, or want.
We’re raising kids, running businesses, surviving late-stage capitalism, and trying to remember what turns us on besides iced coffee and fictional fae warriors.
So we’re going to talk about it all —
Why Romantasy is the cultural Prozac we didn’t know we needed.
Why erotica can feel like therapy when porn just… doesn’t.
What porn women actually watch.
And what we know now about perimenopause, hormones, and pleasure that our mothers were never told.
This isn’t therapy.
This isn’t porn.
This is The Soft Science Show.
And yes — you can stim while you listen.
I do.
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.
This show is for the curious, the kinky, the overstimulated, and the over-it.
We’ll talk about sex without purity politics, trauma without turning it into your whole personality, and desire without apology.
Because here’s the thing: so many of us — especially women — are living in bodies that were never taught to rest, feel, or want.
We’re raising kids, running businesses, surviving late-stage capitalism, and trying to remember what turns us on besides iced coffee and fictional fae warriors.
So we’re going to talk about it all —
Why Romantasy is the cultural Prozac we didn’t know we needed.
Why erotica can feel like therapy when porn just… doesn’t.
What porn women actually watch.
And what we know now about perimenopause, hormones, and pleasure that our mothers were never told.
This isn’t therapy.
This isn’t porn.
This is The Soft Science Show.
And yes — you can stim while you listen.
I do.
Episodes
Episodes



Thursday Nov 29, 2018
ADHD and Sex
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
ADHD is tough! Erika talks with Brendan Mahan who is an ADHD consultant and coach about ways to deal with having ADHD and being intimate with your partner. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/34
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Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Sex Dolls or Intimate Partner Alternatives with Don Delano
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
Thursday Nov 22, 2018
In this episode Erika talks with Don Delano who is the owner of Mon Amour Toujours which gives customers the ability to create their own personalized Intimate Partner Alternatives (IPA). Erika and Don talk about the pitfalls of his business and also how these IPA’s have helped his customers. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/33
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Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Relationship Killers
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
Thursday Nov 15, 2018
In this episode Erika talks about what things we do to kill our relationships. Specifically, how contempt is the number one predictor of the end of a relationship. Erika gives you skills to tackle these relationship issues! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/32
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Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Highly Sensitive People and Sex with Laura Zane
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
Thursday Nov 08, 2018
In this episode Erika talks with fellow therapist Laura Zane about what being a highly sensitive person means and what it might mean for their intimate lives. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/31
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Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Creating Healthy Relationships From The Beginning With Dr. Maha
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
In this episode Erika talks with Maha Nasrella-Babenko, PhD about creating relationships and ways to start with a good foundation. They also talked about how relationships do not have a bluebook or road map but there are things a new relationship can do to influence how it turns out. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/30
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Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Body image, perceptions of weight, and sex
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
In this episode Erika talks about how negative thoughts about our bodies take us out of moments of pleasure and connection. Erika gives a concrete way to challenge those thoughts by using techniques to distance the thoughts from your identity. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/29
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Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Relationships, sex, & Men with Robert Kandell
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
In this episode Erika talks with Robert Kandell, about relationships and how communication effects intimacy. More specifically how men can experience frustration in cultural messages about feelings and how they “should” express them. His book Unhidden comes out December 6, 2018! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/28
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Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Virginity with Dr. Jaime Kennedy
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
In this episode Erika talks with a longtime friend Jaime Kennedy, Ph.D about her research on virginity and how historically virginity has been used as a tool. Dr. Jaime brings wonderful information about how virginity or purity has historically been used as a propaganda tool. Listen to this week’s episode to find out how! Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/27
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Thursday Oct 04, 2018
Sexual Assault Part 1
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
Thursday Oct 04, 2018
In this episode Erika talks about sexual assault and where the angry posts on social media are coming from. Erika also references research on rates of false accusations of sexual assault. The information may surprise you. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/26
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Thursday Sep 27, 2018
Billy Procida, Desire, and putting yourself out there
Thursday Sep 27, 2018
Thursday Sep 27, 2018
Erika interviewed comedian Billy Procida about his podcast the Manwhore Podcast. Billy shared information about his most recent episode that featured his trip to Desire Resorts. See why Erika said listening to his episode was like ESPN after dark. Full show notes: www.sextalkwitherika.com/25
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