Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Sex and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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.
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Episodes
Episodes
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
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Today Erika interviews Ryan Scoats, PhD, a lecturer at Coventry University in Sociology. Much of his work focuses on people’s monogamy, sexuality, masculinity, and friendship among men. They talked about threesomes, one of the most common fantasies expressed by adults. Erika and Ryan talked about his book, Understanding Threesomes: Gender, Sex, and Consensual Non-Monogamy. Full show notes here.
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Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
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Trigger warning: This episode contains our therapeutic experiences treating those who have committed sexual crimes.
Today I spoke to Dr. Earl Yarington about what it's like to be a therapist treating sex offenders, those who have been or currently are in the prison system. Earl and I talk about what it's like to want to treat these folks so that we help to create safer communities for when they are out of prison. Full show notes here.
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Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
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Today Erika interviews Zita Nickeson, certified Sex Therapist, Sex Educator, kink knowledgeable therapist, located in Washington state, licensed in Washington, Idaho, and Colorado. Zita is a mentor who heavily impacted much of how Erika sees sex therapy. She works to forward kink friendliness among therapist. They spend much of the episode talking about how to manage the situations therapists run into on a regular basis with their clients. Full show notes here.
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Thursday Feb 20, 2020
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
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An interview with the wonderful Brian Earp, Associate Director at the Yale Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy. He's also the writer of Love Drugs, just released in the US about 2 weeks at the time of recording. For our UK listeners, the book is call Love is the Drug. We talked about the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment. Full show notes here.
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Monday Feb 10, 2020
Monday Feb 10, 2020
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Founder of the Harvey Institute, writer, teacher, all around making the field of psycho-therapy better Doug Braun-Harvey. We cover the distance around how therapists can feel icky about sex because they're not immune to the cultural shame around sexuality. That shame impacts how we need to challenge the discomfort around sex and clients. We also talk about the 6 S's. Full show notes here.
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Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
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This show is for my helpers, for my fellow therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, RN’s, and ARNPs. First I want to say I am sorry. I am sorry that you did not learn in school about sexual health. I am sorry that as a result when your client’s or patient’s bring up these issues it often leads to discomfort, feeling like an imposter, or numerous other feelings you were not trained to understand and tackle within yourself. Your education missed the mark on this shit! Full show notes here.
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Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
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Dr. Eric Sprankle joins us today to talk about religious shame around sex and pleasure. It's an amazing conversation talking about how to dismantled the shaming system and promote a comprehensive sex education. Find the full show notes here.
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Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Susan joins us again today to talk about predicted sex trends of 2020! Get ready to read the tea leaves and join us on a wild ride of figuring out what’s going to be hot this year! Full show notes here.
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Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Today Erika talks with the wonderful Jeff Abraham, badass CEO of Absorption Pharmaceuticals, and we’re talking about premature ejaculation. Promescent is developed by urologists, recommended by thousands, used by millions. Whether it’s premature ejaculation, a partner that’s slow to climax, or just the pride of endurance, everyone wants to last longer in bed. Full show notes here.
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Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Erika brings back Abbie Rolf to talk about why the words we use to describe each other, our genitals, and much more have a lot of meaning. We talk about how the Trans community is especially affected by the evolution in language around sexuality. Let’s talk about common words around genitalia! Full show notes here.
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