S7 E5: Stop faking orgasms and fix your sex life with Dr Karen Gurney

In this episode Dr Hazel is joined by Dr Karen Gurney a clinical psychologist and psychosexologist. Karen is the Lead Psychologist for a busy central London NHS clinic specialising in sexual wellbeing. She is also director of The Havelock Clinic, an independent multidisciplinary sexual problems service. As part of her mission to educate, inform and challenge widely held ideas that harm people’s sex lives she did her first TEDx talk and wrote the bestselling ‘Mind The Gap: the truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life’ in 2020. She is passionate about translating sex science outside of the therapy room and uses her Instagram platform @thesexdoctor and online workshops to reach a wider audience.

This episode covers:
- Why is sex still taboo?
- How much sex is normal?
- Female pleasure and the orgasm gap
- Faking orgasms are doing you a disservice
- The sex drive myth
- Masturbation and sex toys help not hinder sex
- Using mindfulness for better sex
- The secret sauce to a good sex life in the long term

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