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Our Better Half

Sexologist Dr. Jane Fleishman and sex therapist Dr. Rosara Torrisi break down the beauty of human sexuality in the latter half of life -- also known as the better half.

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138: Our Valentine's gift to you!

Our Better Half ·

2022/02/13

Dr. Rosara Torrisi has always loved to talk with clients about sex toys and sexual health aides. Then, in January of 2021, she opened That Drawer, an eritic boutique, sexual health supply and gender expression gear shop. Listen in as Rosara talks with her co-host Dr. Jane Fleishman about the wonderful world of sex toys that will warm you up this winter– just in time for Valentine’s Day! In this episode, we talk about the following products and people: The luxurious Sensory Brush from Sexual

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137: Bisexuality: Community and Visibility

Our Better Half ·

2022/01/30

Our guests today are two extraordinary people who have tackled the issues of bisexuality, biphobia, and bi-visibility: Lani Ka’ahumanu and Dr. Sarah Jen. Lani was the strategic political architect of the early bisexual movement in the US and co-editor of the acclaimed, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out. Dr. Sarah Jen is a researcher who focuses on older adults and bisexuality. It’s a fascinating conversation about history and current realities and we think you’ll really get a sense of the

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136: Somatic Sex Therapy: Healing the Whole Self

Our Better Half ·

2022/01/16

Lena Queen, our guest this week, is a clinical social worker and an intersectional LGBTQIA+ and poly supportive life coach, psychotherapist, and kink-aware sex therapist. She is interested in healing the erotic self through somatic sexology. She helps adolescents, individuals, couples, and others heal and improve their overall personal and sexual wellness. Her work has tremendous application to older adults. If you are interested in her beautiful perspective on healing the whole self through somatic

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27:40

135: Dr. Anne Katz: Staying Sexual with Cancer

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2022/01/02

Our guest this week is Dr. Anne Katz, a certified sexuality counselor and author of a multitude of books on cancer and sexuality. Her latest book, Woman Cancer Sex (2nd ed.), is an accessible and comprehensive resource for women living with and surviving cancer as they navigate sex and sexuality. Women who survive cancer remain sexual beings despite the challenges of cancer treatment, and they often have nowhere to go with their questions and concerns. This text interweaves stories from clinical

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134: A New Sexual Playground: Teaching Health...

Our Better Half ·

2021/12/19

Our guest today is Dr. Gretchen Frey. Her specialty is Obstetrics and Gynecology. She graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School in 1985 and fulfilled her residency at the University of Colorado in 1989. She was on the faculty as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She began her obstetrics and gynecology practice in Littleton, CO in 1989 and gradually became more interested in integrative medicine. She

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133: A Conversation with Michael Castleman

Our Better Half ·

2021/12/05

Our guest today is a journalist and sex writer, Michael Castleman. Michael has covered sexuality and sex therapy for 47 years. He is the world’s most popular sexuality writer. His twice-monthly blog on PsychologyToday.com, “All About Sex,” launched in 2009, has amassed more than 53 million views. The free Q&A site he has published since 2010, GreatSexGuidance.com, has attracted 2 million more. His two previous sexuality guides—Sexual Solutions (1980) and Great Sex (2004)—have sold more than 600,000

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132: Polyamory and the Bonding Project

Our Better Half ·

2021/11/07

Dr. Elisabeth “Eli” Sheff is a researcher, expert witness, coach, speaker, and educational consultant specializing in gender and sexual minority families, consensual non-monogamy, and kink/BDSM. Sheff is the foremost academic expert on polyamorous families with children, and her 20+ year Polyamorous Family Study is the only longitudinal study of poly families with children to date. Dr. Sheff co-chairs the Consensual Non Monogamies Legal Issues Team for the American Psychological Association,

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131: Moving Congregations toward Intentional and...

Our Better Half ·

2021/10/24

Rev. Michael J. Crumpler works as the LGBTQ and Multicultural Programs Director at the Unitarian Universalist Association and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Michael lives in Harlem and is very active in social justice ministry at the historic Judson Memorial Church of New York City, where he served as President of the Board, 2016-2018. Michael is most passionate about intersectional ministry centered in blackness, queerness, HIV/AIDS, economic justice, and emotional

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130: Bisexuality and the Fluidity of Attraction

Our Better Half ·

2021/10/10

Our guest this week is Terri Clark, an accomplished public health advocate with over 30 years of experience working on issues that advance the field of sexuality and aging, including the sexual health of older adults and working with aging services providers to insure inclusive, responsive services for LGBTQ older adult communities. Terri is co-author/editor of 25 Great Lesson Plans about Sexual Orientation and the expanded version, Orientation: Teaching about Identity, Attraction and Behavior. She

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129: Occupational Therapists Talking About Pleasure

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2021/10/03

Dr. Kathryn Ellis frames conversations about sexual pleasure with candor. She is a PhD in Occupational Therapy and an AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor. She got her start at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where she developed the Occupational Therapy Sexuality and Intimacy Clinic and her book is about giving hope to wounded veterans. You can find out more about Dr. Ellis at her website and you can order her book, Sex and Intimacy for Wounded Veterans: A Guide to Embracing

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128: DESIRE-ABILITY: Beyond the Binary

Our Better Half ·

2021/09/12

Our guest this week, Lucie Fielding (she/they), is a sexuality educator and resident in counseling in Charlottesville, Virginia. They have an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute as well as a PhD in French from Northwestern University. Their background in literature attunes them to ways narrative and image impact our embodied sexualities. She talks about the “magically multi-orgasmic polymorphously perverse playground of wonder" and “the off label uses of our bodies". She

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127: Season 7 Trailer

Our Better Half ·

2021/08/22

Dear Listeners, We are delighted to share that Our Better Half will be returning this September for our seventh season! Big shout-out to our sponsors for making this possible, and to you, listeners, for your ongoing support. In this trailer, hosts Dr. Jane Fleishman and Dr. Rosara Torrisi discuss some of the things they’re looking forward to this fall. By the way, with six seasons under our belts, Our Better Half has published over 120 episodes, and they are all available for free through

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126: End-Of-Year Wrap Up

Our Better Half ·

2021/08/10

Dear Listeners: This week we offer you a quick episode as we wrap up this season of the podcast. And what a season it's been! Rosara and Jane recall their conversations with Dr. David Whitehead, Dr. Peter Kanaris, Kelly Gordon, Dr. Lee Phillips, Dr. Imani Woody, Joan Price and Jessica Drake, Cyndi Darnell, and give thanks to their new co-hosts, Dr. Jayleen Galarza and Dr. Sabitha Pillai-Friedman. If you haven't heard these episodes yet, feel free to take a listen as we take a much-needed hiatus

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125: Magia Sexual/Sex Magick

Our Better Half ·

2021/06/27

When Wildilisa Silverman talks about sex magick, she says it’s “using the energy of the erotic to make your hopes and desires into a reality. “ She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received her MFT from Hofstra University. She is passionate about helping others live the life they deserve. Her practice focuses on the various needs of her clients–through individual, couples, relationship and family therapy. She is also a native Spanish-speaker and has experience working with unique

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124: Come-Passion

Our Better Half ·

2021/06/13

Our guest today is Greg Dawson, a licensed clinical social worker who works at the Dallas VA as a case manager and therapist treating veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He treats veterans, family members, older adults, sex offenders, people with disabilities. He also works as a sex therapist at CAYA (which stands for Come As You Are), a sex therapy based private practice. He does education through Come-passion, an education and sexual expression site for all genders, cultures, and races

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123: Managing Pelvic Pain: A Message of Hope

Our Better Half ·

2021/05/30

Dr. Sonia Bahlani is one of the world's leading pelvic pain medicine specialists. She graduated magna cum laude from her undergraduate school and then went on to receive her Doctor of Medicine degree from the Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine. She completed her residency in OB/GYN at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and then went on to a prestigious fellowship at the Smith Institute for Urology. Sonia is invited to present at many different conferences and has published

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122: BIPOC Sex Ed: Meeting Folks Where They Are

Our Better Half ·

2021/05/16

Gregory C. Carrow-Boyd is a Unitarian Universalist Master Credentialed Religious Educator, Aspirant for ministry, and doctoral student at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Greg also works as the Coordinator for More Than Sex-Ed, a Greater LA-based sexuality education collective that brings comprehensive sexuality education curricula and justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and

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121: Serving LGBTQ/SGL Elders

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2021/05/02

Dr. Imani Woody is the founding director and CEO of Mary’s House for Older Adults, Inc. She has a Ph.D. in Human Services, specializing in non-profit management. Dr. Imani has been an advocate of women, people of color and LGBT/Same Gender Loving issues for more than 20 years. Dr. Woody is a member of the National LGBT Elder Housing Initiative, and presented on LGBT housing issues at the White House. She is currently the Executive Director of Mary’s House for Older Adults, an LGBTQ-SGL friendly

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120: Pelvic Health as Sexual Health

Our Better Half ·

2021/04/18

Our guest today is Dr. Jessica Zager, a Doctor of pelvic health physical therapy, a sex counselor, and sexuality educator. As one of five physical therapists worldwide with an AASECT certification in sex counseling, she is uniquely equipped to help her patients transcend their sexual and/or pelvic dysfunction by taking into consideration their whole selves, be it ambitions, body, mind, spirit, or relationship(s). Her approach is sex positive, trauma-informed, kink-aware, LGTBQIA+ affirming,

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119: Intersection of Sexualities and Disabilities

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2021/04/04

Kelly Gordon is a 31-year old entrepreneur and consultant based in the West Midlands, UK. She has Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 3 which is a genetic disability -- meaning that she uses an electric wheelchair to get around. Kelly is currently working with Hot Octopuss as their disability lead and is creating an inclusive space that gives advice and sells products to make sex easier and more exciting for those with limited mobility and disabilities. If you want to reach out to her:

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