Love, Lust and Laughter - 07.26.22

<p style="font-weight:400;">Funny, Irreverent, Intelligent Sex Educator and Author Of Guide To Getting It On</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Dr. Diana welcomed Dr. Paul Joannides, the author of <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Getting-Paul-Joannides-dp-188553504X/dp/188553504X/'>Guide to Getting It On</a>, now in its 10th edition. This is what Dr. Diana wrote in her book <a href='https://www.amazon.com/Love-Time-Corona-Therapist-Quarantine/dp/0932898998/'>Love in the Time of Corona</a>, Chapter 8 – Learn More About Sex: “Guide to Getting It On is the first book I recommend to my clients. It’s possibly the best book ever written about sex. This comprehensive book is a fun read, filled with entertaining illustrations and detailed, hands-on information about all kinds of sexual practices … Rolling Stone Magazine called it “the only sex manual you’ll ever need!”</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">Dr. Paul has great blogs on his website <a href='http://www.guidetogettingiton.com/'>www.GuideToGettingItOn.com</a> and <a href='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/paul-joannides-psyd'>Psychology Today</a>. He asks two questions in his blog <a href='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-it/201408/redefining-sex-education'>Redefining Sex Education</a>: “How do we deliver sex education to today’s teens and young adults on their turf and in ways they consume information? And, how do we make sex education effective for people whose main source of sex education is porn? It’s true, sex education today needs to help with the distortions of porn.”</p> <p style="font-weight:400;"> </p> <p style="font-weight:400;">A huge obstacle to any sex educator is that they are often not allowed to discuss sexual pleasure.  Dr. Paul laments that there is also no talk about women’s orgasms, and the importance of learning to tell a partner what feels good and what doesn’t. He warns that if we don’t make pleasure the cornerstone of sex education, nobody is going