Episode 5

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Published on:

6th Mar 2024

Women Are Not Complicated

In this episode...

Jamie and his more educated half, Dr. Erika explore whether women are complicated or not and how to know if you are good in bed. They also give important advice about penis' including how to get it up, keep it it up and finish well into old age. We also find out the last time Erika touched a penis and vagina and what the best part of getting syphilis is.

Chapters

00:00 - How do I know if I'm good in bed?

02:00 - Women are NOT complicated.

04:25 - Percentage of people that orgasm based on partner differences.

06:28 - It's tough being a bisexual.

08:00 - One-night stands.

09:45 - Is all night sex good or bad?

10:35 - Why Jamie was bad in bed.

13:17 - Orgasm is an achievement.

13:55 - Reasons patients don't have sex.

16:20 - Get it up, keep it up, finish it up.

19:00 - Patients lie about their dicks.

20:57 - Last time Erika touched a penis or vagina.

23:14 - What is murkin and how to know if a woman is a prostitute.

27:45 - The best part of getting syphilis.

28:12 - On the next Afraid to Ask... 

About the Podcast

Comedian Jamie Lissow and his smarter half Dr. Erika answer all kinds of medical, dating, sex, divorce, questions some might be afraid to ask. Listen & subscribe for prescriptions and punchlines.

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Transcript
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hello there boyfriend how are you this fine day

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I'm really good

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is it working

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yes excellent

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let's not touch shit

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I'm afraid to ask but I have a great question

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I don't even know what I was gonna say

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I'm so disturbed right now

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we're back it's afraid to ask

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I got a question for you Doctor Erica oh

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let me have it so oh

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every question we've had so far

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it was very hot

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I thought you said that wasn't trying to be

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it really threw me

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I like perked up

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I was like playing on my phone

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I was like oh

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medical stuff

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let's go I wasn't well

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now you're like

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let me have it

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I didn't mean it like that

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you took it that way

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so every question when we started this podcast

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I said to you

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we're gonna ask questions from people

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I'm gonna put out a tweet or on Instagram

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I'm gonna say

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what are your questions for my girlfriend

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Doctor Erica

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we'd love to answer them

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any question you've ever been afraid to ask

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since then we've done many episodes

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and every single question has been

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from a friend of mine

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there's no shortage of questions you know

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my friend asked me what to ask you what he goes

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how do I know I'm good and better

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not how do I know if I'm good or bad in bed what

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why does your friend want your girlfriend to answer

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that because you're a doctor

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not just because

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well how am I

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I'm not a in bed sex person

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wait you're right yeah

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he asked if you would haha

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no I don't even

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I mean sometimes when I

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back in the day

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I would like to admit something to you

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I feel like I'm not horrible in bed

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but I feel like there was a time

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especially when we're younger

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like I remember a time where

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I remember a time where the girl wouldn't even come

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and by that I mean show up

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like I was just all alone

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but I remember a time not even realizing that

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pleasuring a girl

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of course pleasuring a girl

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but I never

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it's you know

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it's for you

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women are complicated Erica

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no and guys hurry and especially when they're

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we've been over this

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is that offensive yes

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what's offensive

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that I said women are not complicated but

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sexually why sexually men would you let me just

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would you agree sexually men are simple

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would you agree that a man is

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it's a simple situation

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like sometimes I'll be at a

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I've gone to a sex store before and they go oh

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for for his pleasure

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like oh special sexy cream

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you can rub it on her

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and I'm like

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just touch my peanut

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you don't I don't need that special 20 dollar ointment

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maybe it's because men in general

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don't spend enough effort or energy or care

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to make sex pleasurable for their partner

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what would make you think they would

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they would need to spend an extra time

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because women are

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because they're selfish

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and they expect just to get off themselves

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no I'm not saying it's not worth the time

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I'm so I don't want to come like

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I'm just saying that it might take more time

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like you're saying men won't take the time

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women don't have to take the time

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I'm not I'm not saying this is a bad or good thing

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with a woman

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you just touch the penis it's over

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a man should in fact

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it's not over

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a man should in fact take the time

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but I'm saying it's a little more complicated

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right I think it's an associate degree verse

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like an NBA it's

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it's gonna take a little

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you have to you have to be invested

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women's anatomy hasn't changed

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seems like it that one thing moves around

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you know what I'm

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I don't even wanna

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I'm you're actually pissing me off

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oh I'm sorry

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I'm sorry you pissed my dog off too

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she's also female but do you

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I think we should

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I don't think we're disagreeing

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I think that every woman deserves to be

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I think every woman

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deserves to be satisfied in the bedroom

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I think some guys don't know what they're doing

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and they're not trying to be assholes

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I think some of them are self serving

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and it excited to get off themselves and don't care to

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then reciprocate for their partner

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and that's what I find infuriating

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I agree with that too

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I think some are

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some aren't though

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I think some guys just don't know yes

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this is a generalization

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but what I don't like is how many times I have heard

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women are so complicated or oh

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I couldn't get girl off cause she was so hard

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and how about you don't know what the fuck you're doing

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yeah and I have proof of that okay yeah

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they're honestly you

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you ready for this yeah okay

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so there's a study by Indiana University

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Chapman University and Claremont Graduate University

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can I pause you for a second

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what I fucking believe you and I know you're right

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before the study

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so this is back in 2,017

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so they study the proportion of people

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who usually orgasm

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based on the partner they were with okay

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so heterosexual women right

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how often do you think they orgasmed with sex

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per percentage wise

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percentage wise

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I

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I would have to say 100 if it's with me oh

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you mean in general

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oh my god in general well

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that's another problem I would say a okay

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I would say a third 30 33.3% 65%

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which is actually I believe yeah

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per event or in general with his partner

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that seems high to me yeah

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agree agree agree

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but this is what's interesting

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what was the percentage of lesbian

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people who reported orgasming with sex

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186 not even 86

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21% increase

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I'm angry at the 14% of women that were like

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I know how to do this and I'm not just not gonna

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the lesbian that doesn't let have her partner orgasm

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oh my gosh you're mad at the other woman

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not the man

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that's interesting

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who couldn't do it 21% even

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but she knows

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I'm just saying like

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I'm just saying in the case of the guy

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we don't know if he knows what he's doing

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he might be an asshole

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he might just not be well versed in the 21% discrepancy

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with a male partner versus a female partner yeah

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do you think they also interviewed bisexual women

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nice and part of this well

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part of the argument was that

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I don't know you threw me with

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I don't know why I made that noise

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so bisexual means just to be clear

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this is somebody who bisexual

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this is someone that pays for sex

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no it's a BI

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I'm a it's a person that's with

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a bisexual woman would be with a man or a woman

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that fascinates me

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you wish how hard it would be

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to have to look at everyone's asses they walked by

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so bisexual women were 66% close to heterosexual women

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bisexual men 88% wow gay men

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hundred and ten 89%

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interesting

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here you go ready

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the proportion of people who usually orgasms from sex

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heterosexual male

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now remember

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heterosexual female was 65% right

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what percentage of heterosexual males

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reported orgasming every time of sex

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this is high to be high 90s 95% 95 30% difference

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it's not fair

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I don't want not just is it not fair

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it's something that we need to talk about okay

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it's problematic

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I would like to apologize

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it's also expected that women are difficult

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they're complicated

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it's harder to have them achieve orgasm

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if you have a partner who really cares

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and we actually a Simon

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Society a standard where like both genders matter

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there wouldn't be a 30% discrepancy

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I'll bet I have something that's not in your study

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that's true

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I'll bet if we went one night stand

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I would say heterosexual

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man orgasming close to 100% of the time

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heterosexual woman were so low

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because the guy has nothing

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he doesn't know if he's ever gonna see her again

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so he's just like

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you know what

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Andy doesn't know her body

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so he's like yeah

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but relationship

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I feel like higher chance cause he's trying to

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cause he's gonna see her see her again

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but he he would wanna learn and and satisfy her yes

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well actually that ties into the study too

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they found a very strong correlation with the

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higher instances of oral sex

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or the higher instances of reported orgasms

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and more satisfying sex as far as

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a clear pattern

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but there was only one

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demographic where oral sex did not change

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their rate of orgasming

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women heterosexual men

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so the guys still they're like hey

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whatever you I'm in it's gonna happen

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that makes perfect sense to me

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you know what I used to think

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and I'm just saying I'm ignorant

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when I said women were complicated

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uh I didn't mean that as a as an insult in any way

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I meant like it might be harder for a guy to

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he should learn what to do

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but it might be harder

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I'll be honest with you

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I thought that having sex with a woman

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just regular old it's going in there

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it's coming out of there

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here comes again

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that she loved that and that might be good enough what

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just regular sex in there out there

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I thought that a girl might go like

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I loved that

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you don't think so

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my friend yeah yeah

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who's older than me

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he goes always

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I had sex with her for so long last night and I said

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what do you get

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he goes with he goes

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everyone's kind of bragging about his night of sex

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because we had sex all night and I go

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what are you fucking doing all night

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there should be

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that'd be like saying I watched a movie for seven hours

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isn't there an end

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yeah let's end this thing

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I I'm like a 5K girl myself

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not really in it for the Marathon

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I love that

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I love that

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I don't need to be having sex and I reach over

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I grab a Gatorade

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no from some guy uh uh

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5K it's longer is not always better nope

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when it comes to now

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you know what though

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don't guys talk about sex with other guys like

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how would that have just now come up for the first time

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I think that's interesting

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well that he thought this was like a stamina thing

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like a bragging right

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when really it's kind of like a hmm

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maybe it didn't

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you didn't do what you should have done

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I was I was gonna say this something before I met you

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I don't think I was very good in bed

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and I think what

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what I think what I was

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what might have been perceived as sometimes selfish

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but I think that came from a lack of communication

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or uh I didn't have sex a lot though

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that was part of it too

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there's not a lot of sex

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hold on hold on

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what I'm so perplexed by this entire thing

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how did I suddenly make you good in bed

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communication

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who said your

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oh fuck hmm

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I'll just I'll edit out those noises I just made

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this is a very subjective statement

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you personally did not feel

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good as a sexual partner until me

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why is that

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because I compliment you

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or because you genuinely didn't

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what are you using as your metric

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she would boo afterwards oh no she

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she would um

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my my sex was a lot like my comedy shows nobody came

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nobody came no

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in all honesty

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nobody's coming

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that's funny

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in all honesty

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it was a combination of what you just said

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I never got

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I'll be honest with you

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when I was in my big

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when I was married

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I never got

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I don't think I got a lot of positive reinforcement

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okay I don't think I got a lot of like

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wow you got that TV show

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you're doing great

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even that stuff

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everything felt like

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I feel like I didn't get a lot of support

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and then it was also

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yes I don't remember ever talking about how it went sex

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I don't remember ever going like

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that was good or that was

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you and I have had discussions early on

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where we were both like

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we got to work on this

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this needs a little bit of work

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right I've never had bad sex with you though

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that's why it surprised me

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I didn't feel like you

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like we're like most improved

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yeah not I was never bad

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but I feel like the level of communication

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yeah that you have makes me

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I was like oh jeez

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then that makes it so much better

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and so that's why I was bad

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and then also just

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I guess just not whatever

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not doing a lot

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but that's all

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so you're saying

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I think women should

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it should happen every time for them right

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it should should that that percentage should go higher

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yeah do you think a lot of guys are like

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we don't have that kind of time

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like it's is it cause it takes longer

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sometimes it takes quite a while for a man to achieve

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orgasm true

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doesn't even seem like an achievement to me

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I appreciate that verbiage

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I feel like it's so easy

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you're right

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sometimes it does take a little while

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good point yeah

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you're right

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and so I'm just trying to say

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what are we learning from this

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we're learning that guys have to be less selfish

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yeah that's what I would say

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this is a generalization

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this does not go for everyone

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but in my experience in women's health

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and what I hear day in and day out is

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I have guilt that I don't have sex with my partner

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I am not that's strong of a sex drive of a woman

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there's something wrong with me

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and then I asked him

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why don't you wanna have sex

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like do you masturbate yeah

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why don't you wanna have sex

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what doesn't feel good

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or it hurts

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or he doesn't do anything that feels good

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I've dry he never stimulates me to where I want to have

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penetrative sex

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well that what the fuck

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then no wonder you don't have a sex drive

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sex isn't good

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your partner is not meeting your needs

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that's problematic

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yeah so yeah

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when I hear that a lot

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and truthfully

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I hear it every day almost

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if I really talk about

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if I have a female coming in about sexual complaints

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yeah it's usually that

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the guilt that they have

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that they don't wanna have sex

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not the sex sucks

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I think that's very interesting

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I've never had a patient

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a male patient come in and say

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I feel really guilty

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that I don't want to have sex with my wife enough

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they will say that

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but when I follow up that they don't want to yeah

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they're not uh

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they don't have a strong libido

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yeah I do the same exact questions

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well what is

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how is your sex life

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how do you feel

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how are your orgasms

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are you having a difficult time with erection

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ejaculation or both

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I've never heard him

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heard a man once say

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well the sex with my wife is bad

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she doesn't fulfill me like I like

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she doesn't do things to me that feel good

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so it hurts

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it actually hurts me

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so I don't wanna have sex

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or it doesn't arouse me

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I don't think I'm saying anything

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controversial by saying you're very attractive

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and sometimes when I see you at work

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and I see you dressed up in your doctor scrubs

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it's even more so

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have you ever had a guy come in and say

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I can't get an erection

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and then you're like

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what is that yeah

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right in which you have

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really yeah

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like a man got in it

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cause I was saying it not even as a joke

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like it's not that your penis doesn't work

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it's where your mind's at

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yes well that's actually

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something that I do have um

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it is a difficult conversation

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it's very hard for a male patient

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to open up to me more than my female patients about sex

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you know what else is really hard

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my dick gross

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so I do talk to them about

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um ah sorry

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when a guy says

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I cannot achieve or

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maintain an erection achieve

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I get it now medically

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achieve is mean

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we get it up there like I put

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I put up a tent correct

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maintain is like hey

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if there's a

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can it stay up all night

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yeah okay or have

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successful ejaculation right

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cause there's three different steps that

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men struggle with

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not always all of them

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get it up keep it up

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finish it up right

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so then I ask them well

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what happens when you masturbate

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can you masturbate

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yeah and they go

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yeah of course

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and it's never dawned on them

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but that's proud that the

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that's the very thing

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it's the very thing that's messing it up

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so when I do have a patient

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and you have to be very

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very specific about this

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if you have a patient who has a hard time achieving

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sorry that's the word

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that's just what we use as doctors

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I like it if you have a patient

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who has a difficult time getting an erection

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yep and they say

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I can't ever get an erection

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then we look at systemic problems

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complications with diabetes

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coronary artery

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or other peripheral vascular disease

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I should say um

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problems with hyper and hypotension okay

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you have to look at a systemic work up of why right

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perhaps they have some type of peripheral

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neuropathic ailment

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maybe their porn is not good enough

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I'm just kind of chiming in

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that's the other thing though

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if they can have an erection

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with themselves

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they can have an orgasm

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but with their partner they can't

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we know it's a

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relationship thing

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and a lot of them look at me like

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oh holy shit

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I never thought of that

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and that's when you have to work on it

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and a lot of times

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patients it

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it just comes down to um

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usually major depressive disorder

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generalized anxiety disorder

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do I go here

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some Viagra

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or do I sell it

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cause the Viagra

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seems like we're not getting to the root of this thing

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no you have to treat the actual underlying

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problem and not just give them a band aid

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hmm right cause there's probably a larger issue at hand

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yeah that's tough though

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but then you two try to foster a better

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relationship

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and then it's really cool to have a patient

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come back and be like

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oh my God my sex life is amazing

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does that happen

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yeah well that's good

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what do they go to therapy

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they try to

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maybe they quit the porn

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well we either fix the underlying etiology

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which is great

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because it can sometimes be a life saving

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measure if they have uncontrolled diabetes

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and didn't even know about it

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so that's two birds

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one stone or we do

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I work on uh

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counseling or marriage

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therapy or something to help in that department

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and it's really

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cool to see people come on the other side

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happy successful

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and have great sex lives problems

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we don't talk about it

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yeah men in

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particular are very embarrassed

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to share with me that

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they have a hard time with that

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I'm imagine

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they are yeah

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I would rather see a me

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I think I'd rather see a male doctor

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I don't see anybody

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I don't want to talk about

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anybody yeah

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because then your partner

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would wonder

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was it them

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do you do you have people say

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I have a question for a friend

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but they can't really

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because you can't prescribe

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medicine for said friend

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and so um do

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you have the questions

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all the time

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and I also get a lot of the

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I'm coming in for a cough

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and then my secretary

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rooms that are

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get some ready

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and then my Ma grabs them

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and they also say yep

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I still have that call

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and I prep the chart

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and I'm ready to like

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do an X ray

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or get primary function test or

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I don't know

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do some type of sorometry

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right to check their lung function

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and then they're like

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oh it's not my lungs

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it's my dick

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oh yeah yeah

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and it's difficult

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because I prep the whole thing

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I get ready

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and then I have

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one minute left

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because I've already gotten everything

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ready to treat

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a lung condition

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and work up

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and look in their history for what I need to do

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and it has nothing to do with that

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you may not know this

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as a doctor

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I understand that frustration that you have

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I'll bet those appointments

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might even take a longer

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cause you prep

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for something different

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as a man a general rule is

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you wanna tell as few people as possible

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that your dick doesn't work

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yeah but not

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with a doctor's office

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you have to be trans

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but you don't wanna tell

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the lady at the front

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you tell the guy in the way

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you're sitting in the waiting room

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and they come out and go

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hey whoever

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Jim whose dick

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doesn't work

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come on back

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I'll give you one first

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bring your limp dick

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Jim and your jacket

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I'll give you a free pass there

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but that's also gives me how much appointment

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time I have to set aside for each patient

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so if they lie from the beginning and say something

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I might only give them 10 minutes

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when they really need a half an hour

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yeah how long you give her

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my dick don't work

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how much time am I getting

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well it really depends on the path of physiology

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everybody's different

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and that's the tricky part

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how do you fix that

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how do you I just told you

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you don't you don't touch it though do you

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no you just ask

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I'm a professional

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I'm not to be

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I know you know way more than me

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but I feel like touching it might fix it Jamie

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I'm just saying we could control over those variables

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if you touch it and it works

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we got we got underlying problems

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I'm a poor certified physician

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there's no touchy

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touchy yeah

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well there is

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what do you mean

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when's the last time you touched a penis

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that wasn't mine

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honestly yes

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it's been a while

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okay what about Vagina oh 2 days ago wow

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okay what no

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cause you're mainly it's more women stuff yeah

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I do women stuff

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oh thank God

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uh no I mean thousands

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mm hmm thousands

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mm men probably fewer than

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fewer than a couple hundred probably

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okay with residency and everything wow

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well I did a whole month of urology

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I mean that's all you did right

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but now maybe one male genital exam every couple months

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okay I do a lot more rectal exams than general exams

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wow you ever see a

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you ever see you ever see like a

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a vagina and you just want to go like

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fuck this job yeah yes

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yeah some people well

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you have to also remember

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I'm not always doing just screening exams right

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and not everyone showers

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yes I was just thinking about that

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how sometimes people don't shower

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they'll come see me at the end of the day and it's

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it's unfortunate so yes

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it's a difficult job and I have to treat it with tact

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if someone has a 9 to 5

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like to see that vagina before 9

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if you know what I'm saying

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I will say this

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I'm a human

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and my nose is not immune to horrendous odors or

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violent car crash scenes in my office

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and unfortunately

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do you think that I like the fact that people shave now

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and that's a trend

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yeah back in the day

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people didn't shave

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that had to be a lot more cause you're talking about

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it's like wearing a winter coat and working all day

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you know what I'm saying

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there's some warmth in there

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I also think pornography used to have

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they used to be like the

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the big bush

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which I'm I'm glad we kind of got out of that fit

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I always felt like pornography

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when there's like a big bush

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it's like when you

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have you ever gone to the zoo with your

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with your friends and um

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all the animals are hiding behind rocks

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oh my God and you go

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where's the polar bear

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and they always find that rock and you go

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maybe you shouldn't put a polar bear sized rock

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in the polar bear exhibit

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do you know what a Merkin is

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type in no I'm a

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I'm an American type it in

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m U R K I N

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it sounds like what a Donald Trump supporter

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calls themselves oh boy

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I'm gonna wait for this then

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m U R K I N

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I think so or maybe it's m E R and I'm googling it yeah

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yeah or I'm guessing uh

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Merkin Merkin Merkin

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Son of a bitch

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what did you make me

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this is now in my internet history

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I'm looking at a picture of yeah

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I'm looking at a picture of what looks like

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let me guess

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it's an old man holding a case right

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it's like a black and white or a sepia

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brown and white one no

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let me hit images

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I see a triangular yeah

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fur I don't see a man with a case

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are you suggesting that

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there's a man that used to sell these door to door

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he's got a case like watches

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okay because these are essentially pubic

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they're two pays wigs

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they're two pays for a vulva son of a bitch

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they found that it was more elegant

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more attractive

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and also concealed

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in a fashion that maybe even normal people care didn't

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this is incredible

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this was back

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this is a while ago

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I want to say over

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over a century ago

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I don't know if it gives you the date on there

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can I tell you what it says on Wikipedia

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hmm so um Merkin uh

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is a woman's pubic wig worn for nude stage appearances

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and by women originally after shaving

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their pubic hair to eliminate lice yes

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or for other reasons

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I know some of those reasons

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and now often used for a fashion reason

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I'm trying to find

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when these were popular

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oh geez 16 17 yeah

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I was gonna say it was a long time ago it was um

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a lot of it

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if it had to do with prostitution

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yeah and eliminating

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hair to eliminate lice was a very real thing

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but to start

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the woman to be attractive

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they didn't find shaving attractive

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because that was almost like

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you were getting rid of the bad stuff back then

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so gotcha the lice

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so they use this as a concealment

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and found it to be attractive

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now on the contrary

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I actually do prefer

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and it's it's to each their own

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but for cleanliness reasons

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I think that some type of grooming is his helpful

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for patients

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whenever I'm with a girl and um

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oh God and she's like uh yeah

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I like to grow it

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I like to grow it

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I really go I saw lice

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there's a nice guy we better

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you know how to get

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get rid of those

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sorry um

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wow it would work

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these others like I happen to have a razor right here

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my lice prevention kit that I brought with me

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if you want me to

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um this happened in the uh 1450s

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I told you it was a long time ago

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I said over a century

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I guess I was off

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you're so disappointed in me right now well

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so I think the important thing is hygiene

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and back then people like never took showers yeah

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they freaking had you know

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that's why guys had like

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this little crew chief handkerchief thingies and why

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pockets for to blow their nose

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so like an often times yeah

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but also they would sent it with Cologne and perfume

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and walking past when women would have them as well

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they would hold it to their noses

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so they didn't smell the people walking past really

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it was a common belief that you had normal

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essential oils in your body that were protective

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for immunological reasons

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and also for warding off any pathogens

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viruses the plague

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scary stuff

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and if you wash off that

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you're washing off your health

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so people very rarely bathed

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and they would have a scented garment

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to actually not have to smell the other person

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can you imagine having sex with someone who like

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smell so bad

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you had to have like

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a fucking handkerchief with Cologne on it

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cause they oh

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were stinky

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I'll still do it

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but that is disgusting no

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no I'm surprised that we just didn't like

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fall off the face of the earth

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yeah yeah yeah

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this um it also says

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the Merkin was sometimes used

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this is just absolutely horrible

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the Merkin was sometimes used by sex workers

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who would wear the Merkin to cover up

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signs of a disease

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such as syphilis

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oh yeah cause you figure

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can you imagine that

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that's why whenever I'm with

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a sex worker and they have pubic hair

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I tug on it oh my God

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I give it a tug

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is this attached

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I was with a sex worker once

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stop her pubic hair

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there was a receipt stable to it I go hey

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that's not real

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there's a tag on there

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you got what are you trying to hide

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is syphilis one of those

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uh oh my God

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is it curable

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is syphilis curable

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yes is it mm hmm

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actually with a very common um

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antibiotic um

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a form of penicillin can actually help treat that

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the problem is there's um

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four stages of syphilis

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hopefully she can get like a rash

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you know the first stage is the best

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getting it right Jamie

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coming up on the next episode of afraid to ask

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what is the dirtiest part of a hotel room

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including all the items

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oh I know this

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I know this

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I watched the segment on it

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I think I do

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you have the answers

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I mean I think I know it

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without looking out

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you have like a top

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like three or four

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I'm gonna look it up

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but we did this I know it

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I know it I know it

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you know what

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the no wash movement started with what hair

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hair oh what part of your body that washing hair

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so not clothes but hair well okay

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so I have thoughts on that though

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because a lot of people overwash their hair

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yeah so there actually is like a sweet spot

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you know that is yeah

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sometimes it's hard to find a sweet spot on the line

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sometimes

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Afraid to Ask
Prescriptions from the Doctor. Punchlines from the Comedian.
Comedian Jamie Lissow and his smarter half Dr. Erika answer all kinds of medical, dating, sex, divorce, questions some might be afraid to ask. Listen & subscribe for prescriptions and punchlines.

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Jamie Lissow

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Actor and comedian Jamie Lissow is currently a regular weekly guest on the #1 rated late night talk show, Gutfeld! on Fox. Jamie is best known for his starring role in two seasons of the Netflix Original Series “Real Rob”, alongside SNL alums Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, Norm MacDonald and David Spade; a show Jamie co-wrote and co-produced.

Jamie has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show, Last Comic Standing, has his own half hour Comedy Central special and a Dry Bar Comedy Special with over 20 Million views. Jamie recently wrapped his first movie, Daddy Daughter Trip, where he appears alongside John Cleese, Rob Schneider, and Micheal Bublé - a movie he co-wrote and produced.

Jamie is currently working on the feature film, The Animal 2, for Fox/Tubi and continues to headline comedy clubs across the country.

Erika Aragona

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Dr. Erika, DO, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who focuses on Women's Health and Wellness. Her clinical practice is almost exclusively female-based, and she regularly educates on contraception, hormone replacement therapy, libido and sexual health. She is an associate professor at Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she lectures on Women's Health, and she serves as a physician expert consultant and writer for several female-based health and wellness companies.