00:00:00 [Taylor Johnson]
Hello, friend, and welcome to this episode, which is a recording of the live call that I just led for any man who is interested in the upcoming Orgasmic Mastery course. The live call was an opportunity for men to ask me any questions about the course, any questions around whether or not it would be a good fit for them. And some really great conversation came up and I wanted to share it with you in this recording. We talked about how the course actually works. We talked about how much time you can expect to spend every week. We talked about how long it takes to actually experience some results. And we also talked about whether or not this course is just learning a bunch of techniques, or if we're actually working to create change on a fundamental, core, systemic upgrade level— which is what we're doing. But we get into some great conversation about that. If you are a man who's considering joining this upcoming course, take a little time with this episode, go for a walk, have a cup of tea. Maybe you're listening to this while you work out at the gym, but take a little time, feel into it, feel if it feels like a 'yes'

00:01:05 [Taylor Johnson]
 or a 'no'. Knowing that if you do join, it will be an investment, both, of course, of money, but also of your time and energy.

00:01:14 [Taylor Johnson]
 So make sure, through this episode and through looking at the course page, which I'll link to in the episode description, make sure this is something that feels like a yes for you. And if it is awesome, I would love to support you on this journey. And I would love for you to join the group of men who was already signed up, because there's some awesome guys in it. If you have any questions that are not answered in this Q &A or the course page linked to in the description, please feel free to shoot me an email and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. All right. Thanks for being here. Let's get into the recording. And we're going to start with Tom. Tom has a question. And I've got a whole list here. So, if you don't hit the main questions that I want to touch on, we'll touch on those eventually too. Welcome. Nice to meet you. Thanks for being here.

00:01:58 [SPEAKER_5]
 Yeah, nice to meet you too. I would just love to get a little more sense for time commitment, like a kind of...

00:02:08 [SPEAKER_5]
 Exercises and kind of coursework we might be doing during the weeks and I'm also trying to understand the I get that there are the live calls and the office hours and are are the kind of modules that released are they they're like pre-recorded and we kind of go at our own pace. So just trying to juggle that with some other kind of courses I'm taking.

00:02:30 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, that's a great question. Almost as if I planned to have you ask me that.

00:02:36 [Taylor Johnson]
 Thank you yeah I will say that um so how does the course work basic uh basic structural outline um yeah there we go let's make sure my video is pinned.

00:02:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 So the course consists of prerecorded modules that get released every week, except for the third week and the seventh week. Those are integration weeks because I learned that when I originally created this course, it was five weeks long and I jam packed everything into five weeks and it was just way too much. It was way too much. I was, this was about six years ago, and I was in the mindset of 'cram as much information and experience into as small a time as possible.' But I've learned that's not really how the nervous system works. So each week there's a set of practices, and the idea is you can do those practices anytime that works best for you within that week. You know, as long as you do the foundational practices each week, the live calls and the office hours are technically optional. I would love it if you could make as many live calls as possible. And we will do some practices each week on the live calls. But mainly you can do all this stuff in your own bedroom. And this is kind of why, I mean, this course exists for a couple of reasons.

00:03:52 [Taylor Johnson]
 One, because I want to share all the best stuff that I've learned that's helped me along the way. But two, because it's not the sort of thing where you can go into an extended retreat and try all this stuff. I'm having guys experiment with different masturbation techniques, combining breath work and movement and squeezing of different things like the pelvic floor and the lower abdomen and different practices that are important for you to do. In your own home, in your own life. So I'd say, probably.

00:04:22 [Taylor Johnson]
 Realistic time commitment. This is something I should actually calculate, you know, but four-ish hours a week, four to five hours a week spread out over the course of that week. The foundation of the practices are going to be practice self-pleasure sessions, practice masturbation sessions. And they're going to involve varying degrees of techniques that are going to build upon themselves over the 10 weeks. And then there are other things that come in as well. Like in the second week, there's a pelvic floor yoga sequence and there's sexual qigong as well. There's more advanced energetic practices as we go along.

00:04:58 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, I'll pause there. Does that more or less answer your question, or do you have a refining question you'd like to ask about it?

00:05:05 [SPEAKER_5]
 Maybe just a little. So the four hours ish is to do the practices. And then, in addition to that, there's a certain amount of time to receive what you're sharing in the module.

00:05:18 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. So if you think about it, the practice sessions I ask guys to do are 20 minutes each. So if you add 10 minutes of transition time, that's an hour and a half every week, right? Then there's a live call. So that's about an hour if you're able to do that or watch the recording. I put the recordings of the live calls in as audio as well. So some of them guys choose to listen to kind of like a podcast and you go on a walk and you listen to it. So that's, you got an hour and a half and you got another hour. So that's two and a half hours. There's probably somewhere between 30 to 45 minutes of content. In addition to that, like instructional conceptual each week.

00:06:04 [Taylor Johnson]
 And then there's different random practices that I have you do throughout the week as well, too. So that's my best guess at an amalgamation of the quantity of time.

00:06:13 [SPEAKER_5]
 Great. Yeah, thank you.

00:06:14 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah.

00:06:16 [Taylor Johnson]
 I'll also say that one of the intentions with the live calls is... to include each week a practice that you would have had to do on your own anyway to kind of merge those realms. But we're not going to be doing masturbation practice on the live calls.

00:06:33 [Taylor Johnson]
 It'll be some other practice, you know, like a breath. A breath, sort of thing, or visualization thing, or some kind of embodiment or movement to awaken or bring about a certain kind of physiological change.

00:06:46 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, thanks, Tom.

00:06:52 [Taylor Johnson]
 So...

00:06:54 [Taylor Johnson]
 At any point, if anyone has a question they would like to ask, there's this little react button down at the bottom and you can click it and then click the raise the hand icon and it will bring your hand up to the upper corner of my screen so I can see.

00:07:08 [Taylor Johnson]
 And I'll go to a second question that I got.

00:07:14 [Taylor Johnson]
 I always get some variation of this question, and I like to speak to it as well.

00:07:19 [Taylor Johnson]
 The question is, how does this course actually work to create change? And my intention of this has evolved over the years.

00:07:30 [Taylor Johnson]
 But basically, there are two different elements that are going to be happening. One, of course, we're going to be learning all kinds of techniques— techniques to do outside of sex, techniques to do during sex, techniques to do before sex and after sex, all kinds of techniques to layer in so you can be a more skilled and potent sexual partner. That's really important.

00:07:53 [Taylor Johnson]
 Problem a lot of guys run into when they learn a lot of these sexual techniques is they stack the sexual techniques on top of, we could call it an operating system, that isn't really optimized to be able to use those techniques to their highest potential.

00:08:09 [Taylor Johnson]
 So another undercurrent of this course is to create an actual deeper internal transformation for you. Changing your fundamental sexual operating system to be more open, to be able to use those techniques, to be able to experience more pleasure, right? So it's not going to be like a top-down kind of a thing. We're trying to go from a bottom-up change of who you are as a sexual being throughout the process. So one of the reflections I've gotten a lot throughout this course as it's happened over the years is guys will get to the end and they'll say something like, 'Wow, holy shit! I didn't expect that. I didn't think that. That's what I needed. I thought I was signing up for one thing, and I got like what I actually needed. You know, which was so much more.' That is talking about this sort of deeper personality, physiological, embodied nervous system growth that's going to be happening.

00:09:07 [Taylor Johnson]
 It's something I've been studying a lot of over the past bunch of years, too. And I'm really thrilled about and excited about exploring and continuing to deepen it in my own practice, too, and to bring to you. All right.

00:09:20 [Taylor Johnson]
 So, questions.

00:09:23 [Taylor Johnson]
 Anyone have a question?

00:09:26 [Taylor Johnson]
 Or a topic you'd like me to go into?

00:09:30 [Taylor Johnson]
 Mr. Bob.

00:09:32 [SPEAKER_8]
 Can you give me an idea? What's the office hours? What would that look like? The structure, the content of what kind of happens during an office hour session?

00:09:43 [Taylor Johnson]
 Great. Thanks for the question.

00:09:46 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, so office hour session, that's basically kind of like this in a sense. There's a time frame. Imagine I'm just sitting in an office, right? You could show up to that office and just ask me about what's going on in your sex life. What's going on? With the sexual technique that you're trying to use. What didn't go well with sex the night before, or self-pleasure the night before. And how can we workshop it? And then, depending on how many people show up, we'll have a certain amount of time to actually go into that and workshop it in the moment in real time. So we can have a conversation about it. Sometimes in office hours, I guide people through actual practices so they can feel and start to build that transformation. But it's a more casual thing. So for the office hours, I welcome guys to show up for 10 minutes if they want, or they can stay for the whole thing. It's really about whatever is going to be most useful for you. And sometimes you don't even want to come. Maybe you want to go on a hike or something. Maybe it's week two or week four, and there's this thing where you feel kind of stuck and you're like, 'I'd actually like some one-on-one support with this.'

00:10:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 I'm going to show up to the office hours and dive into it that way.

00:10:55 [SPEAKER_8]
 So, is the office hours done one-on-one or is it done in community?

00:10:59 [Taylor Johnson]
 It's done in community, but in a one-on-one sort of way within community. So kind of like you and I are having this exchange right now, it would be similar. There would be other guys in the room and we would all have the agreement of confidentiality and mutual support. but we would be having this conversation and the other men would be witnessing it too. And that's one of the really beautiful things about doing this course as a group of men. On the one hand, It can be really fucking edgy or vulnerable for guys to speak about sex, sexual challenges. I'm going to take these off. Sexual challenges, things that are hard, things that we're struggling with in front of other men. But the amazing thing is when we do that, we actually create a permission field for other men's nervous systems to relax and realize like, holy. whoa, I'm not the only one, you know? And we'll do some things where we'll ask, like, how many guys have ever had this happen to them? And you'll see half of the hands go up and there's this immediate like, 'Oh, phew, I'm not alone.'

00:12:01 [Taylor Johnson]
 So there's a vulnerability, but also a generativeness to the group aspect of things.

00:12:08 [Taylor Johnson]
 Thank you. Understood. Yeah, thanks for the question.

00:12:12 [Taylor Johnson]
 And because we're kind of a smallish group right now, if you have a question, you can also just unmute yourself and speak to the room.

00:12:19 [SPEAKER_1]
 Hey, hi, Taylor.

00:12:22 [SPEAKER_1]
 Hi, so I'm Krishna. I'm from India and I attended your course last time as well. And I just wanted to share this with the group that I could utilize 20 to 25% of the journey, but it really made a change in me and it really helped me. And the challenge which I was facing— the timelines of EDT and the time zone where I am in. So right now it's 10:30 p. m. at night. So it usually goes to 2: 30 a. m. at midnight when the session happens, so that was the reason I was not able to attend the sessions live most of the times and just wanted to ask that if this time you can accommodate this kind of timing, it would be still better for me, yeah.

00:13:11 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, thank you for the question. So you can see the call schedule for the course right now on the course page itself. And there are a number of calls that are happening at this time block right now. There will still be some other calls that happen later that you probably won't be able to attend unless you want to wake up at four in the morning. But a good number of them are at this time.

00:13:32 [SPEAKER_1]
 Okay, yeah, all right, yeah.

00:13:34 [Taylor Johnson]
 And I'll say also, it's it's my intention—and expectation, or how do I say this? It's not my expectation that every man shows up to all of the live calls. Like I didn't build the course in that way. I built it with the intention for as many men from different time zones to be able to show up to as many of the calls as possible. So there will be probably some guys in here from Australia too. And then perhaps India again. And then Europe. And then Hawaii. And it's all, all over. So I do the best that we can. Yeah.

00:14:08 [SPEAKER_1]
 All right. Thank you. And I have one more question. Can I ask? Yeah. So last time also I did put— I was struggling with particularly my partner's past. So it's retroactive jealousy if some of you have experienced it. Where the partner's past, visuals and all of it comes in between my sexual experience and it really turns me off and it leads to disgust and shame. So I really want to work around on this theme this time particularly and I'm setting my intentions for that. So can we also include this theme in this journey?

00:14:47 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. Yeah. So it's a great question. And it also brings up a good point.

00:14:52 [Taylor Johnson]
 The course does have some exercises, as you know, to go into that, but it's not the primary focus of things. But if you join, and there are some other men who are... in a similar boat who would want to do some work around that, we can create an extra call and do that extra call specifically on that topic. I will say, that's the sort of thing that could be useful if you have a regular meeting with or session with somebody who specializes in that. Could be a coach, could be a therapist, as well as doing this kind of work. You know, thank you.

00:15:34 [SPEAKER_7]
 I have a question.

00:15:35 [Taylor Johnson]
 Please.

00:15:37 [SPEAKER_7]
 Let's see. Nate, there we go. Now I can see it. First of all, thank you for all you do. I appreciate it.

00:15:44 [SPEAKER_7]
 I watch that Kundalini guided thing you do pretty much every day.

00:15:52 [SPEAKER_7]
 I got two questions. One, do you teach the microscopic orbit? And two, I read your whole website and I know that you don't advocate for complete abstinence of coming. But I'm curious if there's any situations where you do advocate for that, if there's some, because like, I feel like the whole point of the microcosmic orbit and maybe similar modalities is to transmute the energy. So if you're successful in doing so.

00:16:25 [SPEAKER_7]
 Theoretically, maybe, you know, like it's not the most, like maybe you could do it, like do old Taoist people practicing Taoism are, they did practice that, right? Like they never came. So I'm curious as to if there's any exceptions to this for you.

00:16:46 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, well, two things. I like how you, I like how at first you said the microscopic orbit and then circled back around to say microcosmic. No, it's great. It's yeah, it's awesome. Like we all we all do stuff like that. It's interesting, too, just to go on a side. Yes, I do teach it in this program, but I don't until we're at least halfway through. And the reason for that is because. It's too subtle of a practice for most men to be achieving results with until you do some other things first. Like most of us have been overstimulated by technology, by our phones, by porn, by fantasy, and we're not yet embodied and connected to our nervous systems enough to be able to utilize that more subtle energetic practice, in my opinion, in my opinion. So yes, I do teach it, and it's not the main foundational part of all of this stuff. But I also practice it regularly in my life, and I love using the microcosmic orbit personally, and I would say it's a regular part of my daily and my sexual experience.

00:17:56 [Taylor Johnson]
 But again, built upon a foundation of other practices.

00:18:00 [Taylor Johnson]
 And to your other question, you know, there are so many different schools of thought when it comes to ejaculation frequency. And there are some tantric schools that say you should never ejaculate or you should only ejaculate if you're trying to procreate. Some schools say you should only ejaculate on the full moon. I've heard other schools say you should only ejaculate on the new moon.

00:18:20 [Taylor Johnson]
 Closest philosophy that I resonate with the most is the Taoist practice that comes from Montauk Chia's lineage, which says, you know, at certain frequencies, depending on your age and your lifestyle and, you know, the seasons even, there's a frequency that's ideal for you.

00:18:38 [Taylor Johnson]
 Now you probably know that or have heard that. So do I think there's ever a case where a man should just abstain completely from ejaculating for a long time?

00:18:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 In my opinion, in the modern world, I don't think so. I would say the only... way I can see that being beneficial as a longer-term lifestyle is if a man is actually in some sort of monastic life. He is in monkhood, possibly, with the actual societal and communal structures around him where they're doing practices with enough regularity to be able to deal with and integrate and work with the buildup of charge and sexual energy that happens there.

00:19:24 [Taylor Johnson]
 That's my opinion. That's my opinion. I also believe that it's important to have ejaculations as a sexual man. And I think it's important to learn how to have an ejaculation that's actually generative. That can give you energy instead of leaving you feeling depleted. And I think that's important for prostate health, for sexual health, and for just general enjoyment of being a sexual man. So I just said a lot there. I want to pause and ask you, Nate, how is that landing for you? Did you have a... clarifying question or thought based on that?

00:19:57 [SPEAKER_7]
 I hear you. And it's kind of what you were saying on your website. So I do have some other thoughts, but they're personal. And you've already stated that this is not what this call is about. So I appreciate it. Thank you.

00:20:11 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah.

00:20:13 [Taylor Johnson]
 And kind of, I mean, you probably read this on my website too. There's a difference for me from ejaculatory abstinence and we'll call it reactionary sexual abstinence.

00:20:32 [Taylor Johnson]
 So there's on the one hand, we can be intentional with what we're doing with our sex life. We can avoid watching porn. We can avoid mindless masturbation. We can avoid scrolling endlessly or swiping endlessly on dating apps and social media. And all of this stuff is a part of sexual intentionality.

00:20:49 [Taylor Johnson]
 You know, some people call it going on a sexual fast or a sexual cleanse and all that. It's awesome and beautiful. And that, I think, can go on for months. Sometimes guys need to do it for a year or so. But in my opinion, that doesn't necessarily also need to involve not ejaculating. Because at a certain point, a man will need to learn how to have a healthy generative relationship with ejaculation. This is one of the problems that happens with a lot of guys that do not nap. They just push sex to the side and then, when they're ready to start having sex, because they've never developed a healthy relationship with it, all these older bad habits flood back in.

00:21:35 [Taylor Johnson]
 The risk of speaking too much on the topic I'll pause.

00:21:38 [SPEAKER_5]
 Open to other questions or topics, I just wanted to jump back in on because that's such a fascinating topic and it's kind of a two-part question. The first is kind of what—uh— role does ejaculation play in the exercises like you know and you just said something I've not heard before about the generative potential of orgasm because I've only heard, oh, I have a certain amount of vital force, you know, and I do Qigong to kind of increase it and then it goes and gets depleted. So that was kind of a concern of mine in the course, right? And I hear everything you're saying and just want to know more.

00:22:29 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. Well, it's something that I have grown to learn. I've learned over the past many years and personally experienced and learned it from a different school that's not as mainstream. But I'll see if I can say it this way.

00:22:49 [Taylor Johnson]
 One of the reasons...

00:22:52 [Taylor Johnson]
 Many men feel so depleted after an ejaculatory orgasm is because we're used to being in the go go' mode. We're used to being productive. We live in Western society where we are encouraged to constantly be creating— don't take a rest, don't take down time. What happens is men don't know to appreciate that the period of time after ejaculation is not the period of time where you should be going out and trying to hit it hard and create things in the world, right? That timeline after ejaculation varies for different guys. And if you have more frequent ejaculations, that timeline increases post-ejaculation.

00:23:33 [Taylor Johnson]
 But there is this amazing thing that can happen where, if you, in a sexual experience, you get embodied enough to the point where you get into, we'll call it a flow state experience. You're really present with your breath, with sensation, and you've passed the point. Where you're fighting the ejaculatory reflex and you're just in pleasure for an extended period of time, if you're able to relax into that space and then you choose intentionally to have an ejaculatory orgasm, and then the kicker is: if you then choose for 10, 15, 20 minutes afterwards to literally just lay down on the bed, either with yourself or with your lover, and don't do anything.

00:24:17 [Taylor Johnson]
 Really, like, don't get up and make tea, don't get up and make a snack, just lay there. Allow your system to absorb the release.

00:24:25 [Taylor Johnson]
 Allow your system to actually intake the pleasure of that and to feel the release. If you allow for that, then generally speaking, if you've been doing other practices and leading a healthy lifestyle, there will be this refreshed quality that can wash over your body and your mind and your nervous system. It's almost kind of like taking a nap in a sense. But what happens for most guys is they have the ejaculatory orgasm and then, like, boom. go into the towel to clean up, to get up, wash your hands, immediately they go back into that go mode. It's like the go mindset, the accomplishment mindset, but it's important to instead allow yourself to just be in the release mindset. If you think about the yin-yang as an example coming from the Taoist tradition, there's the yang, which is go, go, go, and then the yin, which is receive.

00:25:18 [Taylor Johnson]
 I'm of the opinion that we need both. And I'll pause there. Does that at least conceptually make sense?

00:25:26 [SPEAKER_5]
 Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

00:25:28 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. So in the course, I don't ask men at first to... How do I say this? If a man is joining the course and he's never had an experience with... sex or masturbation where he didn't ejaculate, I don't ask guys to immediately start doing semen retention.

00:25:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 Right. Like go through the practices to learn the different practices. And yes, have an ejaculatory orgasm because you have not yet learned the skills to circulate that and to not get blue balls. But through the course, eventually the ask is that men start to be able to have self-pleasure sessions like that. Because if the goal is to get into sex where you do have a non-ejaculatory orgasm, the body needs to learn through some experience first. That ejaculation is not the main goal of sex. Well, how do you do that? You have to show it through experience that you can have a meaningful, pleasurable sexual experience where you don't ejaculate and you're still happy afterwards. Thoughts?

00:26:45 [Taylor Johnson]
 I'll say this is one of the reasons I enjoy calls too— as we just get to get into conversations like this and talk about this stuff, like, how often, when you're at your friend's place or a dinner party, are you gonna ask a question like that? Maybe you have those kind of friends. Most guys don't. You know, most guys don't.

00:27:07 [Taylor Johnson]
 I see Kanan's hand.

00:27:09 [Taylor Johnson]
 Tell me if I mispronounced your name, please.

00:27:12 [SPEAKER_0]
 Yeah, it's Kanan.

00:27:13 [Taylor Johnson]
 Kanan. Great, thank you.

00:27:15 [SPEAKER_0]
 No worries.

00:27:17 [SPEAKER_0]
 So, yeah, I took your semen retention week-long course, and I found that that was, like, super helpful, like, an awesome course personally. Like, I felt like I got a lot out of it.

00:27:32 [SPEAKER_0]
 Um, yeah, on like a personal level and some helpful techniques. Um, but I guess when I went to kind of practice some of those techniques with my partner, I felt like, um, of mixed results. I guess like, definitely on some in some instances felt like decreased performance, and in others, some of the techniques did help. But um, yeah, I guess just kind of curious like, what's, what are the differences between this course and this next upcoming course, and like, how can we expect, I guess, a success rate of like, improved performance, I guess.

00:28:33 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah.

00:28:35 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, that's a great question. First, I'll say thanks for doing the seven-day course. And it also makes sense to me that after a seven-day course, you can attempt those techniques in sex with your partner and they might not have the immediate impact you might want. To me, that would be a normal thing. That's a normal expectation. And I don't know if you've seen— if anyone here has seen— I posted a video on YouTube last Friday. That shows a really important concept I can just speak to it briefly here, but the thumbnail has a picture of a chart on it. It's talking about premature ejaculation. The yeah Krishna says the dip. Yeah, the concept applies to everything and it's basically how long does it take to see results.

00:29:22 [Taylor Johnson]
 So I've actually surveyed the men who've gone through this course. And I can tell you, statistically speaking, for the most men to experience consistent positive results, not just like, oh, I had a great experience on week two, but then I had not as good of an experience on week three. For most guys, the average is six weeks to see like really consistent positive results come in. And that range does vary. And it makes sense that it would vary because we're all coming from different backgrounds, right? Some of us are 45 years old and we've had a sex life of 27 years. We've been practicing certain techniques. Another way to say that is training the wrong techniques into our system. We have to relearn 27 years of stuff. Other people have different ages or they've been having sex different ways. So the average can vary, but six weeks is generally the average.

00:30:13 [Taylor Johnson]
 And it's also the case that this kind of practice—whatever you're going to be doing or that you've already done— needs reps, right? Like you need to do it multiple times over time for it to land in the nervous system.

00:30:29 [Taylor Johnson]
 Can think about it, learning like any other skill. If you were learning guitar, or if you were learning martial arts, or learning painting, or building, you would never expect to just go through a seven-day primer and then be able to, you know, consistently have like perform well with a guitar. You know, let's say it that way. So the idea is that through this course, you put in the reps of practice over time, and that is not the case. Also, to be clear, it's not the case that at the end of these 10 weeks you're done with practice forever.

00:31:04 [Taylor Johnson]
 That's not what I'm saying here. It's that you will know the practices to keep doing to help you achieve and experience the kind of sex that you want. I regularly do practices, A, to have a good life, and then B, to have a good sex life. And there have been periods of my life in the past bunch of years where... I've gone through a stressful phase or a challenging phase or even sex just hasn't been as much my priority while I've, say, like been building a kitchen in my house, right? And that took a little while. And during that time, if I'm not doing these sorts of practices, my abilities... drop. You know, but I know what I need to do to get them back up when that's important to me.

00:31:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 So that feels really important to say is that it's not the case that you go through this, or in my opinion, any sexual training program and then boom, never have to practice anything ever again for the rest of time. It's just, we're looking at a lifestyle shift in an ideal world here, but that it will get easier.

00:32:10 [Taylor Johnson]
 100%. Does that answer your question, mostly?

00:32:14 [SPEAKER_0]
 Yeah, that was helpful and um, yeah, I guess I also have just one more question. If I can, while I have the mic, um, and might be sort of personal, but may apply to other folks, um, so I actually just ended my relationship last night and uh, so yeah, this course—I like saw it yesterday and was thinking about it and then that happened last night and So, yeah, like I do feel like something like this could kind of help to rebuild like a confidence. And, yeah, I do think that it may be something that I want to do.

00:33:00 [SPEAKER_0]
 But, yeah, I guess just like.

00:33:04 [SPEAKER_0]
 If you could speak a little bit to the concept of doing this course without having a partner to practice stuff with, I guess is that.

00:33:18 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, well, Kaden, sorry for your breakup and the challenges there. But also, I know that sometimes breakups are some of the biggest catalysts towards the life you want. So just honoring the transition of that. And thanks for saying it. And thanks for asking about it. There are benefits.

00:33:39 [Taylor Johnson]
 To going through this course, single, there are also benefits to going through this course if you have a partner, there are drawbacks to each side as well too, but I'll say, like, one of the biggest benefits of going through this course without a partner is that you're not navigating your own attachments with another person's sexual response system and you're not navigating their own sexual inertia. So you have— you could think of it as a clean slate in a sense to really work on yourself without the regular interface of of somebody that you're used to and probably have gotten into habitual sexual patterns with. For a lot of guys who go through this course single, they have the experience of creating a new version of themselves that, when they choose to enter into a sexual relationship with somebody else, it's just fundamentally different because they've taken the time, the weeks and the months to do this self-cultivation practice on their own and really create a solid foundation to bring into the sexual experience.

00:34:44 [Taylor Johnson]
 So I think that... depending on the circumstances of your breakup and how you overall emotionally are going through it, I think something like this, this course or something else could be an awesome thing for you to do. If it's true that you want to really cultivate a strong sense of who you are as a sexual being, so that when you do get into a relationship again, it's awesome.

00:35:08 [Taylor Johnson]
 And then to just speak to the other side, if you are somebody who's in a relationship, and you want to take this course while you're in relationship. You do have a beautiful opportunity there, too, if you have a partner who's open to doing some of these practices. There are partner practices and different modules that you can try with them. And it can be nice to communicate with them and say, 'Hey, I'm doing this program. I'd like to try these different things with you.' Are you open to it? Most people would say yes. And if they say no, I would question your relationship with that person.

00:35:42 [Taylor Johnson]
 But if you're single, you also have access to this course for as long as I'm doing this work. So when you get into a sexual dynamic with somebody else, you can bring in the partner practices.

00:35:54 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. Does that answer your question?

00:35:56 [SPEAKER_0]
 Very cool. Yeah. Thank you.

00:35:58 [Taylor Johnson]
 Totally.

00:36:00 [Taylor Johnson]
 Also, just a note for anyone who may have gone through a breakup in the last year or so, there's a great book called Conscious Uncoupling that's...

00:36:13 [Taylor Johnson]
 has tremendously helped me out in what was a traumatic breakup years ago. So it's a great resource.

00:36:25 [Taylor Johnson]
 All right, I'm going to not know how to pronounce your name. Jost?

00:36:29 [SPEAKER_4]
 Yeah, that's all right. Can you tell me? Jost. Yeah, Jost. It's like toast. All right. J.

00:36:38 [SPEAKER_4]
 Great. Good being here. This is exciting for me. This is good stuff.

00:36:44 [SPEAKER_4]
 I've already noted on some of the questions that I had. So I'll share a little bit about my personal situation and dive into one question. So I have this opportunity where I'm without my partner for exactly like 10 weeks, 11 weeks till Christmas.

00:37:04 [SPEAKER_4]
 And I noticed a lot of difference in my self-practice and also being in a partner. A lot of difference in the experience. And that makes me...

00:37:20 [SPEAKER_4]
 And for me, my self-pleasure practice is really nice and has tremendous benefit. And in the sexual experience, there's more attachment and nervousness being fully expressive. And I was wondering about how much of the course is designed also for yourself.

00:37:37 [SPEAKER_4]
 And also really on going deeper into the topics of being in sexual dynamic with daughter and the situations that can come up in that.

00:37:48 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah.

00:37:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, thank you. Could you try again, just asking that question in another way? Well, let me reflect back and see if I understand what you're asking. You're asking— does this course go into both just your own sexual relationship with yourself?

00:38:08 [Taylor Johnson]
 and then also your sexual relationship with others, and the dynamics that are at play there?

00:38:14 [SPEAKER_4]
 That's right. That's exactly what I asked. Okay.

00:38:17 [Taylor Johnson]
 Okay.

00:38:18 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yes.

00:38:21 [Taylor Johnson]
 To put it some way. What I would say is that I don't know if any of you all know a woman named Lori Handlers. She is one of the people who I've studied with over the years, like studied with many, many people. She's a great.

00:38:35 [Taylor Johnson]
 woman in her 70s now who keeps saying, like she keeps having the best sex of her life as she gets older and older and older, one of the things that she says often is, you've got to learn to be your own best lover. I think that there's a lot of truth to that. You know, I think there's a lot of truth to that. And so, a huge part of this course is you learning how to have amazing sexual experiences just by yourself.

00:39:03 [Taylor Johnson]
 Because it, one, feels good, and two, when you're able to do that, then there's this whole new level of self-confidence that can come from that, sexual confidence, that you can bring into an experience with another person. And that fundamentally impacts how you will show up with them. And yes, to get to the specific intricacies of partner dynamics, we can go into how to talk about things, if there are challenges, how to workshop things.

00:39:35 [Taylor Johnson]
 That's a great reason.

00:39:37 [Taylor Johnson]
 That's a great topic for office hours or live calls to be able to go into that stuff, because usually it's situationally specific. It's hard to say, like, there are blanket things that all people should do. I could make some of those claims, but. There's generally something specific in there. And something that's happened at various times in this course in the past is there's a group of men who all are having a similar experience in their relationship. And they speak to it in the mastermind area or one of the calls. And because of that, we say, 'Hey, let's do an extra call specifically on that topic.'

00:40:13 [Taylor Johnson]
 So that's an option in this course as well too. I like doing that kind of a thing and would invite that.

00:40:23 [Taylor Johnson]
 Joost, does that answer your question or thought?

00:40:29 [SPEAKER_4]
 Yes, it does. And a follow-up on that is: What I would love to receive with this course is that during and after these 10 weeks, I feel I do not need to delve into any other schools to reach for techniques that I need to integrate. And I want to have a... A set where I feel comfortable with, if I really practice this and keep on practicing this will work itself through. Do you feel that, that's it?

00:41:03 [Taylor Johnson]
 I what do I to respond authentically to respond authentically to that.

00:41:12 [Taylor Johnson]
 Here's my authentic response to that.

00:41:15 [Taylor Johnson]
 I don't feel that way personally in the sense of I value learning from different people all the time. And so, on the one hand, how do I want to say this?

00:41:30 [Taylor Johnson]
 I think your objective is possible here. And I would encourage people generally to be in a learner's mindset when it comes to this kind of stuff in general, you know, because a year from now, a year from now, I could learn something else that I will then bring back and put into this course. As I have done every year that has happened since I originally created this course. You know, I keep learning things. And even within this last year, I've learned some stuff that's really mind-blowing. When it comes to actually helping transformation be embodied instead of just the mind. And that's gonna be working its way into our live calls and the course content as well. So what I will say is here, you will get a complete, comprehensive library of pretty much everything you need to be having the kind of sex that you want. You know, you can refer back to it for years to come. And I encourage a lifetime growth learner mindset.

00:42:25 [SPEAKER_4]
 Yeah. Sweet, man. That's awesome. Thank you.

00:42:29 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. Thank you, Joost.

00:42:32 [Taylor Johnson]
 Emery.

00:42:35 [Taylor Johnson]
 Hello, sir.

00:42:35 [SPEAKER_5]
 Hi, Taylor. So that was a good transition into my question. Will there be anything different this round than there was last round on content?

00:42:46 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, that's a great question. So the content primarily hasn't changed since earlier this year.

00:42:54 [Taylor Johnson]
 What will be new for people who are thinking about possibly repeating the course is the live calls, you know, the live calls, the group, etc. But I have not done a major update to the content since earlier this year.

00:43:09 [SPEAKER_5]
 So I do remember you had said you were going to bring some new stuff that you had learned and that's, you had just mentioned that as well. So I was wondering about what that would be.

00:43:19 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. So the new stuff that I'm learning, I'm going to bring into the live calls and to practice sessions during the live calls and conversation. And it fits well with all the other things that are already pre-recorded. But it's also true that I think this time and possibly one more time, I'm going to run this particular course live and then...

00:43:44 [Taylor Johnson]
 Revamp things so it might be you know, after this one or next one, it might be like 2000.

00:43:52 [Taylor Johnson]
 Actually, I don't want to say that, but like, there is, you know, I have learned a lot. I'm going to eventually revamp things, but right now it's just going to be in the live calls with all the other practices that are here and it will fit in perfectly. Yeah. But there's not like, there's not a new module four per se, if that makes sense.

00:44:10 [SPEAKER_5]
 Very good. Thank you.

00:44:11 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. Thank you.

00:44:21 [Taylor Johnson]
 Samuel.

00:44:25 [SPEAKER_6]
 Hey, I'm here. Um, in terms of like the online curriculum you offer, is there an expiration date on our access to it?

00:44:34 [Taylor Johnson]
 Nope.

00:44:36 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. The expiration date is if I ever stop doing this work and my website goes away. I don't anticipate that happening anytime soon.

00:44:47 [Taylor Johnson]
 Great.

00:44:47 [SPEAKER_6]
 Thank you. I appreciate that.

00:44:49 [Taylor Johnson]
 Totally. Yeah. Yeah. One of my goals here, again, is to give people like a resource library. You get a lot of stuff in this course. There's all kinds of different breathwork practices. There's different kinds of sexual qigong practices. There's different yoga techniques, pelvic floor techniques. There's all kinds of stuff. And I want people to be able to return, you know, year after year to do things. Because it's also my goal that at the end of this course, you will be able to determine what you need to be doing to keep this kind of success alive, right? And it's gonna be different for everybody. Like some people, the key to success is gonna be learning a lot of articulation with the pelvic floor. For other people, it's going to be learning that they have a challenging emotional attachment with their partner that they need to work out. And that's actually the thing that's causing erectile dysfunction. But through the practices and the conversation, that gets fixed too.

00:45:48 [Taylor Johnson]
 So that's a long-winded answer of saying yes. Long time to come. Thank you.

00:45:52 [SPEAKER_6]
 That adds a lot of value.

00:45:57 [Taylor Johnson]
 Alan, you are on mute.

00:46:03 [Taylor Johnson]
 I was going to ask you to unmute.

00:46:07 [SPEAKER_9]
 Hello. Greetings from Manhattan.

00:46:10 [Taylor Johnson]
 All right.

00:46:12 [SPEAKER_9]
 A few years ago, I was in a quite severe car accident in which I, since then...

00:46:23 [SPEAKER_9]
 I have a traumatic brain injury.

00:46:26 [SPEAKER_9]
 I've had 50 some surgeries. And I also have now BPH and other things. Is this something that... is going to cause problems in the course?

00:46:48 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. So without knowing more specifics about you, I'm not sure I would be able to say, but are you able to write me an email telling me a bit more about your situation?

00:46:58 [SPEAKER_9]
 Sure. Yeah, yeah.

00:46:59 [Taylor Johnson]
 Great. Yeah. If you would do that in the next couple of days, then I'll be able to respond to the best of my ability. Yeah.

00:47:05 [SPEAKER_9]
 The email that this this this this came from, okay. Yeah. Great. Appreciate that. Yeah. Thank you. I'll do that. Thank you. Thank you. Absolutely.

00:47:19 [SPEAKER_9]
 You'll be hearing from me.

00:47:21 [Taylor Johnson]
 Great. Thank you, Alan.

00:47:22 [SPEAKER_9]
 Thank you.

00:47:38 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, one question.

00:47:41 [SPEAKER_4]
 Do you have an estimation of how big the group will be?

00:47:49 [Taylor Johnson]
 Ish. Let's see.

00:47:52 [Taylor Johnson]
 Maybe around...

00:47:57 [Taylor Johnson]
 30 guys or so. Not really sure. That would be my guess. That would be my guess on you include. So I sent out an email today to anyone who's on my email list with some scholarship spots as well. There's a scholarship option for people who have been in financial hardships or new fathers, et cetera, that sort of thing. With that, plus people who are repeating the course, there's always a handful of guys who repeat the course. I would guess maybe around 30.

00:48:26 [Taylor Johnson]
 In the past, it would have been a lot more, but I don't know if anyone here has followed me or been in connection with me for a bunch of years. But you might have noticed that I've pretty substantially dropped off from... creating content over the last couple of years. And it's because I've been in my own deep study of a lot of new different processes and ways of doing this kind of work and doing transformational work. And I've been more inspired to be in study than to create new content, so to me it's also very cool that you're here. That somehow you've still found me, even though I have not been putting as much out there. But I assure you, I've been like really diving deep into this stuff, and I'm really excited and thrilled about it. And I'm about to, I'm slowly coming out the other side of like, okay, I've learned some really cool stuff, and I'm excited to start sharing it again. So, 30-ish, I would guess. Yeah.

00:49:29 [Taylor Johnson]
 So some guys in the room who have not shared anything, you're totally fine if you're just in the background listening. But if you want to share something, well, if you want to ask a question or ask me about a topic when we're getting close to the end.

00:49:44 [Taylor Johnson]
 It's like on the tip of your tongue, I want to encourage you to do so. And also, yeah, I just saw in the chat.

00:49:59 [Taylor Johnson]
 Someone messaged me. Yeah, if you send me an email about that thing that you just private messaged me, that would be great.

00:50:06 [Taylor Johnson]
 And then Dave in the chat says, 'I went to a workshop that Lori did. It was great. Awesome. Yeah, she's a great facilitator.'

00:50:14 [Taylor Johnson]
 Hudson, there I see your hand.

00:50:20 [SPEAKER_6]
 Um, yeah, it's just a quick practical question, but I've been taking, uh, like daily Cialis for a while and I assumed that I should probably stop for the course. Is that true?

00:50:33 [Taylor Johnson]
 I'm not going to say yes. Because I don't know about your personal scenario, right? Like maybe you, yeah, I would need more information.

00:50:44 [Taylor Johnson]
 And I'm, I think that's my short answer. Yeah.

00:50:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 Do you have a more clarifying question around that?

00:51:01 [SPEAKER_6]
 Well, when I started taking it, I was in the middle. I had downloaded Layla Martin's, I don't forget what it was called, but short men's course. And I was...

00:51:20 [SPEAKER_6]
 I felt something sort of like change in my body— not surprisingly— when I started taking the medication. It's been really useful in my sex life and for just kind of in my sex life and sort of my emotional relationship to sex. But some of this, like the sort of change in what I felt in my body and the energy, seemed like it was stuff that we were going to be sort of working with and touching on. And that was sort of, I was like, I feel like I should probably stop taking this, at least for the duration of the course and kind of see how I feel.

00:51:58 [Taylor Johnson]
 Sorry, there's this bug that somehow got in. It's just like trying to attack my eyeballs.

00:52:03 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, thanks for sharing a little bit more context. You know, based on... the thought that you just shared, I would say, yeah, maybe it would be a good idea to explore that. You know, I didn't know your background—like, perhaps you're coming in from having surgery or there's all kinds of different things and reasons why people might take that. But yeah, it's also my understanding that if a man is taking Cialis or Viagra for psychological reasons, butchered the majority of the cases that it's not something that somebody would want to do for long-term. You know, it's like what happens if you run out. Or if you don't have it and, you know, there are other things you can do to get similar results that take a little bit longer time. You know, Cialis, Viagra, that gives more of that instant thing. But there's exercise, there's supplementation, there's different practices to find and cultivate that arousal from within.

00:52:57 [Taylor Johnson]
 You're not coming from having some sort of surgical or medical procedure that like— you need that for actual functioning and you want to get back to a baseline that you can have strong erections without it. Then I would say, probably so, that makes a lot of sense.

00:53:13 [SPEAKER_6]
 Cool. Thank you.

00:53:14 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, for sure.

00:53:17 [Taylor Johnson]
 Let me add a little note here too, just so everyone understands my general philosophy around medication and that sort of a thing. I'm not a hardcore anti-pharmaceutical person. I think there's a time and a place. There's a time and a place in life, and there have been times—even, for example, if you know what story do I want to share.

00:53:53 [Taylor Johnson]
 So I've worked with a lot of guys over these years. I've had a lot of one-on-one conversations and some guys, they want to do some things that not everybody wants to do, right? But like some guys want to go to a sex party. And some guys might want to have a foursome with different people and they might feel anxious about it. And a lot of things, you know, in those contexts, there's a lot of stimulation that's happening and it might be too much. So sometimes in those contexts, I think. You know why not take us, you know, a little Cialis or Viagra, because you're not practiced in that sexual experience, your nervous system isn't used to being in a four-way sexual dynamic, and maybe you just need a little bit to help get you over the hump of that experience, so to speak. So that then you can have a positive experience. So the nervous system learns that it's positive. Yeah, I guess I just wanted to say that, because I'm some people can be really hardcore with that kind of stuff, anti, and I'm generally opposed to it as a lifestyle, if you're not doing other things to try to cultivate this.

00:54:59 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, I'll pause there, because I know we've got a couple minutes left, and I want to make space for any last-minute burning question, if anyone has one.

00:55:11 [Taylor Johnson]
 David.

00:55:14 [SPEAKER_3]
 Hey, Taylor. Good to see you again.

00:55:18 [SPEAKER_3]
 I have a question, which is: if something arises, which just does feel completely uncomfortable to do online with the others, is there a mechanism by which we can kind of deal with that?

00:55:33 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah, can you give me a little more context as to where the question is coming from?

00:55:37 [SPEAKER_3]
 Yeah, I suppose what arose from me in the last time when I did the course the last time, so I've done it once before, is that there was some discomfort coming up in some of the exercises and I just didn't feel comfortable on the calls talking about that.

00:55:55 [SPEAKER_3]
 I shouldn't have the confidence to be able to do that. So I suppose there may well be, and it's one of the reservations I have about rejoining, right, is about the raising of some of this stuff that might feel uncomfortable.

00:56:12 [SPEAKER_3]
 And what the right environment for that might feel like for me and for other men who might feel in the same way. Does that make sense?

00:56:19 [Taylor Johnson]
 It does, yeah. I'm wondering if you could give a...

00:56:23 [Taylor Johnson]
 more specific example of the kind of content, even though I recognize that might be pushing up against the edge that you're talking about. If not, I can speak to it a little bit.

00:56:33 [SPEAKER_3]
 I think it's just more about saying, other than the office hours, are there other mechanisms in which I can ask questions or raise something with you that I might not want to raise in the group session? I guess that's it. That's really the question.

00:56:50 [Taylor Johnson]
 Yeah. Yeah.

00:56:52 [Taylor Johnson]
 You can email me questions. And if they're of a reasonable nature, it's hard to say— I don't have a word limit or character count limit, but I'm not available for long, extensive email coaching type situations during the course. But if you do send me an email, I can see if there's something that I can easily respond to. It's not going to take too much time. Or if I do see a clear pathway forward, I might say, 'Hey, let's get on a 30-minute call, you know. Let's do a, let's do a one-hour call. I think we can workshop this to get you the success that you want. And, and also, yeah, I remember that there's a, I recognize the.

00:57:35 [Taylor Johnson]
 Discomfort that can happen to be in a room full of men talking about this kind of stuff. I am also of the belief that leaning into that discomfort can be part of the growth journey that can be really useful as well, obviously there are limits and edges, etc. you know, with everything but that's my opinion on the matter as well. I know there have been some people who've gone through this course who are actually legit famous and they use a fake name and they don't have their video on ever. And so I don't know if you're the CEO of some big company or your background, and you don't want to be recorded for something like that. But generally speaking, I would say. If a man's able to talk about this kind of stuff with a group, it helps reduce some of the pressure and the tension that's in the body around sex in general. Yeah, that's really helpful. Yeah. So thanks for the question.

00:58:33 [SPEAKER_3]
 Yeah, thank you.

00:58:36 [Taylor Johnson]
 And it can be a practice, you know, like talking about this stuff isn't always easy, especially some of the vulnerable stuff, you know, like, man, black.

00:58:46 [Taylor Johnson]
 I guess even today in certain contexts, if I were to bring up something that would be really vulnerable and feel vulnerable to talk about my sex life, I would still have this pull of like, yeah, do I really want to do that? The survival response of, like, don't do that. That's bad. I know enough now to take a breath and lean into that. You know obviously in a smart scenario, right? And my idea is that in this course, we're creating an experience that's safe enough where we're all mutually collaborative and supporting enough to where we can have those kinds of conversations, right? Like we're not gonna go talk about this stuff with the grocery store checkout person, right? So being intelligent and intentional with context is important.

00:59:31 [Taylor Johnson]
 All right, we're at the hour mark.

00:59:36 [Taylor Johnson]
 Y'all are free to go if you want. Thanks so much for being here. I do want to make space if there's one more burning question, I'm happy to answer it. And if not, I'll say a couple closing words.

00:59:48 [Taylor Johnson]
 Now's your opportunity if you've got a burning question.

00:59:54 [Taylor Johnson]
 All right, don't see any hands showing up. So let's all take a breath through the nose to the belly.

01:00:03 [Taylor Johnson]
 Exhale with an audible sigh.

01:00:11 [Taylor Johnson]
 Thank you for showing up here. And thank you for considering joining this course. Thank you for considering doing something to work on your sex life in some way. I think that the world really needs men who are going to do this kind of thing. And it's an honor to be in this. In this space, in this moment with you right now, to help lift that up, to help lift that up. Because I think the more men who do this, the better off the world is going to be. And it also feels good. It feels good to do this kind of work too. So as you know, the course starts a week from tomorrow.

01:00:49 [Taylor Johnson]
 If you're on my email list, I sent out an email about possible scholarships earlier today. And if you have any follow-up questions from this call, please feel free to shoot me an email. Any questions about the course, shoot me an email and I'll get back to you as quickly as I can. And yeah, just thank you so much again. I hope you have a beautiful rest of your day.

01:01:09 [Taylor Johnson]
 Possibly see you next week. Cheers.

01:01:15 [SPEAKER_5]
 Thanks, man. Thank you. Thanks, Tim. Thank you.

01:01:18 [Taylor Johnson]
 Thank you. Thank you.