Understanding Sex Positivity and Breaking Societal Norms | Dr. Chris Donoghue

Get ready for a captivating conversation with our fascinating guest, Dr. Chris Donoghue He is the director of Clinical Education at the Sexual Health Alliance, an internationally lecturer on human sexuality, author, and sex therapist. 
Ever wondered how societal norms shape our views on sex? We're peeling back the layers on sex positivity, body positivity, and breaking free from the societal tapestry of sex. Chris’s enlightening insights will guide you through the process of being more intentional with sex and dating.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:02

Oh my god . Oh my god . If you are listening to this episode , you are you . This almost never happened , this episode almost never happened , or at least this intro never happened . I've spent the last two days trying to get this damn recorder roadcaster pro situation to record this episode so that you can record the intro to this episode . It's just been so complicated . I've done this so many times but it just started messing up on me and , after I tried quite a few solutions and research on it and looking it up and Reddit and YouTube videos , I just turned it off and turned it back on and here we are with I hope I'll check in a minute but crystal clear audio . Oh man , it's good to be here . I'm glad you're here . I'm glad you're joining me for this episode .

Speaker 1 0:55

Let's keep talking . Man , do we have an awesome conversation today ? I am joined by Dr Chris Donoghue , who is such an awesome gentleman , such a wonderful , wonderful guest , and our conversation was very cool . We talked all about sex . That's what he does . He does sex , he has sex , he is the head , he's the clinical director of education for the sexual health alliance . Let me make sure I got that right . The director of clinical education , chris Donoghue is the director of clinical education with the sexual health alliance , which is an organization that lectures all over the world on sex positivity , body positivity and unshaming yourself from . I don't know the way the world teaches sex . Anyways , the conversation we had was so , so awesome . We talked all about how to be more intentional with sex , intentional with dating , and in my opinion , it was the coolest , it was the greatest . Chris was a fantastic guest to have on and the conversation just is rich with insight from him specifically , and I'm there to help .

Speaker 1 2:10

So , anyways , thank you so much for tuning into this episode . Thanks for checking out . If you're listening to this episode on a podcast platform , please , don't forget to rate the show please . And if you're watching on YouTube , what's up ? Beautiful people , I wish I could see you , but you can see me . So we'll just do this one-way thing for a while . Maybe we'll do some group Zoom live episodes in the future . I don't know . That'd be cool to connect back with you guys . Anyways , I'll stop yapping . This intro has been a long time coming . I'm finally here doing this intro to this episode and , yeah , let's hop into it .

Speaker 2 2:47

Yeah , I , I , I , you're the way , the way you reached out just seemed very warm and sociable , and that that's more compelling to me than the people that are hyper official .

Speaker 1 2:56

Yeah , so yeah , yeah , cool . I have to say I've spent the last week reading the book Rebel Love . Oh , shoot , yeah , yeah , and I'm interested to talk with you about some of these topics . That was was that ? Was that like eight ? I can't remember that year . Was that like eight years ago ? Or 2016 ? Oh my God .

Speaker 2 3:19

I actually had a weird thought this morning that you might ask me about something like that . I don't remember 100% , so I think that people probably hear you . You work so long on these projects . They incubate for so long . Yeah , I can't remember exactly when it got released eight years ago I hope it wasn't that long ago but maybe , maybe close to that , probably .

Speaker 2 3:42

Yeah , and that book came out at a really strange time . I had written my first book Sex Outside the Lines gosh , I don't remember when they were with that one , but a few years prior , and that book was hyperacademic and when you get the opportunity to write a book , you don't think that you might have that opportunity again . So I tried to kind of squeeze every thought I ever had into that book . And then another publisher came around and they wanted me to write something that was a little more user friendly but also more current to the social topics that people were talking about . So Rebel Love really tries to kind of meet the world where it's at that moment , and it would be interesting for me to look at it again maybe in another decade and see the relevance of what I was even talking about in that book , because things change quickly .

Speaker 1 4:33

Yeah , things change a lot . What's the most current work of yours that I could hop onto to just get to know a little bit more updated information from yourself ?

Speaker 2 4:44

Nothing . So these are all the really good questions , kind of call me out . Historically I was often doing different television work , I had a radio show , I had a podcast , I was writing books , and right now I'm really focused on my clinical and academic work . So I have a clinical practice where I see patients , and then I'm also the clinical director of education for the sexual health alliance and I travel the country through them with them to train doctors , nurses , therapists , sex geeks , people that are just curious about these topics . And we just had our yeah , exactly , we just had our inaugural convention conference .

Speaker 1 5:23

In Denver , yeah , in Denver , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah .

Speaker 1 5:27

It's super rad . I was wanting to come to it and I reached out to I don't know who a contact was when I talked and said , like hey , like I'm a little bit short on funds right now . Life is difficult , but I would really love to come out and join you guys for the alliance thing . And is there any way I could do a couple ? I could help out , I could shoot some videos . I could just set up chairs , I could do anything Like what can we do ? And so that was kind of in the works . And then I realized I have a gym . That's what I do for work is I own a personal training studio . And then I realized we had an event on the same weekend and so that just didn't happen . But that's okay , okay .

Speaker 2 6:01

I hope we would have helped you get there . We work really hard to try to make our work accessible . At least I do so . When people reach out to me about things like that , I try to help people find their way in . Yeah , you know you probably actually I'm curious about your mission statement , but mine is really about transformation . Yeah , I'm not in anything I'm doing for the money or attention . Or when people reference my brand , I laugh because I don't think .