The Trouble with Sex

The Trouble with Sex

Relationship & Sex Therapist Dr. Tammy Nelson gets up close and personal with leading, sex-positive experts and influencers to examine hot topics and answer your questions about pleasure, sexuality, relationships and the most forbidden aspects of the human experience.

Episodes

October 24, 2024 34 mins

Dr. Tammy continues the conversations about consensual non-monogamy as she talks with therapist and author Jessica Fern about translating the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous and open relationships.

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

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As our special series on Open Monogamy comes to a close, Dr. Tammy looks back on the relationships, sex lives and experiences of our brave guests, summarizing where they land on the Monogamy Continuum. Take the Quiz and find out where are you fall!

In this special 9- Part series on Open Monogamy,  Dr. Tammy talks with individuals, couples, and a throuple, as they share their relationship stories, where they fall on the Mon...

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September 19, 2024 45 mins

Dr. Tammy talks with Rachael, Kasey and Aaron about their life together in a monogamous triad.  Hear why they chose this path, and how they keep their relationship peaceful, balanced and thriving.

In this special 9- Part series on Open Monogamy,  Dr. Tammy talks with individuals, couples, and a throuple, as they share their relationship stories, where they fall on the Monogamy Continuum, and how they define commitment.  Li...

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September 6, 2024 53 mins

Dr. Tammy talks with Sergio about practicing polyamory with an anarchist structure. Find out how he balances his eight different partners and his very busy calendar! 

In this special 9- Part series on Open Monogamy,  Dr. Tammy talks with individuals, couples, and a throuple, as they share their relationship stories, where they fall on the Monogamy Continuum, and how they define commitment.  Listen first hand, as average fo...

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August 22, 2024 41 mins

Dr. Tammy interviews self-identifying swingers and dedicated polyamorists, CJ and Linwood. Find out how they made the ultimate long distance relationship work, and how they now balance family, entertaining sexy friends and their commitment to each other.

In this special 9- Part series on Open Monogamy,  Dr. Tammy talks with individuals, couples, and a throuple, as they share their relationship stories, where they fall on t...

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August 8, 2024 41 mins

As a young girl in Catholic school, Maria thought she'd become a nun. Instead she married young, started a family and a successful career. After the trauma of 911 and her husband falling ill, they both agreed Maria needed extracurricular relationships. Now in her 60's, Maria has a lover twenty years her junior, plus a married boyfriend she’s been seeing for over two decades. Hear her story of open monogamy, her views on s...

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July 26, 2024 38 mins

Synthea and Randy tried swinging but decided that Synthea wanted a more unconventional form of open relationship. She enjoys sleeping with younger men, and Randy helps her find her lovers. Hear how it all works for them, why they do it, and the advice they have for couples looking to open their relationship.

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July 11, 2024 38 mins

Meet Chris, a regular guy living in small town USA, as he shares with Dr. Tammy his experience going from a traditional monogamous marriage, through divorce, to an open relationship with an older, married woman he met on Ashley Madison. Hear what he has learned on his journey, and why giving 100%, 40% of the time is an offer he stands by.

In this special 9- Part series on Open Monogamy,  Dr. Tammy talks with individuals, c...

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June 27, 2024 53 mins

Dr. Tammy kicks off the Open Monogamy series talking with Molly Roden Winter, New York Times best-selling author of MORE: A Memoir of Open Marriage. The two dive into Molly's empowering journey from a traditionally monogamous marriage to opening her monogamy to explore sex, relationships - and herself- outside her marriage. 

In this special 9- Part series on Open Monogamy,  Dr. Tammy talks with individuals, couples,...

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WELCOME TO OUR 9-PART SERIES ON OPEN MONOGAMY!

In this episode, Dr. Tammy introduces this special series on Open Monogamy, inviting listeners to explore, along with her, the growing trend of people choosing to live and love untraditionally.

Every other week -  through October 3rd, 2024 -  Dr. Tammy will talk openly and honestly with individuals, couples, and a throuple, as they share their relationship stories, wh...

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May 8, 2024 53 mins

Dr. Tammy sits down with world renowned psychiatrist, therapist and trauma specialist, Dr. Frank Anderson to discuss his new and deeply personal memoir To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma and Transformation.  For anyone working on healing from their own trauma, this episode is as informative as it is inspiring - peppered with some laughs and beauty secrets along they way..

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April 5, 2024 36 mins

Dr. Tammy sits down with therapist, author and gender specialist Rae McDaniel to talk about the pleasure of self discovery, language and labels around gender, and their book Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self.

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com....

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February 26, 2024 45 mins

Dr. Tammy talks with Jaiya, the award-winning somatic sexologist and author of Your Blueprint for Pleasure, about how discovering what turns you on can help you take control of your pleasure, have amazing sex, rekindle the spark in the bedroom, heal past trauma, and empower your relationship and your spirit.

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February 12, 2024 38 mins

Dr. Tammy and Dr. Amy Marsh explore the thrilling positives, as well as the potential emotional pitfalls of AI erotic role play, dating a chatbot and the future of sex...

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

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Dr. Amy Marsh is a clinical sexologist, AASECT-certified sexu...

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Dr. Tammy sit downs with one of the world's foremost relationship experts and best-selling author, Dr. Stan Tatkin, to talk about the biology of relationships, the most common conflicts couples face, and how to overcome them in his new book In Each Other's Care

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@the...

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January 8, 2024 33 mins

This episode is not about the Pearl Jam song - well not exactly...  Dr. Tammy talks with therapist and author Eric FitzMedrud about consent, modern masculinities, sex, and how to be a 'Better Man' to build more fulfilling relationships.

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

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November 15, 2023 44 mins

Dr. Tammy talks with podcaster, writer and relationship coach Ginger Bentham about her Life on the Swingset, multi-partnering and how to ethically love outside the 'norm'.

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

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September 18, 2023 41 mins

Dr. Tammy talks with author and journalist Stephanie Theobald about the importance of staying curious, eco sexuality, reclaiming the word lesbian, and what her sex life is like living in the middle of the desert.

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to: drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

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August 7, 2023 43 mins

Dr. Tammy talks with bisexual writer Zachary Zane about the complexity of male sexuality, shame and his new book Boyslut: Memoir and Manifesto.

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

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Zachary Zane is a Brooklyn-based columnist, author, and sex expert whose work focuses on...

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June 7, 2023 41 mins

Dr. Tammy sits down with psychologist and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Rick Hanson to talk about communication, appreciation, cultivating erotic interest, and Rick's latest book, Making Great Relationships.

DR. TAMMY WANTS TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS about Sex, Love & Relationship and help you with your Trouble with Sex. Send your questions to drtammy@thetroublewithsex.com.

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