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Erika Miley

Erika Miley

Licensed sex therapist, clinical sexologist, and AASECT-certified sex educator specializing in ADHD and women's sexuality; author of the only published dissertation on ADHD and female sexual functioning.

Jun 4, 2026

2:21
Nope
2:21
... about women and sex generally, and then there's, like, very little about women and ADHD and sex.
2:28
So when I did my dissertation four years ago, it was the one and only about ADHD and sex in women.
2:35
I had over 2,000 participants overall, and 1,500 of them gave me their words about how they felt like their ADHD symptoms were impacting their ability to have, uh, erotic experiences, enjoy erotic experiences.
2:51
But the thing that, that I noticed that kept coming up again and again was many, many of those women talking about the things that they found to be erotic, the smut that they're reading, it being very, very difficult for them to shift from, uh, our regular transitions of life to transitioning to anything erotic.
3:57
Mm-hmm.
3:58
And romantasy, smut, sci-fi romance, any part in any micro-genre has so many pieces happening all at once that the erotic is just one of them.
4:13
And so I, I think it, it helps, uh, reduce the fears when you're trying to initiate any sexual experience.
2:21
Nope
2:21
... about women and sex generally, and then there's, like, very little about women and ADHD and sex.
2:28
So when I did my dissertation four years ago, it was the one and only about ADHD and sex in women.
2:35
I had over 2,000 participants overall, and 1,500 of them gave me their words about how they felt like their ADHD symptoms were impacting their ability to have, uh, erotic experiences, enjoy erotic experiences.
2:51
But the thing that, that I noticed that kept coming up again and again was many, many of those women talking about the things that they found to be erotic, the smut that they're reading, it being very, very difficult for them to shift from, uh, our regular transitions of life to transitioning to anything erotic.
3:58
Mm-hmm.
3:58
And romantasy, smut, sci-fi romance, any part in any micro-genre has so many pieces happening all at once that the erotic is just one of them.
4:13
And so I, I think it, it helps, uh, reduce the fears when you're trying to initiate any sexual experience.

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