Justin R. Garcia

I'm Eric Siegel, chair of the club's personal growth forum, and your host for today.

We also welcome our listening audience, and we invite everyone to visit us online at commonwealthclub.org. Tonight, we'll be hearing from Dr. Justin Garcia, executive director of the famous Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, which has studied human sexuality and relationships for almost 80 years.

Justin has a doctorate in evolutionary biology, and his research program focuses on the evolutionary and biocultural foundations of romantic and sexual relationships throughout life.

With his colleagues, he's studied variation in gender, reproductive strategies, desire, intimacy, courtship, and monogamy.

In his talk tonight, Justin will discuss what we actually need in a relationship, which is sometimes not what we think we need.

How can we create this intimate, life-enhancing relationship in the modern world with its shifting patterns of dating, situationships, and even AI lovers? Well, the world's always changing, but our need for love is constant.

And so, to help us navigate through the storms of one of life's great adventures, please welcome Dr. Garcia to our podium.

Thank you.

I feel like my biggest takeaway is that the consumer has definitely changed.

And I felt like it was validating to hear, especially from Dr. Justin Garcia and Dr. Amir Levine and Dr. Lori Gottlieb, hearing them speak at the Global Love Institute conference and talking about their insights,

I

was just like, oh my gosh, we have to change our entire onboarding system of how we educate our clients to be and our matches on how to have a really great first date that leads to a second

There's so many good books out there.

The Intimate Animal by Dr. Justin Garcia.

These are really good books.

Listen to sex-related podcasts.