Kinsey Institute

Cynthia Graham, one of the world's leading experts on human sexuality.

She's a distinguished professor at Indiana University, a senior scientist at the Kinsey Institute, and has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Sex Research since 2009.

She has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers and has spent 35 years working clinically on with individuals and couples experiencing sexual difficulties.

In our conversation today, Dr. Graham and I explore why spontaneous desire may be largely a myth, what actually turns women on and puts the brakes on sexual arousal, and why the same cue can be really exciting to one woman and completely inhibiting to another.

I've seen that both in research that I've done and other people have done and also in my clinical work.

So I work clinically and saw couples and individuals for about 35 years to all with sexual problems.

I was a clinic here at Kinsey Institute actually was for nine years.

There's a couple of things that are related and that make that myth persist.

This adult star by the name of Alex Lynx insists that porn isn't to blame for young people checking out of the bedroom.

After a study from the Kinsey Institute revealed that young adults are reporting record low levels of sexual activity despite wanting intimacy, and that's an important thing, important distinction, The 37-year-old performer weighed in on what is really driving the drought.

Her verdict is that it's social media.

Everybody's looking at these fabulous bodies on social media.

Nick Freitas, hold on.

They're also the largest provider of the pornographic comprehensive sexuality education in America's public schools, something they boast about on their own website, which was initially engineered by SECAS, the Sexuality Information Education Council of the United States, co-founded by Planned Parenthood's medical director, Mary Calderon, launched at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.

Wow.

a board member named wardell pomeroy who was one of kinsey's gay lovers and who was part of the pro-incest lobby as described by time magazine in a 1980 interview so so it's not coincidental they're they're two different sides of the same child commodifying coin um it's it's the same reason why you can't understand sexual revolution without understanding abortion why do you think that their phrase nick is this is my body They've been screaming that for 50 years.

And this is why the FDA later burned Wilhelm Reich's books.

He got put in jail.

But Kinsey just operationalizes all of his assumptions and sneaks it into everything at the Kinsey Institute.

which becomes the basis for the comprehensive sex ed, right? The perverted stuff in the schools.

know, and I don't know the answer to that, but if it is a hormone disruptor, that term is very real, and it comes to a point when you're talking about one of the basic hormonal drives that people are supposed to have.

A study from the Kinsey Institute revealed that young adults are reporting record low levels of sexual activity despite the fact they say that they want intimacy.

37-year-old...

Saying you want intimacy and actually having the balls to be vulnerable to have it are two different things.

That's a mouthful.

She's also a certified menopause practitioner, a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute, and the best-selling author of several books about menopause and sexual health.

She has spent her career figuring out what happens to our bodies, our hormones, and our sexual health as we get older, and what can actually be done about it.

Today, we're covering it all.

But I do think that Gen Zers seem to be... having less frequent sex.

And this latest study out of the Kinsey Institute seems to point to the fact that many of them are still living with their parents or they're not making enough money to make them feel like they can go out and have a proper date or traditional date, if you will.

That's one sort of hypothesis.

Interesting.