Oct 20, 2026 · 50 min · 12 segments
In this episode Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife and I discuss female sexual fulfillment. Here is the roadmap for this episode: The 500,000th download of the Live Your Why Podcast will occur during this…
Jennifer Finlayson-FifeGuestTammy HillHostToday on the Live Your Why podcast, I'm speaking with a dear friend, Jennifer Finlayson-Fife.
You know her and love her, and I'm sure many of you have taken some of her courses on self-awareness, understanding sexual desire, sexual development in marriage, male sexual shame.
We're going to be talking a little bit about female orgasm, the elusive female orgasm.
As a professor here at BYU who teaches a lot of students about preparing for marriage and then early marriage transitions, there are frequent conversations I have with students as well as clients who come to see me professionally where there's a difficulty in being able to achieve orgasm.
And these sweet young ladies feel like something's seriously wrong with them because it's not happening for them the way that they thought that it would.
And there's a lot of their early marriage conversations and time together sexually that end up feeling like I'm a problem or I am the problem.
However, if you look at our culture, you can totally understand why women often feel like they're the broken partners in sexual relationships.
The original sexologists, Masters and Johnson, back in the late 50s, early 60s, did their first real brain scans on individuals learning a little bit more about sexuality and what happens within the body and within the brain as a person has desire, experiences arousal, experiences in orgasm, and then resolution or afterglow.
All of those subjects that were originally studied by Masters and Johnson were men.
And so all of this research was done and first published on the sexual response cycles.
And these sexual response cycles have been taught, have been printed in books, still sometimes are taught on campus, I've seen.
And these sexual response cycles are created around the sexual experiences of men.
Well, in the last 20 years, we've started having a lot more research, in-depth research done on female sexuality.
And what we found is that the first two stages of the sexual response cycles for most women are reversed than they are for men.
Today on the Live Your Why podcast, I'm speaking with a dear friend, Jennifer Finlayson-Fife.
You know her and love her, and I'm sure many of you have taken some of her courses on self-awareness, understanding sexual desire, sexual development in marriage, male sexual shame.
We're going to be talking a little bit about female orgasm, the elusive female orgasm.
As a professor here at BYU who teaches a lot of students about preparing for marriage and then early marriage transitions, there are frequent conversations I have with students as well as clients who come to see me professionally where there's a difficulty in being able to achieve orgasm.
And these sweet young ladies feel like something's seriously wrong with them because it's not happening for them the way that they thought that it would.
And there's a lot of their early marriage conversations and time together sexually that end up feeling like I'm a problem or I am the problem.
However, if you look at our culture, you can totally understand why women often feel like they're the broken partners in sexual relationships.
The original sexologists, Masters and Johnson, back in the late 50s, early 60s, did their first real brain scans on individuals learning a little bit more about sexuality and what happens within the body and within the brain as a person has desire, experiences arousal, experiences in orgasm, and then resolution or afterglow.
All of those subjects that were originally studied by Masters and Johnson were men.
And so all of this research was done and first published on the sexual response cycles.
And these sexual response cycles have been taught, have been printed in books, still sometimes are taught on campus, I've seen.
And these sexual response cycles are created around the sexual experiences of men.
Well, in the last 20 years, we've started having a lot more research, in-depth research done on female sexuality.
And what we found is that the first two stages of the sexual response cycles for most women are reversed than they are for men.
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