The James Altucher Show: What is Great Sex: Myths About Sex, and What Separates Good Sex and Bad Sex!

This might be the most useful episode I’ve ever done. Not that the others weren’t useful—they were—but this one goes above and beyond. It was also awkward for me, and honestly a little embarrassing, to ask some of these questions. I asked them anyway, and I’m glad I did, because the answers were excellent.

This episode is with Dr. Nicole McNichols, who just released her book You Could Be Having Better Sex: The Definitive Guide to a Happier, Healthier, and Hotter Sex Life. There was so much strong material that we split the conversation into three parts.

This first episode focuses on what great sex actually is, the myths most of us have absorbed, and what really separates good sex from bad sex. Episode two will focus on the science and mechanics of pleasure—how sex actually works. Episode three will be about keeping the spark alive over time.

I had a lot of fun talking with Dr. McNichols, and I hope you enjoy this first part.

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Nicole The Sex Professor

Dr. Nicole K. McNichols is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle where she also received her PhD in Social Psychology in 2009.

Over the past eight years, Nicole has built her class, “The Diversity of Human Sexuality,” into the University of Washington’s largest and most popular undergraduate course in its history with close to four thousand enrolled students each year.

The James Altucher Show: What is Great Sex: Myths About Sex, and What Separates Good Sex and Bad Sex!

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