Good Life Project: Better Sex at Any Age? The Science of Pleasure & What Really Matters

You could be having better sex and the science explains why, not because you’re broken or doing something wrong, but because most of us were never taught how desire actually works or how intimacy evolves over time. Instead, we’re handed myths, silence, and a lot of quiet frustration.

In this conversation, we explore why great sex is not something that just happens, but something you can learn, practice, and grow into at any stage of life. We talk about desire, pleasure, communication, midlife shifts, and how letting go of shame opens the door to intimacy that feels more alive, connected, and satisfying.

Dr. Nicole McNichols is an internationally renowned human sexuality professor at the University of Washington, where her course The Diversity of Human Sexuality is the most popular in the school’s history. She is also the author of You Could Be Having Better Sex, out February 3.

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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.

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