#32 Masturbation, How To Be An Authentic Lover, & Sex At Dawn - with Dr. Chris Ryan

Dr. Christopher Ryan is co-author of the New York Times
best-seller, Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it
Means for Modern Relationships (translated into 15 languages),
alongside his partner-in-crime (and wife), Cacilda Jethá,
MD. Drawing upon his multi-cultural experience, Chris'
research focused on distinguishing the human from the cultural,
first by focusing on shamanism and ethnobotony—studying how various
societies interact with altered states of consciousness and the
sacred plants that provoke them—and later, by looking at similarly
diverse cultural perspectives on sexuality. His doctoral
dissertation was a multi-disciplinary investigation of prehistoric
human sexual behavior, guided by the world-renowned
psychologist, Stanley Krippner, at Saybrook Graduate School, in San
Francisco, CA. Chris is finishing a new book for Simon and Schuster
tentatively called Civilized to Death: Why Everything's Amazing but
Nobody's Happy, —and he puts out a weekly podcast, called
Tangentially Speaking, featuring conversations with interesting
people, ranging from famous comics to bank robbers to drug
smugglers to porn stars to authors to plasma physicists.
Visit https://chrisryanphd.com for more.