Orgasm Deep Dive: Why Getting There Isn't Always Easy Part 1
Picture this: you’re doing all the right things, the mood is right, the body is there… and yet pleasure has quietly left the building.Your orgasm has ghosted you!
In part one of an Orgasm Deep Dive on Labia Logic, Drs. Ashley Fuller and Meredith McClure are talking all about the very real experience of orgasm going AWOL. They have Dr. Irwin Goldstein as a guest expert to tell us why orgasm problems are almost never “just in your head” or “just hormonal” or “just pelvic.”
Ashley, Meredith, and Irwin cover the five regions involved in orgasm and explain the orgasm dysfunction categories. This conversation reframes orgasm as a full-body, full-system event, and explains why missing pleasure deserves real medical curiosity, not a shrug.
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About our Guest
Dr. Goldstein has been involved with sexual dysfunction research since the late 1970s.
He has authored more than 380 publications as well as multiple book chapters and edited seven textbooks in the field. His interests include surgery for dyspareunia, sexual health management post cancer treatment, persistent genital arousal disorder/genito-pelvic dysesthesia, physiologic investigation of sexual function, and diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction in all genders. Dr. Goldstein is Director of Sexual Medicine at University of California San Diego East Campus, and sees patients in his private practice, San Diego Sexual Medicine.
He is a Clinical Professor of Urology and Voluntary Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences at University of California San Diego. He is past Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Impotence Research, The Journal of Sexual Medicine and Sexual Medicine Reviews. He is a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH) and of the Sexual Medicine Society of North America (SMSNA). He holds a degree in engineering from Brown University and received his medical degree from McGill University.
The World Association for Sexual Health awarded the Gold Medal to Dr. Goldstein in 2009 in recognition of his lifelong contributions to the field, in 2012 he received the ISSWSH Award for Distinguished Service in Women’s Sexual Health, in 2013 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SMSNA, and in 2014 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM).
He is happily married to his college sweetheart Sue, and together they have three children and five grandchildren.
More about the hosts of Labia Logic
Dr. Ashley Fuller is a Sexual Medicine Gynecologist and Vulvar Specialist in Seattle, WA.
Dr. Meredith McClure is a Menopause Specialist, Sexual Medicine Gynecologist, and Vulvar Specialist in Dallas, TX.
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This episode was produced by Audiotocracy Podcast Production.
