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242: Come as you are with Emily Nogaski

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

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The Dual Control Model of Sexual Response

The dual control model of sexual response has two parts. Everything you see, hear, smell, touch, taste, think, believe or imagine, that your brain coes as a potential threat, and it sends a turn off signal. Your level of arousal at any given moment is this balance of how many ons are turned on and how many offs are turned off. When people are struggling, it's very rarely because there's not enough stimulation to the gas petal. It's much more likely that there's too much stimulation to that brake.

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