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387: Answering a Listener Question on Sexual Withdrawers

Foreplay Radio – Couples and Sex Therapy

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The Importance of Sexual Formation

Sally Kohn: As a parent, I often feel like I don't do it right. But sometimes those moments do hit us in our childlike brain and send a powerful message that we determine is how we ought to be. Think about this as a girl child, you know, who gets the message from mother. Don't be dirty. And maybe that gets translated over and over throughout the years - there's layering of those messages. When you try to grow up and be a sexual woman,you know, who is supposed to be dirty and messy and sweaty? You know, all of these things go on in the brains and it really comes from earlier experiences.

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