The Dark Conundrum of Female Sexuality

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I thought they were going to go for into dog human sex. There's definitely a lot of little hints that it's going to do it. Even in the dog, the joy of the adult will predictably sometimes cause a pup to renounce of a piece of food if the adult is too happily excited in the anticipation of getting it. So one can predict. This is a question for field studies. I just don't like, I don't understand that I can't parse that sentence. But here's one another or one of my favorites. Uh, Sigmund Freud spoke here of the dark continent of female sexuality, having the playroom in mind. Turn the lights on, Freud,.

Sam Harris returns to the podcast to talk about meditation and his new Waking Up meditation app. What are the goals of mindfulness practice - stress reduction and greater focus, or something much deeper? Can it cure David's existential dread? Tamler's fear of his daughter going away to college? Can sustained practice erode the illusion of self? Is that even something we'd want to do? What if it diminishes our attachment to people we love? And what is the self anyway? Is Sam a defender of panpsychism? So many questions... Plus, the ethics of creating talking elephants by curing them of their autism through bonding and possibly mounting. (Seriously.)

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