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>> Dear friend, thank you for
watching "It Is Written Canada."
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We are in part 2 of a series on
sex and mental health. To help
me along in this topic,
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want to welcome our guest, Dr.
Neil Nedley. Dr. Nedley, thank
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you for being here with us
again. >> Thank you. It's great
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to be here. >> You know, Dr.
Nedley, just very briefly, want
to talk about your work as the
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president of Weimar Institute,
an institute of learning, an
institute of healing.
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Somebody wants to find more
information about Weimar,
they're a student interested in
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pursuing some of your programs
or they are a patient interested
in experiencing healing for all
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kinds of different diseases,
where would they go to find out
information about Weimar?
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>> Weimar.edu for the students
and NewStart.org for those
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wanting to go to the health
sites. >> And I'll tell you,
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I've been to Weimar. It is
a fantastic place up in the
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mountains there. And wonderful
walking trails, wonderful
accommodations, fantastic meals,
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good company, and a wonderful
staff there. So I would
encourage people to check out
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Weimar. >> It really is healing
a hurting world. >> Absolutely.
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Now, Dr. Nedley, we are in
part 2 of this topic. And to our
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audience, we're dealing with a
mature topic, but we are dealing
with it in an appropriate way,
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and so, as we talk about sex and
mental health, it seems that the
world is just spiraling out of
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control when it comes to this
issue of sexual problems and
sexually related problems.
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Is there a solution to all
this sex problem? >> There is a
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solution. But first, we need
to understand the problem more.
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But, yes, there's actually
a solution that's not near as
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difficult as what people might
think. One of the issues that's
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facing us today with this sexual
revolution is that marriage is
at an all-time low.
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One out of three people, in
their 20s in Canada and the
United States, will never get
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married. And out of those
that do, the divorce rates, of
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course, are high, and so
there's a lot of singleness from
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divorce, as well. And this is a
dramatic change from the way it
was a generation or two ago and
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even more dramatic from multiple
generations ago, before the
sexual revolution materialized.
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>> And let's talk about that a
little bit, because, you know,
it used to be that there was,
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really, a process of individuals
in pursuit and things like that,
and you've been showing me some
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of the literature, where they
talked about, in days past,
there used to be what was called
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costly sex. Why don't you talk
a little bit about that and what
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has actually transitioned over
the course of time? >> Yeah,
well, in the days of
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costly sex, females, who were
the natural gatekeepers of this
area, would make a man wait
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until marriage until he could
have sex. And, of course, there
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was no pornography back then, or
very little of it. There wasn't
the ways of getting
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sex that there is today. And so,
in order for a man to get that,
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he had to be respectable, he had
to be clean, he had to have a
good job, he had to have some
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sort of career where the woman
felt secure, and then, marriage
would take place, and then sex
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would occur. We would call that
costly sex. And in the era of
costly sex, marriages stayed
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together much more, as well. The
divorce rates were far lower.
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But, you know, along came the
free love movement. You know,
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the Beatles helped start it and
the rock 'n' roll movement and
those sorts of things.
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And free love, the encouragement
was, "Women, you need to be more
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free about this. You know, it
shouldn't be costly. So the real
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word, or the real phrase that
should've been used instead of
"free love" should've been
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"cheap sex." And so, since women
were supposed to, you know,
participate in this just as much
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as men wanted them to do so, we
started to run into the problems
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of cheap sex. First, you had
oral contraceptives, where there
weren't going to be
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consequences. And then, later on
the line, you had pornography.
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And then you had the ability of
getting sex just about anywhere,
in front of any screen with
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masturbation and those sorts of
things, and as a result, men are
not interested in marriage like
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they were before. And it's very
clear -- the studies show women
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who are single, under 40, have a
much greater desire to be
married than men who are under
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40 and are single. And so, you
know, in reality, men control
the marriage market.
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And as a result, women have
lost, to a great degree, as a
result of this cheap-sex
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movement. >> And despite that,
it is interesting, because in
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our last program, we talked a
lot about the male libido and
the real challenge with men
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having an unhealthy relationship
to sex and the idea of sex. It's
not just a problem for men,
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though, is it? >> No.
You know, we talked about
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masturbation being at an
all-time high in men. It's also
at an all-time high in
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women, as well. And studies show
30% -- almost 1/3 -- of women
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have masturbated in the last six
days. And as a result of this
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cheap-sex movement, they also
are running into the three
adverse brain changes that take
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place from supernormal stimuli
or having sex too frequently. >>
So, let's talk about that.
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You've used that before --
supernormal stimuli. >> Yes.
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>> What do you mean by that? >>
Well, supernormal stimuli means
having sex too often, and
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we define that particularly if
you're having it more than every
four days, although, ideally, we
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can get more brain-chemistry
benefit by waiting an entire
seven days or a little more.
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But, also, it's sex acts that
are supernormal -- in other
words, not the natural sex acts.
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And, of course, one of the
reasons why people progress into
the supernormal stimuli is,
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they're not able to climax
anymore when they are doing
either too frequently or using
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these supernormal methods.
They're going to have to try to
use even more and more
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supernormal methods in order to
even climax and have the
relaxing opioid effect.
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>> And so, is this seemingly
vicious cycle that an individual
seems to need a more frequent
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bas-- more frequent times of sex
or a more extreme experience in
that sex to have pleasure, but,
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in fact, by doing so too
frequently or more intensely, so
to speak, you're actually
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decreasing the ability to
have enjoyment or pleasure? >>
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Exactly. They're decreasing
their pleasure significantly,
and they have to orchestrate all
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sorts of things, you know, in
order to try to climax. And
you'll see these things --
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the swapping of mates and all
sorts of types of things that
are happening with the novelty
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aspect in order to try to
undergo this experience, which
was unnecessary when sex was
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costly. >> And so, for the
individual that's watching --
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and maybe there's somebody
watching, saying, "I'm not
really buying into this, Dr.
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Nedley. I don't think it's
possible to have too much sex."
Let's talk about it.
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And we talked about this in the
last program, but I think it's
important to review.
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What three changes are happening
to an individual that is having
too much sex or too much
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supernormal activity when it
comes to sex? >> Well, first of
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all, there's a desensitization,
and this is what we talked about
earlier, but there's actually
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receptors that are going down.
Your dopamine receptors are
going down and your D2 receptors
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are going down. And the reason
why we have the desire to pursue
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sex to begin with actually has
to do with dopamine. And so --
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And when those dopamine
receptors go down, more pleasure
has led now to less pleasure.
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And the person now begins to
seek out things and sexual
experiences and decrease their
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motivation for other areas of
life that they used to have
engaging interest and motivation
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in. And so, that desensitization
is not a healthy thing.
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And then, on top of that, they
become more sensitized, as far
as the usual nuisances of life.
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And so they become much more
irritable, they're much more
able to or easily fly off the
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handle, anxiety levels go up.
And you'll notice that they're
in that stage when common,
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everyday conversation can
sometimes have sexual
connotations for them.
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And they're twisting things over
into sexual connotations. This
is where you have sexual
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harassment in the workplace.
Sexual harassment in the
workplace would never happen if
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the people were not in that
stage of the "too much sex" or
the "too stimulating" of sex.
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And so, all of those problems
with the #MeToo movement and all
of this, this is underneath it,
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what's actually driving it. And
then, the third aspect is, the
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hypofrontality. This is where
the gray matter in the frontal
lobe shrinks, and so the person
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has a decreased ability to
foresee consequences. And it
also can have some thinking
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problems with them. This is
where they are not able to make
really sound decisions anymore
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and they're much more likely to
relapse into a previous
addiction when their frontal
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lobe goes down. >> And so, we
have this -- just this vicious
cycle of -- and I don't want to
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overstate the case -- that
starts with, really, an
addiction -- an addiction to
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sex, whether that be intimacy
with someone too frequently,
whether that be self-intimacy
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through masturbation or through
the viewing of pornography, it
begins with this addiction.
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And as that addiction advances,
it creates the desensitization,
the sensitizing, and then a
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frontal lobe that shrinks and
actually causes you to continue
to make poor decisions.
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And there have been some
well-documented cases in the
news of individuals whose
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behaviors are so absolutely
bizarre. You say, "How is that
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possible?" But in understanding
what you're teaching us, it
actually is not really that
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bizarre when you understand this
cycle of desensitization,
sensitizing, and the shrinking
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-- >> And the hypofrontality. >>
And hypofrontality. >> Yeah.
And, you know, what
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we're seeing in this #MeToo
movement is actually just the
tip of the iceberg.
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These are the ones that
are actually talking and coming
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forward with this. But
underneath it, there's a far
bigger picture here that many
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people, unfortunately, are
identifying with, and they don't
know how to get out of this
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cycle. >> And want to talk about
that there is hope to come out
of that cycle, but we begin --
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and when I use the word
"understand," I want to be very
clear -- not excusing -- but you
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begin to understand why
we've arrived where we have. >>
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Correct. >> And these poor
victims, and just not too long
ago, in Michigan, there was a
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doctor with some very deviant
behaviors, but you begin to
understand this just spiral of
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not getting help, where it's
going to eventually lead to
extremely unhealthy situations
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when it comes to sex and
mental health. >> Mm-hmm.
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>> So, now, one of the things
that I think it's important for
us to talk to as we're -- talk
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about, rather, as we are
discussing this is, dopamine. >>
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Mm-hmm. >> So, you talked about
dopamine. And is dopamine a bad
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thing? >> No, dopamine is
actually a good thing. It's our
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seeking chemical. It's what
makes us want to have interest
and to seek out things. And so,
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there's a dopamine reward system
in our brain implanted in
regards to sex but not just sex.
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Food, for instance, also has
that dopamine response. And so
we can also get into
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unhealthy food just like we can
get into unhealthy sex. For
instance, you know, in
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regards to the dopamine surge
that occurs, when we eat celery,
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not so much. Chocolate cake and
ice cream? A big blast. And so,
even when we're full and
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we've had satiety, when someone
presents us with a tantalizing
dessert, the dopamine reward
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circuitry starts to surge, and
then, we can actually make a
decision to have this
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tantalizing dessert despite what
our rational brain might think
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about overeating. Or, of course,
infidelity. And this is where we
can get ourself in that vicious
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cycle that can lead to the
obesity epidemic, as well. >>
And it would almost --
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And I don't want to overstate,
and I hate to invent a word, but
you talked about being satiated
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and having satiation,
you're full. >> Mm-hmm.
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But there's that cake, and my
desire for that cake and the
desire to experience the
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dopamine boost outweighs -- no
pun intended -- the fact that my
belly is already full?
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>> Correct. >> In the same way,
can we become sexually satiated
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and then have a desire for
inappropriate and unusual and
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bizarre activity? >> Absolutely.
We call that the Coolidge
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effect. And what happens is,
sexual satiation lasts for four
days in someone who's doing it
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healthfully. So, within four
days of the act, they really
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don't have much desire, but if
there's a tantalizing
presentation of some sort,
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which, of course, the media can
present with or some
provocatively clothed female
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who's dancing in a certain way
right in front of the man, even
though their rational brain
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isn't for infidelity, there's a
temptation for them to imbibe,
and when they do, that's when
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they're gonna have those three
adverse brain changes. So the
sexual satiation is there so
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that we don't overdo it. It's a
protective mechanism. And sexual
satiation will actually drive
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mates apart. This is one of the
reasons why the lingerie
business has made it in the
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marriage world, because if you
want to do it more frequently,
in order to be able to have that
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libido, it has to be presented
in a novel way. And so you need
the new outfit, make it look
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like a new type of thing, and,
of course, people think they're
benefiting from that on the
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short term, but on the long
term, when they're doing it more
than every four days, it is
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going to produce those three
adverse brain changes. >> And
let's talk about that --
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the four stages of marriage.
Because, again, it'll help an
individual understand what's
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happening in a relationship as
we start having these unhealthy
relationships to sex.
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What are those four stages that
individuals go through? Well,
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the first stage of marriage is a
stage of euphoria. And this is
also driven by a healthy
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chemical called
phenylethylamine. When we get a
new relationship -- and, by the
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way, we didn't go through all
the dopamine things. We talk
about food and sex, but
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friendship is one of the things
that can drive dopamine. >>
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Okay. >> Love, that's really
compassionate love can also
drive dopamine, and the fifth
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one is novelty. And, of course,
the sex and the novelty and the
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food and the novelty tend to
work together to produce these
adverse brain changes in being
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too satiated too frequently. >>
No, we're gonna come back to
these four stages of marriage,
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but on this natural dopamine,
so, it's not unhealthy to have
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-- Because you need dopamine to
function, which can be found
through food, through sex,
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through loving relationships,
through friendships, and through
this novelty, but it
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must be done in a
healthful respect... >> Correct.
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>> ...and in healthful
quantities, for lack of a better
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word. >> And that's true -- both
groups, the ones that are doing
it healthfully and the ones that
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are doing it unhealthfully,
they're both getting their
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dopamine. The difference is, the
healthful people that are
getting their dopamine, their
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dopamine levels last for much
longer. So they're actually
getting more dopamine over the
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course of time that's in a
healthy way. And these are
people that can experience a
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wonderful dopamine surge from
watching a sunset, you know? Or
if are going on a walk or
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cooking a meal or, you know, a
dinner with a friend, you know?
It can just be a very fulfilling
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experience as the simple
pleasures in life. But the ones
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who are doing the dopamine
spikes through the supernormal
stimuli or doing it too
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frequently, they're no longer
going to enjoy those types of
things. They might watch someone
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watching a beautiful sunset, and
they'll say, "You know, I used
to kind of enjoy things like
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that, but that's doing nothing
for me right now." And it's
really a sad state of
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existence. And so they're
actually going into false ways
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of trying to alter the way they
feel, which actually compounds
the problem. >> So, let's go
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back to these four stages of
marriage and how it relates to
the mental health and sex.
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>> So, the first stage
of marriage is that stage of
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euphoria. Phenylethylamine is
coming out, as well. And this
actually helps you to
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be less aware of the faults
of the other person. >> Okay.
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>> When the person is in love,
they'll often say, "Are you
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blind?" And they actually are
blind, because phenylethylamine
is pouring out in large
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quantities, and they think their
mate can do no wrong. And this
is when you see them in
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a pickup truck, and you're going
down the highway, and you think
there's one person in there, and
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then you get close, and you
realize, no, there's two people
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in there. They're just right
next to each other. They can't
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get enough of each other. But
after about 3 1/2 years of
marriage, where you have been
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overdoing it, in regards to the
satiety and those type of
things, you then go into the
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non-euphoria stage. And when the
non-euphoria stage is met,
you'll see those people
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on a bench seat in a pickup
truck, one's on one side, and
one's not even close to the
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other one. They're pretty
separate. And it turns out, in
00:21:42.63\00:21:46.80
the non-euphoria stages and the
stages after that, often these
people will not engage in
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conscious affection
unless they're in the pursuit of
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orgasm. And that's a really sad
state of existence. And a lot of
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mature married people think that
everybody's gonna go through
those stages. They see the stage
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of euphoria, and they're
thinking, "Eh, just wait," you
know? "It's gonna go away."
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It was never really meant to go
away. We were meant to actually
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stay in that euphoric stage, and
we weren't meant to be sexually
satiated all the time.
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Sexual satiation drives mates
apart over time. And so it's
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actually good to actually feel a
little bit deprived and to wait
until it's time, and then, the
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female desire is just as much as
the male, and in between times,
they can't get enough of each
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other. They're hugging each
other, they're caressing each
other, they're into each other
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not for the pursuit of sex but
just because of love and
affection and companionship.
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>> And then, what are the third
and fourth stages? >> Well, the
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third stage, as this progresses,
is the despicable stage. This is
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where you can look across your
room at your mate and say, "You
know, there's some things that I
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just hate about him." And it is
disappointing, but yet that's
when people think, "Well,
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love's no longer there.
You know, might as well get a
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divorce. And some people are
wise enough to go through
marriage counseling and those
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sorts of things, and then they
come out of it with stage four,
which is the "mature" stage, and
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that's the stage of toleration,
where they decide, you know,
"It's better that we stay
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together. "Things aren't gonna
be better if I choose another
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mate, necessarily. This whole
process is gonna start again.
But, you know, we'll just
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tolerate each other and go
through our 50 years of marriage
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this way." That's not what
marriage was meant to be. We
were meant to stay in that
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euphoric stage, and once people
understand this whole issue of
sex and mental health -- it's
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actually good to understand it
earlier than later, but if you
understand it later, you can go
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through the 90-day sex fast that
we talked about last program and
then decrease the frequency to
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once a week, then that stage of
euphoria can come right back
again, and all of the nice
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sensitivities will come back in
both partners. >> And so you've
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brought us right back around,
because we began by asking, "Is
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there a solution?" There is a
solution. It's a very simple
solution. We talked about it in
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the last program -- a 90-day
fast from sex. During that
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90-day fast, there are some
physical and mental changes that
begin to happen to the
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individual going through that.
What are those changes, and what
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happens? >> Physically, the skin
gets clearer, the posture
actually gets better,
00:24:35.14\00:24:40.71
muscle-strengthening goes up.
This is why the males who are in
competition that have to do with
00:24:40.71\00:24:46.98
strength, like fighting and
those type of things, they
realize the person most likely
00:24:46.98\00:24:52.25
to win is the one who has gone
the longest before having sex.
So even if they're married,
00:24:52.25\00:24:58.03
they'll stay away from their
partner for a long period of
time to get those testosterone
00:24:58.03\00:25:02.06
levels up and get those
testosterone receptors up. The
voice becomes more manly.
00:25:02.06\00:25:07.84
When men overdo it, they
actually become more feminine.
And their voice will become a
00:25:07.84\00:25:14.34
higher pitch, they'll actually
develop estrogen receptors from
overdoing it, their testosterone
00:25:14.34\00:25:22.02
receptors will go down, and they
actually lose some of the focus
and concentration and creativity
00:25:22.02\00:25:29.39
that would've been there had
they kept their masculine side
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of things. >> Mm. And how about
mentally? What's happening,
00:25:34.73\00:25:37.47
mentally, changes that go on
during this sex fast, to begin
repair? >> Yeah, emotionally,
00:25:37.47\00:25:44.14
they become far more stable.
They are actually interested in
00:25:44.14\00:25:51.15
people socially. And men will
talk about how they're not just
looking at women and wondering
00:25:51.15\00:25:56.38
what they look like naked or in
bed anymore, either. They want a
00:25:56.38\00:26:00.76
connection with people. It's
not just about the sex anymore.
00:26:00.76\00:26:04.43
And they will talk about how
their motivation for
bigger-picture things goes up.
00:26:04.43\00:26:10.93
And so, they won't be on video
games all day long anymore,
they'll notice how silly and
00:26:10.93\00:26:16.07
foolish that is, and they will
actually be able to start
overachieving even in a work
00:26:16.07\00:26:21.11
environment. Engineering
problems will become easier,
math problems become
00:26:21.11\00:26:25.28
easier. And so, it's pretty
dramatic. And then, in women,
00:26:25.28\00:26:31.35
they'll talk about how their
clitoral sensitivity gets far
better and they're able to much
00:26:31.35\00:26:38.86
more easily climax, and they're
able to also notice that they're
attracting -- both men and women
00:26:38.86\00:26:46.07
will talk about how they attract
people of the opposite gender
much easier after they've gone
00:26:46.07\00:26:51.01
through that. There's much
more of a social connection and
00:26:51.01\00:26:55.64
engagement that others even
notice about them once they've
gone through this sex fast.
00:26:55.64\00:27:00.78
And women will talk about their
depression going away, much
easier for them to lose weight,
00:27:00.78\00:27:06.82
the obesity problem isn't there
anymore. But it's tough, for
00:27:06.82\00:27:11.96
women and men, to do this, but
it's well worth the effort. >>
And it's hard to believe,
00:27:11.96\00:27:17.37
Dr. Nedley, that we are
out of time. >> Oh, wow.
00:27:17.37\00:27:20.57
>> But we have seen that there
is a great deal of hope that God
desires us to be in a healthy
00:27:20.57\00:27:27.44
relationship, in regards to sex,
and that healthy relationship
will lead us to better mental
00:27:27.44\00:27:33.62
health and to experience the
abundant life that Jesus offers.
Dr. Nedley, would you pray for
00:27:33.62\00:27:38.59
us as we conclude today? >> Yes,
Father in Heaven, we thank you
00:27:38.59\00:27:44.29
that you are the inventor of the
family, you are the inventor of
relationships, and you are the
00:27:44.29\00:27:50.53
inventor of sex. But we thank
you that, through science and
inspiration, you have showed us
00:27:50.53\00:27:57.11
how we can have life more
abundantly and how even our sex
lives can be far more abundant
00:27:57.11\00:28:03.71
by following your plan for our
life. We pray that each viewer
today will not only learn this
00:28:03.71\00:28:09.88
information but apply it in
their own lives so they can
experience a life more abundant
00:28:09.88\00:28:15.92
in you. In Jesus'
name we pray. Amen.
00:28:15.92\00:28:19.13
>> Amen. Dear friend, God
desires that we would be in good
00:28:19.13\00:28:25.03
health. He wants us to have an
abundant life and to live life
00:28:25.03\00:28:29.67
to its fullest. And in order to
do that, we have to have a
healthy relationship towards
00:28:29.67\00:28:35.04
sex, and that healthy
relationship towards sex will,
in turn, help us to have a
00:28:35.04\00:28:41.32
healthy brain, a healthy mental
outlook. These two programs that
we've done with Dr. Nedley have
00:28:41.32\00:28:47.02
been interesting but, more than
interesting, have provided a
pathway where we can find hope
00:28:47.02\00:28:53.43
in Jesus to having a healthy
mental and sexual relationship.
I want to offer you the DVD of
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those two programs.
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00:29:52.25\00:29:55.09
next week. Until
then, remember, "It is
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written: 'Man shall not live
by bread alone but by every word
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that proceeds from
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