Sex in Midlife: It Doesn’t Have to Fade (and Can Even Be Great) | Susan Bratton

Susan Bratton has spent over two decades teaching people the passionate lovemaking and intimate communication skills that sex education (and life) never covered. At 42, after eleven years of marriage, she had never had an orgasm from intercourse, and her husband was already having an affair to cope with it. What actually turned things around wasn't couples therapy. It was something else entirely, and it changed how she teaches everyone who's come to her since.

Susan is the author and publisher of 44 books and programs on lovemaking, sensual communication, and what she calls regenerative intimacy, reaching more than 1.5 million people worldwide. She's become one of the most trusted, least censored voices teaching people how sex actually works in the body, at every age. This conversation is guest-hosted by acclaimed author and coach Cynthia Morris.

What you'll explore:

• The three different things people lump together under "low libido," and why untangling them changes what you actually need to fix.
• Why Susan stopped using the word "sex" altogether, and the shift she's seen in how people respond once she doesn't.
• The physical reason arousal builds so differently in men's and women's bodies, and the one image that makes it click instantly.
• The specific framework Susan built after her own marriage nearly came apart over unmet needs, and how any couple can use it.
• What changed the moment she stopped treating tools and technique as something to be ashamed of.

If you've quietly decided your best sex is behind you, this conversation is the case for reconsidering that, whatever decade you're in.

You can find Susan at: Website | Instagram | Episode Transcript

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