Our Better Half

Happy Pride Month! Our guest today is the wonderful Tim Johnston, Senior Director of National Projects at SAGE, a terrific national organization dedicated to our elders in LGBTQ communities. Tim just published his second book, Welcoming LGBT Residents: A Practical Guide for Senior Living Staff, which is the first comprehensive book on how to create a positive and safer experience for LGBT older adults in senior living settings.  We are delighted to welcome Tim back to our show and we think you’ll really enjoy his perspectives on aging, sexuality, and senior living communities. You can reach SAGE here, you can access the SAGE Care site here, and you can order Tim’s book right from the publisher here or you can order it from your favorite local independent bookseller here.  We love our listeners and love to hear from you. If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. Please subscribe! We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please find us on Facebook and Twitter. You

Today we are bringing back Dr. Sabitha Pillai-Friedman, a well-respected clinician, researcher, and professor. She’ll be explaining her groundbreaking model on sexual loss. And her hopes for the future. She has so much to offer older adults and we adore her. Please join us!  If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. Please subscribe! We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please find us on Facebook and Twitter. You can write to us at this address.As always, thanks for listening!

Our guest this week, Ignacio Rivera, is an individual truly committed to sexual healing. ​Ignacio is a Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, Black, Boricua, Taíno who prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they.” Ignacio’s work focuses specifically on queer, trans, kink, and sexual liberation. Along with Aredvi Azad, Ignacio is a co-manager of The Heal Project, which has incredible resources on sex and sexuality. You can find them at The HEAL Project – heal to end CSA, from birth to crossing over.  If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. Please subscribe! We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please find us on Facebook and Twitter. You can write to us at this address.As always, thanks for listening!

Our guest today is Dr. Melanie Davis, from the Unitarian Universalist Association. Most recently, she authored Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education for Older Adults. Join us for a spirited conversation! If you like our show or if you have questions, write to us at this address. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email (or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts). We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.  Thanks for listening!

Our guest today is Dr. Joe Kort, a social worker and certified sex therapist who specializes in queer affirmative therapy, Out-of-Control Sexual Behaviors, relationship problems, marital conflict, and sexual identity concerns. Join us for our conversation and if you like his work, you can also find him on his own podcast, Smart Sex Smart Love. If you like our show or if you have questions, write to us at this address. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email (or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts). We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.  Thanks for listening!

This week’s guest is Dr. Joli Hamilton, talking about jealousy, compersion, and polyamory. Give a listen! You can find Joli online here.  If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email (or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts). We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address.Find us on Facebook and Twitter. Thanks for listening!  

​On today’s show, we welcome back Dr. Phil Rutter. You may remember that he’s been on our show before. We couldn’t wait to get him back on! On this show, we talk more informally with Phil about some of the trends he’s seeing in his practice with older adults. You can reach him on Facebook or his website  or you can email him at Drphilrutter@gmail.com.  If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email (or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts). We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address.Thanks for listening!

This Valentine's Day, Rosara takes Jane on a sensory mindfulness adventure with chocolate. Rosara and Jane offer tips to make this Valentine's day a lot more fun.  If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email (or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts). We love our listeners and welcome your feedback.  Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address.Thanks for listening!

Show Notes: Intersectionality and Sexuality Our guest this week is the award-winning Dalychia Saah, Co-founder and creator of Afrosexology. She is a sexuality writer, educator, and speaker who facilitates space for people (especially people of color) to connect more deeply with their desires for their body, life, relationships, and the world. She is passionate about helping people unlearn oppressive norms that keep them from moving towards a more liberated way of being. Dalychia teaches courses in social theory, social justice, and sexuality education. She is also a sought-after facilitator and keynote speaker, having written for Huffpost, Teen Vogue, Allure Magazine, Vibe Magazine, Glamour Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Playboy, and many others.  You can find their website here [Link to video coming soon!] ​If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts. We love our listeners and w

Our guest today is Dr. Robert Heasley. In addition to being a psychotherapist in private practice, he is an adjunct professor at Widener University’s Center for Human Sexuality Studies and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-director and board president of the Men’s Center for Growth and Change in Philadelphia and an internationally recognized masculinities scholar.  Robert’s work with men over the years has focused on concerns about intimacy, sexuality, sexual identity, commitment, and communication. Robert’s research and publications focus on men and relationships, issues of intimacy, raising boys, fathering, healing from sexual abuse and other sexual challenges. Continue the episode  by learning about or attending the next Men and the #MeToo Movement Conference. 

Intersecting Race and Sexual Diversity Our guest this week is Dr. James Wadley, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Human Services program at The Lincoln University. He’s the founding editor of The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships and the founder of the Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians.  His most recent book, co-authored with Dr. Richard Siegel, The Art of Sex Therapy Supervision, won the AASECT Book Award for 2019.  ​If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts. We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address.Thanks for listening!

Our guest this week is Dr. Sarah Jen, Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. Her research focuses on older adults’ -- and especially older women’s -- experiences of sex and sexual identities as well as the experiences of bisexual-, and other non-monosexual-identified individuals over the life course and in later life. Her work is inspired and informed by her prior experience working as a caregiver, social worker, and community organizer. Here’s a link to the article we discussed on this show. And if you’d like to get in touch with Dr. Jen, you can reach her at srjen@ku.edu. ​If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email or whatever way you subscribe to podcasts. We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address. Thanks for listening!

This week, we say goodbye to our beloved co-host Dr. Ashley Mader and welcome Dr. Rosara Torrisi to the OBH team.

This week’s guest is Elizabeth Wood, author, scholar, strategist. Elizabeth’s new book is a beautiful memoir, a tribute to her mother, and an exceptionally vivid and beautiful account of a mother-daughter relationship. It’s called Bound: A Daughter, a Domme, and an End-of-Life Story, published by She Writes Press. She’s a Professor of Sociology at Nassau Community College and Senior Strategist for Woodhull Freedom Foundation. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1999 for a study of gender, interaction and power in strip clubs. And you can learn more about Victoria Woodhull here. Please check out her website: www.elizabethannewood.com.

We're taking a break until September, until then, you can reach us at ourbetterhalf.net!

As our season comes to an end, listeners, you are in for a treat. Our guest is the invincible Dr. Holly Herman, who’s spent 43 years as a physical therapist, an AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor, and one of four physical therapists in the world certified as a Women’s Health Sexuality Fellow by the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH). She has been a pioneer in the field and is now training healthcare professionals in transgender health and sexual functioning. Holly Herman’s website: https://hollyherman.com/ The American Physical Therapy Association: www.apta.org If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email or by whatever way you subscribe to podcasts. We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address. Thanks for listening!

Today we are talking about ED. Erectile Dysfunction or Erection Defection. We also highlighted new research on older adults’ sexual expression and improved well-being.   Smith, L., Yang, L., Veronese, N., Soysal, P., Stubbs, B., and Jackson, S. (2019). Sexual Activity is Associated with Greater Enjoyment of Life in Older Adults, Journal of Sexual Medicine, (7)1, 11-18. doi: 10.1016/j.esxm.2018.11.001 Sex With Emily (a podcast hosted by sex therapist Emily Morse): www.sexwithemily.com    If you like our show or if you have questions, contact us here at our website. You can subscribe to our podcast by sending us your email or by whatever way you subscribe to podcasts. We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address. Thanks for listening!

Today we are talking with Dr. Rosara Torrisi, an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist who practices on Long Island. She’s one of the few AASECT certified sex therapists in that area. She founded the Long Island Institute of Sex Therapy, a clinical practice with a team of clinicians. We talked with her about erectile dysfunction, sex toys, sexual functioning for lesbian survivors of breast cancer, and Our Whole Lives comprehensive sexuality education. Here are some links to her work: Long Island Institute of Sex Therapy http://sextherapylongisland.com/sex-therapy/ Our Whole Lives https://www.uua.org/re/owl If you like our show, if you have new ideas for topics or surveys, you can subscribe by sending us your email. We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please like us and rate us and find us on social media. And please write to us at this address.   Thanks for listening!

Dr. Betsy Crane, an award-winning educator committed to bringing human sexuality studies to a new level, is our guest on this episode. She talks about pre-patriarchy, gendered sexuality, somatic sexuality, and getting back to the body. Here are some of her publications and a website she refers to on the show. Crane, B., Towne, A. & Crane-Seeber, J. (2013). The four boxes of gendered sexuality: A framework and lesson plan for teaching about the history and effects of gendered sexuality. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 8(4), 274-305. doi: 10.1080/15546128.2013.854008 Heasley, R., & Crane, B. (Eds.). (2003). Sexual lives: A reader on the theories and realities of human sexualities. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. https://www.backtothebody.org/ You can reach Dr. Crane at bcrane@widener.edu. If you like our show, you can subscribe by sending us your email. We love our listeners and welcome your feedback. Please write to us at this address.   And thanks for listening!

This week Ashley and Jane interviewed Dr. Robin Goldberg-Glen who they both know from Widener University. During the interview Dr. Goldberg-Glen spoke on how the field of aging has evolved and what is on the horizon for her. She also spoke about the death of Peggy Brick and her contributions in the field of sex and aging. So check out the show. We love our listeners and welcome your feedback.  Please write to us at this address. And thanks for listening!