The way you “hope” for love is quietly shaping your entire reality.

In this season finale, sex scholar Nadège breaks down the secret reason why you aren’t getting what you want.

It’s the difference between a life shaped by fear and a life shaped by aligned action.

You’ll learn a hack that weaves neuroscience, hope, and psychology to overcome all the fear and shame holding you back from receiving pleasure and giving love.

It’s time to learn exactly how to get over your fears so you can finally take the steps you are avoiding.

By the end of this episode, you’ll have the blueprint that shows you how to stop expecting the worst, how to trust yourself again, and how to create the love life you actually want.

Let’s raise your standards for what’s possible on the season two finale of Pleasure Science!



Show Notes

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-13-season-2

The Flirt Quiz (free!) - https://www.pleasurescience.com/flirt

The Art of Flirtation - https://www.pleasurescience.com/the-art-of-flirtation

How to Trust Love & Sex with the Neuroscience of Hope (Even If You Expect the Worst)

Disability is not the opposite of sexuality. On this week’s episode of Pleasure Science, sex scholar Nadège sits down with Andrew Gurza, Disability Awareness Consultant, to share crip sex tips and sex wisdom for everyone.

What improves disabled sex improves sex overall. Access is erotic. Asking for help, tools, positioning, and care is not a mood killer; it is a doorway.

Crip sex is a culture, not a workaround. It’s inventive, proud, and unapologetically hot.

Asking for help to have sex is one of the key moments that elevates arousal to intimacy and trust, which softens shame immediately.

As we all learn the pleasure science of relationships and intimacy, disability and ableism must be part of the conversation. This episode is one that will get you thinking, and I hope, open your heart as well as your eyes.

Let’s build a future where disability stops being thought of as “them” and becomes “us.”



Show Notes:

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-12-season-2

Connect with Andrew!

andrewgurza.com [http://andrewgurza.com/]

Notes From A Queer Cripple [https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Queer-Cripple-Cultivate-Disabled/dp/183997818X/]

Disability After Dark: The Podcast [https://open.spotify.com/show/1sojdfQEY2tNio377qM954?si=e46f62b906f24ae2]

Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/andrewgurza.ca/]

Everything You Know About Sex & Disability Is Wrong

You’re not broken if sex hurts, and this episode explains why.

In this vulnerable episode of Pleasure Science, sex scholar Nadège shares her personal journey of painful sex and vaginismus, to pleasure, safety, and multiple orgasms.

Get a rare look into how a lack of sex education, silence, and pressure shaped Nadège’s sex life, and how somatic healing, pelvic floor therapy, and communication were the magic tools that healed her life.

Grounded in lived experience and science, this conversation outlines how healing is possible, pleasure is learnable, and your body is wise when given time, safety, and a voice.

*TW for SA

Show Notes:

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-11-season-2

Voice Your Desires [https://www.pleasurescience.com/voice-your-desires]

The Body Keeps the Score [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-keeps-the-score-brain-mind-and-body-in-the-healing-of-trauma-bessel-van-der-kolk-m-d/9e63236863805513]

Painful Sex to Orgasmic: My Journey With Pelvic Pain

You’ve been lied to about sex and aging, and those lies are costing you pleasure, confidence, and connection.

In this episode of Pleasure Science, sex scholar Nadège sits down with intimacy expert to millions, Susan Bratton, for an honest conversation about sex, relationships, and aging well.

Susan has been biohacking sex and vitality for decades. She’s an expert in sexual health, longevity, and libido, and in this episode, she breaks down aging myths using eye-opening research and real-life results.

You’ll also get a glimpse into Susan’s personal life. She’s in her sixties, married with kids, has a boyfriend, dates women and men, and created THE 20, a supplement line designed to support blood flow and sexual function.

There’s no one better to challenge your fears about sex and aging than Susan Bratton.

Pull up a chair and step into a new way of living; one where sex doesn’t fade with age. It gets better.



Show Notes:

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-10-season-2

Voice Your Desires [https://www.pleasurescience.com/voice-your-desires]

Connect with Susan!

BetterLover.com [https://betterlover.com/]

Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/susanbratton/]

Twitter [https://twitter.com/susanbratton]

Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/trustedhotsexadvisortomillions/]

YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/c/BetterLover]

Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanbratton/]

Get Flow Free [http://www.getflowfree.com/]



Justin Lehmiller [https://www.instagram.com/justinjlehmiller/?hl=en]

Kiiroo Keon [https://www.kiiroo.com/products/keon]

GAINSwave [https://gainswave.com/]

Dr. Patty Taylor [https://www.iups.edu/patricia-taylor-ph-d]

Sex Will Get Better As You Age If You Do This

When did old stop being a number and start feeling like an insult? Especially when it comes to sex.

In this episode, sex scholar Nadège unpacks how age became a quiet source of shame in the bedroom, and why that story is deeply wrong.

From libido myths and menopause, to erections, queer aging, late bloomers, and erotic confidence at every stage of life, this episode reframes aging as an upgrade, not a decline.

Stop fearing that you will become invisible, undesirable, or “past your prime”. This conversation is here to remind you that your sexuality doesn’t expire. It evolves.



Show Notes:

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-9-season-2

Voice Your Desires [https://www.pleasurescience.com/voice-your-desires]

SAGE [https://www.sageusa.org/]

Open House [https://www.openhousesf.org/]

LGBTQ Elders Meetups [https://www.meetup.com/topics/lgbt-seniors/]

Damn Good Dyke Nights [https://linktr.ee/damn.good.dyke.nights] - Look for their Hot Flash and Hotter Flash events

‘Old’ Became a Slur, Here's How to Reclaim Your Power

In this intimate, unscripted episode of the Pleasure Science Podcast, Nadège offers Stefanie from the Broke Girl Therapy Podcast a live sex coaching session, giving you a front-row seat to what actually happens inside these private sessions.

Together, Nadège helps Stefanie explore desire blocks, communication strategies, sexual confidence, attachment patterns, boundaries, and the invisible habits that keep people repeating the same dating and relationship dynamics.

Whether you are single, partnered, or navigating something in between, this episode weaves emotional honesty with practical insight around sex, love, and connection, without shame or performance.

Expect nervous laughter and surprising breakthroughs that land right where they need to in this special live coaching episode.



Show Notes:

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-8-season-2

Nadège’s episode of Broke Girl Therapy [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc9dq8nK8EE]

Connect with Stefanie!

Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/brokegirltherapy]

TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@brokegirltherapy]

Broke Girl Therapy website [http://brokegirltherapy.com/]

Live Sex Coaching Session! with Stefanie from Broke Girl Therapy

Why does sex fade in long-term relationships? Why does casual sex feel confusing instead of fun? And why do so many people secretly believe the love life they want just isn’t possible for them?

In this episode, sex scholar and relationship coach Nadège shares the five sex struggles she sees in almost every sex coaching session, drawing from 15+ years of research and real client work across dating, relationships, non-monogamy, BDSM, and sexual confidence.

This episode is part crash course, part reality check—and part invitation.

You’ll start to recognize where desire gets blocked, where communication breaks down, and why so many people are working so hard in their love lives without getting the results they want.

If you’ve ever wondered “Is it just me?” or felt like you’re missing a key everyone else seems to have—this conversation will feel like it’s speaking directly to you.



Show Notes

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-7-season-2



The BIG FIVE Sex Struggles I See with Every Client

People think BDSM is “too intense.”
But the truth?
Most of you are already playing with power… just without consent, clarity, or intention.

On this special BDSM episode, Nadège sits down with Javay da BAE, the Millennial Sexpert, to talk about power, sex, oppression, and liberation.

How do you play with power and sex in a world that’s already oppressive?
What are the secrets you should know as you start exploring kink?
How does playing with sexual power heal you?

This episode dives into all the BDSM secrets you wish you knew, and explains how to use these secrets to empower your life.

Fans of the show already know: when we talk about kink, we go deep. This episode offers practical BDSM guidance, beginner insight, advanced reminders, and a completely fresh understanding of how kink rewires connection from the inside out.



Show Notes

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode Website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-6-season-2

Connect with Javay!

Website [https://themillennialsexpert.com/]

Instagram [https://instagram.com/MillennialSexpert]

Facebook [https://facebook.com/daBAEJavay]

YouTube [https://youtube.com/c/JavaydaBAE]

TikTok [https://tiktok.com/@CallMeDrFN]

Twitter/X [https://x.com/DrFNSexEd]

Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/millennialsexpert.bsky.social]

Pinterest [https://www.pinterest.com/MillennialSexpert/]

LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/millennial-sexpert/]



Yes/No/Maybe Lists [https://themillennialsexpert.com/products/yes-no-maybe-list]

Book Recs [https://bookshop.org/lists/kink-bdsm-books]

Welcome to Kinkyville [https://www.welcometokinkyville.com/]



Episode 5 - Wonder Woman is a BDSM Icon [https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-5-season-2]

BDSM Fantasy Lab [https://www.pleasurescience.com/bdsm-fantasylab]



BDSM Secrets: How Playing with Power Heals You

Wonder Woman’s origin story isn’t just feminist — it’s kinky. In this episode of Pleasure Science, sex scholar Nadège reveals the hidden BDSM history behind Wonder Woman, and the unconventional polyamorous throuple who created her. You’ll learn how psychologist William Marston, his wife Elizabeth, and their partner, Olive Byrne, infused dominance, submission, bondage, DISC theory, and radical relationship ethics into the Wonder Woman’s comics.

This is a deep dive into sex history, power dynamics, ethical kink, and how non-traditional relationships can change culture for the better.

From kinky psychology to underground 1930s fetìsh parties, this is the story DC Comics never expected you to know…



Show Notes

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-5-season-2

Wonder Woman [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman]

William Marston [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston]

Elizabeth Holloway [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holloway_Marston]

Olive Byrne [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Byrne]

Margaret Sanger [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger]

Pleasure Science Podcast - Season 1, Episode 6 with Nicoletta [https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-6]

BDSM Fantasy Lab [https://www.pleasurescience.com/bdsm-fantasylab]

Wonder Woman is a BDSM Icon: Her Hidden Kinky History Revealed

How do you stop fighting with the person you love — and start fucking again?

Sex scholar Nadège sits down with Kenya K Stevens, CEO of the Progressive Love Academy, bestselling author, and the woman known for making relationships divorceproof.

Kenya, who has been in a polyamorous marriage for decades, reveals the communication tools, emotional skills, and indigenous conflict-resolution techniques that help couples transform fights into connection, passion, and actual intimacy.

Together, we explore:

🔥 How to stop destructive fighting patterns and break the “attack–defend” cycle
💥 The #1 behavior quietly destroying even the strongest marriages
😡 How to express rage, anger, and disappointment without harming your relationship
💋 The biggest sex problems long-term lovers face — and how to fix them

Kenya also shares candidly about her own life: raising a family with two husbands, navigating jealousy, cultivating conscious communication, and keeping her sexual power alive.

If you’re ready to stop fighting, heal resentment, communicate like soulmates, and revive the passion in your relationship, this episode is essential listening.



Show Notes

Pleasure Science Courses [https://pleasurescience.com/learn] - Use pleasuresciencepod at checkout to receive 10% off!

WEB • www.pleasurescience.com [http://www.pleasurescience.com/]

BLOG • Pleasure Science on Medium [https://medium.com/pleasure-science]

@PleasureScience on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/pleasurescience/], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@pleasurescience], and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@pleasurescience]

Episode website: https://www.pleasurescience.com/episode-4-season-2

Connect with Kenya!

Progressive Love Academy [https://www.progressiveloveacademy.com/]

YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnsynE92qw7-_rPME_5_iw]

Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/progressive_love_academy/?hl=en]

TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/discover/progressive-love-academy]

Kenya’s gift! [https://www.progressiveloveacademy.com/offers/HTd6TeTd/checkout?coupon_code=FREEGAME]



Esther Perel [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Perel]

Stop Fighting, Start Fucking: The Secret to Divorce-Proof Love

A podcast that makes sexual liberation your new normal by changing the way you love and feel loved. Hosted by Nadège; sex scholar, bestselling author, speaker, teacher. Trained dominatrix.

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