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Dr. Debra Soh
Episode Run Time: 59:19
Dr. Debra Soh is a neuroscientist who specializes in gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Globe and Mail, Scientific American, and New York Magazine, among many others. Prior to writing The End of Gender, Debra was a weekly columnist and resident sex scientist for Playboy.com.
Dr. Soh holds a PhD from York University and was awarded the Provost Dissertation Scholarship for her fMRI research on paraphilias and hypersexuality. She is a recipient of the prestigious Michael Smith Foreign Study Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has published in academic journals including Archives of Sexual Behavior and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
In her second appearance on the show, I talk to Debra about the biological basis of paraphilias, the difference between drug addiction and sex addiction, and the absence of consent in antisocial patterns of behavior.
[01:47] Debra’s Experience with Sex Research, the Stigma of Sex Research and Shame
[09:31] Paraphilias (Kinks) and the Brain
[13:02]Healthy Kinks and Unhealthy Behaviours
[18:14] The Biological Basis of Pedophilia
[23:50] The Evolving Definition of Addiction: Disease or Habit?
[30:15] The Difference between Drug Addiction and Sex Addiction
[36:55] Consensual Non-monogamy, Boundaries, and Antisocial Personalities
[46:54] Pornography, Prohibition, and Paywalls
You can follow Dr. Soh on Twitter, on Instagram, and visit her at DrDebraSoh.com.
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