Sex Begets Sex: Does Desire Really Fade in Long-Term Love?

Does desire really fizzle and fade in long-term relationships? Gwenm sits down with Caroline Hood, licensed clinical social worker, certified sex therapist, and author of Sex Begets Sex, who has spent more than 25 years challenging the cultural narratives around female desire. Fifteen years into her own marriage and, in her words, having some of the best sex of her life, Caroline unpacks why spontaneous sex was never actually spontaneous, why talking about sex is foreplay rather than a mood killer, and why so many women quietly abandon their sexual selves when they become mothers, wives, or "middle-aged." Together they explore permission as the first step back to agency, the erotic as a way of being alive in and out of the bedroom, and how intimacy can return you to yourself in the moments you feel furthest away. Find Caroline at desireinreallife.com and in her newsletter, Desire in Real Life.