Malik: Erotica enhances intimacy only in healthy relationships, not unfulfilling ones
Dr. Rena Malik · Get Your Sex Life Back! What Everyone Gets Wrong About Sex & Libido: Dr. Rena Malik · Jun 11, 2025 · at 17:14
Urologist Dr. Rena Malik discusses the psychological effects of erotica and romance literature on female libido with host Codie Sanchez.
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“If you are dissatisfied with your partner and you're using these movies or books to escape and like get pleasure for yourself, then it's not going to lead to more intimacy because you're already having bad sex with your partner. Right. But whereas, like, you're in a good, healthy relationship, you enjoy your partner, and you're just using these as tools, right, to, like, enhance your pleasure so that when you're with your partner, you're, like, really easily getting into the mindset of being able to be pleasured, and to be focused, and mindful and enjoy.”
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