What happens when kids can't wait to grow up — and adults can't stop wishing they could go back?

Season 3, Episode 15 of Sex and the City is built around one question: who gets permission to play? This week, Isabel sits down with Dr. Nicole Thompson — sex and relationship psychotherapist, founder of The Pleasure Practice, and author of the world's first academic research study on relationship anarchy — to unpack "Hot Child in the City."

In this episode:

  • Trey's erectile dysfunction and its real psychological roots (spoiler: it's not physical)
  • The Madonna-whore complex operating inside the MacDougal marriage
  • Charlotte's hydraulic solution and why sliding a piece of paper across the table isn't vulnerability
  • The Yale psychotherapist's nicknaming exercise — and what Dr. Nicole would do instead
  • Charlotte's Juggs magazine intervention and the classical conditioning logic behind it
  • Carrie dating a man who lives with his parents — waste of time or exactly what she needs?
  • Jenny Brier's bat mitzvah and what rushed childhoods tell us about sexual repression
  • Miranda's braces removal as an evolutionary fear response
  • Why your capacity for play is directly connected to your sex life
  • Relationship anarchy, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and neuroplasticity

Find Dr. Nicole at modernanarchypodcast.com

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