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pitting facts against. It feels

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fucking amazing. Go

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online and you'll hear stories of

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people having the most amazing orgasms.

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So absolutely insane. I cannot

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describe massive multidimensional

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cosmic orgasm like.

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Pretty much instantly he came.

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Fucking Mount Vesuvius. So how are

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they doing this? What buttons are

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they pressing? Well turns

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out, it's just one. The

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male G-spot. It was the best orgasm

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that I've ever had. The

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male G-spot, also called the

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P-spot, because that P stands

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for prostate. The prostate

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comes with a package of being born with

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a penis. And if

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you put, say, a finger around

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two inches inside your butthole, you'll

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reach it. And people say

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that if you do this in just the right way,

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bam, super

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orgasm. Men have a

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prostate and it absolutely promotes an

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orgasm beyond belief. Stimulating your prostate.

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That is some next level of

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pleasure. And if you go

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through your whole life without experiencing that, you just, damn.

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Oh my gosh. Okay,

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that last guy? Oh my gosh,

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guy. That's Dr. Jamin Brambart, a urologist

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at Orlando Health in Florida. We first

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interviewed Jamin a few years ago for

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our episode on blue balls. I'm really

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happy to see that my balls hurt.com

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still brings me to your website. It

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does, but I should buy

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my prostatefeelsgood.com too. What do you think? A

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lot of Jamin's work involves poking around

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the prostate to check for prostate cancer.

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But he told me about this wild case

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study that he found. About a 63 year

2:34

old man that bought a prostate

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massage device and

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felt amazing orgasms. So

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amazing that he became addicted. What?

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And I'm like, hell yeah. Man, this

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would be pretty awesome. I think the device I looked

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up is 89.99. Oh. So

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maybe in the podcast, we can put a little

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affiliate code on Amazon and then you can get

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10%. But seriously, we

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are looking for sponsors. And

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also, what is going on here?

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Prostate induced orgasms that are so good

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you could get addicted to them. Today

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on the show, we are finding out, is the

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prostate truly a key to the best

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orgasms of your life? And

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if you're a sucker like me with no

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prostate, are we really stuck

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with our garden variety orgasms? And

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in this episode, we have pulled

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out all the stops. Because to answer these questions and

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more, we conducted what we think is one of the

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largest surveys in

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the world on this topic. Almost 16,000

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of you responded. That's

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right. Almost 16,000 people. This

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is absolutely bonkers. And then

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we teamed up with sexual health researchers

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at Queen's University in Canada to analyze

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the results. So stick around. Because

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the research is starting to show that we've

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been thinking about it. this

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G-spot in a completely

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arseabout way. When

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it comes to the male G-spot, there's a lot

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of... Massive, multidimensional

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cosmic orgasm. But

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then there's science. And

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a quick note in this episode, if

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we say men or male or women,

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we're talking about cis people and we'll

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say when we're referring to trans and

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gender diverse folks. All right,

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back today on the show, the

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so-called male G-spot. Can

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pressing the prostate, let's say, a

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cheeky finger or dick? up the

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butt, really trigger the

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best, most cosmic orgasms

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of your life. So,

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zooming out here for a moment, it

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turns out that a lot of you

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are trying butt stuff and doing what

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the nerds call receptive anal intercourse, which

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is basically where you put something up

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your butthole for pleasure, whether it's a

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toy, a finger or a dick. In

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our survey, out of almost 16,000 people,

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just under half of you had given

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this kind of thing a go, including

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a ton of straight men, by the way. Now

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our numbers are a little higher than other

6:37

research on this topic, so you're

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either more adventurous, more honest or

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both. But still, the

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general picture shows that this

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is common. And yet, it's

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also high flash. It's

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2024 and we're still

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not talking about anal,

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receptive anal intercourse. Dr. Dan Dix Dane

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is a resident at Mount Sinai Hospital

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in New York. And even when I

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go to the doctor, if anal sex

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ever does come up, it's like they

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whisper, it's like, oh, it's

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like question, question, question, and then they lower

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their voice. It's like, oh my God. It

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is crazy how taboo anal sex

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is. Even, to

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be honest with you, even as I've been doing all

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this research and I'm writing Dan Dix Dane brackets anal

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sex. And I was like, oh my God, is this

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allowed on my work calendar? It is

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so, it's

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so taboo. And because we don't talk

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about it, I would say that this

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is sort of like, what I'm recognising

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is because we don't talk about it,

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it perpetuates the stigma. And sort of

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by saying nothing, you're saying something. So

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today, we're going to say a lot about

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anal. And our first

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question is one that Dan's been diving into.

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And it's this. Why

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can butt stuff feel so

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great? It's the prostate,

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you know, the male G-spot. driving

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these sensations. He's

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actually wondered about this ever since he was

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in college. He remembered this night where he

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was sitting in his dorm room in Maine.

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And, you know, he'd just done some butt

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stuff. I feel like I just

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whatever. And I just

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remember like sitting, like being on my

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bed, like looking up in space, being

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like, is this normal? Like, I enjoyed

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it. Is this normal? Like, why? Like

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how? Like sort

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of these basic questions. And there was like

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googling things and there was nothing. And I

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didn't know who to ask. I

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was completely lost. But

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Dan put these questions to bed for

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more than a decade. That

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was until two things

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happened. So Dan

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grew up to become a doctor

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that specialises in radiation oncology. And

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one day he's talking to a patient

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who had prostate cancer, telling

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him that treatments like radiation and

8:56

surgery might affect his erections. And

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then this patient asks him,

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Well, how does radiation

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impact receptive anal intercourse? And

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I was like, oh my God, this

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patient really stumped me. I was like,

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I don't know. And let me ask

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my attending. They were like, I don't

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know. And my like co-residents were like,

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I don't

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know. Nobody really knew and

9:25

nobody really even knew what direction

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to point me in. And

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then pretty soon after that, this

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prestigious journal was doing a call

9:33

out, asking young academics to

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write about issues, kind

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of like receptive anal intercourse.

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It was actually a colleague of Dan's who saw

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it. He was like, oh my God, Dixie,

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now's your chance. He like screamed in

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the resident room. It's like he saw it on Twitter.

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Dixie, now's your chance. You have to do this. It's

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like this was a sign from above.

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You are so right. So

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Dan goes deep into the research,

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picking up what's strange. of evidence that

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he can from other studies and textbooks

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to find out ultimately, when you look

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at the nerves and structures in our

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body, what can make

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you orgasm from anal? And

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critically, is the prostate

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doing the heavy lifting here? And

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Dan figured that this would then lay

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the groundwork for understanding if you remove

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the prostate in a cancer patient, would

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that ruin the pleasure of bottoming? So

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he starts reading about how the

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prostate is this spongy gland that

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secretes this fluid that goes into

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your semen. And that's actually why,

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if you push on the prostate,

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stuff can ooze out of your

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penis, which is sometimes called milking.

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But when it comes to orgasms, what the

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prostate really has going for it is

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location, location, location. Yes,

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exactly. It's literally surrounded by

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nerves. And these nerves are

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really important to getting you aroused

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and erect. So take,

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for example, the neurovascular bundle. It's

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a bundle of nerves and vessels, yeah.

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And it's literally between the prostate and

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the rectum. And when we push on

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that, it goes to the

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erectile tissues. And that's what causes an

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erection. In sex education, there's a whole plot

11:15

line of one of the characters gets a finger

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up his ass, and he's like, whoa! Yeah,

11:19

exactly. It comes immediately. And before that,

11:21

we had Stifler having the exact same

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experience. Exactly. Oh,

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and quick fact check here. This actually

11:28

happened in the movie Road Trip, when the actor

11:30

was playing a different character. But once

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it's Stifler, always it's Stifler. So what's going

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on there? Exactly. So yeah, so Stifler, that's

11:37

happening to Stifler and in sex education, because

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there's pressure on the nerves that

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are between the prostate and the rectum. And that

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pressure is then going to lead to increased blood flow

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to the penis. Aha. You see,

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the prostate sits at the base of your penis.

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And so putting pressure on that area can stimulate

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the nerves around your willy, ultimately

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encouraging blood flow. blood

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to flow down there and

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voila, erection. We

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also think that pushing on the prostate, say

12:06

with a finger or a dick, can

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stimulate some of those nerves that we

12:11

talked about so that then they send

12:13

these feel-good messages up through your spinal

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cord and to your brain. So

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here's how Dan thinks about it. From

12:20

the like, trusting and pushing the

12:22

prostate, the prostate is a physical thing that

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it might, it's gonna hit these other surrounding

12:26

nerves to also create more pleasure. On

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top of all of this, in our survey

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of you guys, we also

12:33

found this important clue about whether

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the prostate is really kendick here.

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You see, people with prostates said that

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they orgasmed more often from butt stuff

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and also got more pleasure from

12:46

their anal orgasms compared to people

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who don't have prostates. All

12:51

suggesting that, yeah, the

12:53

prostate is special. I

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think it's so special. Is it special? Honestly,

12:58

I would love a necklace with a little

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prostate on it. I think it is very

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special. That's really, truly. But

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before Dan totally committed to his

13:08

prostate necklace purchase, he

13:11

kept going deeper and deeper on this

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and he came across some very

13:16

curious research, including

13:19

this one study by this

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fella. Yeah, it's a little bit

13:23

out there, I'll tell you that. And I've had a

13:25

little bit of some people kind of turning heads when

13:27

I kind of talk about it. The

13:29

guy turning heads here is Dr. Tom

13:31

Gaither, who's a fellow in the Urology

13:34

Department at the University of California, Los

13:36

Angeles. And what's interesting

13:38

about his study is that while when you look

13:40

at the nerves around the prostate, it makes sense

13:43

that it would be a special

13:45

sex button. Tom wanted

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to know, what happens when

13:49

you actually talk to people who like

13:51

anal and find out where

13:54

exactly does it feel good? So

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he and a colleague got 30 people who have

13:59

prostate. and started chatting to them.

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So we asked them, it's like, where do you

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feel these sensations? And we tried to get to

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the nitty-gritty of, like, you know, what does it

14:09

feel like? What can you describe the sensation to

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us? And at first, there was

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a little bit of G-spot chatter. One

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person said, quote, discovering your G-spot

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is like the most amazing thing

14:20

in the world. Another said,

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quote, ever been touched in the prostate?

14:25

Incredible. But

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as these conversations went on, Tom

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noticed something odd. What's

14:32

really funny is that a lot of people have

14:34

no idea where the prostate is. You say, you

14:36

know, oh, do you, like, people are like, oh,

14:39

I enjoy prostate stimulation. It's about five inches in

14:41

there. And I'm like, you know, the prostate, I

14:43

can touch your prostate with my finger. I guarantee

14:45

you that. It's about one or

14:47

two inches in. So

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what they're experiencing is not prostate

14:51

stimulation, right? It's something else. Something

14:54

else. But what? As

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part of the study, Tom also showed them a

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diagram, an anatomy of the tushy. Do you want

15:02

me to share my screen? Yeah, yeah. OK,

15:04

so we showed them this picture and we

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said, OK, so here's where the anus is,

15:08

basically the butthole, right? And then

15:11

moving further up your ass, you'll hit the rectum.

15:13

And here's the bladder and the prostate's

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in front. And while some people did point

15:17

to the prostate and say, yep, that is

15:19

really the spot that does it for me,

15:22

a lot of people were pointing all over

15:24

the butt. It was so interesting because

15:26

what we found was that people

15:28

like different sensations when it comes

15:31

to receptive anal intercourse. It's not

15:33

all the same. And it's not

15:35

all this male G spot? 100 percent

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no. 100 percent no. I

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think the thing that was so shocking for

15:41

me was that the idea that the prostate

15:43

wasn't the G spot for everybody. One

15:48

person said that right at the anus, which is

15:50

before you hit the prostate, quote, that's

15:53

just where I get most of my pleasure from. And

15:56

so anything past that is just useless. Some people

15:59

just want to be honest. the feeling

16:01

of their anal sphincters being stretched as

16:03

relaxing. And then beyond the

16:05

prostate and into the rectum, other people loved

16:07

that feeling. Like, one person said it was...

16:10

Cozy, you know, kind of just like... A lot

16:12

of people said, like, it fits like a hand

16:15

in a glove sort of thing, that it just

16:17

feels like there's this perfect space for that, and,

16:19

you know, they find that pleasurable.

16:22

It's also really interesting to me that

16:24

you said people didn't know where their

16:26

prostate was, because that

16:28

really makes me feel like this would drive

16:30

this narrative. It's all the prostate, because any

16:32

time anyone's getting butt sex, they're like, got

16:35

that prostate, hit it, and you're like, you're

16:37

not hitting it, that's somewhere else. Not at

16:39

all. They realise that it's actually the

16:41

anus that they enjoy, or they enjoy

16:43

that sort of deeper, sort of rectal fullness,

16:46

like way past the prostate, their love

16:48

in that sensation. It's not the prostate

16:50

at all. Tom went

16:52

on to survey almost a thousand

16:54

people with prostates about receptive anal

16:56

intercourse, and again found that loads

16:58

of them said that the anus

17:00

and rectum were erogenous zones. It

17:03

wasn't just about the prostate. And

17:08

as Dan, you know, Dr Dan, I

17:11

want a prostate necklace, Dick Steen, kept

17:13

looking at the anatomy here, he

17:16

was like, of course the

17:18

whole butt region can be erogenous,

17:20

and not just the prostate, because

17:23

remember all of those nerves that

17:26

make the prostate such an exciting

17:28

candidate for G-spot extraordinaire? Well,

17:31

nerves are spread over the

17:33

entire butt region. So

17:35

if you think about the nerves around

17:37

your butt, prostate, and penis, like branches

17:39

of a tree, a ton

17:42

of them have the same trunk. It's

17:44

called the pudendal nerve. To

17:47

me, that's the nerve, like the

17:49

sexual pleasure nerve. There are branches

17:51

of it that innervate the penis,

17:53

but also the anus and

17:56

skin that's surrounding the anus, the

17:58

erectile tissues.