Episode 32: Let's talk about sex - How to break taboos and create healthy relationships

Our podcast series YOU ASK we explain started in 2023 and is published monthly. In our 32nd episode, as part of the TUD Lectures+, we discuss the topic: Let's talk about sex - How do we break taboos and create healthy relationships?

Sexuality - it whispers, it screams, it forms identity. It is desire and barrier, ecstasy and enigma. A place of freedom - and yet often trapped in norms, myths and misunderstandings. We talk about sex. But often in the wrong light. Too truncated, too normative, too embarrassed. The debates revolve around identities and categories, while the real questions remain unspoken. Because sexuality is not a rigid concept, but a lived process - changeable, individual, contradictory.

Not everyone feels desire, not every desire is the same. Asexuality is not a deficit, but a reality that needs space. And desire is not a constant, but a dynamic that is shaped by psychological, social and physical factors. When libido wanes, when body image changes, when sex suddenly means more pressure than pleasure - these are not marginal phenomena, but issues that we need to talk about. Sex is political. It is culturally anchored and socially negotiated. Norms dictate what is considered normal, what appears desirable, what is considered to work. But who decides what is right or wrong, healthy or dysfunctional? There is a fine line between shame and self-determination, between expectation and fulfillment, between norm and lived experience.

Our guests bring science, practice and plain language to the stage. They talk about desire, identity, dysfunction and social constraints. About sex as a mirror of society - and about what finally needs to be said. An evening about what we feel - and about what we don't (yet) talk about. We want to discuss with you and answer your questions. Join us live and ask us your anonymous questions.

When: 05.03.2025, 19:00 h

Where: Laika Café*Bar Dresden, Kamenzer Straße 20

Our Advisors:

• Rebekka Schwesig - Doctoral student at the Institute of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Chair of Behavioral Psychotherapy
• Paul Flemming - Specialist in urology at the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital
• Tina Hölzel-Chokharash - Project assistant at the John Dewey Research Center for the Didactics of Democracy at TU Dresden

Moderation:

• Amelie Schleich - student and member of the university group "In love with security"

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This project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free State of Saxony as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State governments.