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Podcast: DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley
Episode: Filmmaker Alex Liu ("A Sexplanation"): "My Brain is on the Cover of The Journal of Sexual Medicine"
Description: Dennis is joined via Zoom by Alex Liu, the co-director and star of the documentary A Sexplanation, in which he attempts to right the wrongs of his sorely inadequate American sex education by going on the road and talking with psychologists, sex researchers—and even a Jesuit priest. Alex talks about the shame and anger he felt for years around sex, hanging out with "sex nerds" at the Kinsey Institute and what it was like to masturbate on camera in an MRI machine for the film. Other topics include: Porn Hub search results, nudism, how the film brought him clo...