**Hot Topic Warning**  Back in the day, sex in Catholic Ireland was buried under shame, silence, and sin. You didn’t talk about it, you didn’t ask questions, and God forbid you enjoyed it. Pleasure was seen as dangerous. Dirty. That legacy runs deep and many of us are still unlearning it.

This week on Love Unfiltered, Maria McHale chats with clinical sexologist Emily Power Smith about sex, intimacy and all the stuff we don’t say out loud. From mismatched libidos to porn, to what actually turns us on, and why so many relationships quietly slip into sexless territory – this is a conversation about truth.