{"id":55967,"date":"2025-06-07T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=55967"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:11:28","slug":"love-unfiltered-sex-intimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=55967","title":{"rendered":"Love Unfiltered &#8211; Sex &amp; Intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Hot Topic Warning**\u00a0 Back in the day, sex in Catholic Ireland was buried under shame, silence, and sin. You didn\u2019t talk about it, you didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>This week on Love Unfiltered, <a href=\"http:\/\/mariamchale.com\">Maria McHale<\/a> chats with clinical sexologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empowersme.com\/\">Emily Power Smith<\/a> about sex, intimacy and all the stuff we don\u2019t say out loud. From mismatched libidos to porn, to what actually turns us on, and why so many relationships quietly slip into sexless territory &#8211; this is a conversation about truth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Love Unfiltered - Sex &amp; Intimacy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fnearfm%2Flove-unfiltered-sex-intimacy%2F&amp;hide_cover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media; fullscreen; autoplay; idle-detection; speaker-selection; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-54852\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered.png 1000w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered-110x110.png 110w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered-70x70.png 70w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/loveunfiltered-442x442.png 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Hot Topic Warning**\u00a0 Back in the day, sex in Catholic Ireland was buried under shame, silence, and sin. You didn\u2019t talk about it, you didn\u2019t 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":54948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26864,26998,26999,26438,26577,26996,26997],"class_list":["post-55967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-couples-therapy","tag-emily-power-smith","tag-empowersme-com","tag-maria-mchale","tag-relationship-advice","tag-sex-intimacy","tag-sexology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55968,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55967\/revisions\/55968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}