Sex Care is Self Care

About Sex Care is Self Care

SEX CARE IS SELF CARE is a podcast by the SHE+ Foundation. This podcast empowers listeners to take charge of their sexual health, with up-to-date information on a wide variety of topics, through a sex-positive lens. Patty Brisben, Founder of Pure Romance, uses her decades of experience in the field to lead the conversation with acclaimed experts who sit on the SHE+ Medical Advisory Board, along with current sexual health and wellness professionals. There’s no better way to practice self-care than to care for your sexual health. To submit questions, ideas, and listener feedback, email: info@sheplusfoundation.com

Publisher

SHE+ Foundation, Women's Sexual Health Non-profit

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Apr 2021

Latest episode

27 May 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 100 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 May 2026

   SHE+ 59 | Dr. Lori Brotto Libido & Mindfulness

   Dr. Lori Brotto joins Sex Care is Self Care for a powerful conversation on women’s sexual health, pleasure, and the science behind sexual wellness. Hosted by Patty Brisben, this episode explores how stress, trauma, menopause, desire, and communication all shape women’s sexual well-being—and why sexual health must be treated as whole-person health. From her early research journey to becoming a leading voice in women’s sexual health, Dr. Brotto shares how mindfulness-based interventions transf...

2. 

   20 Apr 2026

   SHE+ 58 | Dr. Evan Goldstein on Anal Health & Pleasure

   Host Patty Brisben interviews Dr. Evan Goldstein about anal health and pleasure, demystifying the topic and empowering listeners with essential knowledge.

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   20 Apr 2026

   SHE+ 57 | Dr. Jordan Emont on Pleasure, Intimacy, and Emotional Realities

   In this episode of Sex Care is Self Care, Founder Patty Brisben is joined by Dr. Jordan Emont for an honest, expansive conversation about pleasure, intimacy, and the emotional realities that shape our sexual lives. Dr. Emont helps us unpack how desire, communication, and connection are influenced by mental health, relationships, stress, and the stories we’ve been taught about sex and our bodies. Together, we explore what it means to move away from performance and perfection—and toward curiosi...

Inside a recent episode

SHE+ 56 | Dr. Chailee Moss

Published 17 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It's sad. It's sad because we've done a lot of interviews with women who have gone through many different things related to women's sexual health. And it's sad to see that how many doctors that they do see and they feel gaslit and they feel that nobody's listening and they're being dismissed. Yeah. Let's talk about this dismissal and the medical gaslighting. What does that look like for the patient and also the provider? Can you speak on that a little bit? When we worked on this project, you know, I sort of dove forward pretty deeply into what that meant. And I think the traditional, you know, definition of gaslighting was making, like taking deliberate action to make someone else feel crazy and, or, you know, feel like They question their own perception of reality, right? […]

Who has been a guest on Sex Care is Self Care

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Christine Vaccaro
• Dr Cheryl Iglesia
• Dr Stan Althof
• Dr Karen Connor
• Erin Harris

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

35 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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