Keyword: sexuality

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Medicated and Stimulated Types in Relationships December 16, 2014

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Ben Starr, Giullian Gioiello
Category: Identity & The Self, Love & Romantic Relationships

Why are calm people drawn to chaotic partners and vice versa? Armand DiMele introduces a framework dividing people into “medicated” (low-energy, safety-seeking) and “stimulated” (high-energy, adversity-driven) types, arguing that partners unconsciously seek their opposite to feel complete. Co-hosts Ben Starr and Giullian Gioiello join the discussion, along with callers navigating chronic pain, estrangement, and long-term relationships losing their spark.

How Female Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution June 4, 2013

Category: Sexuality & Desire, The Mind & Neuroscience

Female orgasm, concealed ovulation, and the biology of attraction get a lively treatment as Armand DiMele revisits recorded programs made with co-presenter Roberta Ati. Drawing on evolutionary biology and anthropology, they walk through three competing theories of why human females experience orgasm and how women hiding estrus may have saved the species.

How Love Shapes the Body with Dr. Scott Baum April 2, 2013

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Scott Baum
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience

Love is not optional, it is physiologically essential. Armand DiMele and Dr. Scott Baum, PhD, Psychologist, trace how early experiences of being loved (or not) shape muscle tension, breathing, digestion, and adult sexual function, arguing that the body literally holds the record of what the heart was given.

When We Lose Control April 11, 2012

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Linda Vanella
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Emotions & Inner Life

Why do otherwise controlled people suddenly explode? Armand DiMele and Linda Vanella, LCSW-R, trace the roots of losing control across rage, sexuality, eating, and grief, arguing that the narcissistic wound is the most reliable trigger, and that suppression itself sets the stage for the blowup.

Why We Search for Mother and Father in Sex March 14, 2012

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Identity & The Self, Sexuality & Desire

Armand DiMele argues that compulsive sexual behavior in both men and women is really a search for a missing parent: women seeking the nurturing of an absent mother, men seeking the masculine affirmation of an absent father. Callers push back, share personal stories, and probe the theory’s limits.

Getting Older and Becoming Invisible December 23, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Bernard Starr
Category: Aging & Mortality, Love & Romantic Relationships

As people age, they stop being seen as resources and start being overlooked. Armand DiMele and guest Dr. Bernard Starr, PhD, Psychologist, examine how aging strips perceived value in relationships and society, why midlife crisis follows lost potency, and how accepting invisibility may be healthier than fighting it.

Generation Jones August 21, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Catherine Altieri, Cynthia Levchenko
Category: Identity & The Self, Society, Culture & Current Events

The overlooked generation between boomers and Gen X gets its due. Armand DiMele and Catherine Altieri, LCSW, along with Cynthia Levchenko, map how shared experiences like the AIDS crisis, political assassinations, and 1960s pop culture shaped a pragmatic, self-reliant cohort whose identity was long misread.

The Male Side of Menopause with Dr. Henry Hess March 19, 2009

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Henry Hess
Category: Aging & Mortality, Love & Romantic Relationships

Most menopause conversations leave men out entirely. Armand and gynecologist Dr. Henry Hess examine how hormonal shifts reshape attraction, bonding, and sexual connection, and why men’s ignorance of the process quietly destroys long marriages. Covers the history of hormone therapy, oxytocin, and foreplay as daily practice.

The Normal and the Unusual June 24, 2008

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

What makes a person abnormal? Armand DiMele walks through the criteria psychiatry uses to define abnormality, from maladaptivity to cultural norms, then turns to paraphilias, hidden secrets, and the shame that grows the harder we work to conceal them. Callers share their own experiences of feeling outside the norm.

Sleep Sex and Human Difference September 6, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Sexuality & Desire, The Mind & Neuroscience

Every person’s inner life is radically different, and sleep is where that strangeness shows most clearly. Armand DiMele moves from the diversity of human experience into the territory of sexomnia, narcoleptic false memories of childhood assault, and Ambien’s surprising links to hypersexuality and compulsive night eating.