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Sex Talks The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

Vanessa Marin

The definitive guide to creating the sex life of your wildest dreams—just by talking about it!—from sexpert couple Vanessa and Xander Marin.

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The Mel Robbins Podcast

The host highlighted the book as a New York Times bestseller that offers five key conversations to transform listeners' love lives.

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She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

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Episode: Your Guide to Better Sex, Intimacy, & Love From a...

The host highlighted the book as a New York Times bestseller that offers five key conversations to transform listeners' love lives.

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She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

The card deck is based off of our New York Times bestselling book, Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

The Shawn Ryan Show

Vanessa and her husband Xander promoted their bestselling guide, noting it offered practical, conversationdriven tools for couples to rebuild intimacy and connection.

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A bestselling author of the book, Sex Talks, Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life.

— Episode: #246 Vanessa Marin - Sex Doctor Explains...

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Vanessa and her husband Xander promoted their bestselling guide, noting it offered practical, conversationdriven tools for couples to rebuild intimacy and connection.

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A bestselling author of the book, Sex Talks, Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life.

Our book is such a great resource because a lot of people will tell us, oh, well, I'm not in a relationship. I can't read it. But it's actually really useful to get started on a good foot, you know, right when you're getting started with a new relationship.

We're offering couples specific instructions of exactly what to do, exactly what to say, how to say it, when to say it. So what we start with, the very first conversation is called acknowledgement.

If you're looking for more support, we have a membership for couples called Deeper for couples who don't want to settle, but we're also here to help with our book.

I'd love to see people take a couple of the tools from the book and just get started.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Vanessa Marin presented her book as a practical guide that breaks down common myths about sex and offers five conversations to improve love lives. She described it as approachable, pragmatic and suitable for readers of any experience level.

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She is a bestselling author. She has a book coming out on January 30th.

— Episode: Vanessa Marin (sex therapist)

Episode: Vanessa Marin (sex therapist)

Vanessa Marin presented her book as a practical guide that breaks down common myths about sex and offers five conversations to improve love lives. She described it as approachable, pragmatic and suitable for readers of any experience level.

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She is a bestselling author. She has a book coming out on January 30th.

But it's just a basic lack of information about what our bodies need to experience pleasure. Okay, so now we're like perfectly into the beginning, I think, of the book, which is breaking the fairy tale, confronting the fairy tale.

Your book's really, really great. I think people will be scared to even buy the book, but it's not a mountain. You just start breaking these things down and it's very pragmatic and approachable.

And you can buy it on audiobook. You can buy the Kindle version if you don't want to have the physical version.

It's not a mountain. You just start breaking these things down and it's very pragmatic and approachable.

We Can Do Hard Things

The hosts highlighted the book as a New York Times bestseller and a practical guide that helped couples tackle shame, desire, pleasure, and even abuse by introducing five key conversations and tools like sex menus. Vanessa Marin and her husband co‑wrote it, and Glennon Doyle and Abby Wambach said they personally worked through the material and urged listeners to get the book. They emphasized its concrete advice on what to say, when to say it, and how to create balanced dialogue, positioning it as a highly recommended resource for improving sexual communication.

Highly Recommended

Episode: 224. Get REAL Pleasure & Stop Faking It with Vanes...

It was mentioned as a New York Times Best Selling book co-written by Vanessa and her husband, Xander. It was also discussed as a resource to help kick shame out of the bedroom, and as a place where a section discusses sexual abuse.

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Vanessa Marin is a sex therapist and New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks, The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life, co-written with her husband Xander Marin.

Vanessa is here to help you kick shame out of the bedroom so you can start feeling the connection, pleasure and joy you deserve.

in sex talks, we do have a section of it where we talk about the experience of abuse.

Episode: 196. How Glennon & Abby Learned to Talk Dirty with...

It was discussed and recommended as a book that helps readers transform their love life through five conversations about sex. Turn-offs and sex menus were two discussed topics.

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Vanessa Morin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

I mean, what the hell? What do you do then?

One of the things that he was sharing with me is all of the pressure that he felt growing up as a man around being good in bed.

He would tell me, I feel like I'm always supposed to be the initiator. I'm always supposed to want it more. I'm always supposed to know exactly what to do at every step of the way.

I'm supposed to pull the interaction along, be in control of it. I'm supposed to give you this incredible jaw-dropping orgasm that no man has ever given you before.

Episode: 196. How Glennon & Abby Learned to Talk Dirty with...

It was discussed as a book that helps people understand their sexual desires and how to communicate them to partners, specifically through exercises like 'sex menus'.

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Vanessa Marin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

And to hear our original "Silent Sex Queen" episode, go way back and check out: Episode 14: SILENT SEX QUEEN: Why aren't we talking about sex more?

Everybody go get sex talks.

Episode: 196. How Glennon & Abby Learned to Talk Dirty with...

It was discussed as a New York Times Bestseller and focused on five conversations that can transform one's love life, including desire, pleasure, and turnoffs.

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Vanessa Morin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

I mean, what the hell? What do you do then?

But the really tough part of the chapter for me when thinking about all of the hetero friends that I have, or the part where you talked about the women who the problem is not that their husbands don't know how to give them an orgasm or that they're faking or that whatever, it's that their partners don't care if they have an orgasm.

My husband says he doesn't feel like taking the time to make sure I orgasm. My boyfriend won't go down on me even though that's the only way I orgasm because he says he doesn't enjoy doing it. When my husband and I have sex, it feels very one-sided. He reaches climax and then he stops and leaves me hanging.

Everybody go get sex talks.

Episode: 196. How Glennon & Abby Learned to Talk Dirty with...

It was discussed in detail, with many examples from the book's content, particularly the concept of 'sex menus' to help couples explore different types of intimacy and enhance communication.

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Vanessa Marin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life.

Here are some turnoffs. Trying to kiss me with coffee breath, getting drunk, just getting naked. No, I need a little romance first burping and farting.

When I bent over to pick something up, he comes behind me and grinds himself against my ass, deep throat and phlegm clearing.

Initiating by pulling out the lube and tossing it at me.

I have received multiple pictures of actual printed out menus, collages, laminated.

Episode: 195. Sex Talk & That Night in Miami: Sex Therapy w...

It was discussed as a practical guide for couples to have conversations about sex, including how and when to initiate them, which the podcast hosts had worked through.

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Vanessa Morin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life which Abby Wambach and I have worked our way through Vanessa because we do not recommend anything to the pod squad unless we put it to the test first.

But the articles always end there and there's no advice for, but what do I say? How do I say it? When do I say it? And so I really wanted to create a very practical guide to walk couples through these conversations. Exactly what to say, how to say it, when to say it and really lead you through so you're not feeling lost.

Episode: 195. Sex Talk & That Night in Miami: Sex Therapy w...

The book's premise is that several conversations with your partner, or even yourself, can improve your sex life, and it provides practical guidance on how to do so.

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Vanessa Morin is a sex therapist and instant New York Times bestselling author of Sex Talks, the five conversations that will transform your love life which Abby Wambach and I have worked our way through Vanessa because we do not recommend anything to the pod squad unless we put it to the test first.

The premise of your work is that there are several conversations you can have with your partner or partners or self even that will make your sex life richer and better.

But the articles always end there and there's no advice for, but what do I say? How do I say it? When do I say it? And so I really wanted to create a very practical guide to walk couples through these conversations. Exactly what to say, how to say it, when to say it and really lead you through so you're not feeling lost.

I talk about how I think that what do you want is a bad question for us to ask.

So instead of asking your partner, what do you want, which puts all the mental load and effort onto their part, give them options there and give them two options.

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