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Desire and Disgust

Mary Roach and Tyler Cowen discuss the relationship between desire and disgust, exploring how suppressing thoughts of the beginning and end of desire plays a role in our experiences. They delve into the miraculous aspects of life and the emotional excitement of bringing new life into the world, while also acknowledging the discomforting aspects we try to avoid thinking about.

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Related Questions
- I have a question about the episode #064: Is Sex Really the Problem? with Shadeen Francis and the clip Understanding Desire. If we are told at a young age, or even into adulthood, how we should feel (e.g., you should feel ashamed of yourself or you should not be sad), how do these negative experiences get encoded into our brains? If we do not have permission to feel our real, biological emotions, how does this impact our future decisions?