Hi, everyone. Welcome to the PornHub Podcast. I'm Asa Akira, your host, and today's guest

is our favorite sex therapist, Dr. Laurie. She has been on this podcast before, but today

she's back to answer more of our questions. Dr. Laurie is a clinical psychologist that specializes

in sex therapy. She runs PornHub Sexual Wellness Center, which is an amazing site dedicated to

informing the public on all matters, love, sexuality, and health. She does weekly Q&As, along with articles

and videos on everything from basic sexual anatomy to the latest in sexuality research. And

how to navigate and build relationships. Today, we specifically asked Dr. Laurie about dating in

the modern age, with new technology, new and improved rules around consent, and ever evolving

social standards. What are the new rules of dating? How do you make a perfect online dating profile,

and how can you tell what a genuine profile even looks like? How does one even make the first move

without seeming like a total creep? All that, and so much more, Dr. Laurie was kind enough to squeeze

this in between seeing patients. So I hope you enjoy. So I don't know about you, but I feel like most

people in my life recently that are single or dating are usually meeting people on kind of through

the dating apps now. Well, that's been a while already. Yeah, but yeah, that's something that

that I think even when I, well, no, I'm aging myself because that didn't come about when that

wasn't around, when I was dating, but soon after, you know, it started to be the thing. But at the

very beginning, when all this came out, the online dating stuff, everybody associated it with,

oh, it's for losers. It's crazy. Right? It's crazy. And now you can't find a person who doesn't use

apps to, to, to meet people. Not only, not only is it like you can't find a person that doesn't,

I almost feel like you have to be on the apps. If you're going to meet people nowadays,

you have to be on the apps, like, or else it's like, what are you going to do? Sit in your living

room and hope someone shows up. Like, it really is. That's the problem. The problem is people are

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