Ep. 1068: Michelle Drouin Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Michelle Drouin, a psychology professor, forensic consultant, expert witness, and internationally-recognized researcher and speaker on issues related to technology, relationships, couples, and sexuality, including issues related to addiction and partner violence.

The topic is her book Out of Touch: How to Survive an Intimacy Famine.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

How social media is shaping society
The Tinder Swindler movie review
Different facets of intimacy
How does pornography affect young children's ideas of intimacy and even sexuality, and how does exposure to pornography change all of us?
The most desirable body shape
Novel sex tech devices on the rise
The traditional relationship, fidelity, and commitment
The diversity of our social network promotes longevity, promotes illness repulsion, and the ability to fight off illness promotes happiness.

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.5	My guest today is a behavioral scientist.
0:37.0	She's an expert on technology, relationships, couples, and sexuality.
0:43.5	Hoof, this sounds right at my alley.
0:46.5	I mean, I know probably as much as you know out there.
0:49.5	My guest today, Michelle Druin, she knows a little bit more.
0:53.5	So we will lean into her and see what we can
0:56.0	figure out today. Where are we going today? As Michelle calls it, we're in the middle of an intimacy
1:03.3	famine, whether that's sexual intimacy, family intimacy, friends intimacy, whatever intimacy, this crossroads where intimacy
1:15.0	and technology are overlapping are fundamentally changing us. The question, is it a good change?
1:23.9	Not all. We all know that instinctively. But where are we possibly headed? What can we do?
1:30.3	It's always fun to jump in and have a conversation with an individual who dives deep into sex
1:36.9	research. And without any further delay or buildup from me, let's jump right into my conversation
1:43.3	today with Michelle Druin and figure out
1:46.2	how we can solve the dilemma of being out of touch. I hope you enjoy this episode. This is a topic that's, okay, maybe the solution could be controversial.
2:11.3	Maybe the diagnosis could be controversial or people would disagree.
2:16.0	But the topic, where you have jumped into, the idea that we're in the
2:21.7	middle of an intimacy famine on all fronts, I don't think anyone can disagree with that.
2:28.4	Yeah, I'd be surprised if they did, especially since the last couple of years, we've been in the
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