How Porn Ruined Men's Foreplay — And the 3-Word Cheat Sheet That Fixes It

How Porn Ruined Men's Foreplay — And the 3-Word Cheat Sheet That Fixes It

May 27, 2026 · 59 min

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The episode discusses how pornography has negatively impacted men's understanding of foreplay and features insights from Cindy Gallop on what women actually need.

Send us Fan Mail Most men learned foreplay from porn. And porn doesn't do foreplay — it does a sped-up, skip-to-the-good-part performance that taught an entire generation that touching a woman is just a formality. She's lying there wondering why she isn't feeling it. It's not her. It's the script. Today's guest has spent 17 years collecting real-world data on exactly what porn got wrong — and what women actually need. Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, the world's first r...

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Host: Annette

Guest: Cindy Gallop

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