In our experience, every boner at some point won't bone, but there still seems to be a lot of anxiety wrapped up in very common issues we define as dysfunction.
As usual, we start of the episode shooting the shit about our personal experiences with dysfunction. Spoiler: theres a lot of "idiosyncratic boners" in our dating histories. Stay tuned to the end of the ep for some honest and thoughtful talk from friend of the show, Kasey, on desire in long-term relationships. She tells us what its like to be both the partner with no sex drive and the one doing all the initiating.

Our history this week is not so old. Sexologists didn't really start studying dysfunction until the 1960s. After their widely popular first book on the physiology of sex, awesome researchers Masters & Johnson started looking into "sexual inadequacy" and developing ways to treat it.

The next big milestone in the history of sexual dysfunction is the invention of viagra and the beginning of direct to consumer marketing. Seriously, can anyone else get through an episode of something without seeing an "ED" ad? You're drunk Hulu analytics, go home.

Lauren also gives us the skinny on the other cultural changes happening in the the 90s and 2000s that lead everything from conservative Christian marriage advice manuals to Cosmo sex columns touting "10 New Ways to Drive Him Crazy in Bed!" to tell everyone they should constantly be having awesome sex. If there are any sex wizards out there who know the secret to mind-blowing boning every time, you know how to reach us.