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Have you ever wondered why there is so much stigma, secrecy and shame surrounding consensual non-monogamy? When after all, it is consensual! And why is it anyone else’s business anyways? Join us with Sex Researcher, Dr Amy C Moors from the Kinsey Institute, as we learn all about her research indicating that consensual non-monogamy is more popular than we may have guessed and how it affects our trust, satisfaction, sexual health and happiness when measured against people in a monogamous relationship.

Host: Kevin Smith Dives into the weekly news most impactful to the Heartland

HEADLINES:

• New bill in the Kentucky Legislature says school board candidates must pick a political party 
  • Courier Journal - https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2023/02/21/kentucky-school-board-elections-partisan-state-bill-legislation-meeting/69911145007/
• Missouri Republican pushes to legalize psychoactive drugs to treat depression, PTSD
  • The Missouri Independent -  https://missouriindependent.com/2023/01/30/missouri-republican-pushes-to-legalize-magic-mushrooms-to-treat-depression-ptsd/

LIGHTNING ROUND:

• Arkansas 
  • LEARNS Leaves much to be desired
    • KARK - https://www.kark.com/news/your-local-election-hq/arkansas-learns-passes-senate-education-committee/
    • KARK - https://www.kark.com/news/politics/teachers-protest-arkansas-learn-plan-at-capitol/?ipid=promo-link-block2
    • Axios - https://www.axios.com/local/nw-arkansas/2023/02/23/arkansas-education-committee-sanders-bill-learns
• Indiana
  • Legislating trans youth out of existence.
    • The Times of Northwest Indiana - https://www.nwitimes.com/business/healthcare/indiana-lawmakers-approve-policies-targeting-transgender-children/article_fa6e1c79-edb0-5c83-ae99-9aab56fd88f9.html
  • Republican Lawmakers clutch their puritanical pearls. 
    • WLFI NEWS 18 - https://www.wlfi.com/news/indiana-lawmakers-back-defunding-kinsey-sex-institute/article_766bd79a-b39a-11ed-9dc9-a33bbde5e739.html
• Wisconsin 
  • Judge Protasiewicz has pioneers a new style of judicial campaigning, and wins.
    • The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-race.html
  • A new report on educators in Wisconsin.
    • Post Crescent - https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/education/2023/02/20/wisconsin-is-losing-many-early-career-teachers/69903018007/
• Iowa
  • Senate bill could re-instate the death penalty in Iowa.
    • KCRG - https://www.kcrg.com/2023/02/23/proposed-plan-that-would-return-death-penalty-iowa-moves-forward/
  • Iowa House Democrats unveil legislation to legalize marijuana.
    • Des Moines Register - https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/23/iowa-house-speaker-gop-may-introduce-bill-to-ban-gender-care-for-kids/69936706007/
    • Marijuana Moment - https://www.marijuanamoment.net/iowa-democratic-house-leaders-file-bill-to-legalize-marijuana/

Missouri

• The Missouri Senate votes to add 8.7% to public paychecks. 
  • Missouri Independent - https://missouriindependent.com/briefs/missouri-state-employee-pay-raise-heads-to-governors-desk/
• Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. 
  • The Missouri Independent - https://missouriindependent.com/2023/02/23/missouri-ag-moves-forward-with-effort-to-remove-st-louis-prosecutor-from-office/

Lastly,

• Michigan Republicans tap Kristina Karamo to lead them
  • The Daily Beast - https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristina-karamo-qanon-spewing-election-denier-to-lead-michigan-gop

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Have you ever wondered why there is so much stigma, secrecy and shame surrounding consensual non-monogamy? When after all, it is consensual! And why is it anyone else’s business anyways? Join us with Sex Researcher, Dr Amy C Moors from the Kinsey Institute, as we learn all about her research indicating that consensual non-monogamy is more popular than we may have guessed and how it affects our trust, satisfaction, sexual health and happiness when measured against people in a monogamous relationship.

Dr. Debby Herbenick, a sex health educator at Indiana University and author of the new book "Because It Feels Good," talks about the importance of addressing pleasure as an important component of women's sexual experience, and how sexual experience varies widely across cultures.

Kinsey Institute scientist Dr. Erick Janssen discusses how the majority of sex research concentrates on the individual, and how shifting the emphasis to sexuality within the context of a relationship is offering different and valuable insights about how we interact sexually.

Kinsey Institute Scientist Dr. Virginia Vitzthum discusses her research on fertility, pregnancy, and environmental stresses in rural Bolivian women, and the repercussions for our understanding of the mechanisms of conception, pregnancy, and pregnancy loss, and how these study results are reflected in the US population.

Dr. Erick Janssen discusses the dual control model of sexual arousal that human sexual behavior is governed by the twin forces of excitation and inhibition, like the gas and brake pedals in a car, and how this can explain various kinds of sexual problems.

Dr. Erick Janssen of The Kinsey Institute discusses his research into how mood affects sexual behavior and sexual decision-making.