About Us
About Caroline
Caroline Hood is a clinical social worker, certified sex therapist, and writer based in Sydney, Australia. She writes Desire In Real Life where she explores the cultural narratives that shape sex, intimacy, and desire, replacing simplistic advice with nuanced conversations about modern relationships. She is currently writing Sex Begets Sex.
Andrea J. Medaris, Psy.D., is a relationship psychologist and writer in Brunswick, Maine. She is a certified therapist and supervisor in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. She writes The Emotional Logic and is at work on What You Wish For, a book about attachment, desire, and the possibilities of secure love.
About
Andrea
Why Us?
Between us, we've spent decades talking with couples and women, writing about desire, and asking questions that don't fit neatly into Instagram carousels or TikTok reels. Andrea is a relationship psychologist who refuses to flatten people into labels and firmly believes figs are gloriously slutty. Caroline is a certified sex therapist, writer, and mother of three who believes culture shapes our relationships as much as chemistry does and has never met a taboo topic she wasn’t eager to unpack. Together, we're on a mission to make conversations about sex, intimacy, and desire smarter, more honest, more nuanced, and a whole lot more fun.