Taboo to Truth

Taboo to Truth Karen Bigman is the midlife s//x and relationship expert changing the way we think about dating, relationships, and pleasure as we age.
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🏅 Top Ranked Intimacy & Relationship Educator/Podcaster
🛟 Helping you through menopause and midlife s//x
💘 Honest advice for dating & relationships

Watch & subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/?sub_confirmation=1 She’s on a mission to help men and women thrive in midlife and beyond by talking about all the things that no one ever told us (or were too afraid to ask) about s//x a

nd intimacy after 50. As a Certified Menopause Coach, and someone who has been through menopause herself, Karen gives men the inside track on how to not just “ride out the storm” of their partners’ menopause transition, but how to transform into the confident, caring, and irresistible partners women want. On her podcast Taboo to Truth: Life and S//x After 50 , Karen features candid and often raw conversations that help her audience navigate the changes happening in their lives. As a S//xual Health Alliance Certified S//x Educator, Karen’s on a mission to help as many people as possible continue to have connected, body-loving, mind-blowing, toe-tingling intimacy for the rest of their lives.

If you think a mismatched libido is what’s going to end your relationship, you’ve been looking at the wrong problem.It’s...
08/24/2026

If you think a mismatched libido is what’s going to end your relationship, you’ve been looking at the wrong problem.

It’s not the gap in desire that wrecks things. It’s the silence around it. The half-answers. The nights you don’t bring it up because you already know how it’ll go.

Here’s what’s actually happening underneath the gap:
She reaches for s*x to feel connected. He pulls back because he doesn’t feel connected enough yet to want it. Same goal. Opposite strategy. Neither one is wrong, and neither one is telling the other what’s really going on.

And when he says no, it rarely lands as “not tonight.” It lands as “he doesn’t want me.” That’s the story that does the damage, not the actual rejection.

His desire isn’t a referendum on you either. Stress, exhaustion, body image, hormones, and history all shape it, and none of that means he wants you less.

One more thing nobody says out loud: this conversation almost always assumes he’s the one who wants more. When it’s reversed and she’s the one wanting more, she doesn’t just get silence, she gets labeled. Too much. Too aggressive. Not ladylike. That double standard is its own problem.

Which side of this have you lived, the reaching or the pulling back? Tell me below.

A NEW episode of Taboo To Truth is now live! Listen wherever you get your podcasts and don’t forget to follow and leave a review. Link in bio!

08/23/2026

We built an entire industry around the low desire partner: books, memes, spice-it-up marriage hacks. All of it assumes she’s the one turned down. Flip the dynamic and most couples are working without a map.

I’ve coached enough of these conversations to know the shame runs in both directions, just dressed differently. She starts wondering if she’s too much. He starts wondering if he’s not enough of a man. Neither one is a diagnosis. Both are stories they were handed, not facts about who they are.

Here’s the permission piece: you don’t have to match your partner’s desire to have a good relationship. You do have to say the gap out loud.

A NEW episode of Taboo To Truth is now live! Listen wherever you get your podcasts and don’t forget to follow and leave a review. Link in bio!

08/23/2026

Not all dating profiles are what they seem…
Here are 3 red flags I’ve seen over and over that can help keep you safe:

1. Too-perfect profiles but ZERO real conversation.
2. Endless texting, but they never get on a call.
3. Overly sweet, “too much too soon” messages that feel off.

I even had one where the voice didn’t match the photo 👀… and let’s just say my gut was right.

✨ Trust your instincts. If it feels wrong, it probably is.
Block, delete, move on.

It happens once. Then you spend every time after that so afraid it’ll happen again that you can’t relax enough to enjoy ...
08/21/2026

It happens once. Then you spend every time after that so afraid it’ll happen again that you can’t relax enough to enjoy anything. Anxiety is one of the most reliable ways to shut down arousal — so you end up proving yourself right.

Performance anxiety after 50 isn’t a character flaw. It’s what happens when real physical changes (testosterone, blood flow, sleep, stress) collide with a script most men were never allowed to question — the one that says needing to talk about it means you’ve failed.

The men who work through this come out the other side with a more honest s*x life than they had before, not a worse one. Because it forces the conversation everyone should be having anyway.

Swipe through for what’s actually going on in your body, why the anxiety loop forms, and what actually helps. To read the full post, head to taboototruth.com/blog

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