In this episode, Mira dives into the deeper psychological pattern behind recurring abuse scandals and the public reaction to them. This isn’t about partisan politics or attacking men, it’s about examining what happens when masculine power becomes detached from accountability. Why do powerful men keep getting protected? Why do victims get questioned? And why do so many “good men” stay silent when it matters most?

This conversation explores the difference between masculinity and unintegrated masculine power, the role of hierarchy and loyalty in male socialization, and what ethical responsibility actually looks like in real life. It’s a direct, fired-up, but hopeful invitation for men to examine where comfort overrides integrity, and what it would mean to choose differently.

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This episode is a cultural autopsy. It looks at how modern Western culture has lost depth, emotionally, intellectually, and psychologically, and how that loss is showing up everywhere. In relationships that feel disposable, in rising loneliness, in worsening mental health, in gender hostility, and in a growing inability to tolerate disagreement or complexity. This isn’t about individual failure. It’s about a culture that no longer teaches people how to handle difficulty, think deeply, or stay grounded in themselves.

When that happens at scale, the consequences are serious. Democracy becomes fragile. Authoritarianism becomes appealing. Capitalism tightens its grip as people work more, consume more, and chase relief from an emptiness that never goes away. This episode doesn’t offer easy answers, because there aren’t any, but it does name what’s at stake. Cultural change takes generations, and it starts with valuing depth again: in education, in effort, in discomfort, and in how we choose to live. Without that shift, this doesn’t end well.

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Why do so many women feel afraid of their own sexual power, even after years of healing, confidence, and self-work? In this episode of Desire and Power, Mira Salem explores why female desire isn’t feared because it’s wrong, but because it’s disruptive in a culture that still doesn’t know how to hold it.

This conversation goes beyond sex to look at how women learn to dim their desire in real time, how embodied female sexuality destabilizes relationships, and why men are rarely taught the emotional or erotic capacity required to meet it. Drawing from personal experience and cultural analysis, this episode unpacks the real cost of self-erasure, the limits of empowerment narratives, and what would actually need to change for women to stop managing their aliveness just to belong.

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