# Why neurodivergent women can’t stop reading smut and romantasy

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sorry-i-missed-this-the-everything-guide-to-adhd-and-relationships-with-cate-osborn-6934483/why-neurodivergent-women-can-t-stop-reading-smut-and-romantasy
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/sorry-i-missed-this-the-everything-guide-to-adhd-and-relationships-with-cate-osborn-6934483/why-neurodivergent-women-can-t-stop-reading-smut-and-romantasy.md
Podcast: [Sorry, I Missed This: The Everything Guide to ADHD and Relationships with Cate Osborn](https://stenobird.com/podcast/sorry-i-missed-this-the-everything-guide-to-adhd-and-relationships-with-cate-osborn-6934483)
Published: 2026-06-02T04:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.understood.org/en/podcasts/sorry-i-missed-this/neurodivergence-romantasy-smut
Audio file: https://mgln.ai/e/1245/afp-935247-injected.calisto.simplecastaudio.com/b69e7ae3-6261-4441-847d-84b122839136/episodes/609484e2-13a2-48a8-9328-7767a88b3a23/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=b69e7ae3-6261-4441-847d-84b122839136&awEpisodeId=609484e2-13a2-48a8-9328-7767a88b3a23&feed=xF5Cl7lM
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sorry-i-missed-this-the-everything-guide-to-adhd-and-relationships-with-cate-osborn-6934483/episodes/why-neurodivergent-women-can-t-stop-reading-smut-and-romantasy
Duration seconds: 1134

## Resource

Did you know that women with ADHD consume explicit fiction at dramatically higher rates than neurotypical women — and there’s a neurological reason? Dr. Erika Miley is a licensed mental health counselor, certified sex therapist, and author of the only dissertation published on ADHD and women’s sexuality. After surveying over 2,000 participants, one thing kept surfacing: smut. Romantasy, explicit romance, audio erotica — all of it. In this episode, she explains why the ADHD brain is uniquely drawn to literary erotica, how smut raises the arousal threshold enough to sustain focus, and why neurodivergent women are using it for everything from processing emotional vulnerability to getting through household chores.

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sorry-i-missed-this-the-everything-guide-to-adhd-and-relationships-with-cate-osborn-6934483/episodes/why-neurodivergent-women-can-t-stop-reading-smut-and-romantasy/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/sorry-i-missed-this-the-everything-guide-to-adhd-and-relationships-with-cate-osborn-6934483/why-neurodivergent-women-can-t-stop-reading-smut-and-romantasy.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.