Polly Rodriguez

CEO of Unbound & Sexual Wellness Entrepreneur

Polly Rodriguez is the CEO and co-founder of Unbound, one of the leading sexual wellness companies in the United States. Her path to building that company runs directly through a cancer diagnosis she received in her twenties, which forced her to confront the profound lack of resources available to people navigating sexual health after illness.

Unbound was built on the premise that sexual wellness is a health issue, not a luxury — and that the shame and stigma surrounding it have real consequences for real people. Under Polly's leadership, the company has become a trusted voice in the sexual wellness space, known for its commitment to education, accessibility, and honest conversation.

Polly brings to every conversation a combination of personal experience and entrepreneurial clarity. She has lived the gap between what people need and what they are offered, and she has spent her career trying to close it.

Why They Were on Pair-A-Docs

Polly joined Dr. Sherry Ross and Dr. Tammy Nelson to discuss destigmatizing pleasure, the founding of Unbound, and why she believes access to accurate sexual health information and quality products is a health equity issue. The conversation covers cancer and sexuality, shame, and what it means to take sexual wellness seriously.

For Pair-A-Docs, Polly's perspective is essential. Dr. Ross regularly works with patients whose sexual health has been affected by cancer treatment — and who have been given little to no guidance on what to do about it. Dr. Nelson works with couples navigating the relational consequences of those same gaps.

The episode is a frank, practical, and important conversation about a subject that medicine has historically treated as peripheral — and that Polly and the Pair-A-Docs hosts agree belongs at the center.

Topics Covered

In this episode, Polly and the doctors covered:

Destigmatizing pleasure as a health issue
Sexual health after cancer diagnosis and treatment
Building Unbound and the sexual wellness industry
Shame, silence, and the cost of not talking about sex
Sexual wellness as a health equity issue

Their Episode

Episode 3

Polly Rodriguez: Destigmatizing Pleasure

CEO and co-founder of Unbound, Polly Rodriguez talks about destigmatizing pleasure, building a business around sexual health, and her own experience with cancer — and how it changed everything.

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