After prostate cancer treatment,
sex changes.
Whether your treatment was surgery, radiation, hormone therapy, or a combination, what happens next to your erections, your confidence, and your sex life is often the part no one fully prepared you for.
Recovering your sex life after prostate cancer is personal, and it's a long road. It deserves a place built entirely around it.
That's A Touchy Subject, and at its heart is The Hub: a membership where men and their partners rebuild sexual function, confidence and connection, at their own pace, with guidance and support.
More than 10,000 men have taken my free erection recovery course. Over 80,000 follow along on YouTube. And more than 530 men are inside The Hub, where all the courses, experts and straight-talking support live in one place.
Back in 2014, I was having honest, unguarded conversations with men and couples about sex after prostate cancer. One couple changed everything for me.
I met them three months after nerve-sparing robotic surgery, and they were grieving. Not just the erections, the sensation, the length, the morning erections, all the losses no one had warned them about, but the closeness itself.
Why A Touchy Subject exists
They had stopped even holding hands, in case it led somewhere their bodies could no longer follow.
Their story led me to begin a PhD, researching sexual recovery after prostate cancer through human-centred design: putting a real person's needs at the centre, and asking what genuinely helps. The deeper I went, the clearer the missing piece became.
There was no single, practical, personal place for men and couples to actually do this work.
So in 2018, I built one!
A Touchy Subject began as a home for practical, bite-sized resources you could use from the privacy of your own home. I paused the PhD in 2019 when my own health journey intervened, and by the time I had recovered in 2023, Touchy had become the more useful answer, so that's where I put my energy.
In 2024, it grew into The Hub, and that membership is now the heart of everything: the courses, the experts, the community, and the ongoing support that recovery genuinely needs.
Hi, I'm Victoria Cullen
I hold a Bachelor's and Master's in Psychology from University College London, with a focus on behaviour change: what drives the small daily choices that add up to a healthier life.
I also hold a Graduate Certificate in Sexology, and completed Sexual Health and Counselling in Prostate Cancer training through Dalhousie University, run in partnership with Movember's True North initiative. I’ve also served as a referral pathway for True North, delivering specialist knowledge on vacuum erection devices.
After moving to Melbourne in 2013, I co-founded the world's first academic design and sexual health course with Dr Judith Glover at RMIT University, a project featured in The Age and on the BBC.
I've delivered CPD-accredited erection rehabilitation training to GP practices through Epworth Hospital, including the Doctors of Northcote, Prahran Market Clinic and Deepdene Surgery.
I've presented the latest research on sex and prostate cancer at conferences including the Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Congress, the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand, the COSA Cancer Survivorship Conference, and the Society of Australian Sexologists.
My Youtube Channel (80k subscribers) is dedicated to providing free education on sexual recovery post prostate cancer treatment.
Working alongside clinical partners
I do this work alongside clinicians who treat prostate cancer every day.
Since 2017, I've worked with Professor Declan Murphy, urologist and Director of Robotic Surgery at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and one of Australia's most respected robotic surgeons.
Professor Murphy gives every one of his private prostatectomy patients a complimentary year inside The Hub, so their sexual recovery is supported from day one.
The Hub also partners with RS Health (Restorative Health Clinic), so members can access exclusive discounted one-on-one consultations with their specialist sexual health team.