FTX's In-House Psychiatrist Says Employees Weren't Having Enough Sex, Actually

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FTX's in-house sex therapist didn't think the people involved in the now-collapsed coin exchange were getting it on enough, despite rumors of workplace polyamory.

In an interview with the New York Times, George K. Lerner said he had known Sam Bankman-Fried, the exchange's disgraced wunderkind founder, for years before he took up a post as the firm's company coach.

It's a tame place according to the Times. Chess and board games were played by the higher ups. There wasn't a lot of partying. They were not as sexy as they could have been.

The psychiatrists who initially spoke to Vice about his role at FTX said they were working too much. If they had more healthy dating relationships, it would have been better.

This assessment on its face would seem to run counter to the claims of a "polycule," or loose nonmonagmous network, centered on the Bahamas house where Bankman-Fried lived with Ellison.

After the FTX collapse, the residents of that house were all romantically coupled off, and the revelation of what's likely Ellison's since- deleted Tumblr account, in which she allusions to being involved in the polyam, seemed to further embolden the polycule allegations.

While people outside of the ethical non-monogamy and polyamory communities think it's all orgies all the time, it can actually end up being surprisingly domestic.

Although he's not sure if he'll still have a job after the firm's bankruptcy goes through, he's spent most of the last week "hand-holding" employees.

No smoking gun about the company's culture, or anything else for that matter, is contained in the psychiatrist's admissions.

The guy says he's doing fine after losing billions of dollars.