Sexuality Articles
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- Sexuality and Marital Intimacy
A good marriage is best friends with passion. Without the passion, you just have a friendship. For some, ...
- Two Plus Two: Couples and Their Couple Friendships
What if I told you that one secret to making a long-term relationship more fulfilling is to have another committed couple with whom you and your beloved could spend time? The very premise of Two ...
- Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality
Now in its fifth edition since its original publication in 1975, Barry and Emily McCarthy’s Sexual Awareness is still the go-to book for couples who want to learn more about healthy sexuality. Each of the ...
- How to Overcome Obstacles to Positive Change
We all are faced at times with trying to persuade others to make behavioral changes, or needing to do so ...
- How Can I Improve Intimacy in My Marriage?
It has become too common a refrain: There isn't enough time. This is the excuse put forth ...
- 7 Reasons to Seek Marriage Counseling
Marriage rates supposedly are on the decline. While it's an oft-repeated statistic that 50 percent of first marriages end in ...
- Who Is a Sex Addict?
Increasing numbers of men and women are seeking clinical treatment for sexual addiction. This is partly the result ...
- Hypersexuality: Symptoms of Sexual Addiction
Sexual addiction or hypersexuality is defined as a dysfunctional preoccupation with sexual fantasy, often in combination with the ...
- Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite and the Loss and Regeneration of Soul
Everyone has met Aphrodite -- the girl who enters a room and men turn their heads to gawk, the girl who always has a man clutching her arm while several others wait in the wings. ...
- When Your Young Adult Son Wants to Sleep with His Girlfriend in Your House
My wife and I talk to our son Scott about every ...
- Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing and Treating Sexual Pain
In Healing Painful Sex: A Woman’s Guide to Confronting, Diagnosing, and Treating Sexual Pain, physician Deborah Coady, MD, and psychotherapist Nancy Fish, MSW, MPH, combine their medical and psychological expertise to write a book about ...
- 3 Relationship Pitfalls When Entering Parenthood & Pointers to Help
Couples are often surprised just how much a baby changes their relationship and their lives. In fact, ...
- Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity
Dr. K. Elan Jung’s Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity is a strong reference, written for a wide audience including physicians, therapists, victims and the general layperson. Dr. Jung is a practicing psychiatrist who has ...
- Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession and Shame
George N. Collins, MA, and his co-writer Andrew Adleman, MA, in Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession and Shame provide a guide away from the cyclic, reactive, addictive, superficial and thus ...
- Right Here with You
What do religious books about relationships usually say? “Give it time; God has someone for everyone.” Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships is different. It’s a Buddhist—rather than Christian—book. In it, ...
- The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life Lessons from the Planet’s Most Successful Mammals
Kelly Lambert, PhD is undoubtedly in the right field. She has a passion for the laboratory and a knack for applying its lessons to daily life. The Lab Rat Chronicles: A Neuroscientist Reveals Life ...
- 7 Tips on Developing and Maintaining a Successful Intimate Relationship
You probably wish to develop and maintain a successful intimate relationship. Unfortunately you, like many others, might ...
- Don’t Let Fear Destroy Your Relationship
Why do we fight with our partners? I’m not referring to small arguments that resolve reasonably quickly with a compromise. ...
- Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight
By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist. At age 40, he was a mature ...
- Intimate Relationships As a Vehicle for Growth
The old paradigm for couples was pretty simple: The man went to work, brought home the money and paid ...
- Lack of Safety Net for LGBT Couples Causes Stress
The "straight safety net" involves both hetero-normative assumptions and heterosexual privilege (defined below). These create often-unacknowledged ...
- 11 Hints for Resolving Relationship Irritations
Dirty socks left on the floor — the fifth time this week — texting during your dinner date, forgetting ...
- What You Need to Know Before Living Together
Over 12 million unmarried Americans are living together in 6 million ...
- Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
Neuroscientist Simon LeVay made headlines with his pioneering work comparing the brain structures of gay and straight men. His 1991 article in Science led the way for numerous studies of sexual orientation as it relates ...
- A Good Sex Life is Not Just About Chemistry
Sometimes sexual problems are the body’s way of communicating a message to us that cannot ...
