Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy

Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy

This widely used clinical reference and text–now significantly updated with 75% new material reflecting therapeutic advances, diagnostic changes, and increased coverage of sexual minority groups–comprehensively addresses sexual problems and their treatment.

The Cultural Context of Sexual Pleasure and Problems

This book is for professionals, students and interested readers. With chapters from countries as diverse as Cameroon, Iran, Israel, Russia, China and the Netherlands, it challenges our ideas about normal and problematic sexuality.

Flibanserin: It’s Getting Complicated.

Women’s sexual desire is complicated. Part psychology, part relational, part cultural and part biological, sexual desire is also uniquely individual. While sex therapy helps many women reclaim desire some women feel that the physical part of the problem requires medical intervention. 

Et tu Cosby?

Sexual violence is an act, not a character trait. It appears that it takes more than 10 women to challenge the word of a celebrity. It seems that it is easier for people to believe in the crazy woman, angry teenager or coached child than it is to believe that someone they know has committed a sexual assault.

Pink Viagra?

Are women’s sexual needs being ignored by the pharmaceutical industry? Is this sex discrimination? If you want to increase your sexual desire there’s a few things you can do:

Do you want to get closer? First, step back – Part 2

“He just wants sex”. When women express this feeling, it is likely that they are explaining why they are not interested in having sex with the he in the sentence. But without knowing anything about this couple, my reaction is “Really?” In this day and age, if someone just wants sex, it is a simple […]

Do you want to get closer? First, step back

It is not uncommon for me to hear women complain about partners in their long term relationships: “He doesn’t want me, he wants sex”. This is an incredible turn off to women. My advice? Men, stop cajoling and complaining and appealing to your partner’s sense of fairness – “C’mon, it’s been 3 weeks, I have […]