Straight talk, up-to-date information and resources for individuals and couples about sexual addiction, cybersex addiction, sexual anorexia, sexual desire and sexual dysfunction.
The Center for Healthy Sex presents a weekend workshop for couples in recovery from sexual addiction. Based on my book, “Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot, Healthy Sex While in Recovery From Sex Addiction” this weekend workshop will focus on intimacy building skills toward the goal of creating sexual desire.
Workshop dates are Friday, September 17 - Sunday, September 19
Are you interested in the ways women orgasm? If so, why? If not, why not?!
There are a lot of myths about female orgasm and little understanding about female sexual arousal. The truth is that all women are NOT created equal in this area. Each woman has distinctly different patterns of arousal and needs to understand her own body so that she can bring herself to orgasm. Once a woman is familiar with her sexuality in intimate ways and what her sexual preferences are, she can then communicate them to her partner.
Infidelity is a painful experience of betrayal and experts say it can be healed.
Imagine finding out that the person you trust the most has hurt you more than anyone. People who have been betrayed express feeling like the world around them no longer makes any longer, that they can’t trust their instincts, and that every thing they once believed in has lost it’s value.
If you or someone you know has suffered from infidelity take time to get the help you need in order to heal. Take a look at Janis Spring-Abrams book, “After the Affair” and read the article below.
30% of young and middle-aged women go through a period of little to no sexual desire. While some women say that they’re O.K. with not having sex again, often times that’s not true.
Lori Brotto is one of the world’s leading experts on hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women. Through her research and experience, she now instructs women on how to be mindful of the sensations in their bodies, leading them to experience themselves as highly sexual, erotic beings. In her thinking, desire takes time…
If you are female and struggle with low sexual desire, we can help! 310-335-0997
You will receive your call-in number via email
Joe Kort learned the benefit of helping people explore the origins of their fantasies through years of work with men who are addicted to sex and from those who have been sexually abused. By “cracking the erotic code” and learning the narrative of what the sexual desires mean can help you feel better about your sexuality and learn more about yourself.
If your tired of keeping your disturbing sexual issues to yourself, or need an inexpensive way to get your sex therapy questions answered you can call a hot-line. That’s right! Contact this sex therapy hot-line where licensed professionals will help you with your issues.
In the 10th and 11th centuries in in India, sex was was thought to be a path to spirituality.
Today, sex has been denigrated to a fast-food item, to be consumed strictly for the high it brings without the heart and soul of exploration into the divine.
In their article “The Spirituality of Sex,” Jurriaan Kamp and Tijn Touber take you through the stages of change sex has undergone over the ages. They bring us full circle back to sex as a meaning-making meeting of two souls for the purposes of personal growth and development.
Do you know there are a host of parasomnia’s meaning involuntary behaviors that occur during sleep? Everyone’s heard of sleep walking but sexsomnia or “sleep sex” can be a bigger problem. That’s right! People can masturbate during sleep, talk dirty, or worse yet, break the law by forcing sex on to another person.
Do you think it’s beneficial for some people to reject their gay or lesbian attractions? In an article entitled “A New Therapy on Faith and Sexual Identity” in the Wall Street Journal, The American Psychological Association says that it can be. When people are tormented by their sexual orientation because it conflicts with their religious beliefs, changing their sexual compass may bring them relief.
This is not meant to be the old “conversion therapy” that “cures” people out of their homosexuality but will certainly create controversy nonetheless.
Is there such a thing as sexual fluidity or is our sexuality static? This author offers both research and explanation as to why/how it’s possible that our sexuality fluctuates over time and according to who were with and where we are in our lives.
“I Kissed a Girl” Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire by Lisa M. Diamond Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008, is available in hardcover should you want to read the book.
Below you will find an excerpt of her book reviewed by Ellyn Ruthstrom:
In a culture most comfortable analyzing important issues using binary concepts—Democrat/Republican, pro/con, right/wrong—the straight/gay binary of sexual orientation is particularly well-defended. Admitting to any element of ambiguity or changeability in this most intimate part of our identities strikes fear into the hearts of many. Certainly the biphobia—prejudice against bisexuals—that is exhibited by both the straight and gay communities is a manifestation of that fear. If we understood ambiguity better, would we be able to accept that a fluid sexual orientation is as valid as any other? Would there be less distrust and apprehension of those whose sexuality doesn’t fit into a heads-or-tails reality?