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
For more details go to www.thecenterforhealthysex.com or call 310-335-0997
What is erotic intelligence? The word erotic means the “deliberate seeking of pleasure” and the word intelligence means the “skilled use of reason.” Therefore, erotic intelligence means the deliberate seeking of pleasure using skilled reasoning.
Sex addicts deliberately seek pleasure, yet do so without the skilled use of reason. I wrote Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction as a guide to assist individuals in sexual recovery to skillfully move towards healthy, intimate, and erotic sex.
To read portions of each chapter of the book, go to the following site:
http://www.thecenterforhealthysex.com/eroticintelligence/book/
Did you just figure out that you’re a sex addict? Have you been in sexual recovery for a while and continue to struggle with staying sexually sober on a plan? Do you think your partner is a sex addict and think he/she needs help?
At the Center for Healthy Sex we offer a low cost, highly effective alternative to long-term, more expensive in-patient hospital care. For over ten years, the team at CHS has been providing intensive out-patient care for those in need.
Our next scheduled IOP begins on June 14. To lean more about our 11-day program call 310-335-0997 or visit out site at www.thecenterforhealthysex.com
At CHS we’re devoted to assisting you in restoring your sexual health!
Join me, Alex Katehakis, MFT, CSAT-S, CST, and Lance Tango, MA for coffee and pastry as we take a Jungian perspective on sexual addiction at the Center for Healthy Sex on July 9. Lance and I will look at the polarity of the body and mind, meaning we will examine how sex addict’s split off and compartmentalize so they can act out sexually with a high level of denial and dissociation.
Click here to register: douglas@thecenterforhealthysex.com or CALL 310-843-9902
When: Friday July 9, 2010 9:30-11:00am
Where: Center for Healthy Sex, Los Angeles
Cost: Free!
Click here to register: douglas@thecenterforhealthysex.com or CALL 310-843-9902
We look forward to seeing you there!!
Why I Wrote Erotic Intelligence - Watch the video!
You can order my new book, “Erotic Intelligence: Igniting Hot Healthy Sex While in Recovery From Sex Addiction” at the Amazon link below. I wrote this book because so many people struggle with how to have healthy, exciting sex once they’ve committed to a life of sexual recovery. I think you’ll find it an easy, informative, and useful read. To order, go to:
Why I Wrote Erotic Intelligence - Watch the video!
Read the book, tell your friends, and comment on the Amazon page!
There’s an old wives tale that says, “if you masturbate, you’ll go blind.” I have always thought this was one of the most ridiculous, archaic things I’d ever heard, presumably designed for puritanical reasons. I have wondered for years where this saying came from. I still haven’t taken the time to research where it came from but I know one thing, it turns out to be an accurate statement!
I now understand that it doesn’t mean that a person will literally go blind from hours of masturbation, but that it means that they will figuratively go blind! Who knew?!
Case in point: According to many news sources (google: SEC Scandal), dozens of senior officials at the SEC visited porn sites 16,000 times in one month! A senior attorney is reported to have spent 8 hours a day looking at pornography during the years when Bernie Madoff was financially raping the country. All of the SEC officials implicated in this scandal are reported to have been making over $200,000.00 per year - your tax dollars at work!
Again, the senior officials of the United States of America Securities and Exchange Commission were literally masturbating - compulsively - to pornography and NOT doing their job on taxpapyer’s time!
Talk about Nero fiddling while Rome was burning!!
Let us know what you think about this mess by clicking the comment button below.
If you are a health care professional and interested in learning more about how to treat sexual addiction you will find this 18 hour course extremely helpful.
Beginning May 1 from 9am - noon I will be offering a 6 Saturday course that covers everything from how to define sex addiction to assessment, diagnosis, treatment concerns, family issues, restoring sexuality, and more.
Dates are: May 1, 8, 15, June 5, 12, 26
There are currently 2 spaces left!
For detailed information and to sign up call Douglas Evans at 310-801-9574.
Erotic Intelligence is a long awaited book for those in recovery from sex addiction who want to experience sex in healthy, erotic, and life-affirming ways.
See last weeks early show on CBS on Sex Addiction.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/24/sunday/main6136039.shtml
Let us know what you think by clicking the comment button below
Are you married to a sex addict or in relationship with one? Have you recently learned that your partner has been cheating on you? Have you already been through the pain of discovery and need support to keep working on yourself and the relationship?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, join Rebecca Ishida, MFT beginning January 13, 2010 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m for our weekly partner’s group.
Support from others who are struggling with the pain and heartbreak of betrayal in a safe environment will help you to heal. You will feel better and stronger when you can express your feelings, understand what sex addiction is, who you are in relation to it, the effects it has had on you, and whether or not you should stay in your relationship.
Call now to reserve your space in group 310-335-0997 www.thecenterforhealthysex.com
Let us help you restore your sexual health today!!
