Rekindling Desire: A Step by Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages
- ISBN13: 9780415935517
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Product Description
Is sex more work than play in your marriage? Do you schedule it in like a dentist appointment? Do you make love once a month, twice at the most? If you answered yes to these questions, you are among the forty million Americans trapped in a low-sex or no-sex marriage.
Now there is help from nationally acclaimed sex and marital experts Barry and Emily McCarthy, who for years have helped couples break down the barriers that have developed between them, and rebuild closeness and longing. Their groundbreaking ten-step program is designed to get sex and intimacy back into these marriages and revitalize relationships. Crafted by years of clinical practice, Rekindling Desire first shows couples how to root out the “poisons” that inhibit sexual desire: shame, guilt, anger, passivity, as well as medical side effects and physical dysfunctions. With sensitivity and tact, the McCarthys then lay out concrete techniques and effective strategies that help couples increase sexual awareness, confront inhibitions, revitalize desire, and integrate intimacy and eroticism.
An exciting new way to spark and sustain desire, Rekindling Desire confronts the secrecy and stigma of low-sex and no-sex marriages, teaching couples how to enjoy a fulfilling, life-long sexual partnership.
Rekindling Desire: A Step by Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages
Comments
Comment from flipspiceland
Time March 1, 2010 at 12:53 am
The idea of rekindling desire, especially sexual desire is a worthy goal but it is not accomplished by the techniques listed in this book. They have identified a problem, explained it to a fare-thee-well, and alas, have come up with no genuine permanent solutions.
A word like “pleasuring” could only be concocted by an academic who lives
to sell a how-to book, regardless of its merits. “Non-whatever pleasuring” is a tortured use of language and merely turns one further off. How many of us, when things were hopping, ever thought about it as “pleasuring”? Never in language like this.
To ‘rekindle’ desire may be an impossible goal past a certain age. If it were possible to desire something once again, anything one valued in the past, it will take more than a read thru this tome. Take some real and greater pleasure in saving your money.
Taking pleaasure of any kind, desiring something ardently, uncontrollably is likely a neuro-chemical reaction in the brain which has somehow short-circuited over time, amidst the daily grind of human endeavor and which could likely be ‘rekindled’ only with an effective aphrodisiac, a selective amnesia, and/or a return to an innocent state. I’d opt for the Aphrodisiac.
Many eons ago a famous writer asked, “How does one get Love to stay?” My guess is what he really meant was how does one get Lust to recur throughout one’s life.
The only thing for sure is that this book provides no answer, but instead begs the question.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment from Anonymous
Time March 1, 2010 at 2:08 am
I thought this book had good information and was quite helpful for the subject overall but a wee bit too clinical for what I was needing. What we really needed was a way to get out of the rut we were in which frankly made sex boring. We would both rather masturbate than just go through the motions.
Fortunately a friend recommended 500 Lovemaking Tips which gave some creative and juicy tips that gave me the boost I needed.
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment from Atkinskid
Time March 1, 2010 at 2:33 am
The product was in excellent shape and was delivered and packed in great time and in great condition.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment from David E. Robinson
Time March 1, 2010 at 4:23 am
Some good information but not very specific. Leans heavily on the premises that professional counseling will be used.
Rating: 3 / 5
Comment from Frustrated
Time February 28, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Very little offered in this book about what to do for the ravages of Menopause, except “take more time and use lots of LUBE”.
Once the hormones are gone, so’s any motivation your partner might have had to get things back on track.
Barry keeps telling us that WE are responsible for our OWN sexuality, and that you have a RIGHT to be sexual, but when your partner’s more motivated over the cat hucking up a hairball instead salvaging your relationship, Oh, Well. Perhaps in a future edition the McCarthys should add an additional catagory to marriages that should get a “mercy killing”: the “I’m done with that foolishness, and you should be, too” marriage.
Rating: 1 / 5